i am starting high elves and getting back to fantasy people in my area started playing agin.

1 i was wondering what to get first i really like the look of the warriors with spears.

2 i was also wondering what the best way to paint faces is.

3 any ideas on what colors to use.

thanx

So are you playing high elves or dark elves, as you have posted that you are starting high elves, but the title is that you are starting dark elves..... :blink:

i know

i was going to play high elves then i found that not many people play fantasy in my area and the employes at the gaming store i go have recently decided to start an fantasy league i decided to start playing agin.

when i looked at the league sighn up 8 people sighned up three of which played high elves and their was no one playing dark elves.

so decided to get into dark elves insted

i am looking for a way to build a cheap 500pt army.

oh one more thing i apologize for my being gone for so long.

thanx

You can't go wrong with Warriors & Dark Riders for 500pts. Warriors have good options, a good deal of equipment in either case, and are extremely cost-effective, with M5, WS4, I5 shields, light armour & spears or RXBs, for only 7pts if you go with the combat build - so in either case you get between a 5+ and a 4+ save. Dark Riders are also nice, being core fast cavalry with M9: for a reasonably small amount of points, you can get an army that is composed of a good number of well-equipped, WS4, M5/9 troops.

I would probably not take DR in this sort of game because they normally excell when they are not noticed. In a game of this size they are bound to be spotted by the enemy general and will be a very high priority for any of his shooting troops. I'd take 16 warriors, 5 Naked Cold Ones nd a general on Cold One.

If your looking for a good all around option for 500pts

I'd go for

A Mounted Noble or a Sorceress (cheaper as there are no mounted hero figures)

A box of warriors with shields made up as crossbowmen these guys are as effective as the spearmen in close combat and can shoot effectively as well.

5 Dark riders with crossbows to act as flanking troops being fast cavlry they are highly moble can move upto 18" and still shoot

1 chariot in a small game these are really hard to stop and are highly destructive espcially when used in conjunction with a flanking charge from the Dark Rider unit or to support a relentless advance from your warriors.

To your questions

A box of warriors is a good start these guys are easy to assemble and easy to paint on mass fairly quickly. One tip is to paint the shields still on the sprues and glue them onto the finished warriors, if you make crossbow armed warriors do the same with the quiver - it makes life a lot easier that way.

Faces my favorite way is to use a base of vomit brown with fleshwash and a bleached bone highlight on the regular guys. It may sound a bit odd but is very effective. For the characters and models with a lot of flesh like Witch Elves you can highlight this further with some thinned down Elf Flesh to get a really palid look.

The Dark Elves benefit from being mainly dark colours with a small amount of a highlight colour Red Gore or Hawk Tuquoise make nice highlight colours for the cloaks and armour plates if you don't want to use a metal finish. I use Bolt Gun Metal as a base for the chainmail areas and weapons. This keeps the models nice and dark and allows you to really emphasis the details such as flesh hooks and weapon edges.

I'd also suggest having a look at the tactics article on this site and on
druchii.net

Happy Gaming

Kel

thanks for the help

i will mainly be fighting high elves and wood elves

thanx