7th Edition Eldar - First Impressions - The internet panics

7th Edition Eldar - First impressions

Before I start, I will admit I play eldar.  I have for twenty years, so I have seen quite few codexes come and go.

I have seen a lot of panic on the internet about how broken things are in this new book.  But this essentially boils down to two things.  Spamming list entries and tourney play.   I do neither, so I personally don't like to be tarred with that brush.

Games Workshop has said MANY times that their game is not designed with competitive play in mind.  It is beer and pretzels type gaming.  You may disagree with this all you like, but that is the fact.

There are, as far as I can tell only a small number of issues which people have with the eldar book.

Number 1.  Scatter bikers.  Every single jetbike can now take either a shuricannon or a scatter laser. I have to admit, this seems a no brainer.  There is a lot of fear about people spamming these, but it is fairly expensive to do, with the specialised FOC chart in the new book.  In casual play, taking a squad or two and limiting heavy weapons is more than fine. You probably want some ablative wounds anyway, as if ap3 ignore cover weapons come your way, then the squads going to lose a lot of models.  New good rules for new models, has been a thing for quite a while now.

Number 2. Wraithknight.  Hes now a jump gargantuan creature armed with two D guns.  He is also pretty cheap in terms of points.

Number 3. Ranged D guns on pretty much all wraith units.  I don't personally see the big deal here, most of these were s10 before, and never seemed all that great with them being a single shot, short ranged and no blast.  The D-flamers got a buff, but they can't instant death and suffer a penalty on the D chart.

Apart from that, there have been debuffs.  Serpents shields been nerfed quite heavily, although I think we all expected that.  Exarchs lost a lot of customisation options, as did the Avatar.

I dont think the Autarch is any better.  Certainly I wont be taking one.

Guardians are a bit naff still.  And unless you spam scatter bikers, you are taking some.

Free flak missiles as well as two wounds on the exarchs are welcome.