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Warlocks on lizards????

For shame,

Exodite Eldar? I think it's more fluffy than Every-Army-Has-Eldrad.

Do you think you could get a link to the prices of cold ones on the GW site.

I've only got two words for you... War Walkers. With scatter lasers. Three of them for now. Then another 3 to six of them as your army grows.

I find them indispensible for non-mechanised eldar armies.

I do not like the guy who appearently plays you and posted just after your opening post.


That being said.

Avatar (155)
6 Dire Avengers (72)
6 Dire Avengers (72)
Wraithlord w. Spiritsword (100)
Wraithlord w. Spiritsword (100)
499pts

Just walk right up the middle, spread out A LITTLE with your Lords and Avatar, so he can't possibly evade you. @ 500pts there won't be too much capable of taking down the Wraithlords, and even IF there is, you can still almost bet on at least one Lord and the Avatar arriving and simply shredding him.

Back in 3rd, when I was sometimes going to Tourneys, I did almost the same thing (though I used 5 Guardians + Starcannon, and the Avatar wasn't as good) and it always worked out for me in escalation Tourneys were you start out with small ptsgames, or in any small game.

Without fortune the avatar dies to slugga boyz, and wraithlords die to the klaw nob, regardless of fortune.

At that point doesn't it depend on who's a better general? i.e. Who's smarter to not GET charged. But it's true, with only T6 the avatar dies to S4 mass fire. Trust me as that's happened a few times. Overkilling combat and being left in the middle of 15 necron warriors is no fun.

It's easy: neither the avatar nor wraithlords are fleet, and the Eldar player doesn't have any ranged capabilities to slow down the ork advance, so they either have to sacrifice the DA units to give the monsters the charge, or the monsters get charged because the ork player can Waaagh.

Again, doesn't that depend on how you play and whether you're a good judge of distance or not?

If both players are of equal skill level, the Eldar player is at a disadvantage. Since in this case the Eldar player is brand new to the game and at a lower skill level, then suggesting that list is a really poor idea.

Honestly, the only advice that's worth a damn for the OP is:
Play more.
Read the Rules.

Well we certainly agree on that:

Read the rules over and over and over again.

And play as many different people and as many different armies as possible.

This is what I did for cheap experimental armies.

Went to the hardware store. Bought a 1" wood pole and a miter box. I had a small hobby razor saw at home. The 1" pole (in the U.S. anyway) isn't actually 1" diameter, it's just a bit under, almost identical to the standard gaming base.
Went to the office store and picked up a ream of thin paper card stock that goes through your printer.

Put the pole in the miter box and slice off pieces a bit thicker than the standard model base. Use the razor saw to slice thin slots in them halfway through down the middle. Go to the GWS website and get pictures of the units you want to play. Grab a picture, put it in an picture editor. Resize the picture to be about the size the model should be on the table. Copy the picture several times over to fill a page. Print the page. Cut out the dozens of very cheap models and stick them in the slots in the wooden bases. Everyone playing can easily see what's scorpion, what's a banshee, etc. Line of site issues should be fairly accurate.

If you want to be real nice, make sure your printout is centered horizontally. After printing the picture once, flip the page and print it again. Now each image will be double-sided.

To play test something with a large base (monster creatures or walkers) I would make a card stock disk the size of the large base. Put a 1" slit in the middle and align the slit over the wooden base slit. Then stick the base of the picture through the disk into the wood base and your large creature base will be accurate on the tabletop.

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:Warlocks on lizards????

For shame

sourclams wrote:Exodite Eldar? I think it's more fluffy than Every-Army-Has-Eldrad.

Me too. Dinosaurs with lasers can't be beat!




I use the Lizzie cold ones for my Autarch, Guardians, and Warlocks, and the Dark Elf Cold ones for my Shining Spears.

augustus5 wrote:I've only got two words for you... War Walkers. With scatter lasers. Three of them for now. Then another 3 to six of them as your army grows.

I find them indispensible for non-mechanised eldar armies.

I agree with this too. War Walkers with scatterlasers are awesome, but make sure you can swap out the SL for Eldar Missile Launchers too. Having the ability to spit out 24 S6 attacks really helps to offset hitting on 4+ and can definitely hurt horde armies, but you want to have the ability to pop the occassional light vehicle with a S8 hit or lay down some pinning fire as well. If you can spare a farseer, keep him close enough to guide them.