Wood Elf Army Book Art From Daarken Appears Online!
April 16, 2014 by brennon
The Wood Elves are certainly looking like the next Warhammer Fantasy army to be getting the update treatment and strengthening this is the appearance of some artwork by the incredibly talented Daarken over on his website.
The art shows riders smashing through the undergrowth crushing foes from the Empire underfoot and skewering them with spears. The art is pretty awesome and certainly reminds me of some of the awesome models we've seen for the Wood Elves in the past. They really are one of the best looking armies out on the tabletop when painted right.
There was also this from Faeit...
"Wood Elves are out in May. They get only a two week release - armybook, magic cards and three plastic kits. It is not a total overhaul and their finecast kits - even the cavalry plastic-finecast-kits - stay valid. The only exception is the eternal guard. They are dropped completely. The models can be used as war dancers.
One of the new kits is special because it can be used for several different units. You can build either three hawk riders, which are one hawk and two surfers now, or three giant owl-like monsters called stonefeathers and six waywatchers. On top of that you can build a hero on hawk or on foot.
The second kit is a war dancer combo kit. The second unit wears varying animal masks and shields made of pelt on wooden frames. They have animal claws as weapons.
The last kit is tree ancient and meadow hag. The former is a giant-sized tree man with a huge beard made of bark. The latter has a crown of leaves and she has a skirt of roots instead of legs. Her hands grow into a web of thorns.
The rest of the range stays as it is, the finecast kits probably mail order only.
The wood elves have very dynamic poses because almost all their units are skirmishers again and the sculptors didn't have to worry about spacing. Skirmishers work seamlessly with other regiments in 9th edition, so there will be no problem with this play style."
Thanks to Molemantle for the tip off!
So look out for Wood Elves coming in May!
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I don’t play WFB but of all the armies available I have always been most keen on Vampire Counts and Wood Elves. Interested to see these new releases.
Likewise. Love the wood elf cavalry and infantry.
Exciting and promising!
…I hope they don’t mark the War Dancer duel kit at £35… like the Witch Elves.
V. pleased they haven’t dropped this army.
It looks like the Wild Riders of Kurnous will be riding Thranduil-style and using Deers or Elks. Makes sense really for a forest-dwelling race. 🙂
been waiting for these,my first WFB army and i can still kick ass with them,I hope they have some nice new rules the old beastman raiders rule would be good (skirimshed until combat then rank and file) or wardancers old rule where they can all hit in cc!! 30+dice rolls yahh.
Hope the beast masters return they where suppost to be in the last edition but never came out.
If the models are to this standard I am going to be rather poor, fantastic piece of art – hoping these might be monstrous cav
Always loved the army – currently building the second version to be one of my ‘painting project’ armies
I suspect and hope the Faiet rumours are fairly inaccurate though, stag riders would prove that as well
Very promising, can’t wait for this release! Also gives me some renewed faith or the long suffering Brettonians! Bring it on! My wallet is ready! 😀
About feckin time. Only hope that’s a lie about my eternal guard.
Can anybody give me a flavour of how Wood Elves currently play on the table top? I imagine it will be slightly different when the new army book comes out but any advice would be useful thanks!
The army is made up of light armoured troops (elves) or forest spirits (dryadsetc). most of the troops are skirmished or have bows. I tend use a combination of the 2 troop types hitting bigger units with bow fire then gang up on it with the cc units with at least 2 units. at the moment they have their own spells or lord level can use beast/life (if memory serves) I tend to use their spell awaken the woods to move forests around so you can funnel units to where you want them to go.
Apart from the Treemen I always thought the Wood Elves had rather good models, though the horses in the Forest seemed a tad weird to me.
The idea of deer cavalry is a more flavourful concept.