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Digging through some 40k files, I came across some 4th ed eldar lists. I really havn't touched my eldar much in the past several months. (Can't you tell lol...) Anyways I wrote up a new 1850 list that has a feel from the old eldar codex before Craftworld Eldar. I took some old elements and threw in some 5th ed tactical choices. My work hours give me 5 hours a day in the afternoon to get in any pick-up games plus days off. Our community's largest population is on Fridays and Saturdays (with RTs). To make a long story short, I'm going to dust off some ol's space elves just for fun. With the Chaos terminators nearing completion, it leaves me little on my immediate to-do list and I am considering my other races like Eldar and loyal marines.
5 Fire Dragons
5 Fire Dragons5 Fire Dragons
Falcon
Holo-Field
Spirit Stones
EML
Falcon
Holo-Field
Spirit Stones
EML
Falcon
Holo-Field
Spirit Stones
EML
10 dire Avengers
Exarch
Bladestorm
Dual Shuriken weapon
Waveserpent
Spirit Stones
Scatter Laser
10 dire Avengers
Exarch
Shimmershield
Waveserpent
Spirit Stones
Scatter Laser
Shuriken Cannon
6 Jetbikes
2 Shuriken Cannon
Farseer
Guide
Mind War
Spirit Stones
Jetbike
Singing Spear
Eldrad
It's a pretty easy list. Dragons sit in the falcons. Eldrad rides with the vengers with shimmershield. The other farseer with the jetbikes. Now I just need to see if my old jetseer is stil in pieces... He was built about 2 years ago. I may have a chance to run this list Friday.
3 comments:
The list is solid. The only item I think would improve the list without completely re-working it is to swap one of the Jetseer's powers for Fortune. Either one would work as they're about equally useful in this list.
This isn't a style I'd personally run and I suspect it will get a little boring for gameplay, but it can and will win games.
Thank you so much. Actually finding a person who actually agrees that competative mech eldar is BORING. I cannot stress nor talk about it enough in our local gaming community. It's the main reason I really havn't touched my Eldar in months. I actually ended up packing the army in my cases then deciding last minute to start playtesting my SMs Friday. I havn't removed them from the case yet and probably won't for a while still.
Most of my SM is loose on shelves and I was going through it Friday morning gathering the models I needed. After grabbing everything, I was still left with a heaping mound infantry models on the shelf. Probably enough to fild 1500 points without any armor alone. I relized that my SMs are actually much larger than my CSM collection that originally anticipated. Even larger than my CSM and Daemons combined. Considering this, I have put some small thoughts on creating an inventory of my eldar and selling it or swapping for a WHFB army. Even just a rough estimate, I know I have at least two squad boxes of every unit in the book not even thinking about my numerious grav tanks and 50+ warp spiders that I would need t get rid of.
a person who actually agrees that competative mech eldar is BORING
The irony being that one of the things I'm most well known for it writing much of Warseer's tactica on mech-Eldar. Hell, I coined the term DAVU.
The army is tough, fast, reliable, and easy to grasp. It's an excellent army for a mediocre to average player. But after a time you'll notice that every game plays almost exactly the same as the previous. It's BORING.
So my mech-Eldar sit on a shelf and only come out for certain tournaments or when I'm asked to teach a local a lesson in humility.
That being said, I would advise taking a moment and considering if it is the army you're bored with or just the build. Eldar are one of a couple armies that I've built, gotten bored with, sold, regretted selling and later re-built.
40k is very cyclic and transitional. Armies will change and often get a new lease on life when there's a core or codex rules revision. 6th edition is on the horizon and Eldar are rumouring for a revamp late 2011.
Plus, nothing says you have to play to the optimal list. For fun, I play more a challenging variant like Iyanden. As long as the core list is at least decent, good generalship can overcome quite a lot...
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