Editing Warhammer 40,000/6th Edition Tactics/Eldar (section)

====Special Characters====

*'''Eldrad Ulthran:''' If a normal Farseer is a Jedi, then [[Eldrad]] is a tall almighty Yoda. He's the big [[cheese]] of the Eldar army; he's basically got all the possible options for a normal Farseer wrapped together into one package with a slew of tricks to add to the deal. At his core Eldrad is an enhanced Farseer, T4, 3++ (so it's like he is a Psyker with a Storm Shield) and mastery level 4. There is no Eldar army that couldn't be improved by adding this guy. He comes stocks with the regular Farseer gear, an improved rune armor and both runes just in case. Eldrad rolls off the Divination, Telepathy and Rune of fate tables like other Farseers.  Then there are the two sexy parts:
**'''The path beyond''' Once deployment is done but before scouts, you can take d3+1 units of your's, and reposition them on the board under regular deployment rules and regulations. Enemy put a bunch of footslogging guys on the left? Throw down an Avatar, enemy landraider on the right? Bring me that fire prism. The savvy commander makes this power work for them and makes it work well. 
**'''Staff of Ulthamar''' This thing is Eldrad's personal license to print money and coin a monopoly on the tears of your enemies. As a weapon it beats out the other Farseer weapons easy, fleshbane, AP3, force, it is just THAT good, enough said really. Then if Eldrad isn’t currently stomping in melee the staff augments his powers in a fun way. Every time he casts a power (of which he can cast 4), he has a 33% chance to regain a warp charge. This warp charge can be spent however you want, force weapon, casting a power you haven't cast yet, etc. You could with luck fire off <del>four</del> three 2 charge powers AND have enough left over to kill with a force weapon in a single turn. Eldrad also carriers a Witchblade as well as his Staff. Both of these weapons are Melee but neither of them have Specialist Weapon OR Requires Two Hands. That means he gets a +1A to his stats due to having two melee weapons equipped. Therefore he can dish out 2A with Fleshbane at AP3 (or Force as well if you activate it) per turn. With 3++, even challenging melee characters he will be able to some damage. Farseers do get +1A due to their Pistol, however they don't get the AP3 of the Staff (though they do get Fleshbane and Armourbane due to Witchblade).
** Under 7th edition, while Farseers have gone from good to ludicrously good, Eldrad has gone from ludicrously good to outright broken. He can roll up to 5 Psychic powers, ignore perils of the warp and regain warp charges every time he casts. Again we say, there is no Eldar army that won't benefit from adding Eldrad.
 
*'''Prince Yriel of Iyanden:''' Once upon a time, there was a guy named Yriel who won a battle by using almost all of Iyanden's forces in an attack. This scared the guys in charge of Iyanden who said, "Hey! We could've gotten attacked while you were gone!" To which Yriel replied, "Yeah, but you didn't," to which they replied, "That's it! You're fired!" So Yriel went off to be a pirate for a while. While he was busy counting his loot, some Tyranids came and attacked Iyanden so the guys in charge were all like, "Crud! We wish Yriel was here to save us!" So Yriel comes back, gets a magic spear of awesome and saves the day, but now he's cursed and slowly dying as the spear sucks out his chi or something. Yeah, this guy needs his own anime show or something. He gets the reserve rule the Autarch gets, but instead of buying aspect warrior war gear, he has a spear so awesome it consumed a black hole (and a monocle):
**'''The spear of twilight''' An armourbane, fleshbane '''AP3''' spear, making his low strength a null point and his high Init and Attacks fantastic. This allow him to threaten a lot of foes but also has the downside of forcing him to reroll 6s on saves in melee, shitty. Yriel is a master of fighting basically anything lacking a 2+ armour save, and with a lucky roll from a nearby warlock might even not care, given the warlocks ability to debuff armour saves. Against the right foe he hits hard, fast and often.
**'''Eye of Wrath''' Hasn't actually changed from last addition. See below. 
**For real laughs send him charging heroically solo into any squad of MEQ and activate his Ambush of Blades warlord trait and his patented Eye of Wrath finisher move. Sadly he has to attack before most opponents pile-in, but throws down an AP3 pie plate wounding on 2's and re-rolling 1's. Alternately challenge someone, kill him and let his angry buddies pile in, and hit EVERY ONE of them next turn.
   
