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| Too big to fit in one photo |
Here are several photos of my Eldar army. Yes there are a lot of them and they have been painted in 3 different color schemes. This was the first army I ever played from back in 2nd edition. In second edition I loved my Swooping Hawk Exarchs jumping out of the air and directly into hand to hand. That thought of that still makes me smile today. As you can see I have painted my collection in three different color schemes to illustrate three different Craftworlds: Alaitoc, Saim-Hann, and Ulthwe. This would allow me to play all the different craftworlds. At the time it sounded great, but in hindsight I should have painted all of them the Saim-Hann color scheme because it is my favorite. Since I have this huge collection and they have a shining new codex I plan on playing a lot of Eldar of the next two years.
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| Saim-Hann Eldar |
I picked up the new Eldar codex the first day it was in the store and I have been trying to put together army lists since then. I have so many ideas I want to play and test out but naturally exploring a codex takes some time. I really love the codex because there are so many army builds. I really think the power of the codex is in using the Farseer and the Warlocks. Warlocks are such a force multiplier. It is too bad you can only take warlocks in guardian units or maybe it is deliberate?
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| Other side of the Opening Photo |
HQ
Farseer-135 pts
On Jetbike and Spirit Stone of Anathlan and singing spear
Autarch-160 pts
On Jetbike with banshee mask, fusion gun and Shard of Anaris
Warlock -55 pts
On Jetbike and singing spear
Elite
5 Wraithguard 160 pts
in Wave Serpent with Scatter Laser, Holofield-135 pts
Troops
6 Rangers-72 pts
10 Dire avengers-130 pts
in Wave Serpent with Scatter Laser, Holofield-135 pts
9 Windrider Jetbike Squad-183 pts
Fast Attack
5 Warp Spiders-95 pts.
Heavy Support
Fire Prim with Holofield-155 pts
War Walker Squadron with Bright Lance and Scatter Laser-120 pts
Total 1490 pts
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| Photo of army that I am taking to the event |
I love this list because it has a lot of shooting, some hand to hand if needed and very fast and durable.
I plan to provide some battle reports on my experience next week.
As a teaser – here are some other possible lists I plan on playing in the near future:
Saim-Hann (Fast and furious)
HQ
Baharroth
Farseer
on Bike with Sprit Stone of Anathlan
Troops
10 Jetbikes with 3 cannons
10 Jetbikes with 3 cannons
6 Jetbikes with 2 cannons
5 Jetbikes with 1 cannon
3 Jetbikes with 1 cannon
Fast Attack
10 Swooping Hawks with exarch, sunrifle and hit and run
10 Warp spiders
5 Shining Spears with exarch, star lance, hit and run
Heavy Support
1 Night spinner with vectored engines and holofield
1 Fire prism with vectored engines and holofield
Tank heavy list (fast and hard to kill)
HQ
Farseer with Sprit Stone of Anathlan
Spiritseer
Troops
10 Guardian Defenders
in Wave Serpent with Holofield
10 Dire avengers
in Wave Serpent with Holofield
5 Wraithguard
in Wave Serpent with Holofield
Fast Attack
1 Vyper
1 Crimson hunter with exarch
1 Hemlock Wraith Fighter
Heavy Support
Falcon with Holofield
Night Spinner with Holofield
Fire Prism with Holofield
Alaitoc List (Ranger list)
HQ
Illic Nightspear Karandras
2 Warlocks
Troops
10 Rangers
10 Rangers
10 Pathfinders
20 Guardian defenders with scatter and Bright Lance
Fast Attack
10 striking scorpions with Exarch with Scorpions Claw
Heavy Support
3 War Walkers with scatter laser and Bright Lances
This is very similar list I used to play back in 3rd edition when you have the disruption table in the Codex. I believe it would be very powerful in the current meta.
Iyanden (hard to kill)
HQ
Farseer
Sprit Seer
Troops
10 Wraith Guard
5 Wraithguard in Wave Serpent with Holofield
5 Wraithguard with D scythes
in Wave Serpent with Holofield
5 Wraithguard with ghost axes and shields
in Wave Serpent with Holofield
Fast Attack
Hemlock Wraith Fighter
Heavy Support
Wraithknight
WraithKnight with suncannon, scattershield, and scatter laser
What are your thoughts of the codex?
Damn, that is an nice collection. Very rarely do I see you playing Eldar, hoping that changes now with the new book.
ReplyDeleteSo did all those models sit in boxes in the basement or were they always sitting on that table taunting you?
ReplyDeleteMan that's a lot of eldar! Probably more than all my armies combined. If you got an airbrush up and running you could repaint them plenty fast. LMK if you want any help with that.
ReplyDeleteI like your tank heavy and iyanden lists. 7 skimmers and 2 flyers would be tough to handle, as would 2 wraithknights. Can't wait to see either of these at the local events.
I'm trying to find a way to fit some swooping hawks in too. I love the ability to leave the table and deep strike without scatter, it just seems like WRJB's do a similar thing with a 36" turbo boost and always score. My next themed army may be a eldar/DE mirror list with reaver bikes, WRJB's, hawks and scourges, warriors and guardians.