The Eldar Have Landed!!!
June 1, 2013 by dignity
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So guys its the one many of you have been waiting for! Justin is joined in the studio by Lee & Chris to have a quick first look at the new Eldar Codex and a few of the amazing new miniatures. What do you think? Have the Eldar been brought up to spec with all the other 40K armies out there or did something get missed in this update to the enigmatic aliens?
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Thanks guys for the great preview I am so excited. No worries I know you just got your hands on it, but Shuricans are assault 2 not rapid fire, and on a roll of 6 its ap2 not ap1 but its not on vehicles so its no big deal. Dark Reapers dropped 5pts not half, they were 35. . Jetbikes are awesome the are only 17 from 22 points and WS, BS and I went up 1 point. A nice little combo is if the Warlock gets Protect/Jinx they give their unit a 2+ save, not bad with a 12″… Read more »
i for one am a strong supporter of keeping armies relevant with the times.
Also this video more than makes up for no weekender this weekend. You guys helped me to see Eldar in a new light. I might just start them in the near future.
my current eldar will be seeing a hugewraith contingent added… suprised no-one has mentioned wraith lords being characters yet
@nazghalion if you look at the profile section in the 6thed BRB they were MC(ch) before. It hasn’t changed.
i actually didn’t notice that… pity could of challenged kharn that would of been fun to see my mates face when he got squished
I didn’t either until someone pointed it out to me. It can def come in handy.
Ha Andy I said that guardians would get a wee look in. Great wee vid guys really professionally executed, everyone let each other speak and it all seemed to really flow, great work, more of the same please. I always knew the eldar would rock once they got a wee leg up….
Not wanting to apply a dampener or anything…but….randomly rolling for Powers, rather than being able to choose them is a nerf. Runes have been nerfed too. Running low-toughness and save infantry at your opponent will not result in a win for you… Swordwind is less viable now, not more as our vehicles are still paper and our aspects will still be inside waiting to get out (and be gunned down). An Assault Vehicle upgrade was needed for the Wave Serpent at least…. That said, I LOVE the new figures, and there are some awesome rules. I reish the challenge of… Read more »
Choose them? Arrange with your gaming group or opponent that you’ll pick your psychic powers and warlord traits. We also have a houserule that running is 4″, 5″ with fleet models, jet pack moves are a fixed average as well.
There’s enough random in the book as it is. We cut all that down (mainly because we’ve not enough time) and throughout history generals have specific skills unique to them, wizards know signature spells and when you run – even on a battlefield -you move faster than if you had walked.
It just cuts out half the crap.
Nice quick review. Gives a good idea about the new codex will be used.
Nice review. Got a little toooo excited about the long swords and large guns though ;P
Time to dig out the Ranger army me thinks
Early days but the points total for my army has dropped a good 10% so I will be able to add new toys to my existing lists. I like that the Scorpions and the Avatar now have fleet and the whole run and shoot thing with all shuriken weapons being Bladestorm 6’s being AP2 is going to make terminators think twice. Snap fire is going to hurt too. I’m going to hold fire on the new models and use units that I haven’t used in a while. Definitely going going to start fielding my Reapers again and as for Guardians… Read more »
Have always liked eldar. Their model style has always been awesome. Only recently got back into 40k and seemed they were suffering a bit so went blood angels. I think it may be time to go back to them……great video. Great models and rules by the sound of it. Its going to cost me equivalent of 50 quid for the codex here in NZ though and we arn’t allowed to buy the electronic version on itunes ( don’t seem be able to buy the australian version on itunes either). Looks like it may be worth the pain though. Maybe I… Read more »
the codex will cost the same in a couple of months mate deadzone will never be as cheap as it is right now… just a bit of food for thought
Dagnamit!!! Just when my FoW force is starting to take off and I was comfortable with shelving all my GW stuff, they attack my Achilles heel.
Eldar have always been my favourite and the codex looks awesome and the new minis wow. After the Chaos release I thought they had lost the plot but those wraithguard plastics…’nuff said.
I think you should Give one of those Wraith Knights away as the comp,
you know
to make up for now Weekender this week
usual sort of review from BoW, not to be unexpected but half the time in any system (although expect 40k to be better) that they get half the stuff wrong.
like reapers being nowhere near 65pts they said originally, and they dont get flakk missiles, only the exarch.
also what sort of maths is a str7 weapon doable upto armour 14?
He meant “up to” as in “everything up to the point of” armor 14. Strength 7 can still dent AV 13.
No need to be so antagonistic.
upto within english would not mean everything short of 14. so either the english is bad or the maths
upto is fine it means anything upto but not X number. Your thinking of upto and including.
Great review folks…really well presented…looking forward to the next 40k vids!
Interesting on the Banshee Mask reducing the enemy’s Initiative… wonder how that meshes with Allies? Token Banshee in to drop the I down first, now meet my unit of 30 Boyz… =P
Eldar is a shooty and a melee army…..ahem.
Eldar is a shooty army. If they had assault vehicles then maybe, but no there a shooty army.
THE BEARD !!!!!
WHY ????
srsly…
‘should’ve kept it. >_>
So, when does Eldar Week Start Then?
Second this – I’ve been checking daily to see if you’ll be expanding on this vid (which I really enjoyed).
Great stuff – hope to see more soon.
While I love the figures, but it’s still a game I can not afford to play 🙁