CORRECTIONS: (I'm expecting a lot in such a mammoth book with so many changes, apologies!) - Windriders re-roll all hit rolls against the closest eligible target now, not ones on objectives as I said (which was their previous rule). - Suncannon has been boosted to S10 from S8, which is quite a big deal for T10 targets and transport vehicles. - Warhost Blitzing Firepower Stratagem is worse than I thought, sustained 1 within 12" and only going to a 5+ if you ALREADY had sustained hits. Misread that one sorry. OTHER THINGS - Wraithlord gets +1 to WS / BS from being near psykers, so could stack with other things modifying the hit roll for hitting on 2+ - The ignores AP modifiers one doesn't work with cover (my error speculating there, I should have checked) That was a big one! Let me know if you spot any major errors or corrections, I'll try and compile them here. I'm sure there'll be plenty in a book so big with quite so many changes...
hello. i think the new rule for the windriders is to have a natural re-roll hit roll of 1 and re-roll the hit roll against the closest eligible target.
You see; from the moment Auspex understood the weakness of his flesh, it disgusted him. He craved the strength and certainty of steel (or wraithbone in this case).
Autarchs can now lead Aspect Squads. Makes sense. What doesn't make sense is removing the jetbike Autarch. That Wind Runner detachment looks a lot less appealing without one
@@GaryP336Not only that, but it has the old jetbike design. Between new jetbikes from 7th, and Shroud and Shining Spears from 9th the model looks completely out of symmetry with the rest.
Honestly one of the best combos just from looking at this codex at a glance is to run the war host detachment and put fuegan with 10 fire dragons in a wave serpent. You get to battle focus the wave serpent’s movement and then disembark the fire dragons, shoot and kill like whatever you want really and then use 1cp to go reembark back into the wave serpent. I mean hell you could even disembark first and just battle focus the fire dragons to be 6 inch away from where the wave serpent is going to move (like behind cover) and then shoot with the fire dragons and then embark from 6 inches away for a 1cp. And you can ignore overwatch at any point on the dragons. It seems insanely strong and I am for sure going to run it
That works only in ideal situation, what happen if you can't get into position in 1 turn and serpent get shot down while you wait for the next turn? I think Fire dragon is good, but prob small unit that come out of reserve to trade their life for a tank, similar to Eradicators.
For the striking scorpions I don’t think the chainsabres is a typo. The new kit gives the exarch dual shuriken pistols when he’s dual wielding chainsabres so I think the shooting profile with twin linked is there to reflect that
@@fateweaver9844 The knight and lords are okay but the wraith blade and guard need points drop losing a lot there key words and needing a toughness 3 model to follow them and be unable to protect them is quite a fragile chain that any skilled opponent can break.
I understand why they retired Karandras' crusty ass mini, it's old and it looks out of place compared to his fellow Phoenix Lords. What i DON'T understand is why they didn't update him as well? Like, why specifically Karandras? Are they saving him for a narrative face-off with Drazhar where they both get new minis even tho Drazhar's is not that old?
Rumors are that apparently GW literally just forgot to update him alongside the other PL's... According to a certain yellow Chapter Master's whispers from the Warp though, there's been new models spotted/heavily hinted at for a 'jump infantry' Corsair unit + new updated Vyper kit + new Prince Yrriel still to come out at some point... maybe GW holds that lot back & adds a refreshed & upscaled Karandras to those as the 11th ed release for Eldar? At which point, with all of that lot on top of everything from 7th + 8th + 9th + 10th editions, maybe we can finally shove Eldar to the very back of bus and get the insanely direly needed updates & expansions for the factions that are model starved at this point, such as Dark Eldar, GK's, 1ksons, WE's, Votann and even a couple new units for DG?!
@@drunkenastarte5243Drukhari baffles me to no end. They’ve been in the game since 3rd edition, yet they still have some of the fewest datasheets, and a majority of those datasheets are old models? What did they do so wrong to be sidelined so hard by GW?
@ Probably just a case of no one in the Studio to champion them... Half the choice on 'who gets a big release' comes down to how much enthusiasm there is among the Studio team for each faction. Ever since the infamous 3.5ed codex & the Eye of Terror campaign debacle for example, Chaos as a faction have been forever in GW's sin-bin... likewise, there's just no one to really 'champion' the Dark Eldar, but lots of fans of the Kraftworlders ;-) Then it leads into a self fulfilling prophecy of, "no one buys X faction because they never get support" so thus in GW's view as a business, "we're not sinking resources into a faction no one will buy" So now we have a game where we have Loyalists + Guard + Eldar + Tau + Tyranids + 'Crons + Orks who keep getting model support, meanwhile the likes of GK's, Chaos in general, Dark Eldar, Custodes, etc... get table scraps if they're lucky!
Im just glad my plans for an Ynnari army were still just plans, wouldve hated having bought mandrakes at that ungodly price then be told "lol they useless"
Very happy with the wraith support in their detachment. Got a lot of list crafting work to do with them but super excited to run bunches of wraiths all over the board.
I could be wrong, but I thought the blitzing Firepower Strategem for the Warhost detachment was sustained hit 1 if you're within 12 inches and if you already have sustained hits then you score critical hits on a 5+.
By RAW, warlock skyrunners have the "Warlocks" keyword, not the "Warlock" keyword, so not only can they not receive enhancements, they technically dont receive their own ability, as it states "Warlock" models
24:30 I retract my previous comment. I understand what you wanted to say. The expectation of the d6 when re rolling 1s only increase from 3.5 to 3.91 which is around 11%, not 16%. However it is true that in WH40k, the expectation is not important. What matter is the "at least" function, so to say. And in that sense, when you reroll 1s, then "at least 2", "at least 3", etc, increase by 16%. For example, at least 4 goes from happening 50% of the time to 58% of the time which looks like 8% increase, but it is 58/50= 1.16 exactly. Thank you for making me think.
The harlequins are going to move so much. Reactive move in movement phase, reactive move in shooting phase, charging on the opponent’s turn, and go into reserves. Lots of things that can screw an opponent over if they don’t respect them.
I want to take my complaint about cannons losing sustained. Not my favorite change, but with other synergies it may hit harder into bigger targets. Just takes a bit of the versatility it had
Arguably has more versatility with auto wound as it is only slightly worse against lower toughness targets and is now much more effective against higher toughness targets
I really hope that there's a post release wave during one of the big 'events' that gives us karandras and Autarchs on bikes because its absurd these didn't get rules for the codex. Also lost two anrathe leaders and other fun toys....
Karandras will come back with the Shining Spear Pheonix lord. Autarch bike is probably in the can. Having him lead Shining spears would have been a bit nutty is probably why. Auto 6" advance, Tag the unit with advance and charge for free. Guaranteed 22" movement (with battle focus) pulling out a 29" average charge thru terrain, over infantry into the enemy artillery cross map is a bit toxic.
@EwanCareyLive I mean that's why you give them a different ability? I dunno just feels lame having wind riders he relegated to being led by only psykers now.
Corsairs aren't given access because they're free agents, so to speak. Not aligned with craftworlds, quins, or comorragh, even if they associate with the former three. Despite being battleline, they're thematically more like agents of the imperium. Why do quins and Ynnari get them? Your guess is as good as mine.
Haven't seen it pointed out yet, but Wraithlord get +1 to weapon skill and ballistic skill, not +1 to hit, so it can stack with things like the Farseer's +1 to hit ability or the Wraith detachment one, unlike the smaller Wraiths
6 wave serpents + 1 solitaire + 3 troop masters and 69 troops is 1975 points + Cegorach's Coil on one of the Troop masters = 2000pts on the dot. not sure how good this kind of list is but it seems fairly scary as each squad will have 50+ attacks with blades with devastating wounds.
Finally. So, is Armoured Warhost the most op thing in the game now? I'm sure this codex was what it was all leading towards and now it's an amazing detachment.
@@fateweaver9844 Early index felt more like an adult vs toddlers, This codex feels more like it competes with the other strongest in the game. Their are other broken armies now, start of 10th eldari were the only brocken army.
There is not a single webway strike stratagem in the entire book and not a single unit can reserve at end of turn like most armies have now, the "uppy downy" taken from eldar...
@@theophrastusbomblastus821uh bro it’s in the detachment rule of wind rider host I think. And I think there are two strats for it spread around. And baharroth gives it to swooping hawks
I beg of you GW. Bring back spells and casting rolls. I just can't deal with the fact that an army of poweeful psykers only has a single detachment to remotely feel like they are casting spells. Damn, its just saving cp on stratagems.
Eldar figured out we live in a marines world so alot of their aspect units delete bricks of marines. HOWEVER: WHY DID THEY MAKE AVATAR T11 AND WRAITH INFANTRY T6?
@@j.k.prufrock5605 The board is only so big lmao, i already feel like i can make it anywhere with any unit minus wraithguard/blades. I could forgive losing toughness on alot of them if they actually got a decent point reduction but only 10pt decrease for wraithguard losing devwound and bricks of 10 and a toughness does not really feel like a fair trade.
Yeah, my 15 scourges, 15 mandrakes, and Lellith are all useless now unless I build a whole Drukhari army. My troupes are also useless, so maybe I have to make a Reaper's Wager list.
Great codex imo. Nothing seems super trash. Detachments all look fine though I think Aspect Host will be the best, just depends on final points. Glad to see the shooty version of the Wraithknight come down. 435, if it sticks, makes more sense
Does ignores modifiers to AP actually count as ignores cover? Cover doesn't affect AP after all, it modifies the target's save directly. It'd work against AoC, but in my reading shouldn't affect cover saves
Someone else can correct me but I think AT was wrong there. Armour of Contempt affects characteristics, so would be ignored. Cover modifiers your armour save ROLL, which I think remains unaffected.
Eldar are looking broken, but honestly, not the say broken they were at the beginning of 10th.Beginning of tenth was the single adult among toddlers, But now they feel more in line with some of the other strongest in the game. I like how there rule is no longer "just win" Instead its all movement tricks. If you play right, It's incredibly strong play wrong and you go splat. I like that a LOT more then just spiking dice rolls, more counterplay. what's the counterplay to spiking dice? Throwing more dice at them?
I don't know how to feel about some of these reveals. The Autarch losing lone operative, the Wraithguard losing devasting wounds and toughness, the Spiritseer losing leader and +1 to hit. Idk, it's just small gripes, but I can't help but feel a little let down
Thank you for being the only reviewer i've seen so far point out that Rangers should get AP-2 on their rifles. Being a cheap trash unit is good and all for objectives and secondary play but I wish they were actually elite snipers. Ratlings are better IMO. This and Corsairs being totally looked over are my only complaints.
It looks good, I'm pretty excited. Especially because aspect warriors got better, bit bummed about the wraith.. but still might be interesting if using their detachment. My other gripe is the psykers, they feel even more boring than before. Still I didn't like index eldar much, this looks like I will be able to get back into the faction :)
Intial reactions, aspect host seems like the best host. Seer council seems okay same with wraith host. I still wont be taking the grotmas detachment tho lol
I am very excited about the Aspect Host and the Guard Battlehost. How many Dire Avengers will you run? :D I can't decide if 5, 10 or 20 Dire Avengers shall I buy. Yes, I am just starting Aeldari. :)
My suggestion - 15. Three squads of 5, one led by Asurmen. Maximizes the number of Exarchs who take double catapults, and Asurmen with 5 fits right into a Falcon and has great synergy with it.
Super sad about the Ynnari changes tbh. Definitely a lot of wasted time and money (recently too) that I now can't use. Did not expect them to rip out more than half the Drukhari roster from being used. They also could have scaled the Ynnari core rule to work better at different army sizes, rather than just being a 1 size fits all, so its more effective in smaller games, and less in larger ones.
"you can still run your halequins in other detachments!" GW said while forgetting to mention that they don't get the keyword to function in other detachments statagems. Also Ynnari is basically an entirely new army that is more akin to a horde army than the supposed super elites of eldars combining together to destroy a God.
Harlequins still have Aeldari keyword, which plenty of stuff like stratagems and unit abilities key off of. The Shadowseer can buff wraiths for instance.
Auspex… do you really think the army wide battle focus role is pretty powerful? I mean, it really isn’t. I don’t know how you could say it is. They gave a really fragile army small bonuses for moving. I don’t see how that is very powerful. And I used to be a wood elf player so I kinda don’t know what you’re talking about, bro.
Movement wins games in 40k. If you can't figure that out that's on you. The battle focus mechanic is EXTREMELY powerful when mastered. This codex is going to take more skill to win with than the index.
@ yeah like in general, the entire Codex got hit with the nerf bat pretty heavily. And then with the new rules, you have to get gud to not waste your time setting up your models. I think a lot of content creators are going to be trying to showcase this as a good thing. But it’s not. i’m gonna come back to this comment in about a month or two when the tournament results start getting published and Eldar are at the bottom of that list.
I know it's Games Workshop but it's a bit of a dirty trick to not have the points available on codex release. Not only that but they clearly printed "fantasy" points to sell more models. Nobody believes Warp Spiders will stay at 85 points. The new Phoenix Lord is going to be more than 120 points given its stat line. It looks like they are trying to trick people into buying the new models to incorporate into their armies before they get completely hosed by a point rug pull. They also did this with Tyranids.
Where you been for 2 editions? Codexes go to print almost 6 months from release. GW updates points every 3. It would be nice if the points were the points but it's not as if you are waiting 3 months for them to change them.
@@fateweaver9844 Warp Spiders have been 125 points forever. Certainly, longer than 8 months. I just find it odd that it's generally the new release models that are incredibly favorable with respect to points and then almost immediately get changed. Couple of these units are going to bamboozle people when the true points are out.
10th ed continues to be the best edition for playability and core rules and the absolute worst edition for the actual game design and list building. So many terrible pigeon-holes in this codex, so many unnecessary restrictions that don't even help balance but just cuck list building. Harlequin datasheets are great but the fact that they are pretty much locked to the one detachment which then has nothing to help any other craftworld units is cringe. The fact that the bike detachment is pretty much just "THE WINDRIDER DATASHEET DETATCHMENT" is cringe. I really hope everyone is behind codex design in 10th ed finds a new job before 11th ed.
Gw must love aeldari this edition the worst they've had is a 50% win rate and had a high of 87% win rate at the start of the edition. And the most detachments a single army has
I've played eldar since they could be played and IMO this codex is hot stinking garbage. 4/6 of the strats and 3/4 of the enhancements for every detachment are weak and unimpactful. There are SOO many nerfs it is ridiculous and what few "buffs" there are are just "glow ups" to quote Proxy Hammer (poor guy has the copium delusions somethin fierce). The leadership thing is tragic and insulting, in what world does a human, marine or not, have more mental discipline than an Aeldari. And the points do not reflect this sweeping and punitive change, but the points changes don't reflect any of the brutal and ruinous nerfs featured in this tome of horrors (like war walkers going from 4+ invuln and -1 to be wounded by range to 5+ invuln only, avatar -2T, wraithlord -1T, in a low toughness army the toughest guys all made weaker is a feast of shame). When people actually take the time to count and note all the small, medium and large nerfs they will realize the army was better off without this codex. When you compare the units and their points costs to similar units of other armies the contrast is just plain pathetic. Only in niche circumstances, using the right detachment and the perfect stratagem with a particular unit will anything good ever happen for the Aeldari and there will be no room for error, of course there was never any room for error with the Eldar, but at least the units in and of themselves didn't outright suck. Veteran Harlequin players will see some success as they seem to have avoided most of the mass nerfing and their signature attachment is better than most, although even the masters of the webway have no strat to choose a unit to deepstrike into battle, that is correct the ghosts of the webway cannot even perform a function that has been a faction defining feature for 25+years. And the infamous "uppy downy" mechanic that typifies webway finesse and eldar agility is now the province of marine scouts and necrons but not the swooping hawks (Baharoth's unit still can, but what he had is gone and what the hawks had is now his, while the hawks got nothing), not the rangers even to balance the loss, and no longer the mandrakes for Ynnari. The Ynnari are now the biggest joke in 40k and everyone who began playing them in 8th as I did is now the proud owner of 600-800$ of plastic trash collecting dust. Why ruin the Ynnari? Two easy reasons, 1) Many, and I mean many players will buy into Drukhari to make up for the loss, good ole GW, and 2) Had GW not ruined the Ynnari they would have been the only detachment worth playing from this dumpster fire codex, with the possible exception of Harlies. Ideally an aspect host might do well but the army's points will be eaten up by the overpriced, mostly nerfed to some degree phoenix lords and their pitiful and small array of abilities that in no way compare to say the marine epic heroes for example, with their paragraphs of impactful mechanics and multi leader combos and potentials. Over the years every single forte the Eldar have ever had has been taken away (ranged shooting, deep striking, psychic powers, melee psykers, flyers, mobility), usually to be given to another faction, now that they have nothing left, not even the mental discipline of leadership, GWs only hateful recourse is to water them down into pale shadows of their former glory. Nothing remains but fluffy situational gimmicks that don't even begin to qualify as trickery or shenanigans, in a game entirely dominated by a durability based take and hold table meta. I have no doubt that the Nanavati level players will find a way to win a few games versus the overwhelming force of the dice shitting reroll everything marines, but for most players, when the new codex smell wears off this book, they are in for a rude awakening to the unethical, unprincipled and utterly dishonorable practices of Games Workshop.
CORRECTIONS: (I'm expecting a lot in such a mammoth book with so many changes, apologies!)
- Windriders re-roll all hit rolls against the closest eligible target now, not ones on objectives as I said (which was their previous rule).
- Suncannon has been boosted to S10 from S8, which is quite a big deal for T10 targets and transport vehicles.
- Warhost Blitzing Firepower Stratagem is worse than I thought, sustained 1 within 12" and only going to a 5+ if you ALREADY had sustained hits. Misread that one sorry.
OTHER THINGS
- Wraithlord gets +1 to WS / BS from being near psykers, so could stack with other things modifying the hit roll for hitting on 2+
- The ignores AP modifiers one doesn't work with cover (my error speculating there, I should have checked)
That was a big one! Let me know if you spot any major errors or corrections, I'll try and compile them here. I'm sure there'll be plenty in a book so big with quite so many changes...
hello. i think the new rule for the windriders is to have a natural re-roll hit roll of 1 and re-roll the hit roll against the closest eligible target.
@@anthonyfilgueira5017 Thanks, good spot I'd missed that one.
@@auspextactics the wraithlord gets +1 bs/ws instead auf +1 to the roll for a potnetial 2+ to hit.
3 tokens per 1k army as edited in the Warhammer community article
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“Wow auspex hasn’t loaded a video in 12 hours, he must be slackin..” proceeds to drop a damned video that’s over 2 hours 😂
You see; from the moment Auspex understood the weakness of his flesh, it disgusted him. He craved the strength and certainty of steel (or wraithbone in this case).
@@xenosophontbut for real he need to take a break, my man just keeps working all day and night
I knew in my heart he was gonna get that Aeldari codex video up today. I was not wrong.
you're a champ for compiling all those leaks into one vid!
He would have a preview copy
Autarchs can now lead Aspect Squads.
Makes sense.
What doesn't make sense is removing the jetbike Autarch. That Wind Runner detachment looks a lot less appealing without one
So many missed opportunities.
It does makes sense. It was fine cast and ugly...
I guess it’s cause it was a resin model and they’re obliterating those for every 10e dex
@@GaryP336Not only that, but it has the old jetbike design. Between new jetbikes from 7th, and Shroud and Shining Spears from 9th the model looks completely out of symmetry with the rest.
For a model company they really dont like making new models.
Pro players say that Movement and mobility wins games. When asked about how many movement tricks Aeldari will get, GW said "Yes".
I like this way better then just pointing at dice an saying I win" Movement has counterplay, Changing dice has so much less.
Something wrong. I hold my head. