Warhammer
Dark Elf Scouts
Dark Elf Scouts are tall, sharp-eyed warriors, keen as hawks and cruel as leopards. They live and fight in and below the mountains to the west of Naggaroth. This is a terrible country: the mountains are harsh, relentless and jagged with rocky and precipitous peaks, while the caverns below the mountains are gloomy, dank and fraught with peril. It is a perfect natural arena for the wars of sniping and ambush practised by the Dark Elf Scouts.
Dark Elf Scouts must live and survive in this hostile environment from the day they are born, children being left outside the birthing tent to endure their first night on their own. Only if the child survives the night is it considered to be worthy enough to be a Dark Elf Scout. It goes without saying that the experience does much to foster the extreme self-reliance and pathological distrust of other creatures that is so characteristic of all Dark Elf Scouts.
In battle the scouts prefer to rely on their skill with their repeater crossbows rather than risk direct confrontation. They will move out on their own well before the battle lines have been drawn up, choosing a well-concealed location from where they can harry and snipe at the enemy while remaining under cover themselves. Although they consider it foolish to engage in hand-to-hand combat unless the fore is surprised or his back turned, their ability with the short but deadly sharp swords that they carry should not be underestimated. Many an over-confident opponent has learned to his cost that a Dark Elf Scout is at his most dangerous when corned and forced to fight.
| Troop Type | M | WS | BS | S | T | W | I | A | Ld |
| Dark Elf Scout | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
The above information was taken from the Warhammer Armies book on Dark Elves. All of this information here has been copyrighted to Games Workshop Ltd.
