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but you have to watch for over guessing. yes your thunderers would need 6s

of course, if he is in the trees he is probably not on a hill and therefore his line of sight can be blocked by less important models. It is all a trade off.

He is a singularly powerful, nasty build and something the Wood Elfs sorely need to deal with high armor save troops, but at the same time he is a Wood Elf and is, by definition, squishy if you can catch up to him.

Ultimately, he is like almost any other unit in the game; used properly as part of a balanced force with a cohesive plan you stick to, more often than not he will do his job quite well and played poorly, he will have but little effect on the game.

A properly built opposing force will have options for dealing with it, which then often force them to disrupt their preferred plan.

If you have not tried the build, I highly recommend doing so. If you have not fought against it, I highly recommend having a contingency plan in case you do.

i agree it is down to how you use him

alright i'm not a wood elf player but my friend is and i'm tired of seeing him lose so in a 2250 game should he field a tree man or a dragon if bothering to take either? and as a side note how would he beat a dwarf player with those heroes soaking up 400 pts?

yeah they are good

As always, the classic, frustrating, yet accurate answer is....

It depends.

What does the rest of the army look like? What is his strategy?

At the risk of bringing down the wrath of Kiwi, the answer to how to beat Dwarfs with only 400 points of heroes is quite easy. Wood Elfs are great at shooting and maneuvering. Run those advantages into the ground. Use the trees, shoot...a lot...and get on Dwarf flanks. Stay out of cc.

As good as Dwarf shooting is, the massive hail of Wood Elf arrows, properly targeted, combined with their ability to move 5" per turn and still shoot without penalty, means they still have the missile advantage.

Again, however, this is in a vacuum, assuming your WE friend is not using an army with 4 units of Dryads, a unit of Wardancers, and some Eternal Guard or something like that. In that case, how do you beat the Dwarfs?

Hand him a cold adult beverage. Wait until he consumes it. Hand him another. Rinse, repeat, wait for him to fall over, then make outrageous claims about what occurred in the previous battle...how spectacularly all the cannons blew up first turn, the Dwarfs never made an armor save but the Wood Elfs made all their Ward Saves since the Dwarf player mysteriously did not have any magic weapons, and laugh all the way home. Broke, because Dwarf players can consume LOTS of cold adult beverages...but hey, you won

lol

who has an army without glade guard