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 purplkrush wrote:
Pardon my inexperience, quick question.

As Harlies are listed in the Eldar Codex are we supposed to use these new rules for all our Harlies or does this constitute an entirely new army requiring a separate FOC for my Eldar?

Until the Eldar Codex is updated I guess we can either use the ones in our Codex or the new ones as allies. Likely it will be the same as Dark Eldar and removed from the Eldar Codex when its fixed - opps I mean redone

 purplkrush wrote:
Pardon my inexperience, quick question.

As Harlies are listed in the Eldar Codex are we supposed to use these new rules for all our Harlies or does this constitute an entirely new army requiring a separate FOC for my Eldar?

I guess you can do both.
Use Harlies in the Eldar codex or as a separate detachment using their ally rules.

But you would have to be consistant. You can't run Harlies from the Eldar codex, but include the weaver jetbikes, as the Eldar codex doesn't have them. etc etc

So they can't be used as a supplement? I didn't see an HQ for their army.... Also, I picked up last week's WD to get the rules and this week's as well. It seems like they're going to continue to release rules for a new transport vehicle next week. WTH? Are they going to slowly release aN entire codex like this or are they even going to have enough stuff for a complete codex? I don't really keep up on these trends, please forgive my ignorance.

 purplkrush wrote:
So they can't be used as a supplement? I didn't see an HQ for their army.... Also, I picked up last week's WD to get the rules and this week's as well. It seems like they're going to continue to release rules for a new transport vehicle next week. WTH? Are they going to slowly release aN entire codex like this or are they even going to have enough stuff for a complete codex? I don't really keep up on these trends, please forgive my ignorance.

We don't really know - its likely that they will release a full Codex but they could do it all via White Dwarf - which would not be unprecedented but unsual - even then likely to collect it and sell it again.

Currently we are missing the artefacts and characters like the Death Jester and High Avatar - they could do these in a couple of WD's I guess.................

morgoth wrote:
I don't think anyone can successfully argue that Tactical Marines are bad.

They may not be good enough for the tournament scene, but at 14 points, 3+ Save 4/4/4/4 ATSKNF Krak Grenade + options including access to Drop Pods they'll never be "bad".

Thank you. I have no idea why people equate "Not the best troop choice in the game" with "bad". Just because A can always beat B if they are standing 6 inches from each other, doesn't automatically make B "bad". It just makes it A better, when they are standing 6 inches from each other.

Also, it's important to compare the entire faction and available formations before saying one faction is clearly superior to another. Harlequins may be very nice when all is said and done, but using them as an ally, if you're only allowed 1 ally (eg tournament rule) may make them an inferior choice to Space Marines which have access to every tool in the shed.

Finally, I think an argument of buff space marines to make a many more people happy than Harlequins is silly. By that extension, since almost everyone who plays 40k at some point has had a SM army, they should just always buff SM units. Why bother ever working on Chaos, Necron, Tyranid, Orks, Tau, Eldar, and Dark Eldar? There are more SM collectors/players than any one of those.

In any case, back to Harlequin Discussion. I picked up the box on hold for me today; here's a high rez picture of the sprues. If you click on the picture, you can zoom in to a very high level of detail. Notice: 25mm bases!!