Warhammer 40,000/Tactics/Eldar Corsairs (7E)

The army list can be found in Imperial Armour Volume Eleven - The Doom of Mymeara.

Why Play Corsairs

Turned from a Meh army into something with a whole flavour of its own, you get options from both Craft world and their Dark kin, but still managed to feel like a stand alone army list.

• Jet packs everywhere
• Everyone could deep strike
• Tons of shuriken cannons, dark lances and blasters
• It’s space elf ninja pirates!

In short Eldar Corsairs are like about as mech-capable as Eldar (without Wave Serpents though) and are faster than Dark Eldar.

Playing Corsairs could get you the most powerful alpha-strike IN THE WHOLE GAME as well as a lot of jump-shoot-jump and deepstrike tricks to fuck your opponents shit up ASAP. On the other hand you are paper thin. If you fail to shoot him right away or hide behind some solid cover or BLoS, your guys would drop like a flies to ANYTHING your opponent could point at them. If you like glass-cannon type of armies, which are able to blast anything to pieces in one volley of fire and avoid payback if used properly, but collapse into pieces after one mistake, Corsairs are your army. If you like the cheese fortress tactic, play Craftworlds.

Army-Wide Special Rules

• Reckless Abandon: This is a variant form of Battle Focus that craftworlders get. Corsairs within 12" of an enemy may shoot THEN run (rather than choosing before or after) but the Corsairs always run the full distance of 6" instead of rolling for it. This plus the Jetpacks and bikes means that Corsairs are still one of the most maneuverable armies around.
• Dancing on the Blade's Edge: Because Corsairs are self serving pirates, they suffer leadership penalties when trying to regroup. They all have a second leadership score on their profile (typically base Ld minus three) but they still use their regular leadership for everything else.

Psychic Powers

Corsairs have their own discipline called Aethermancy which is focused heavily on movement.

• Primaris: Path-Ward: WC2 Blessing. The target unit always rolls sixes for randomly determined movement effects, like Charge distances, Terrain checks, Hit-and-Run moves etcetera.
• 1 Warp Blink WC1 Move any unit within 6" of the caster friendly or enemy 2d6" in a direction you choose. Cannon be used on units locked in combat.
• 2 Dispersion Field WC1 Blessing. A friendly unit within 12" of the caster gains a 4+ cover save.
• 3 Webway Rift WC1 Witchfire. 12" S3 AP6, Poisoned 3+ Large Blast.
• 4 Webway Breach WC2 Select one friendly Corsair unit not locked in combat within 12" of the caster, that unit enters Ongoing Reserves.
• 5 Warp Tunnel WC2 Blessing. A friendly Corsair unit within 6" of the caster may be picked up and Deep Strike anywhere on the board without scatter AND may shoot and assault after arriving. However, take a note of the distance the unit traveled, and for every full 6" the unit rolls a D6, for each 1 rolled the unit takes a savable wound.
• 6 Webway Maze WC3 An enemy unit with 12" of the caster, not locked in combat, is placed into Ongoing Reserves (cannon target Super-Heavys). Other Corsairs, DE, Eldar, or Harlequins add +1 to their Deny attempts when targeted.

Regardless of the discipline you use, Corsairs also have their own Perils of the Warp table to represent the whole reason why the species finds Slaanesh terrifying, which we have never seen in the rules before since Dark Eldar simply don't use Psykers and Craftworlders spend a lot of time training to make themselves "safe"

• 1 Devoured: The psykers switches sides as his soul is torn out and replaced with a Slaaneshi daemon. They get all the rules associated with Daemon of Slaanesh and are now under the control of your opponent. Sucks to be you.
• 2-3 Soul Wracked: your psyker and his unit are pinned, and your opponent may choose to change the target of the power that was cast.
• 4-5 Warp Terrors: The unit and all Corsairs within 12" must take a Morale check on the worst two dice of 3d6 or start falling back, and considering how Corsairs dont like regroup tests this can absolutely cripple your army.
• 6 The Eye of She-Who-Thirsts: Nothing happens straight away, but for the rest of the game your psykers now perils on any double.