*'''Illic Nightspear:''' Rangers are followers of a path that’s very off road for other Eldar, they go against the grain of Eldar’s path based society enough they have trouble fitting in. Now the old standby troop slot just got an HQ to call their own. Illic is a big noise maker and with good reason, he is powerful in his own way and offers some great tactic options for the army (unlike Autarchs). First up his stats, nothing to write home about in fact it all looks kind of...WHOA BS9! His weapon is now ALMOST twin-linked but he has no need for guide honestly. Next up his built in warlord trait, giving him split fire for free, allowing him to hide in a squad of dudes but shoot other dudes then the dudes in his quads are shooting at...dude. He has shrouded which he gives to attached squads because why the fuck not, Hatred+Preferred enemy Necrons, which is cool and lovable. But wait there's more, any and ALL shots fired by Illic are precision shots, meaning he gets to choose which head goes splat every time he fires his weapon. His weapon, is an AP2(!!) sniper, meaning as long as he gets a 4+ to wound (doom) the model probably dies. If the wounding roll is a 6, the model is hit by an instant death shot, bye bye HQ. It can even pen tanks on a 6. It's also worth considering buying a Aegis Defence Line (ADL) and upgrading it to a Lascannon. Plop Illic behind it and he gets to control the Lascannon. With Sniper special rule. And all his shots are Precision Shots. This allows you to snipe anything you want. At BS9 too. Another option is to put him in a squad of Dark Reapers, by doing so Illic confers his Warlord Trait of Split-Fire unto them. He also gains the ability to ignore Jink Saves due to Dark Reapers Rangefinder equipment. You could then put Maugan Ra in, this will allow Maugan to Split-Fire and Ignore Jink Saves as well. It's a Death Star unit, but a nice one.
**'''Walker of the hidden path''' Illic can infiltrate ANYWHERE on the map, giving no shits about locations of enemy forces or anything like that. Later if a ranger squad outflanks onto the board, they can deep strike on top of Illic instead with no scatter just like that. 
**'''Master of pathfinders''' Armies with Illic as an HQ can choose to upgrade their rangers with his special Sharpshoot rule for 100% precision shots as well as Shrouded for their convenience (+13 points a model though!) 

