Games Workshop Warhammer 40k - Eldar Farseer Skyrunner

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Both the Eldar standout special rules have been previewed on Warhammer Community, and both look decent.

Three disciplines of Psychic Powers available to Craftworld Psykers (in addition to those for the Ynnari and Harlequins).if she dies first, due to being required to take wounds because she was the first damaged, then when she dies she is tethered to the location of the surviving geminae and can’t just set up freely elsewhere. It’s also worth remembering that there are several stratagems that key off of a Farseer specifically, the most important of which is Forewarning. For 2CP, it lets you intercept one unit that arrived on the battlefield mid-game (typically meaning coming in from reserves, but can also include summoned units and the like) by shooting at it with any unit that is within 6″ of a Farseer in your army. Unlike other stratagems available to various factions, there is no range limit on this other than the range of your guns (and proximity to the Farseer, obviously)- so you can blast those Scions or Death Company no matter where they decide to try and drop down. With all of the strong shooting available to Craftworlds this can essentially mean that one unit which arrives from reserves each turn is vaporized, providing a huge disincentive to anyone trying to get close to you via shenanigans- you might not wipe out a full unit of, say, Hormagaunts, but you’ll probably take just about anything else down. Biel-Tan is my first love, and I have not one but two lists using the Craftworld to show you – one that confronts the challenges of staying pure Asuryani head on, and one that gives into the sinister lure of clown town, and brings some Harlequins along for the ride. Pure Biel-Tan

Explore. This is another good time to take a campaign break during another “do everything” mission. Yes, you need to produce a Farseer Skyrunner and battle a small Tau army, but progress stops until you choose to visit one particular tile with a Farseer Skyrunner.

Trying to build lists with this book is a vastly more hostile experience than anything else recently, and as Boon mentioned the key culprit is the move of Dire Avengers from Troops to Elites, leaving the latter slot vastly overstuffed and the former pretty mediocre. The Asuryani end up as a faction where building a Battalion either forces you to take stuff you don’t really want, or massively commit to spending on Troops, eating badly into the rest of your army. The fact that everything else is pretty expensive too only compounds this, and when you finish your lists you definitely feel like you’ve been a bit short changed. That impression obviously is being skewed by the fact that the metagame is currently being dominated by two factions that get more stuff in their armies than they really should, but even compared to the factions a step down from them like Drukhari and Orks you really don’t have much breathing room. Boon: Wings covered it perfectly – I think there are some standouts worth the price, but the rest come in at premium prices on already premium-priced units that are just hard to justify. It really feels like these took across the board price increases or changes to their interaction of Exarch vs. unit late in design as their interactions on the table don’t feel justified. The only place I might disagree is on Shredding Fire which I think is quite the capability for a large Dire Avenger unit that may be coming in off a board edge or a Webway Gate against a Doom ’d unit.