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I am throwing around the idea of going with this as my next army, and would like to hear from someone who has used them. Let me know what you think please!


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Has no one tried out Corsairs?

The IA list?
I've never seen anyone play it... or heard of anyone playing it either...

I saw someone use the list on vassal if that counts? The guy also tooled the table to be in his favor and then stomped the guard player he was against. However while watching bits and pieces of the game I noticed on multiple occassions he was either misunderstanding or purposefully using the rules wrong. A common sight on vassal where your opponent can't ask to see your codex.

So other than seeing a guy who felt he needed every advantage possible to beat a guard player I have yet to see the list played.

Not only have I never seen it, I've never even heard of it.

This is a discussion on Corsairs, good stuff in the second or third post.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/441824.page#4154604

The tactics forum might also be a good place to look.

Thanks Dheneb!

It's a bit of an odd ball. It's mostly vehicle heavy, but with cheap psychers who can take Webways. While Neural Shredder Dreamers will never go wrong, I have never, ever, succeeded with a Prince. I also find that the melee options are paltry at best meaning that the corsair list is by no means a Dark Eldar rip off.

Personally I do well with Hornets and decently with jet packs, although my greatest fear is when someone gets near me with a flamer.

The Void Storm Squad are just about the best value for money speed bump I've seen in a long time. The fact that three flamers will really put a dent in just about any force is nice. Have to make models so I don't have to proxy.

I often play with Eldar Corsairs, and i must be honest, they are dead crazy. Our Corsair player is the local MSU Champion (making a mockery out of every other MSU build), and her W/D/L record is something like bazillion/some/few .

I first met them when someone said he wanted to try out some IA stuff for the Eldar, so I brought my typical Stealer, Tervi/Gaunt, Tfex, and Hive Guard list with tyrant and swarmlord list. Then I saw him calmly setting down over 10 falcon pattern vehicles and my response went from "Oh this will be easy" to "Oh god I am so fethed." I was obliterated by turn three.

God damned holofields.

Corsair Eldar play a lot like early edition Eldar. They can kill absolutely anything, but die just as fast when you catch them. But first, they must be caught.

Its been my experience that people are not willing to accept Eldar of the non-dark variety as having an offense. Expect whining of overpoweredness and refusal of games.

I'm currently putting a Corsairs list together and in my few practice games I have found them to be great at first but their power really starts to drop once they take a few losses.

They are fragile and their psychic powers are poop but they have an amazing alpha strike ability, especially against armies who can't do much about night fighting since the Prince HQ can make it a turn of nightfighting so if you go first, you can basically unload a hell of a lot of firepower with little return over 2 turns if you're lucky. Hornets are great and the whole army has BS4.

Corsairs can even take a venom as a dedicated transport which Harlies can assault out of, although I've not tried that yet. Corsairs are fun to play and can put out a lot of mobile firepower (missile launchers on relentless troops for example) but they are extremely squishy cause they're all basically just guardians and have no access to Fortune.