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[Spehss _]

I had the idea of making castes of elves with the ability to transform into werebeasts when in danger. So, there'd be ambushes from seemingly normal elves, then suddenly you've got 5 or 6 huge wolf-beasts all up in your army's grill. Never got around to implementing it, but the plan was to use the various werebeast transformation reactions in Fear the Night as a base for the reaction. I like Fear the Night's werebeasts because they'll transform when in danger rather than just once a month.

Would take lots of work to put in, I suppose, since you'd need to define 1-2 (1 or both genders) castes for each type of transformation and you'd also need to define the creature it'd be turning into.

[Jake]

Personally, I find the simplest method to be giving them spears and some sort of blunt weapon instead of swords, which play to wood's real-life strengths; it won't hold any kind of edge but you can sharpen it to a very serviceable point, and a cudgel made of good oak is just as effective in practice as one made of iron.

[Urist McShire]

I'd also bump their stats, in general.  Gait, attack speed, dodge, strength... Elves in DF are pretty brutal cannibals and murderers, they're not the flimsy pixies of LOTR.

Flimsy pixies? For thousands of years the Firstborn were the finest warriors, craftsmen, and scholars of Middle-earth, and they still are, though their numbers have dwindled. The Elves of the First Age are some of the biggest badasses in the entire history of Middle-earth; they're far greater than many men and dwarves of later ages.

[Quartz_Mace]

I'd also bump their stats, in general.  Gait, attack speed, dodge, strength... Elves in DF are pretty brutal cannibals and murderers, they're not the flimsy pixies of LOTR.

Flimsy pixies? For thousands of years the Firstborn were the finest warriors, craftsmen, and scholars of Middle-earth, and they still are, though their numbers have dwindled. The Elves of the First Age are some of the biggest badasses in the entire history of Middle-earth; they're far greater than many men and dwarves of later ages.

Read the Silmarillion of you truly wish to understand the Elves of Toliken, as the person above does.