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Slaying Ethereal Dragons - A Brainstorm

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The Peacemaker:
Wjy did he not combo charge your veteran block with Silverhelms and the Dragon and use the champion to take the challenge?

Veteran block only gets 7 combat res(3 from ranks with griffin banner, close order, banner, bsb, warbanner).

Combo charge gets: 3+ kills.
Close order 2(dragon and silver helms), banner(silver helms.
If able to combo charge with other units with +1 combat res then its better.
....of course this is assuming he took a silver helms unit plus other units, and thar your units are not in the way.

sedobren:
Combat resolution is a problem for a non fighter dragon rider, like an archmage, he should have taken some lore with a good assilment, like the battle magic signature one (2d6 f4 ap-1). He would have wasted the unit in that case.

Obviously challenges exist for that reason i guess, even a stupid small supporting unit would have helped him.

nub5:
Ugh, there was a youtube interview I saw with an empire player (who is a member of this board) I'm so sorry I forgot the name.  He talked about running a general (or you could do captain) mounted with the dragon bow as a supplement to doing a couple wounds to large monsters and general harassment.  The general was chosen over the captain for the extra wound.  I think it was something like this (again apologize if I mangled it).

General of the Empire [149 pts]
- Hand weapon
- Full plate armour
- Shield
- Brace of pistols
- Barded Warhorse
- Dragon Bow

Clymer:

--- Quote from: The Peacemaker on April 12, 2024, 05:35:48 PM ---Wjy did he not combo charge your veteran block with Silverhelms and the Dragon and use the champion to take the challenge?

--- End quote ---

Um, 'cause I'm too good a player to let him pull that shit off?  :::cheers:::

Really though, we were on a long table and the way we deployed and the way terrain was, when he moved his silverhelms up it created a flanking charge for my demigryphs, so that's what happened to that plan.

Clymer:

--- Quote from: The Peacemaker on April 12, 2024, 05:35:48 PM ---Veteran block only gets 7 combat res(3 from ranks with griffin banner, close order, banner, bsb, warbanner).

--- End quote ---

My group plays that the Griffon Banner grant's +2 per rank. For most rules questions we take things at face value, or what seems reasonable/benefit of the doubt worthy, compared to how other items or rules work at similar point costs. Not saying we don't split a few hairs, but overall it's a lot less contentious than a lot of web threads.

Anyway, that ends up being +4 for ranks, +1 for banner, +1 for Close Order, +1 for BSB, and +1 for Warbanner, hence, plus 8. Hence, that dragon gonna lose by 2.

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