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shadowdancer kirjoitti:OT? .......mutta kysyisin että, mistä saatte tietoa noista huhuista jne.? Onko kyseessä GW:n wood elf keskustelu palsta?

Ari kirjoitti:

This is something I heard on the second day of the UK GT, another rumour (but spoken to me as if it was fact). By someone who I again have no idea who he is or what he has to do with gw.

This rumour is about everyone's favorite female forest spirits.

Dryads

- They will be a core choice, but won't count towards any of the minimum core allowance
- They will be lowed in cost to 13 points.
- They will lose all aspects. The rule completely dropped.
- Their states are staying the same as they are now but with one change. They will only be strength 3.
- For some reason they are going to basically be demons. They will get the 5+ demonic ward save, they will cause fear, and be immune to pyschology. (I didn't here a mention about them going pop out of existance if they lose combat, like demons can. And I didn't think to ask at the time.

So if this is true they are basically just going to become, a more exspenice and less useful version of ghouls.
They will have slightly better stats (+1M, +1WS, +2I and the most useful +2LD) but on the minus side, they won't have poisoned attacks and won't be able to flee as a charge reaction.
All in all if this is true, the bringing woodies into line with the other elven armies has begun. Ie. The neuttering has started.

sir elvood kirjoitti: jos tämä on totta niin ainakin minä olen (taas) pettynyt GW:hen

shadowdancer kirjoitti:Mutta jos tarkemmin ajatellaan, niin onhan ne Dryadit kuitenkin jonkilaisia henkiä eli demoneita. Joten täysin hyvä/mahdollinen muutos

Bigfoot kirjoitti:

shadowdancer kirjoitti:Mutta jos tarkemmin ajatellaan, niin onhan ne Dryadit kuitenkin jonkilaisia henkiä eli demoneita. Joten täysin hyvä/mahdollinen muutos

Fluffillisesti kyllä. Pelillisesti ei välttämättä mitenkään hyvä muutos, lähistehoa menee vain entisestään.

guardian of wood kirjoitti:Turha sitä nyt on itkeä, että dryadit huononee. Nyt niitä voi ruveta käyttämään tykinruoka yksikköinä!

Averren kirjoitti: Kannattaa käyttää 13pts modeleja, jotka aiheuttaa fearia tykinruokana.
Miltei loistokas idea.

I don't think I've seen this rumour, make the rounds yet on portent, but I know it has on some other message boards (I posted it on Mach's wood elf site myself).
Again this was something I've told whilst at the GT final. The person who gave me this rumour also claimed to be one of the wood elf play testers. But again I've got no idea how true it is.
This time its about a completely new unit for woodies.

The Winter Guard.

Fluff for them is pretty simple, but then also kinda of cool imo.
When the king and the queen are sleeping in the middle of winter, ready to be reborn the spring. Well this is when Athel Loren is at its weakest, so a new unit is formed just for this time, from the elite of the wood elven warriors, the Winter Guard.

Statswise they are just basically elite elfs, Ws5 and perhaps higher I or LD (but no chance at all of getting S)
It is also very possible they could be stubbern, like most guard units, but I wasn't told this (Just my own belief)

What is interesting about them, is their equipment.
Firstly they will get heavy armour and shield. Making them most heavily armoured of all elven elite infantry (heavy armour itself is super rare for woodies) and then we get their melee weapon.
Sword Staffs
They can basically be used in 3 different ways.
The second rank of the unit may else them as spears.
In the front rank they can be used one of 2 ways, firstly as a hand weapon, to get the hand weapon/shield bonus. Or they may be used as additional hand weapons. (Its also possible this is the new weapon of the glade guard as well, as the plastics look as if they are armed with this item).
All in all, I believe that this unit could be pretty cool, they can either have an excellent armour save (exspecially for an elven elite infantry unit) or throw a hell of a lot of low strength attacks and if they are stubborn as well, they would be an excellent unit to take a charge.
I'm afraid what I don't know is their cost. So if this rumour is true we could actually have a reasonable elven infantry unit for its cost. But then again its just as possible they could go the way of Durchii and Asur elite infantry, lovely models, but just to expensive points wise to be worth using.

Laters.
Lestat.