Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Eldar (section)

===Army Building===

*'''Building up your forces:'''
**'''Getting Started with Bundles:''' To those who have considered creating a CW Eldar army, or those who are looking to expand their existing forces, now is a pretty good time to do so. There are several bundles available to the frugal player that can save both new and old players quite a bit of money
***'''Start Collecting! Craftworlds ($90):''' This repackaged bundle comes with a ''Farseer'', ''Wraithlord'', ''Warwalker'' and a squad of ''Wraithguard/blades''. It's a bargain for what it offers; hard-hitting durable units headed by arguably the most useful HQ choice you could take in any generic list. Unfortunately, it also has one of, if not the fewest model counts among all other get started kits with ''no'' Troops included, meaning that you'll have to purchase your Guardians/Dire Avengers separately if you're needing them. That said, the $55 odd bucks this bundle will save you will easily cover the cost of a squad or two of those.
***'''Craftworlds Army ($170.75):''' A premium Start Collecting! kit that includes a ''Wave Serpent'' and ''Guardian Defender'' squad in addition to the prior bundle's contents. A higher price point of $170.25 makes this bundle a touch harder on the wallet, but it comes with everything you'll need for a solid Patrol Detachment. Unfortunately, there's literally no difference in price between buying the Start Collecting! Craftworlds kit then buying a squad of Guardian Defenders and a Wave Serpent separately or just purchasing this bundle, so it really boils down to how much you're willing to spend all at once.
***'''Wake the Dead ($150):''' A joint narrative campaign kit with Craftworld Eldar and Primaris Space Marines. Honestly a steal of a deal, Craftworlders can get a plastic ''Spiritseer'', ''Wraithguard/blades'', ''Guardian Defenders'' and a ''Wave Serpent'' for effectively $75; half the price they'd run individually! You can make that price literal if you can get a buddy or even local colleague to split the cost with you for the imperial forces. Alternatively, you get a bunch of Primaris Space Marines essentially for "free" if you just buy it yourself. Either way, it's a fair bargain that makes for a much more balanced starting force for new players than the basic Start Collecting! kit.
***'''<s>Battleforce Craftworlds Asuryani Bladehost ($170)</s>:'''(Discontinued) Yet another bundle for vanilla Craftworlders, this package comes with a ''Farseer'', a squad of ''Guardian Defenders'', ''Dire Avengers'' and ''Windriders'', a ''Vyper'' and, for some reason, a ''Wraithknight''. This ends up being a little over $105 in savings; a pretty solid deal all things considered (it all but pays for said Wraithknight included). The unique thing about this set is the inclusion of the Lord of War unit, something very few "generic" bundles have done before. Since LoW's tend to be less common in the average detachment these days, in addition to the Wraithknight's cost to field (and debatable viability), you'll get more value by buying a different kit if you have no need/desire for the Wraithknight itself (it would in fact be cheaper to buy all the other units sans WK separately than to purchase this bundle).
***'''Craftworlds Vanguard Detachment ($170):''' Designed for Apocalypse games, this package comes with a ''Spiritseer'', two ''Wraithlords'' and three squads of ''Wraithguard/blades''. What it lacks in variety (bundles only ever seem to focus on Wraith units or guardians, but given everything else is resin, it's not like they have much to choose from) it can make up for with some punishing firepower that's more suited to the bigger scale Apocalypse games are aiming for. A solid choice if you only have a couple squads of Wraith units or plan to play it big.
***'''Wraithknight Super-Heavy Detachment ($345):''' The most expensive bundle (which it technically is), this package of three ''Wraithknights'' is...impractical for a number of reasons. First, it offers no discount compared to just buying the three wraithknights separately, so it really just provides the minor convenience in packaging them all in the same box. Second, even with the agreeable point discount Chapter Approved 2018 gave them to field, wraithknights are still too cost inefficient to justify taking more than one (even then, situationally) in the average list. If you're just in it for the modelling or mainly planning for Apocalypse, however, feel free.
***'''Blood of the Phoenix ($230):''' The first new plastic Aspect Warriors and Phoenix Lord make their debut in GW's <s>most expensive non-superheavy box set to date</s> formerly most expensive non-superheavy box set (they wasted no time breaking that record). Uh...yay? Regardless, this set comes with ''Jain Zar'' and a squad of ''Howling Banshees'' in their sleek new plastic glory, a ''Falcon'' to carry them around in and a random ''Vyper'' since every other eldar box set released spammed Windriders as filler. ''If'' you can find a player to split the Dark Eldar units (or plan on getting them for ''their'' fancy new plastic Incubi and Drazhar models anyways), then it's arguably worth it (you know, given how inflated GW's prices are these days). Assuming Jain Zar will run $30ish dollars and the banshees run $50ish dollars, you'll save $55 on the craftworld units included compared to purchasing them individually, again assuming you find someone to split the set with. This just happens to be enough money to cover the cost of the Phoenix Rising rule book you'll want/need to buy separately if you want access to all those fancy Exarch Powers and Custom Craftworld attributes since the book included in the set [[Fail|doesn't have any of those rules included,]] [[Games Workshop|forcing you to purchase a stand alone book separately if you actually want to use them]]. While the plastic aspect warriors are certainly welcomed with open arms, there are a few issues with this set that make purchasing even one of them a tall ask; a 30~% price increase on a bundle that only includes two "new" units per faction (versus a bundle like Shadowspear, where everything included on both sides was completely new ''and'' still at a semi-standard $170) with two of the models being named characters makes this set a particularly hard sell. At most, you'll probably only want to buy this set once (if even that), even if you're splitting it with someone else.
***'''Squadrons:''' Players looking to fill up on more niche models can save a few bucks on the Vyper Squadron ($75) and Vaul's Wrath Support Battery ($60) bundles; each comes with three models that can either be set up either individually or as a single squad, giving players a bit of tactical flexibility when it comes to filling out their detachments.
**'''Aspect Warriors:''' When it comes to the Aspect Warriors, unfortunately almost all of them are online exclusive and Fine-cast Resin models (Dire Avengers and Howling Banshees being the only exceptions to both of those standards) that are not only woefully outdated aesthetically, but also consistently out of stock and difficult (if not impossible) to find on 3rd party websites. Now that much of the 40k hype has shifted towards less model intensive game-types, the availability of these units isn't as much of an issue as they used to be, though don't be surprised if it takes GW several months to restock a kit that sells out for Eldar. With the Psychic Awakening focus on the Craftworlds having come and gone, it'll likely be quite some time before any of the other Aspects get plastic overhauls like the Banshees received.