[warrior-of-hope]

Can fast cavalry shoot when they march? If so what penalty to WE glade riders get.

 

[Lord Sinkoran]

Yes fast cavelry can march and shoot and i don't think glade guard get a penalty

 

[Packing Steel]

yeah, fast cavalry are actually meaner than they look on first glance at the rules, a small unit of them can be really annoying, pistoliers, top blokes.

 

[jakkie]

my wolf riders have bows as well as hand weapons, so they are very helpful in guarding and herding the flanks.

 

[Blackhiker]

Yes fast calvary are quite useful I need some for my High Elves, but My other armies can't get any that shoot

 

[Lord Sinkoran]

i'm thinking of getting some pistolers for my empire

 

[Spector]

i'm thinking of getting some pistolers for my empire

One or two units of 5 pistoleers are sure to enhance any Empire army .

 

[neilbatte]

pistoliers are one of the best units in the game i once broke and overran a unit of 10 tooled up boar boys with a flank charge the repeater pistol rules

 

[jigplums]

pistoliers are needed for an empire army imo
get them, get them now

 

[Lord Sinkoran]

2 units of 6 i think however i haven't played fantasy for 2 years my friends how played i don't see much of anymore since thay went to college and stayed in 6th form with my friends who favour 40k shame i must have spent about £1000 on fantasy which is just gathering dust i'm going to go cry now.

 

[The Son of Horus]

Can fast cavalry shoot when they march? If so what penalty to WE glade riders get.

Seems your question hasn't been entirely answered yet.

Fast Cavalry can, as stated in the main rulebook, march and shoot in the same turn. They can also shoot in the same turn as they rally, which tends to prove useful.

With Wood Elves, only the infantry (with one exception that escapes me at the moment... perhaps Waywatchers?) get to move and shoot without penalty. If it helps, think of it like this. Wood Elves may be really bloody good shots, but when you're riding bareback on a galloping horse and trying to aim a bow at a moving target which may or may not be aiming a bow back at you, you're at least going to be taking a -1 penalty to hit in game terms. There's inhuman accuracy and then there's inhuman accuracy.

 

[matty570]

may sound like a silly question but how are pistoliers really that good, I tried them in a few games and they didnt really do anything, 13 s4 shots hitting on 5s, wounding on 3s/4s, i was only causing 1/2 wounds a time, it just didnt seem to work out? How should I use them?

 

[swntzu]

Son of Horus, I will have to contradict you.

Looking at the boxed section of page 18 of the Wood Elf army book, it mentions "Wood Elf longbows" as not suffering the move and shoot penalty.

Since Glade Riders are armed with longbows this rule applies to them and they are also fast cavalry which leads us to the conclusion that they can indeed march and shoot without penalty.

I'll have a look at the FAQ to see if this has been overruled.

 

[Apokra]

Son of Horus, I will have to contradict you.

Looking at the boxed section of page 18 of the Wood Elf army book, it mentions "Wood Elf longbows" as not suffering the move and shoot penalty.

Since Glade Riders are armed with longbows this rule applies to them and they are also fast cavalry which leads us to the conclusion that they can indeed march and shoot without penalty.

I'll have a look at the FAQ to see if this has been overruled.

It currently has not being overridden, they have inhuman accuracy probably because well they're not human