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So i was trying to make my eldar list a bit better against flyer spam and i realized, instead of eldar i should be playing IG with eldar allies so i can use 3 vendetta gunships and a Hydra and then add 2 units of guardians in wave serpents a unit wraith guard in a wave serpent, my laughing tarch that gives reserves manip to my ig anyway and warpspiders and fire prisms. Now i was intending to play pure eldar so I'm intending to model my ig using eldar. Here is what i have in mind.

First we take this set of warlocks to turn the company command squad into a seer council.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440239a&prodId=prod1160110a

Company commander - Farseer, Replace the arm with the second sword with a wrist mounted shuriken gun arm from dire avenger exarch
Heavy Weapons team - Starcannon platform from Guardian box with Plastic farseers
Master of the fleet - Warlock with the singin spear and shuriken pistol
Two remaining veterans - Two remaining warlocks from the finecast set with shuriken guns haning of their belts.

Next up for the troops, so this twice

Infantry Squad with AC HWT - Squad of Dire Avengers with Starcannon Plastforms, I chose dire avengers to set them apart from my normal guardians here.

Then ofcourse 3 of these babies

Vendetta Gunship - Modfied Crimson hunters with waveserpent transport bay, Shuriken Cannons as heavy bolter sponsons

and then i'll pull out a firestorm as the hydra!
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Eldar/ELDAR-FIRESTORM-COMPLETE-KIT.html

My question here is, aslong as i make sure that their colorscheme differs from my actual eldar, and consitently replace weapons. Shuriken pistols and catapults as las guns and las pistols, bright lances for las cannons, star cannons for autocannons and shuriken cannons for heavy bolters, would there be any reason to complain? as far as i am aware the firestorm is bigger then a hydra and the crimson hunters match vendettas while beeing a little wider because of the bigger wingspan.

Sounds like an interesting concept. A different paint scheme would work to show a differentiation between the two. But it would not be too different at a glance. You could try and make the IG Eldar like an allied exodite force. That way you would have a bit more freedom in the modeling of the weapons. Maybe even kit-bash the two weapons together.

Example: They had to recycle discarded weapons from the battlefield to keep their army fully equipped.

This way you could shave off a bit of the rounded edges on a bright lance and add the large lascannon battery to it to make it look more recycled.

I think your main issue will come in the form of weapons counting as two different things in the same force, i.e.

Catapults count as lasguns for primary detatchment but catapults for allies

Starcannon is both a autocannon and starcannon in same force

And so on, especially since the models would look similar, even with a different paintjob it could quite easily cause confusion. The easier way to do it would be to ensure that if you have a "counts as" weapon, then every similar weapon in the force counts as the same thing (so if the IG have a shuriken cannon counting has a HB then your eldar field no shuriken cannons)

I think Melcavuk brings up a good point, it could get confusing

Thats why I intended to use the dire avengers in the IG, the dire avenger shuriken cannons all come with the scopes on top and the dire avenger symbol at the bottom to set them apart

The list I'm looking at looks something like this.

HQ - Company Command Squad
- Veteran Autocannon HWT
- Master of the Fleet

TR - Infantry Squad
- Autocannon

TR - Infantry Squad
- Autocannon

FA - Vendetta Gunship
- Heavy Bolter Sponsons

FA - Vendetta Gunship
- Heavy Bolter Sponsons

FA - Vendetta Gunship
- Heavy Bolter Sponsons

HS - Hydra Flak Tank

HQ - Autarch
- Jetbike
- Mantle of the Laughing god
- Laser Lance
- Fusion Gun

EL - 5 Wraithguard
DT - Wave Serpent
- TL Scatter Laser
- Holo Fields

TR - 10 Guardians
DT - Wave Serpent
- TL Scatter Laser

TR - 10 Guardians
DT - Wave Serpent
- TL Scatter Laser

FA - 10 Warpspiders

HS - Fire Prism
- Holo Fields.

So the Avenger Shuriken Catapults and Pistols count as Las guns, the starcannons count as Autocannons, bright lances count as las cannons and shuriken cannons as heavy bolters none of these come back in my actual eldar allies force.

Sorry, I feel it's less counts-as and more proxy when it comes to the weapons.

What could work weapon wise though is the "lasblasters" from the Corsairs. Or possibly splinter weaponry from DE. But just calling a DA shuriken a lasgun won't work. The scope isn't the defining factor of the weapon. The weapon profile is.

Ohh jeez, the corsair las blasters is an AMAZING idea. As I'm playing Iyanden I could even make my command squad into Yriel and a few autarchs with 2 squads of corsair themed eldar. Qustion then, the forgeworld kits description is a little unclear, how many lasblasters come in one conversion kit?

I believe it's 9 or 10. The only reason I'm unsure is I don't know if they take one out for the power blade and pistol.

well I'd need 8 per squad so that would be perfectly acceptable to me. thanks for the response, Guess I'll be ordering some more forgeworld then!