Mail Bag: My First Eldar Army
Hi there,
I am currently building up my eldar army I will list at the bottom of the email what I have thus far I want to get them all painted before I start playing again but bumped into your harlequin vid - awesome build :) I am still learning Eldar never played them yet so I am a noob with them in all honesty so any advice you can give is really welcome.
My Army So far
1 (10 Units) squad Guardians with a Bright Lance Weapon Platform
1 (10 units) Squad of Dire Avengers (exarch has shriuken Pistol and Dire Sword)
1 (10 Units) Fire Dragons (exarch has Firepike)
1 (10 units) Warp Spiders - (Exarch has Twin Death Spinners & Power Blades)
3 War Walkers one Built so far with two scatter Lasers - not sure what other weapons to go for on those
1 Wraithlord with 1 Missile Launcher
1 Khaine Avatar
1 Prince yriel
3 Wraithguard (so far
2 Wave Serpents (Unbuilt) so any suggestions on config there I am open to ideas
I have the standard Pack of Harlequins but no deathjester Yet ! they are unbuilt and dreading painting them :P
6 Banshees (unbuilt) along with the exarch
5 Dark reapers (unbuilt)
1 Eldar Farseer with 3 body guard
I will be watching your vids and faved a few already, but if you could offer any advice anything I should get I was not too keen on swooping hawks or shining spears but would like more falcons at some point perhaps a couple of fire prisms and vypers cos I love their vehicles
thanks in advance and have a great weekend
Reply Out:
James, you have some models to give a good start to your army. Rather then give you a “list” to play the better long term plan as a new player is to play around with different models, builds, and settle on a list with the models you like. Example- tactically vypers are hard to play and perhaps the points are better spent but I like them and have learned to do well with them. Maybe there are models you really like.
That said, here are two pointers- Eldar are the masters of psyker powers and you are going to want to exploit this and the speed and durability of their transports since 2 of the 3 missions are objective based. I would include Eldrad and another farseer in your list- you can use one of the warlocks in the mean time. You will also want to have a transport for each group of warriors- be it dire avengers, guardians, etc. on the table. Magnetize the weapons so you can play around. Put together a list and I’ll tell you what I think and how I would play it and you can then compare it to what you think and how you would play it- this will help you learn so much faster then me just handing you a list.
-Fritz
I am currently building up my eldar army I will list at the bottom of the email what I have thus far I want to get them all painted before I start playing again but bumped into your harlequin vid - awesome build :) I am still learning Eldar never played them yet so I am a noob with them in all honesty so any advice you can give is really welcome.
My Army So far
1 (10 Units) squad Guardians with a Bright Lance Weapon Platform
1 (10 units) Squad of Dire Avengers (exarch has shriuken Pistol and Dire Sword)
1 (10 Units) Fire Dragons (exarch has Firepike)
1 (10 units) Warp Spiders - (Exarch has Twin Death Spinners & Power Blades)
3 War Walkers one Built so far with two scatter Lasers - not sure what other weapons to go for on those
1 Wraithlord with 1 Missile Launcher
1 Khaine Avatar
1 Prince yriel
3 Wraithguard (so far
2 Wave Serpents (Unbuilt) so any suggestions on config there I am open to ideas
I have the standard Pack of Harlequins but no deathjester Yet ! they are unbuilt and dreading painting them :P
6 Banshees (unbuilt) along with the exarch
5 Dark reapers (unbuilt)
1 Eldar Farseer with 3 body guard
I will be watching your vids and faved a few already, but if you could offer any advice anything I should get I was not too keen on swooping hawks or shining spears but would like more falcons at some point perhaps a couple of fire prisms and vypers cos I love their vehicles
thanks in advance and have a great weekend
Reply Out:
James, you have some models to give a good start to your army. Rather then give you a “list” to play the better long term plan as a new player is to play around with different models, builds, and settle on a list with the models you like. Example- tactically vypers are hard to play and perhaps the points are better spent but I like them and have learned to do well with them. Maybe there are models you really like.
That said, here are two pointers- Eldar are the masters of psyker powers and you are going to want to exploit this and the speed and durability of their transports since 2 of the 3 missions are objective based. I would include Eldrad and another farseer in your list- you can use one of the warlocks in the mean time. You will also want to have a transport for each group of warriors- be it dire avengers, guardians, etc. on the table. Magnetize the weapons so you can play around. Put together a list and I’ll tell you what I think and how I would play it and you can then compare it to what you think and how you would play it- this will help you learn so much faster then me just handing you a list.
-Fritz
3 comments:
A thought went through my head. Is the Eldar Psychic powers so needed that basically one should always choose farseer or similar (like Eldrad is a super farseer) as ones HQ, and avoid an Autarch or other non psycher?
It sure would be a drag if choosing an HQ had that much impact. I am *not* saying you are wrong, it makes sense, just that the codex is limiting a player due to this.
Exarch powers are your new best friend. Fire dragons are buy far the most cost effect way for eldar to knockout tanks. But fair warning. As they do their best work within 6" and the tank usually explodes wiping out half the squad. Give your aspect warriors transports. Eldar do not far well against any shooting unless fortuned or in a can. Falcons work best due to their holofields. Fortune is fun try it on everything, also doom is essential for your banshees, harlequins or when you want your blade storm to really stick. Shuriken cannon are great, cheap, Hv3 and Str 6. Bright lances are far to expense. You have skimmers so you can zip around for rear armor and be effective. Main thing is to remember you are not space marines! Silly to say but its worth noting if you plough up the middle and go toe to toe with most armies you will be beaten to a pulp. On the hand with proper use of abilities and guile you can beat any opponent. (Assuming your luck holds out)
While stumbling across this, I noticed that you have a lot of different units, but not a lot of any of them. This isn't really a bad thing for the Eldar, as they're more advanced units are particularly powerful, but I would say that you could use a second squad of Guardians. An army isn't an army without its grunts, afterall.
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