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Hey I'm usually a Tau player and decided to start a new army. My question is this...

is there special rules for playing Alaitoc?

and I've seen reference to "pathfinders" but don't see rules for them; what are they and what do they do?

There's no supplement for them yet.

If you want to play a fluffy Alaitoc army, it would be Illic, and Rangers upgraded to Pathfinders.
Alternatively, you could just paint them in the Alaitoc colour scheme (blue/yellow).

If you take Illic Nightspear, you can upgrade you rangers to pathfinders. They gain shrouded and always precision hit.
There isn't a supplement for them though.

I'm working on an Alaitoc army myself, personally I don't find the points to upgrade to pathfinders to be worth it, as rangers have a low enough damage output in general.

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I play Alaitoc Eldar, and I generally don't bring nightspear or his pathfinders. I like to bring at least one full squad of rangers with a farseer behind a defence line with an Icarus Lascannon. The farseer being bs 5 makes it easy to hit, so the higher strength and lower points of the lascannon is generally pretty effective. The rangers generally don't do a lot of damage, but they can be hard to shift, particularly when there's wave serpents, warp spiders and fire prisms pounding their army.

Thanks all for the input, is there rumours of an Alaitoc supplement?

Not that I've heard. I'm hoping for Ulthwe.

Just for the record: Eldar don't have Septs.

 Happyjew wrote:
Not that I've heard. I'm hoping for Ulthwe.

Why Ulthwei? Sorry about the sept error; I had no idea

It fits my army. My first game with the new codex (and I didn't even realise it till somebody pointed it out), was an Ulthwe army - Farseers, Warlocks, lots of Guardians, almost no Aspect Warriors.