Editing Warhammer 40,000/7th Edition Tactics/Eldar Harlequins (section)

==Why Play a Harlequin Army==
If you're an Eldar player for any stretch of time, you'll probably have the models. The previous Craftworld & Dark Eldar codex forced you to choose between Harlequins in Elites, and other units such as Incubi, Banshees, Trueborn, or Fire Dragons, so it became a difficult choice to take the jack-of-all-trades clowns over another unit with a more specialist role.

Now you can take an entire army of the psychedelic laughing trolls as its own force, or as an allied force to one of your own detachments.

'''Reasons the new Harlequins are awesome:'''
*They are fantastic in assault, though this has always been the case.
*They have army-wide access to loads of AP2 weaponry.
*The new Phantasmancy psychic discipline has some very good powers for both defense and offense.
*Army-wide Fear.
*Army-wide (except for Starweavers and Voidweavers) Furious Charge and Hit-and-Run.
*Everybody has an invuln save!
*Lots of easy access to Haywire.
*Your footsloggers ignore difficult terrain and don't face penalties for charging through cover.
*The look on your opponent's face when you Blitz your Solitaire 24" and bitch-slap his special snowflakes in melee.
*In certain detachments, the Harlies gain the ability to run ''and'' assault, starting on turn 2.
*You can go absolutely hog-wild when modeling and painting them, and it'll still fit with the fluff.

'''Reasons they are not awesome:'''
*Like all Eldar, they are squishy. A 5++ invuln is still only a 5+.
*Absolutely zero long-range support - their longest ranged weapons are 24".
*No HQ, which precludes them from playing in a lot of tournaments as a solo army. ''(The new force organization chart from Gathering Storm book 2 fixes this in so many ways!)''
*Bound armies are hit with some ridiculously heavy taxes.
*[[What|Voidweavers as mandatory Heavy Support choices]] is almost as silly as 3E HS Scourges.
*Starweavers only carry six clowns.
* Absolutely no real source of anti-flyer weaponry.
*They're ''expensive'' both points-wise and in IRL monies (unless you pick up the Death Masque box!).
*The look on your opponent's face when you Blitz your Solitaire 6", only to have all of his attacks miss or bounce off a standard Tactical Squad.