Even though most of my army projects are in Warhammer 40.000 or a variety of smaller skirmish games, I do have my armies for Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Four, actually: I started out with Dark Elves, followed by Chaos Dwarves (to be discontinued some months after I started buying them), Lizardmen and Skaven. Oh, and there are those Nightgoblins from the Skull Pass starter set, always dreamed about making those into an army, too.
I would agree that they are not among my highest priorities or at least they weren’t for a long time when I did not play Fantasy at all (which would be for most of the 6th and 7th edition). But ever since the arrival of the 8th edition I am planning to reboot my armies and get into the game again. Most of that are plans at the moment, but then what’s sweeter than planning?
Of my armies, I like the Dark Elves best, though they currently mostly consist of old pewter and plastic miniatures. I even have two regiments of those plastic Swordsmen that are actually not really allowed to field anymore… one of the reasons I rarely worked on that army was the lack of plastic options – and in the case of the Witch Elves also the lack of acceptable sculpts. Everyone to his or her taste, of course, but to me they are among the weakest models Games Workshop has ever published…
But at least for Witch Elves things are going to change soon. First there are rumors about new Dark Elfs from Games Workshop somewhere late in 2012 or in 2013. Then, already possible, there is the intriguing idea of mixing the current Dark Eldar Wyches with bitz from the Black Ark Corsairs.
And then there are these teasers from Raging Heroes, an intriguing small company with one of the worst logos I’ve ever seen…
I can’t say if those will be the Witch Elves I’ve always wanted, but they might well be – despite the fact that those won’t be miniatures you could mount in many a way…
But that’s not all, there’s always the rumor that Felix Paniagua and the guys from Avatars of War are working on a plastic kit for Witch Elves. And when I look at Dark Elves like this one
and when I think about those splendid Slayers Dwar Berserkers they did
I think those might be the best choice… but we’ll see, I am pretty broke right now, so I can afford to wait… still, haven’t been so excited about the Dark Elves for a long time…
