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So, I know there's been a lot of talk about giving eldar certain things to make them certain things to give them the punch they need, but I wonder if perhaps some work could be done with what already exists. For example, take the Battle Focus rule: Treat all non heavy weapons as having not moved after advancing.

Now, if Eldar are supposed to be a glass cannon army that protects the glass by movement, (and I know that's been debated about whether they should be) should it not be all weapons, including heavy? And shouldn't units like say the Dark Reapers have it? Removing the heavy weapons, most of the "cannon" in the Glass Cannon idea, defangs it, making it just fast moving glass, which may hurt once but then it's over.

Now while I doubt this alone would be enough to make up the gulf, but maybe focusing on the little things could assist long enough until GeeDubs figures out what to do with the Eldar. Things like most of the Warlord traits being Meh, similar story with the relics.

BrianDavion wrote:

 The Red Hobbit wrote:
So there aren't a whole lot of Eldar infantry that use Heavy weapons so retooling Battle Focus to do that would actually harm the army quite a bit.

Agreed that the Warlord traits need some work.

not really it'd just mean "all weapons act like they eldar haven't moved" TBH I don't see anything wrong with this given that ultramariens and argent shroud basicly have that version of the rule and it makes them good but not BROKEN

That's basically what I mean. It's clear that as it stands GW either doesn't know what to do with CWE, or at least isn't ready to update them yet, so trying to fix the little things that hold CWE back from at least being decent. The small things that bring them from alright to meh, to even bad.

 Arachnofiend wrote:
I think Hobbit's point is that that change to Battle Focus wouldn't mean much of anything since it would help... literally just long rifle Rangers? Huh. Why don't Dark Reapers have Battle Focus?

It'd help guardians as well, and I have no idea why they don't. Besides that it wouldn't help them because they only have heavy weapons.