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hello
i am thinking about starting a eldar army so i have been thinking about the list i could play for fun in my local meta

so here is my go at a eldar army:

HQ
Maugan Ra (warlord): 195

farseer: 140
faolchu's wing
runes of witnessing

Troops
Rangers 10x: 120
jetbikes 3x: 52
Rangers 5x: 60

Heavy support
Dark reapers 6x: 245
5x starshot
exarch
fast shot
night vision

fire prism: 140
holofield
fire prism: 140
holofield

dark eldar support
HQ
haemonculus: 50 (joins trueborn)

Elite
Trueborn 3x: 101
Venom
splinter cannon

Troops
Wracks 5x: 115
Venom
Splinter cannon

Wracks 5x: 115
Venom
Splinter cannon

heavy support:
ravager: 115
flickerfields

Fortress of redemption: 250
krakstorm missles

the fortress will be manned by the darkreapers on the lascannon and Maugan Ra (attached to the big rangers squad) on the missle platform the farseer will also be in the fortress (tl the silo and a bit of luck ignore cover?)

the small ranger unit will infiltrate out of the way
the jetbikes stay in reserve (late game eldar trickery)

the tanks hopefully keep the enemy out of my fortress

Haven't seen how the wraithknight stacks up next to the fortress but you could probably use it and give it a 3+ cover.

Can you Fast Shot the silo?

Looks good

the idea is that i can fast shot the silo and the lascannon.

I don't want to use the wraith knight becouse i need to use the train to get to my lfgs and dont want to use 3 cases

odin wrote:
I don't want to use the wraith knight because i need to use the train to get to my lfgs and dont want to use 3 cases

Agreed, though depending how well you can manage to paint it you might be able to make a deal to store it on display there. Depends how close you are with your store I guess. For me I need to take the subway but I just do it with 2 or 3 army transport cases.

A fortress gives a WK 3+ cover and the tower can be LOS blocking. My opponent who takes a Fortress actually forgot I had a WK in my list because he couldnt see it behind the tower for a turn (LOL).

As for the list - I'm not 100% sure but you I don't think you can "man" the guns of the fortress; only the heavy bolters if you buy them.

Wracks and hamey could use liquifiers...probably better than the wing on the seer.

Well, I've seen the Fortress in an RTT. It was more a liability and therefore I'd drop it.

@wuestenfux
i have seen the fortress in tournaments as well and it is a serious roadblock just to see the look on the opponents face when you bring it its hilarous

@Dr. Serling
the running seer is my emergency linebreaker. ok there needs to be killed alot before he starts running but linebreaker is a important point to keep
ive never played eldar / dark eldar before. So if models survive on a regular basis ill opt to switch the wings for liquifier guns

With three Venoms, a Squad of Jetbikes and three fast skimmers....you still feel you need the wings for the emergency linebreaker?

the fast skimmers dont do line breaking
but for the rest:

the venoms are usualy a big target they are not the thoughest skimmers that can do alot of dmdge

the jetbikes will jump over in the last turn but what if the game does go on what then

the farseer will stick in the back and run over if he needs to

but the liqifier its an easy swamp if the seer never needs to run the wracks then the haemonculus can throw poison around