Wargear

Ranged Weapons

• Brace of Pistols: Your"basic" weapon is awesome and fluffly for space pirates. It counts as both a pair of Shuriken pistols and a pair of Splinter pistols that you can chop and change between whenever you like. Remember the Gunslinger rule so that you always fire two shots per turn and you always get +1 attack for two weapons.
• Balelight - a one-use weapon. Assault 3d3, Rending, Blinding flashlight which is only suitable for when you're just about to charge in close combat. Your HQ choices are the only guys who get access to this. No more pinning so this is a bit overpriced but not a waste of points.
• Dissonance Cannon: Weird cousin of a Vibrocannon that starts smaller, but is still better because it can be mounted on Jetbikes and can be gathered into greater numbers. The first shot is S5 AP4, but all dissonance weapons in the unit adds S+1 and AP-1 for each 6 on To Hit rolls from this shooting attack (so sadly, not such a great chance to score 10-1 shots). This is not very reliable so think about it before wasting 60 points for 6 shots at S6 AP3 at 24". For the same points you can take Shuricannons.

Melee Weapons

• Void Sabre - Finally a decent melee weapon. S+1 AP3 Rending. FUCK YEAH. Only your HQs can be kitted with this. Taking with a Close Combat Prince and enjoy your S5 eldar space ninja (with Reaper of the Outer Dark he can match 9 attacks on charge). An auto-take for each aggressive character.
• Venom Blade - Stolen from our EMO cousins its a cheap addition for Felarchs and Barons, because with only S3, compared to a prince, they do not benefit so much of a void sabre.

Special Wargear

• Void Hardened Armour: Giving you the Void Hardened Armor rules from Zone Mortalis (so no Rending Flashlights). Not confusing with Voidplate Harness. 10 points per squad. It's practically mandatory if you're running anything in Zone Mortalis, and don't want them to die in troves. Otherwise you don't want to waste points on a rule that won't apply anywhere else.
• Heavy Mesh Armor 5 pts for a 4+. For the same cost you can buy a JetPack with a 4+ armor save built in. Only if you want a questionable armored unit that can be transported.
• Void Harness VoidStorm and HQ only. Giving 3+ and reroll Difficult and Dangerous terrain, but loosing Fleet. Considering that is 10 pts and the CloudDancer is only 5 pts more, not an auto-take at all. For the voidstorm is insanely expansive.
• Tanglefield Grenades a S2 AP- blast3" grenade. Hitten units have to take a strength test or they see their I and WS halved for one turn
• Shadowwave Grenades basically defensive grenades.
• Dissonance Breach Charges a free upgrade for all of your corsair within a Coterie with Vault Breachers specialization. It's a s2 ap 3 unwileding CCW that trow 3d6 against AV (only if they are building, immobilized or stationary vehicle). If you score at least on 6 for armor penetration gain +1S and -1 AP.
• Combat Drugs: If your Prince is a seeker of forbidden pleasures any unit in your army may take these for 15 pts, giving them a roll on the Drugs table. 1 gets +1 A, 2 gets +1 S, 3 +1 Init, 4 +1 T, 5 +1 WS, and 6 provide two rolls on the table.

