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SO, I have conviced most of the people in my area to use the 6th edition sniper rules for penning vehicles (since they still can't explode them or the like) So I could run my eldar ranger list.

let me know if there are any fluff improvements here. Note, fluff= stuff that would be with rangers, not with rangers just scouting.

at the moment I have

10x 10 man units of rangers


2 farseers as HQs
1 warlock

I am not schooled in fluff for rangers, though I wish I was so I don't know exactly what they would employ other than themselves in a fight.

3+ cover saves! or is it 2+... um 3+ I think.

Is this army Unbound or running as two CADs? I'm thinking the latter. I'm surprised you're not taking ... Nightspear? I don't have my Codex with me at the moment, but that would provide upgrades to your units as long as you aren't facing armies that Ignore Cover to begin with.

I find it amusing that you fall back to using 6th edition rules to bolster a strategically-challenging army to begin with... even an Exodite Eldar force of Rangers can have pockets of other units. I think a unit or two of War Walkers to provide AT firepower would be fluffy to traverse the terrain as scouts.

nightspear is fluffly, I considered it but to take the upgrade (gives shrouded and stealth) thats double the original model cost for 2+ cover saves...

war walkers might actually be effective here... Don't have any though :( hmmm.

Im very interested in what other fluffy armies you shall be going up againt? What are your friends going to be bringing? Because this obviously isnt a list for anything but with friends.

Eldar aren't always in complete isolation unless they are traveling to a distant world outside their webway. In truth, you could still take units from the Codex to provide support to a Ranger force used to attack an enemy detachment.

Yeah personally I always felt the war walkers meshed quite nicely with the ranges, seems very scout-like to me to. Nightspear would work very well aswell but I don't like running named characters so I always opt for the generic hq choices.

I love the looks of the elder ranger models and would love to field an "all ranger" army aswell. If they weren't so expensive I was planning on doing some major converting and modeling the pilots of my windrider jetbike squadron as rangers aswell (I run lots of jetbikes, like the stormtrooper scouts on jet bikes from star wars).

TLDR Anyways. War walkers, yes. War walkers.

 Inevitable_Faith wrote:
(I run lots of jetbikes, like the stormtrooper scouts on jet bikes from star wars).

An Eldar army of Rangers, War Walkers (AT-STs), Jetbikes, is very "Return of the Jedi" (or Imperial Guard with similar units)... field an Imperial Bastion or something as the rear entrance to the Endor Moon Shield Generator and wait for some Rebel scum to infiltrate.

 Aurelian wrote:

 Inevitable_Faith wrote:
(I run lots of jetbikes, like the stormtrooper scouts on jet bikes from star wars).

An Eldar army of Rangers, War Walkers (AT-STs), Jetbikes, is very "Return of the Jedi" (or Imperial Guard with similar units)... field an Imperial Bastion or something as the rear entrance to the Endor Moon Shield Generator and wait for some Rebel scum to infiltrate.

Dont have a bastion, have a voild shield generator.

 ninjafiredragon wrote:

 Aurelian wrote:

 Inevitable_Faith wrote:
(I run lots of jetbikes, like the stormtrooper scouts on jet bikes from star wars).

An Eldar army of Rangers, War Walkers (AT-STs), Jetbikes, is very "Return of the Jedi" (or Imperial Guard with similar units)... field an Imperial Bastion or something as the rear entrance to the Endor Moon Shield Generator and wait for some Rebel scum to infiltrate.

Dont have a bastion, have a voild shield generator.

Even better, haha.