The second thing you need to know is that archers can be outfitted with a spicy array of arrow types – rapid-firing Swift Shiver Shards for use against cheap, dense infantry, poisonous Hagbane Tips for units with big health bars, and incendiary Starfire arrows for those with poor leadership. As you'd expect, the heart and soul of their line-up is the humble archer, and the first thing you need to know about Wood Elf archers is that they can shoot while moving. In hands other than mine, the Wood Elves could be an absolute terror – the Old World's finest ambushers and mid-ranged combatants, rising out of the grass to pepper an advancing phalanx or crash through a rearguard, only to evaporate like the morning dew when you bring your tougher troops to bear. They're being added to the game via the Realm Of The Wood Elves DLC and I've had an early play with them. A big round of applause, please, for Total War: Warhammer's definitive glass cannons.
When they aren't doing micro, they also do getting knocked flat by a gentle breeze. Wood Elves, it turns out, really, really do micro. Micro? Well, I dare say some of those fancy northern Dawi tribes can find a use for it, but I've always set my watch by a good, solid shield-wall. Dwarves don't do manoeuvres, they do gunpowder and big helmets and spurning alliances because somebody's ancestor forgot to return the lawnmower. Or rather, you know where they are - all the way over there on that ridge, Ironbreakers in front, Quarrellers behind, Hammerers poised to waddle down the flank like a glacier performing a legal U-turn.
Let me summarise my highs and lows as a Wood Elf general in one phrase: I'm very much a Dwarf guy.
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