Vehicle Upgrades

• Corsair Kinetic Shrouds: Provides the Vehicle with a 5+ invulnerable save against shooting attacks, increased to 4+ until its next turn if the vehicle has opted to move flat out or comes by deep strike. Also get rerolls of the failed invuln saves after deepstriking.
• Corsair Void Burners: Grants Deep Strike

Unit Analysis

HQ

• Corsair Prince: Space elf ninja pirate pimp master. He’s the a bastard son of an Archon and Autarch with a bit of Rogue psyker or Chaos Lord thrown in, giving him more toys to play with. He's a versatile choice who can do decently in close combat or shooting with appropriate upgrades. You now get to customize your Prince with a chosen obsession which can utterly change how he plays or give the army a boost.
  • Collector of Ancient Treasures: one of the Princes weapons becomes Master-Crafted, and the Prince also gets access to the relics lists of Dark Eldar, Craftworlders and Harlequins. Sweet
  • Reaper of the Outer Dark: Your prince gets Rampage and any unit can take the Rage rule for free, but are forced to declare charges against enemy units within 8" even if you shot against another unit. Nice way to triks
  • Seeker of Forbidden Pleasures: Your way to bring back Duke Sliscus. He gets a roll on the Combat Drugs table, and unlock combat drugs for the rest of the army for 15 points a squad.
  • Survivor of the Endless Darkness: Your Prince gains IWND, but if he ever fails a IWND roll he pins himself due to being old as fuck. In addition units in your army may buy FnP for 10 points per unit.
  • Traveller of Ancient Paths: The prince can Deep Strike. Furthermore instead of shooting the Prince can deploy a webway portal generator onto the table, creating an entry point for non-vehicle reserves, and an exit point for falling back units, which are NOT destroyed when they come into contact with it, but are placed into Ongoing Reserves instead.
  • Wielder of Profane Powers: gain +1 ML, which can become Mastery 2 if you bought the generic upgrade that Princes get. They open up Malefic Daemonology to all psykers in the army, but must also generate at least one Malefic power for themselves.
    • In addition, they replace the Eye of She-Who-Thirsts result on the perils table with Lust for Dark Power where for the rest of the game they must always attempt to cast a Malefic power each turn using at least two warp charges. If they somehow cannot (like other psykers hoovering up the charges before the Prince tries to cast) the Prince automatically becomes pinned.

• Corsair Void Dreamer: Corsair Farseer, but (usually) nowhere near as good. No invulnerable save but has some fairly average psy-powers (Mastery Level 1, but upgradable to ML3 for 20pts per lvl...90pts total). Must generate at least one power from the Aethermancy list, but can dip into Divination or Telekinesis. Aethermancy is a very powerful discipline but the Corsair Psyker have their own PoW. The balance is difficult, when you risk seeing half of your army pinned or falling back (and corsair VERY dislike regroup). However there are the same wargear options of the prince so you can customize as you wish

Troops

• Corsair Reaver Basic: Your "basic" Corsair troops, with build options ranging from pseudo-Guardians to 3+ armor jet pack harassers. For every five guys you get two weapon slots, open to your choice of flamers, fusion guns, shredders, or blasters. The rest of the squad gets lasblasters that can be swapped for a variety of basic Eldar guns. If you really want to make use of Reckless Abandon to charge someone (like fire warriors, guardsmen or gretchins – everyone else would rip you apart), they even have plasma grenades and the option to take some CC gear. They also can pick a Venom or Falcon as a transport depending on their squad size if you prefer a nice solid gunship over JSJ tomfoolery.

• Corsair Ghostwalker Band: Morose and reclusive Corsairs with Stealth, Infiltrate, Scout, and the option to take Eldar longrifles for a point each. Did somebody say "Jetpack Rangers"?

• Corsair Cloud Dancer Band: Your bloodthirsty piratical Jetbike squadron. Tougher, faster and much more expensive version of regular corsairs. Following in the footsteps of their Craftworld brothers, every bike can take a heavy weapon for a cost. Their list of extras adds Splinter Cannons, Dissonance Cannons, and (oh baby) Dark Lances. Quite the investment for a lot of firepower, so its good they have Outflank and the eldar jetbike jump-shoot-jump move to hide behind the walls or tanks when they aren't making your opponent froth at the mouth as his vehicles spontaneously combust.

