Eldar? An Ogryn's a better aim!

[Shadow_Hunter]

Now I must admit, I am very biased towards Eldar.  They were my first real race I did for 40k.  So maybe I'm being a whingey old bat.  If so I'm sorry, but I'm trying to be consistent.

Basically, my complaint is that I dont think Eldar technology, as its represented in the rules of the game, is all that impressive.  I'm gonna start with one of my favourite tanks first, the fire prism.  Now in the last Ed. it was stated that the reason it couldn't carry troops was the fact that the compartment was filled with the power source for the prism, and powerful targetting systems.  This allowed it to shoot at fast moving targets (skimmers/flyers) with no penalty.  And, indeed in epic, its a falk unit.  So why now can it not even hit a staionary land raider?  

If there was any tank that should be equiped with targeters, then I think its this one. (this is where my biasedness [is that a word] comes in, so if you dont agree point out your reasons, so I have other points of view.)  


Now I could start talking about lots of things about Eldar, but chances are you've heard them all before, in fact sorry for starting  a rant.  I just want to hit something with my fire prism for a change.  Overall I think the Eldar codex could do with being revamped, but then I suppose most of the early ones do now.

The main things I would want to see is,

Warp spider weapons back to template
Avatar being more in line with fluff (even if it means he'll cost lots more)
Some other HQ's (master warlocks, Shrine Lords)
Jet bikes being cheaper (Inc. spears)
Other/modify heavy weapon options (it gets boring chosing star cannons for both sets of players)
Wraith Guard revamp
Wraith Lord revamp
Shuriken weapons revamp

Sorry for moaning, you may now flame me.  

Shadow

[CyberShadow]

I think that one of the problems for 40K Eldar is the specialist nature of them. I too am an Eldar fan, and while some of the aspects just really work well, others dont. There are no real balanced units in the army, just bad ones that you have to take. Hawks are probably the closest to a balanced unit, but everyone takes Reapers, Banshees, Wraithlords, and no-one takes Wraithguard, Avengers, Spears.

Still, the rewrite of the Codex might change that, but I would guess that it will just clear up a few things and introduce some new problems that people will complain are too good.

[theoutsider76]

I think the rewrite will be minimal. Probably an increase in the points for a wraithlord to pacify the "rest of the world".

I do agree that characters like the avatar should be much better but cost losts more... it'll be better fluff wise and really send fear into the the opponent when they see one coming.

Do take note that Eldar consistently do well at competitions so I doubt GW will make any improvements to an already highly abusible army list.

My 2 cents.

[Shadow_Hunter]

With the C'tan stats out, and the greater Daemons re-done, it does make me believe that the Avatar is to be (eventually) modified. Obviously a point increase would be applied, but I cant see how he could stay at his current stats, with all the monsters that are out there.

My view of what he could be changed to (and I will try not to be biased ) is;

----WS--BS--S---T---W---I---A---LD
----10---0--7/8--6---4---5---3/4-10

Immune to heat based weapons (plasma, flamer, melta)
Made of metal- 3+armour save, 4+ inv. (as per BT)
Strength increase from Wailing Doom also (maybe) ignore inv.
and all the rest as per codex.

And I would imagine his points cost up to 160pts or more (cant remember chaos costs)

[FishPig]

Personally, I've had my Orks blown off the table too many times by my bro's Eldar to have sympathy for them. I agree there are some things that could do with modification, but from my biased view, the 'modifications' mean toning things (coughReaperscough) down a bit. I'm only glad I do not play Marines.