TACTICA: Thoughts on 5th: Eldar Edition
So here I am just like all of you, looking over my mini collection and tinkering with what my first 5th edition army list should look like.
I’ve decided to try my hand with my true love, the Eldar. Some of the key changes I see for the craftworlders are:
- The changes to rending make the Harlequins more balanced versus scorpions and banshees, so each has their place. I don’t feel that the Harleys are the default best choice any longer.
- The cover rules for fast moving skimmers I think is roughly a net neutral for falcons, but a big buff for waveserpents (especially combined with fortune).
- With the changes to fast skimmers having to choose outright between shooting or moving fast enough to gain the cover save, I feel Star Engines are a better deal now, as there is no more “middle ground” of moving fast enough to fire and gain high-speed protection. (Star engines also improve ramming if it comes to that.)
- Crack shot for both Reaper and Dragon exarchs is cheap and very formidable. Same thing with counter attack for banshees.
- Having to kill every last member of a troops squad to make it non-scoring makes small mobile harrassment squads cost effective.
So with all that in mind, here is my first 5th list I’m tinkering with. It may suck, but I’m going to give it a whirl tonight and see what happens (we will be muddling through using the 5th rules we know of until the preview copy hits our LGS).
2000pts
Farseer
Spear, Jetbike, Runes of Warding, Stones Doom, Fortune
Dragons (6)
Exarch; Crack Shot
Banshees (10)
Exarch, Executioner
Wave Serpent; Double Sh. Cannons, Stones, Star engines
Banshees (10)
Exarch, Executioner
Wave Serpent; Double Sh. Cannons, Stones, Star engines
Guardian Jetbike Squad (4)
Sh. Cannon
Warlock; spear, destructor
Guardian Jetbike Squad (4)
Sh. Cannon
Warlock; spear, destructor
Guardian Defender (10)
Scatter Laser
Guardian Defender (10)
Scatter Laser
Falcon
Scatter, Sh. Cannon, holo, stones, Star engines
Reapers (5)
Exarch; EML, crack shot
Reapers (5)
Exarch; EML, crack shot
~I get 4 scoring units and 6 others which can contest. The Guardian Defenders should give the Reapers some additional screening cover and provide some rear-field scoring units. The mobility elements are fast, hardhitting vs either vehicles or infantry and gain Farseer enhancements. There are 3 crack shot BS:5 exarches in there so that can’t hurt vs vehicles either. Comments and thoughts are always welcome.