Dedicated Transport

• Corsair Falcon: It’s your standard eldar Falcon, only with BS4 and 6 elf transport capacity, and it don’t take heavy support slot. Awesome. BS4 makes the bright lance awesome on this guy, you can never have too much S8 AP1. Taking 2 Princes with Bladesworn and 4 squads of 5 corsairs, mounting them all in Falcons and deep striking is a rapetrain with no brakes. Combine with 2 Squads of Wasp Walkers for more deep strike and some units to start on the map. Or you can consider allying in DE for the Scalpel Squadron formation, and enjoy a full null deployment.
• Corsair Venom: I love Venoms. You love Venoms. We all love Venoms. Corsair ones lack inbuilt flickerfields, making them more fragile than their counterparts and jinking now causes snapshots, but with shuriken cannon with twin catapults you're still likily to hit something while transporting your dudes. It deals much less anti-infantry dakka compared to dark eldar set of two splinter cannons, but can threaten vehicles. With all that deep strike and jet pack goodness corsairs don’t really need extra mobility of Venom, although fast open-topped transport work in great synergy with Outcasts. The most rage inducing elves to put in this thing are Fire Dragons, however their short range and the fragility of the Venom can let you down.

Elite

• Corsair Voidstorm Squad: An entire squad of Felarchs. Come Heavy Mesh Armor. Two special CCW and one special firing option for each five model. Option for grenade and jet pack as usual. They have the option for the utterly overpriced Void Harness at 10 points per model. Pay attention to the squad's cost: it can grow in a moment if you do not exclude the useless option (choose the venom blade instead the power weapon, avoid the Void Harness...)

• Malevolent Band: Berserking Corsairs who have succumbed to their own vices and can feel She-Who-Thirsts tugging at their souls. Surprisingly unique in that they have two wounds, Feel No Pain, and a pile of USRs (Fearless, Furious Charge, Rage), they're clearly meant for charging headlong at enemy infantry. Just make sure the rest of your army keeps a safe distance, since their cursed nature translates to a 12" bubble of -1 Leadership for ALL Eldar models. They are extremely fragile, although FnP and the 2nd wound they have only T3 so EVERYTHING will destroy this unit.

• Corsair Wasp Assault Walker Squadron: 10pts more than Craftworld War Walkers. With jet packs. That can Deep Strike (with an extra investment of 5 points per model). Not quite the autotake they were now that they're no longer Troops, but still perfectly capable of swapping in some heavier guns and bringing death from the skies. In fact, since they swap Battle Focus and Power Fields for Reckless Abandon and Kinetic Shrouds, Deep Striking them has the added benefit of giving them a 4++ rerollable save the turn they come in. Just keep in mind that they're still AV10 2HP, so your heavy fire support won't hold up forever.

Fast Attack

• Corsair Hornet Squadron: AV11 fast scouting skimmers with two standard eldar guns. Vypers wish to be so awesome. Take them, zoom around and torrent death and destruction from their cannons. Pulse lasers: 80pts for 4!! S8 AP2 shots or Scatter Lasers for 8 S6 AP6 shots at 70 pts. Pulse lasers are rapetastic against wound allocation abusers, Missile Launcher will ruin every 4+sv unit's Christmas, Starcannons are pointless (costs the same as the Pulse Laser which is stronger and longer-ranged), Bright lances will knock down most vehicles reliably, Shuriken Cannons/Scatter lasers own Blob units and even some Monstrous Creatures. Seriously, an entire unit (5 models) of these will kill ANYTHING you point them at, combined with the ability to outflank taking 3 will cause immense butthurt. Last but not least they have Skimmer Assault, allowing them to move flat out and firing snap shot in the same turn. Just don't forget, that full Hornet squadron with good guns would cost you arm and leg at both points and pounds, so use them wise and carefully.

