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This is my concept for an eldar assault vehicle, with doors on the front.

Can anyone say that the eldar do not need an assault vehicle?


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Eldar are specialized, yet they have homoginized cookie cutter vehicles.

Cylon Raider!

Not so sure about this, but what the heck, give it a whirl and post pics when you're in process!

I have pieces of one of those models in a bunch of my orky creations.

That's not your concept, that's copypasta of a Cylon Raider.

If you're going for something like that I wouldn't use that model specifically... 'tis too boxy.

I can say they don't need an assault vehicle. I can say so because they do not need an assault vehicle.

Well IMHO eldar melee units are effective only if they hit first. I find it almost imposible to hit first, when I have to hop out of the back of a serpent.

If you can explain in specific terms how to employ close combat eldar troops effectively with their current equipment, I would love to hear it.

rofl. If you can't pull it off, you can't pull it off and that does not mean it's hard to do or that they need an assault vehicle.

Kungfuhustler, you're kind of giving the guy a hard time over nothing. He didn't post a huge whine/rant about how he never wins with his Eldar, this game is hard, etc. He just said that they could use an assault vehicle. I kind of agree - as cool as I think the models for eldar grav-tanks are, they are at a big disadvantage compared to any transport with side or front hatches (let alone fire points). It's not exactly beyond the pale to say that an assault transport/something with front hatches at least would be a good idea.

OP, I think that vehicle would yield some good parts, BUT you'd be better off mixing it with a normal WS kit. Maybe set the front wings characteristic of all eldar tanks wider than usual, with a door from that other kit in betweeen them?

Good luck to you, seems to me that converting an eldar vehicle is harder than orks or IG - you have to keep everything looking fairly ergonomic, no hard edges, etc.

Easier to make a rule (ie create a fictional piece of technology) that allows eldar to teleport out of the WS.
I would be the same as what the warp spiders carry on their backs. It could have the same restrictions. Roll a d6 for the distance they deep strike out of the WS, and they can assault, but not shoot, like heroic intervention. Build the points into the equipment on the WS.




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Thinking this through.

Vehicle Teleport Device - 40 pts. - During the movement phase, if the vehicle does not move, the passengers may debark from the vehicle using the deep strike rules. Select a location no more than 12" away from the edge of the vehicle. Roll for scatter as normal, but subtract the initiative of the unit to determine the distance. If the unit does not scatter due to rolling a hit, or a reduction of the distance, the teleported unit counts as having moved normally. If the unit scatters, they count as having deep striked.