If the shades aren't ITP in this setup you could try taking along the BoL+Starfire Arrows. If you force a panic test every turn they should fail atleast once I think, but hopefully that will teach said opponent that this unit is a dumb, unfun idea.

Congrats Doomwolf! You've delivered the Battleglade its first bona fide dose of Threadomancy! And what a remarkably outdated and irrelevant resurrection it was.


Karma for you!

hahaha

The best counter to this shade uber unit is the Lore of Life spell - The howler wind.

No more shooting for that stupid thing.

Except that it'll be almost impossible to cast; they'll have their Ring, plus a bunch of Dispel Dice, and that's exactly the spell they'll aim at.

Combo-charges are one of the best ways I've worked out to deal with 'em. The multiple Assassins will still be a problem, but if you charge with several units, then hold for a turn and charge with more you should be able to break 'em in combat. Dryads will do very well, for relatively cheap. You just have to realize that you'll lose a whole unit (even a Treeman!) to the S&S, and at least one more to the fighting, so you want to charge with as much as is possible, then keep piling in. Failing that, if it's not a tourney, just stop playing. It's not like either of you will really be enjoying yourselves....

Typically the Shade star has the ring + a bunch of magic resistance but only base 2 dispel dice.

Howler Wind doesn't target the shade unit so just stay out of ring range.

The Howler Wind isn't as great as you might think. Since it doesn't do anything until their shooting phase, they'll get a chance to dispel it once when you cast it and then another chance to beat its casting value of 7 in their magic phase.

Since armies with the RoH are unlikely to be doing much casting, it's almost a given that their power dice will go towards trying to beat the Howler Wind. It's actually a pretty lame spell because of the way the turns are set up.

A shade death star army usually has only 2 dispel and power dice. The chances of dispelling howler wind in their magic phase are around 50%, so I would still try to cast it.