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Is an all dark eldar reaver (bike) army possible? I know it isn't balanced, or practicle, but it is calling to me.....

No. You need Kabalite Warriors or Wyches to fulfill your troops and there are no bike HQs.

pretre wrote:No. You need Kabalite Warriors or Wyches to fulfill your troops and there are no bike HQs.

Can any hq choices be on something?


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Ahhhh.... Looks like I could do a Reaver heavy army (aka lots of reavers)....max out my Fast choice, minimize my hq & troops (pts wise).....

How many reavers could fit into a 2k list? Roughly?

3 Squads of 10 is max for the FOC.

That's only 660 points without upgrades.


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Also, do you have a copy of the codex? This is all clearly laid out there.

There is at least one DE hq that makes something bike like a troops choice. Look into that.

juraigamer wrote:There is at least one DE hq that makes something bike like a troops choice. Look into that.

You're thinking of the Baron. He makes Hellions troops.

You could do an all bike eldar army with the craftworld book. Then just use dark eldar models if you were going for the aesthetic of the army.

Of course their bikes are terrible in comparison to the dark eldar. But it would give you a legal, fluffy, cool looking list.

That's a bit of what I am doing. In my new Eldar army, all the bike models are DE bikes, and all the Guardian Defender/Storm squads are DE warriors. I'm even thinking of converting Venoms into Vipers. My Scorpions are also the old-style DE Incubi warriors.

That actually sounds pretty appealing and affordable compared to a real Eldar bike army.

Plus, just think of the cool Bloodbride Council on bikes you could do.

You could always use the old bikes as count as hellians and the new bikes as bikes. everything moves 12" but unfortuneatly you cant have everyhting moving 36"

pretre wrote:
You're thinking of the Baron. He makes Hellions troops.

An army of Hellions as troops and Reavers as fast attack would be a really fun, fast, and fragile army. That would be really cool thematically.

krazynadechukr wrote:Is an all dark eldar reaver (bike) army possible? I know it isn't balanced, or practicle, but it is calling to me.....

I don't think so. Good troop choices almost always have a reliable anti tank weapon option, which hellions don't. So there's a versatility problem. Reavers do have anti tank weapons, but you can only take 3 squads. You're already playing the fastest army in the game though, so the need to go even faster is.... uhh... well.... very Eldar, I guess. Anyway they're really cool models though so I'd go ahead and get some.

Just remember if you don't have something to shoot at with your heat lances/blasters on the reavers turbo boost over a squad and drag some marines back to the arenas!

In a game where army lists have thing unique Apocolypse lists, where Tank Companies can be fielded , ala IA, or entire Sentinal lists, its just a matter of time before the "All Bike" list gets printed up and made available. As cool as it sounds, it'll be expensive and require much finesse to use it for more than a "Move Flat out" Armada and get some use out of its weapontry or assaulting.