*'''Farseer Bel-Annath (Forge World):''' Update pending…
 
*'''Phoenix Lords:''' Fluff-wise, if Kaela Mensha Khaine was God, the Phoenix Lords would be his terminator Jesuses. They are the founders of the various styles of war and have been reborn over and over.  How?  Basically, when someone puts on their armor, the armor possesses the wearer and puts the original Phoenix Lord's consciousness, combined with the knowledge of each of the past thousand previous wearers, in charge. Each Phoenix Lord is the most awesome example of one type of Aspect Warrior. They have super-powered versions of the regular equipment and powers available to a respective Exarch, only more so. Taken as a group, they pack awesome statlines with 2+ armor, Eternal Warrior (negating the usual issue of instant death via double S weapons) and good wounds.
**'''Asurmen (Dire Avengers):''' 220 points. He gets Twin-linked Avenger shuriken catapult, an AP 2 diresword that can re-roll a single failed to hit roll per turn and both the battle fortune and shield of grace exarch powers. In your army Asurmen is an expensive unit but a strong one, he packs a good invuln save and dukes hard in whatever melee he finds himself in or just adds some more dakka to the avengers he running around with. He is a strong challenger with both good offense with his sword of Asur or defense when using shield of grace to gain a 3++ when facing down a MUCH better combatant you only wish to stall. Finally he is the Hand of Asuryan and when deployed as part of your primary detachment he becomes your mandatory warlord who gets to roll d3 warlord traits for the fun of it, rolled properly this has some serious potential to make him a beacon of interesting powers throughout the game, otherwise meh. Asurmen is an expensive choice of HQ but he can do good things and should not be discounted.
**'''Jain Zar (Howling Banshees):''' 200 points. Founder of the howling banshees Jain is the pinnacle of an assaulty terror on the battlefield, loaded with not one, not two but THREE Remnants of glory right out of the gate she's the most heavily loaded phoenix lord in the codex. Her Silent death can be tossed 12" as an assault 4 weapon with a good shot at reaping a few models out of the unit before she even gets there. Once she's in the thick of it her enhanced banshee mask bumfucks the enemy unit with -5 WS and Init right off the bat, then the Blade of destruction comes into play. This AP2 wound rerolling monsters can reap orks and termies alike with oh so much blender fury. If and I mean IF anyone decides to try and take her in a challenge her disarming strike rule applies and can make for some serious lulz by you. Don't forget she gains +1A for having two non-Specialist Weapons and them not being Two-Handed either. An extra Attack at AP2 is always nice. (She still loses to lelith but against pretty much any other character even named ones she is pretty fucking awesome!)
**'''Baharroth (Swooping Hawks):''' 195 points. As the ever unloved Swooping hawks settle into a moderately comfortable place in the new codex the lord of hawks does similarly. The gun on Baharroth is basically the regular lasblaster with a higher strength, a technically good thing. Baharroth also comes with the battle fortune and hit&run exarch powers, so he's got a 4++ and can escape melee which is a GOOD thing. Interesting to him is the sun's brilliance ability he comes with, when landing with deep strike he sets of a flash of blinding light, causing foes within 6" of him (remember hawks never scatter now) to make an Init test or go blind for the turn, used correctly this is awesome, otherwise it's meh. Lastly there is the Shining blade he wields, an AP3 Blinding melee weapon, huh, a WS of 1 does have penalties to enemy squads and you could make some plays by going into melee, procing the blind attack then hit and running later on leaving the unit unengaged and utterly useless. Like hawks, a questionable purchase but superior to his previous editions.
**'''Karandras (Striking Scorpions):''' 230 pennies? Karandras was good before, Karandras is good now. His mandiblasters no longer grants him a holy load of attacks now instead firing a S6 AP- shot at the very start of every assault phase. Following that his melee options lies in his strength boosting sword you will NEVER USE or more importantly. Scorpions claw, a power fist that is so much more than just a power fist, but a fist that fists like no fist before it, fisting hard at S8 with FULL Init. Combined with his stalker challenge wound re-rolling power he is a veritable beast in melee, and with monster hunter can bring low some very impressive foes. His special rules are seemingly endless but he can infiltrate in, give stealth to whoever he's running with at the moment and then later can crush skulls like so many tin cans. He too should get +1A for having two melee weapons.
**'''Fuegan (Fire Dragons):''' 220 points. Fuegan is so not even remotely phased by your enemies shit, he shoots shit, cleaves shit and shits on the enemy’s special tanks and shit like never before. The firepike is as good as ever but now Fuegan learned how to double tap the fucking thing for two melta shots at a longer range and his awesome BS. He doesn’t have an invuln save but he does boast a feel no pain making him an even more durable lord than most, and then there is his special rule. Each time he suffers an unsaved wound he gains +1 to his Srength and Attacks for the rest of the game. If a renewer warlock bro happens to be anywhere nearby he could just heal from said wounds (even in combat) and get back to doing what Fuegan does best, ruining Christmas, Easter and birthday parties. A monster of a lord he ties with Karandras for best lord evar.
**'''Maugan Ra (Dark Reapers):''' 195 points. Like his previous incarnation Maugan Ra either still cannot remember what his reaper gun is supposed to do or reapers on the whole just didnt follow big daddy’s rules right to the letter. Sporting shorter range but more dakka than reapers, Maugan Ra is a serious bastion of firepower, just not against what reapers are supposed to be good against, MEQ. S6 AP5 isn’t a great weapon for armored targets however it does fire both pinning and rending which helps a little. Also, it is not assault 4, because Maugan is still rocking fast shot, add another bullet to every round. The Maugetar can also function as a bit of a sniper, scoring precision hits on a 5+ and with Night vision no round of night fighting will save foes from his wrath...they have all their saves to do that. The dude is a pretty reasonable all comers lord who does well in ranged and hold his own in melee, he also boasts hatred for daemons and for some reason relentless on an assault weapon. 
**'''Irrllyth (Shadow Spectres) (Forge World):''' Update pending…