Ok so I have been struggling with my Dark Elf army for awhile now and need some advice on its make-up. Using 6th Edition rules, 6th Edition Ravening Hordes.
I have:
Dark Elf Commander on Cold One (Metal - and another one I am customizing to be on foot as I do with all of my generals)
Army Battle Standard (Metal)
Sorcerer (Plastic)
Fleetmaster (Plastic)
Dark Elf Battalion Set which includes:
5 Cold One Knights (Plastic)
20 Corsairs (Plastic)
16 Warriors with repeating crossbows (Plastic)
12 Spearmen (Plastic)
Also have:
Repeating Bolt Thrower (Metal)
5 Dark Riders (Plastic)
10 Black Guard (Plastic)
Now I am playing small games (1000 point range), and this is already more than that, so I have extras I can swap out. The issue is I am stuck on the theme. Originally when I didn't know much about WFB I wasn't planning on doing many 20-man units but now see the error of my way, and are following what the Battalion sets offer as what I am building my armies around. For all my other armies this is easy, but for the Dark Elves I am struggling.
I am struggling because the set includes 20 Corsairs, and doesn't include enough parts to make 20 Spearmen. I feel based on the models that I have that this is a pretty standard straight up Dark Elf force, not necessarily a naval one, which Corsairs would be to me. I do have the Fleetmaster model, but I really only got him cause I thought he looked cool and was cheap. I prefer the guy on the Cold One.
So this would leave me to believe that to keep things uniform, I should go with a unit of 20 Spearmen, and maybe just split the Corsairs into one 10-man Repeating Crossbow unit, and another 10-man with the two hand weapons. I am not sure what all the army books allow you to do, but this is what Ravening Hordes allows.
This would give me a 20-man unit as the base to build my army around, and then some flavor around them.
I don't know much about the Dark Elves tho, and would a unit of Dark Elf Warriors with Repeating Crossbows be more likely to be seen before the corsairs? I love the Corsairs, but they just seem really out of place for the traditional looking army I feel like I am building.
So the reason I ask is because I will need to get the parts I need to fill in the Warriors with spears if needed.
Does this make any sense? As a huge Man O' War fan, I love the idea of a Fleetmaster leading an army on the hunt for slaves, but I also feel based on the majority of the units I have, that this is more of a standard army and so I prefer to keep it that way. I guess I am just unsure on how often Corsairs are running around with Dark Elf armies, and GW thought it was important enough to stick 20 of them in the Battalion set, and I would like to get the most out of that set if possible.
And if I did go with a 20-man Corsair unit, I would settle on 10 Spearmen and 10 Crossbow men, with extras of each leftover.
