We are talking about 2000-point-conquest:

CHAIN DEFEND

GFD - ancient 444

RLD - ancient 444

Solonavi Creator 178

EGM 68

Formation 1:

1 x Troll Gunner*** 52
2 x Troll Gunner* 66
2 x Troll Artillerist** 66
1 x Elven Demi Magus** 37
2 x Elven Demi Magus* 62
1 x Mending Priestess*** 29
1 x Mending Priestess** 26

Formation 2:

1 x Troll Gunner*** 52
1 x Troll Gunner* 33
1 x Troll Artillerist*** 38
1 x Troll Artillerist** 33
1 x Troll Artillerist* 28
1 x Elven Demi Magus*** 39
2 x Elven Demi Magus* 62
2 x Mending Priestess** 52

2 x Shade* 24

1 x Woodland Scout*** 14

4 x Warrior Sprite*** 108
2 x Warrior Sprite** 44


Formation 1 & 2 are touching the RLD's sides, so all members of both formations share a Defense of 20. GFD and Creator are loners, Shades and Scout support GFD, Warrior Sprite-wall blocks sight. EGM,RLD and Priestesses heal troll's push damage.

Maybe it's not playable, but I will test it this week and I can't wait to see my opponents faces....

Tell me what you think!

My first impression is good; the chain-linked formations should be able to shrug off most attacks, and the GFD is an excellent heavy hitter...The Creator heals (I presume, and once she gets pi$$ed, she goes shockwaving) and the EGM provides redundancy for the RLD and Creator.

Looks good, Troll Leader. I give it a 4/5.

11 attackers in 2000 points..... I think not!

Hey it appears to be very defensive and slow. I think it would have problems with a swarm of Venom and potentially Ram, especially with Levitation. You might also have problems with a large formation of Flame/Lightning and Magic Enhancement, depending on how its played. The example I'm thinking of is 5 Amotep Gunners and 2 or more well placed Demi-Maguses. +4 to hit and lots of F/L damage.

Orc Stone Throwers or other siege equipment could break your defensive chain. You'll probably win more games than you lose, but it will be hard for you to play aggressive, a key factor of playing fun games of Conquest in my mind.

Dave

I think that its slowmoving, but it makes up for it with raw power. The RLD im sure is gonna help out alot and you seem to have the healing thing takin care of o im gonna say 4/5 because of slowness. Great job with it and good luck w/ the test!!

How did the army do? Now that we've commented and you've played it, what are your thoughts Troll Leader?

Dave

I tested this army against a combinated army including 1000 points of BPR and 1000 points of Orc Raiders.

I had to face swarms of orcs, two HOST's, a Orc Captain and an enhanced Chaos Mage, a heavy cannon, a Mountain King, Dwarven Rams, a War Wagon including a Dwarven Hammerskald and an Amazon Queen.

Unfortunately my two opponents did a lot of mistakes and one of them (the BPR player) rolled very, very bad.

So I lost the shades, the scout, two sprites, a Troll Gunner*** and a Troll Artillerist**, two trolls and two sprites were demoralized, but that was it.

Finally I killed the War Wagon, one HOST, Orc Captain, Chaos Mage and his three Shamans (they only took f/l damage), the Mountain King and the Dwarven Hammerskald and of course a lot of orcs, dwarves, mancatchers and Steam Golems.

After the match I was a little bit disappointed because of the low quality (obviously my two opponents were shocked by the shared 20 defense), so I will test it again to post a useful report!

So long, thanks for your posts.