• Corsair Vyper Squadron: A Vyper squadron, but different from the Craftworld versions due to their weapon selections. From the outset, they have twin-linked lasblasters instead of shuriken catapults, which when coupled with their heavier turrent mount means they have a slightly larger threat range (if a bit weaker) than the typical vyper without having to spend any extra points. When you look into upgrades, they have access to the full range of Craftworld options plus the Dark Eldar Splinter Cannon or the Dark Lance... which is the same as the Bright Lance, but whatever. This means your Vyper squadron can be kitted out to cover a HUGE variety of roles, from tank hunting, horde wasting, to monstrous creature slaying. Consider that a double splinter cannon viper is only 50 pts.

• Nightwing Interceptor: Pure undiluted destruction, BS4, 2 Shuriken Cannons and 2 Bright Lances, Supersonic and Vector Dancer make for pure terror in the hearts of your opponents. Arguably the best air superiority fighter, hell even best flyer, in 40K. Though, it's AV10 2HP, so the first time you roll one to save could be the last. It has Stealth, giving it a flat 6+ cover save even if you don't want to Jink and a +1 if you do. It also has Agile giving it yet another +1 to any Jink save taken. So this isn't as good as the Shrouded that is used to have before, though you can upgrade it with Kinetic Shrouds if you want yet another flat save which works against pretty much anything fired at it.

Heavy Support

• Corsair Balestrike Band: Your heavy weapon squad, with the potential for some REALLY awesome destruction options. You start with five dudes with lasblasters, but you can add five more and each and every one of them can be upgraded with a man-portable heavy weapon so you can create powerfully focused squads for your chosen role. They can also be upgraded with Jet Packs to give them more mobility and Relentless so that they never miss a turn of shooting. The customisation doesn't end there either, since you can give them the range of grenade options and armour upgrades. So this unit is your go-to heavy weapon option unless one of the other choices can fill a more specific role.

• Corsair Phoenix Bomber: The only Heavy Support really worth taking for Corsairs. Like Nightwing, this flyer also comes with shrouded and vector dancer for unparalleled mobility and a modicum of protection, plus strafing run for BS FIVE against ground targets. It can torrent absurd amount of anti-infantry dakka, but it almost reaches Land Raider’s price-tag in points. There is are a couple of things the Phoenix actually does really well: killing MEQ’s in the open - consider it a flying Dark Reaper squad. It also tears other flyers out of the skies by throwing around fifteen of S5-S8 shots depending on what your underslung weapon choice has been. Against Horde armies like Guard, Nids or Orks it can just remove entire squads, particularly if you replace the phoenix missile launchers with Nightfire missile launchers, giving you six frag missiles that pin and ignore cover on top of all the other firepower.

• 0-1 Corsair Warp Hunter Squadron: This is your D Tank, and it comes in a vehicle squadron of up to three tanks. The latest rules incarnation increased the D-Flail strength from S7 right up to destroyer levels in keeping with the Craftworld Codex. The caveat is that any rolls of six on the destroyer table instead count as fives, so no Deathblows. Thankfully this isn't a flat -1 as with the D-Scythe rule, so you don't suffer the increased chance of a lucky survivor. The D-Flail firing options cover the short/mid ranges, so you can either fire it as a template and ignore cover with your D weapon, or you can fire it indirectly as a barrage of D3+1 small blast templates (per tank) up to 36" away. So if you get a few of these together they can easily lay waste to knights, titans or monstrous/gargantuan creatures.

• Corsair Fire Storm: Anti-air tank. It’s basically Falcon with twin-linked 6-shot R60 skyfire/interceptor scatter laser with the Rending rule added, in addition if it fires at a Zooming flyer it gains the Ignores Cover rule so they cannot even jink to avoid it; and finally they can be taken in squadrons of up to three vehicles, so you can fill the skies with disco laser lights. These buffs mean that the Firestorm is vastly improved as an Anti-Aircraft options, however it still has no real use other than killing flyers and if that's all you needed it for then you might have been better off taking a Nightwing or Phoenix which you should have done anyway. However, one thing it is really good for is raping AV10 skimming vehicles since skyfire works on skimmers too, but this means that you are playing against Craftworld/Dark Eldar, or against Land Speeders which is a bit of a niche that most of your other units can cover anyway. So its probably the worst Heavy Support choice you have.

