Wood Elves list on The Mordheimer

http://www.mordheimer.com/warbands/experimental/wood_elves.htm
for those who dont know which one Im talking about


Thoughts on the list? Over powered? Balanced? Would love to hear everyones opinion on this one!

I have a friend who is a wood elf player and has used this list.

It has worked well, I would say it is balanced or about as darn close as you can get with out house rules on elves... Example we house rule that elves max Toughness is 3.

we have not had a ton of game play with it though. He is going to bring them out again in our next series of games.

Late Game is where I think they do become broken as with all elves.
Use a standard merc list to compare... or rather standard heroes vs heroes.
Mercs:
Young Blood (a good standard "start"): at 0 xp and no advances: good base line.
Champion: at 8 xp and has 4 advances: Compare to Young Blood they are on par.
Cap: At 20 xp for 7 advances: Cap is actually cheated out of 1 Advancment.

Wood Elves
Way-Warden: at 20 xp for 11 advances, thats 3 "free" advances. Should start at 32 xp for consistancy... but to be consistant with the Merc Cap should be 36 xp.
Spellwalker: at 12 xp for 7 advances, thats 2 "free" advances. Should start at 17 xp for consistancy.
The Wild Hunter: at 12 xp for 9 advancments, thats 4 "free" advances. Should start at 24 xp for consistancy.
Pathfinders: at 8 xp for 7 advances, thats 3 "free" advances. Should start 17 xp for consistancy.

Granted elves have some not so great advances such as Inititive and LD, but others have the exact same odds as any one else to roll those when they advance.
As the elves cost more to start this is fine as they will start with fewer guys at the start. But late game when every one is more worried about gear and xp this all turns into an advantage for the elves.

Now am I saying that this wood elf warband is broken? No, I think it's well made and balanced at least in concept.
I am simply pointing out the xp diffrence compared to young bloods (a good base line hero).

I think it's alright although I think the Heroes could do with being about 10gc more expensive and limited to only 4 (Wild Hunter or Wizard) to bring it in line with the balancing of the official dwarf warband (which is a good basis for non-human warbands).

Initiative is probably the least sought after stat advance.. but leadership is a Very good stat increase to have. Rout checks, Fear.
nuff said!

dwarves are definately a good reference.. im gonna take a look at that one a bit closer to comparison.

I agree with Initiative. Intiative does have it's uses though if the board has a lot of elevation to deal with and stuff to hide behind.
Only wanted to point out that the wood elves did get some "free" advances that is not compensated for in any real way.

I think one major issue is that theyre getting all these free advances, which takes them away from the core balance features, but when compared to other nonhuman/non elf bands. are still light years ahead.

compare them to the dwarves, they get more advances, for a lowwer cost, and with less starting experience.

plus, dwarves / orcs only get 4 heroes to start. Elves get 5. huuuuuuuge advantage. it makes that Lads Got Talent rule kind of moot. since everyone splits all their henchmen groups up into groups of 1 for the first 5 games, youll get that roll you need very fast.

I think this list needs to drop a hero, or increase cost & starting XP for each hero drastically. but the same applies to all elf lists.

Dwarfs have an advantage though of +1 free exploration dice so there 4 starting heroes is balanced out there.

+1 wyrdstone, not +1 die.
little different. more money, but harder to get cool exploration combos.

Styrofoam King suggested a while back to reduce the heroes to four like dwarf warbands (reduce Pathfinder to 0-1). My mate did that and so far its seemed pretty well balanced. We play with lots of terrain too which helps reduce their effectiveness. Also they are easier to take out of action than Dwarves.

Thats right, my bad. I would rather have the shard personally as i seam to be cursed with bad combos... the well is not that much fun.