The Armor/Weapon damage de-buff, while not bad, is too low to be worth casting. Leadership de-buff is kinda pointless on Very Hard. They are also slower than most other cavalry units.Д¦) Morathi magic is kinda uninspiring. 'Anti-large' screams of 'charge me into another cavalry', yet the rampage mechanic imposes that you charge them at least 2v1 to prevent them from taking heavy casualties, which kinda defeats the purpose. Not as good at pursuing as a High Elf Dragon either.ДҐ) Cold One Knights are good, but man! I always have to watch their HP and that's something I don't like. In melee it's also good but more of a tank type of good, allowing your Shades to do their job. The breath attack can do amazing damage but it's more difficult to use than the High Elf counterpart (Moon Dragon or whatever your preferred type is). It goes in a straight line so a lot of times you want her to be on high ground, yet the very short range makes it difficult to be on high ground and in range in the first place. It seems difficult to make them flank when Dark Elves have no good 'butcher' mobility units (like High Elves Star Dragon/Dragon Princes).Д¤) Hydra Breath is very gimmicky to use. So the way I use shades is currently either a) frontline vanguard and then retreat, or like you would with regular archers. who needs that when you're in melee already?!)ДЈ) The lack of a good reliable cavalry means that you cannot play your Shades on the flanks as easily because they can get charged (and they will win most engagements yes, but suffer quite a few losses in the process). Besides, all buffs you get other than Stamina and Weapon Strength are useless (I think you get stuff like 20% bonus ranged strength, more speed. Ah yeah, Murderous Prowess is useless in every battle btw, it always activated exactly when I routed the whole enemy army (.). High Melee Defense on an elite anti-infantry is a HUGE deal. At the same time, Swordmasters have so much going for them: Bronze Shield, Anti-infantry, Melee Defense buff and armor piercing. Maybe because of their physical resistance/ward save idk. They also can die to focused ranged fire. They're not the melee monsters Phoenix Guards are. Sure, they will do their job, but that's it. I had no real counters to those dinos other than Shades and Reaper Bolt Throwers and hence suffered heavy losses in spite of winning.Дў) Black Guard fail to inspire me like Phoenix Guard do. So I'm 130 turns into a Very Hard Morathi campaign and all is going well but there are a few things that I still don't understand about Dark Elves.ДЎ) Early game I had a couple of tough battles where I had to beat 10+ dinos with no access to Black Guard. Tl dr: I am looking for a good late game Dark Elves army composition to go up against any army

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