Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-174.58.46.10-20130822174858

Thinking of getting back into modeling, when I was active in modeling yrs. ago, I  had an Eldar army. For the most part I ran Ulthwee, with intintions of running Beil Tan. Unfortunatly my army never got that large  to have a suitable Beil Tan army. Favorite squid was swooping hawks. I played back in 4th edition If i remember correctly. Thats a little about me. (We just all stopped playing at the same time no particular reason.)

There are more armies with comparable stats to eldar then there are space marines, so my question is this, } Pro's /inititive/leader ship/weapon skill if i remember free grenades, I think unless this has changed. Also the abiliity to field 20 although expensive. Cons marines get more versitile wargear (arms)for there troops also bull spit free weapons (Space wolves grey hunters and blood claws). if they increase the number of troops they penalize them selves (not being able to use afordable transports but are rewarded with more weapons./+5 save ,strength and toughness 3.seems as if Eldars squishy hand to hand needs some upgrades so that they would be purchased and used more my Eldar generals.  Yet if storm guardians increase there numbers there special weapons (arms) do not. I mainlly used gaurdian defenders when not playing ulthwee, but i have had success with the storm gaurdians as well.

ALSO I never under stood, why give good inititive to eldar troops yet the models pay in pts. twice as much as tyranids imperial guard for the same save toughness and strength. I do believe they finally allowed storm gaurdians to purchase a power weapon, which does make more since having the better inititive.More about being effective against squishier armies. Eldar is one the best well rounded armies out there not being the best at any role but may be another look at the storm guardians other wise just yank them from the codex (just kidding) or give them a cheaper points cost and lower there leader ship more than a decade and gw still hasn't figured this out. By the way Space wolves have the ability (out of the new codex) to go horde and field fen wolves in there troop slot WTF is that really. hmmmmm.Sorry for being long winded, excited about getting back into modeling.(they do have to field grimnar to do this. One of my friends played I. Guard and Space wolves) 