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Greetings,
A situation arose at a FLGS for 2000 pts that has me kinds miffed and looking for answers. Now a short disclamer, I didnt play against the guy just overheard the play by play aftermath and dont know the eldar codex so please bear with me on this folks.

Ok so here goes...
Eldar Skimmers in 4th were a flipping pain in the rear to kill. Now it appears a guy figured out how to make em once again stupid hard to kill. Appearently it goes something like this, A Skimmer move 6 inches so its moved so you can only "glance" it. The dude takes what is it, holofields or whatever and can force your opponent to re-roll the damage dice. Since you cant kill vehicles on a glance anymore the best you can do is get immoblised. Well the Eldar have a upgrade that if you move less then 6 appearently they dont crash and burn they just land and become a pillbox.

So this means that you cant destory Eldar skimmers very easy. In fact its stupid hard to kill them. Could anyone who knows the rules better then myself please clarify if this is even legal and if so the exact ruleing on it?

So onto my real question, how would you folks deal with this list in a 2k game? To me it just sounds broken to all hell. Any help would be grand.

umm....

they need to read 5th ed more, dude.

There is no "Auto glance" anymore.

Skimmers moving over 12 get 4+ cover save., which CAN be fortuned, if you were so inclined.

But the scenario you have here does not exist.

The glance only rule is gone.

Holofields make you roll 2 dice and you pick the lowest. These have been around in 4th and were part of what made Eldar vehicles so hard to kill.

The landing gears (don't know the actual names) were around in 4th.

Those upgrades are expensive and probably aren't even worth it half the time. We have no idea what army you play and thus have no idea how to help you.

It's pretty much covered. The tactic to use is for your opponent to read the rulebook. His tactic was a 4th edition tactic which no longer works in 5th.