Greetings! Loving the mod - Any DE tips?

[KFPM]

Hey!

Been a long time lurker...though I would make an account finally!

So far I am loving the mod (except the installation with steam nightmare) - but just have one issue - i'm finding playing dark elves a lot of trouble, both on custom and campaign.

Even light infantry seems to cause warriors and spears some a good deal of trouble, and elite units, while good, are expensive and leave me totally overwhelmed with numbers. Drowning everyone in crossbows seems to be the only saving grace.

Does anyone have any wisdom to share?

Many thanks,

KFPM.

[Steelforce77]

use more crossbows

[BohemianHussar]

What Steeler said...nothing like a dark endless cloud of barbed bolts to shower your enemies with

But also, build up your stables so you can get dark riders and cold one knights, both can give you quite the advantage on the battle field.
Best part about the dark riders: their elvish horses make them fast enough to out run imperial mounted units and at the same time fast enough to evade counter volleys from enemy units. Plus they make great flankers. I usually use 2-4 regiments of them per field army and havent had an enemy army make it off the field alive

Cold-one knights are just as awesome and especially useful against the other factions heavy hitting cavalry since their mounts can scare horses.

Territory wise, try to stick to taking control of the north in the beginning. Best to leave the empire alone until chaos comes rampaging through their lands. Plus itll give you time to build your northern bases so when time for expansion comes you have cities capable of producing raider fleets. Also, take the northern dwarf holds and high elf cities if you can, the high elf cities usually are port cities meaning more troop building locations and dwarf settlements are really nice money makers till your ready to take marienburg.

As for chaos, ally with slannesh but be ready for the storm of chaos because afterwards slannesh is gone and your faced with a very big and nasty chaos faction that'll probably come after some of the northern lands you hold. Then again most of the north went into rebellion with the storm of chaos so not sure if thats the norm.

Most of all though, sack and raid the empire. They have very rich cities and as a dark elf it is in your blood to burn and pillage to your hearts desire. And don't forget slavery, but yah sacking was my main means of economic game and the darkelves also get some bonuses towards looting/attacking.

Darkelves simply put are all about a strong offense. Hope this helps. Make the Witch King proud

[Klierowski]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...79#post8929479

Download it and install to you'r warhammer folder.

Then see your elite units stats... i didn't changed a price of each units becuse of lack of time.

[leonn]

is there anywhere i can find a description of what the various de buildings allow you to produce?
ingame there is nothing beyond the name in some of the building cards. cheers