High Elves - Ships Company

 

In the Arcane Journal book for the High Elves there were a new unit entry, a ships company.

I fought that looked like a fun unit I didnt have so I thought I should get some. They are unique for the Sea company list but I guess that I will have to test them out in the future.

The soldiers have basic elven stats, starts with warbows that can be exchanged for spears and a shield for a cost and they can be upgraded with light armour.

As of the 1.5 faq or whatever it was, spears seems to be rather useless now with infantry already fighting in an extra rank I didnt bother to give them spears model wise as I dont have the numbers to fight in three ranks. This gives me a unique High Elf unit with swords and shields.

The miniatures are Outmarks Light Infantry elves out of the box with the except that I gave one of the miniatures an horn to blow in from an plastic viking to act as musician.
The miniatures dont have any armour and I think its nice to have another unique unit in contrast to the regular militia spearmens that have that included.
Then maybe a light armour could be worth the cost in a handweapon and shield unit but atleast I save some small points.

I like the miniatures, and with the capes I think they looks great as a ships company with a cloak for protection against the weather.

For the painting I went with grey as the base tone and with some blue and white to give them that High Elf theme. With the shields I added some turquoise to make them pop.

These are all miniatures from one box and I still got a handfull left that I intend to convert to some civilian elves.
Scalewise they works great for Warhammer.

Warhammer Old World Escalation campaing 2, game 3

 
Game 3 of our Warhammer Old World Escalation campaign event 2.

In the last game for the day we ended with an multi battle.
My Elves would be honoring the ancient alliance between the elves and dwarfs to combat the forces of Chaos, marauding barbarians siding with an fallen Bretonnian nobleman. 

I manages to get of the all important charge with my Ellyrian Reavers.
The added charge bonus of cavalry spears and striking before the opponent makes all the difference when you are a puny elf with tinfoil armour...

Our hero are here seen chasing after those barbarians fleeing from his skills at arms...

My Silver helmes champion having recovered the wounds from the first game are here seen again taking on the that Nurgle infested berzerker champion...
And the unit is charged both by Silver Helmes and Ellyrion Reavers... trying to dish out a lot of pain in combined strike...
This time the Silver Helmes champion manged to win the challange.

Pursuing the fleeing barbarians my Silver helmes got in contact with some peasants with halberds.  

After a bloody fight my Silver helmes had managed to chase down another unit. He was alone now but have managed to push straight through the enemy lines and capture an objective... 

Ellyrian Reavers pushing through the stakes and charges the archers behind. A unit of my dwarven ally can here be seen in the background pushing forward.

The cavalry of the Ellyrian horse tribe had been extremely lucky this day and the enemy had been defeated with the assistant of my old allies. 
Lets just hope the dwarves can remember this alliance and forgive all grudges so we can continue pursue the forces of the dark gods in the future when they have regrouped and returned... 

Wow what a game, my cavalry managed to get in all those all important charges and carried the day this game. I had so much luck this game, I managed to succeed with some really really important dice rolls this game that made all the difference, with some bad dice rolls my army can crumble rather quickly.
But not this day. This day the horsemen of Ellyria shined through...

Game 1
https://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2026/05/warhammer-old-world-escalation-campaing.html

 

Game 2
https://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2026/05/warhammer-old-world-escalation-campaing_01652041405.html 

 

Warhammer Old World Escalation campaing 2, game 2

 Second game my Ellyrion horse tribe would be facing Bretonnia.

So lets see if my cavalry can avoid all the longbows and charge through the spikes without being skewed...

 In this scenario each player was given a free magical banner to be placed in a unit and if that unit managed to leave the battlefield on the opposite side victory points would be scored and the ability to buy a magical banner in the next event.

Trying to put pressure on the humans as quickly as possible, not letting them trash my force with all those arrows and trying to engage them were I want before they can rearrange to meet me.
 

My noblemen and a unit of Reavers are here seen pushing through after a successful combat. The Reavers a little bit more eager and ran a little further then the noble.

Both of our units escorting the magical banner managed to leave the gaming table on the opposite sides but I had managed to inflict more dammage on the Bretonnians so my Ellyrians was the victors of this engagement.