I have considered Harpies but the problem I have with them is I don't like the current GW models and can't really find an alterative model I like. I suppose I could kit bash some deamonetes and Tyranid Gargoyles, I've seen a conversion online somewhere that looks good. Plus there only T3!
The stone throwing monster your thinking of Alan is the Cygor and I'm not gonna take him. I've just been using it in friendly games to see if I can get it to work and the answer is no, he can deny points by staying out of trouble and throwing rocks but means the rest of the army is fighting 275pts down. I would have to design the army list around points denial to get him to work and that's just not how I play.
The Ghorgon is a pretty good monster if you can get him into combat S6 T6 A6 with L10 stubborn can hold even a tooled up daemon prince in combat for a good long time. He also works very well with my play style. The Jabberslythe isn't as good but it flys and as a bonus has its aura of madness rule.
The main reason I like the monsters and the centigor is it allows me to redeploy my line (jabberslythe flys and ghorgon and centigor are M7) on there own not much of a threat and easily countered, but all together with a unit that looked out of position at deployment can seriously screw an opponents battle plan. (Well its worked once :-p )
I can see what your saying Alan about not looking at units in a vacuum and not relying on magic, its a good point and I'm going to try and keep it in mind. I have an advantage over your elves in that my mages can fight so the 500pts I have in magic are also in semi-fighty characters, but its still a good point.
I'm sure I'll change my mind about everything before it gets to the list submission date and end up changing the list entirely :-D
The stone throwing monster your thinking of Alan is the Cygor and I'm not gonna take him. I've just been using it in friendly games to see if I can get it to work and the answer is no, he can deny points by staying out of trouble and throwing rocks but means the rest of the army is fighting 275pts down. I would have to design the army list around points denial to get him to work and that's just not how I play.
The Ghorgon is a pretty good monster if you can get him into combat S6 T6 A6 with L10 stubborn can hold even a tooled up daemon prince in combat for a good long time. He also works very well with my play style. The Jabberslythe isn't as good but it flys and as a bonus has its aura of madness rule.
The main reason I like the monsters and the centigor is it allows me to redeploy my line (jabberslythe flys and ghorgon and centigor are M7) on there own not much of a threat and easily countered, but all together with a unit that looked out of position at deployment can seriously screw an opponents battle plan. (Well its worked once :-p )
I can see what your saying Alan about not looking at units in a vacuum and not relying on magic, its a good point and I'm going to try and keep it in mind. I have an advantage over your elves in that my mages can fight so the 500pts I have in magic are also in semi-fighty characters, but its still a good point.
I'm sure I'll change my mind about everything before it gets to the list submission date and end up changing the list entirely :-D