• Corsair Fire Prism: Identical to the Craftworld version the Fire Prism is the answer to the long range guns of other races. This magnificent jeweled weapon focuses such intense power as to turn foes of all shapes and sizes into all shapes and sizes of slag. Now boasting THREE FIRING MODES the prism cannon rules as king of your culinary delights. For your meat lovers you have the dispersed mode, a S5 AP3 large blast, great for MEQ and anything more fragile. For your vegetarians you have the focused mode, a TEQ hunting small blast with S7 and AP2, good for all things the previous mode didn’t quite get. Finally we turn the volume up to 11 and give our vegans out there the lance mode, used to scythe down anything that doesn’t strictly walk where it needs to go (and will blow smoking holes in Daemons and Tyranids, too). At S9 AP1 with the LANCE special rule this weapon will crush any armoured vehicle going in the game today. What downsides does the Fire Prism have, you ask? Expensive tank + upgrades costs, high aggro generation and usual complaint of Eldar vehicles but nothing beyond that - a solid workhorse in the army. You could field three and no one would bat an eyelash. Three full squadrons, however, would make almost anyone cry. Sadly our squadron doesn't get the rules for combined fire so, it's only a squadron.

• Corsair Night Spinner: Less useful in the Corsair list, because you've got access to so many other heavy support options, like Flyers, Warp Hunters and Fire Prisms, the Nightspinner is still a useful choice when used correctly. The Doomweaver is the primary weapon and features 99% of the tanks actual threat, laying down a S7 shot of monofilament onto the board, as well as the mini rending power that makes it auto wound and AP2. Like its close cousin the Fire Prism, Nightspinners feature different modes of attack. The dispersed mode launches the shot high above the battlefield to rest silently and invisibly as a large blast, wounding and possibly pinning the target squad. Now there is also the focussed mode, a torrent weapon that fires the same deadly web but with increased accuracy, ignoring cover saves and lacks the pinning. Nightspinners are possibly more resilient due to not needing to be exposed most of the time but also have a chaotic track record of actual threat, sometimes wiping whole squads from the board other times managing to wound maybe a model or two, not a great buy for the player who likes guarantees. The Nightspinner can, as a barrage weapon, hide completely from view to fire it's shot and can be used effectively as the least upgraded of the Eldar tank options, requiring no actual upgrades to its weapons or gear (excellent because it's already the cheapest tank). Exposing the Nightspinner to fire is doable and sometimes even necessary depending on the available terrain but in those cases it benefits from its BS to reduce scatter. The same as per Fire Prism, our squadron cannot combine fire. Because GW loves only the Craftwolders.

• 0-1 Corsair Lynx: The newly re-minted Lynx is no longer a Superheavy, and has been nerfed down to the regular Heavy Support slot where it has to compete with a lot of other options. However it still has things going for it. While the hull points were knocked down to five, the Front and Side armour was put up to the more sensible AV12 in line with practically every other Eldar closed-topped vehicle. The Pulsar cannon is still a Destroyer weapon, and can be fired either as a single Large Blast, or as a three-shot twin linked weapon both up to the 48" range, meaning it covers a larger section of the board than the Warp Hunters do, as well a being a "true" Destroyer weapon, unlike the Warp Hunters. As before, you may replace the Pulsar with the Sonic Lance, giving you effectively a Torrent Hellstorm Template for mulching hordes on a 3+ or better, regardless of toughness; the Sonic Lance is also AP2 now, so very few things are safe against it, so the weapon is a perfectly viable choice when compared to the Pulsar, so it really depends on what you regularly face up against. It also has a unique set of Skyhunter rules, where you may count the Lynx as a Flyer, unlike the old rules you may fire the weapons while it is zooming around, although you may not Jink and you can only fire Snap Shots, but at least your Pulsar is twin-linked in salvo mode, so you can still be a credible threat.

Formations

• Corsair Fleet Raiding Company: Like the Decurion/Gladius you get a formation of formations.
  • 1 Command Crew (1-2 HQ, 0-1 Elite, 0-1 LoW) - Nothing special here, just mandatory for the formation
  • 1-4 Coteries (1 HQ, 1-3 Troops, 0-2 Elites, 0-2 Fast Attack, 1 Heavy) - Your Troops get ObSec, in addition each Coterie has to choose a speculation giving them different special rules.
    • Hate Bringers: Choose an Enemy unit at deployment, this Coterie gains Hatred (that unit) and if the unit is destroyed during the game, you claim an additional VP, even if someone else killed the unit.
    • Head Takers: Each unit can reroll "1" result to wound if a model in this unit is engaged in a challenge
    • Night Hunters: Gain Night Vision and the Preferred Enemy (all) rule, but only during turns of Night Fighting, meaning this Coterie is only good for alpha striking at the beginning of the game.
    • Sky Burners: Units that Deep Strike only scatter D6" and any unit in the Coterie may reroll failed Reserve rolls.
    • Titan Breakers: Each unit in the Coterie gets Preferred Enemy (Tanks & Walkers)
    • Vault Breachers: All Infantry and Jetbike model receive a free Dissonance Breach Charge
  • The drawback is that different Coteries treat each other as Allies of Convenience, so cannot be joined by allied corsair characters or targetted by allied blessings.

Allies

Corsairs behave slightly differently with respect to Allies, they work with themselves out of Convenience if you use the Formation. Otherwise anything not on the below (Chaos, Necrons, Nids) you cannot ally with at all.

Battle-Brothers

• Craftworld Eldar:

• Dark Eldar:

• Harlequins:

Desperate Allies

• Forces of the Imperium:

• Tau:

Building your Army

The best thing about this army is most of the infantry can be converted out of any regular Eldar/Deldar troops with greenstuff, patience and a steady hand. The worst thing is that most of the vehicles are Forge World (beautiful, but expensive).

As with Craftworld Eldar careful consideration should be taken when choosing your army however they do have more flexible choices over their craftworld brethren. The first thing you should notice is BS4 everywhere, this is a godsend when compared to the measly BS3 on many codices out there. Falcons are Corsair dedicated transports, put EVERYTHING in Falcons.

Now, lets look at the army:

• HQ
  • Obviously you want a Corsair Prince, the real question is which free specialization to take.

• Elite
  • Two choices stand out here:
  • Suicidal CC shock troops
  • Deep Striking walkers with heavy firepower, a decent I save, and the option to blast into melee

• Troops
  • I go for 3 squads of Corsairs in Falcons and 3 Squadrons of Wasp Walkers with Scatter Lasers. But others go for 2 of each and 2 Jetbike Squads.

• Fast Attack
  • Hornets are beautifully effective as are Nightwings, Hornets hit harder but Nightwings are harder to kill. 1 Squad of 3 Hornets and 2 Nightwings can't go wrong. Just wait for FW to update these babies.

• Heavy Support
  • Warp Hunters and Firestorms provide much needed firepower, Firestorm is better at killing light vehicles while Warp Hunter is better at killing infantry. Still waiting for an update. Holofields and shit, you know.

• A good idea is also to get eldar as allies and get eldrad/or Irillyth, add dem S9 AP1 Lance fire prisms, and a Void Dragon Phoenix. and Bingo instant salsa.

Tactics

- I prefer a 5 man squad of troops with lasblasters and an Eldar missle launcher in a venom with an eldar missle launcher (EML) for 120pts. It is a fast platform guarding the rear, supporting the front with 48" range and can fire EML at 2 different targets (open-topped). 6 of these gives you 12 shots effective against either troops or vehicles and can score late game objectives.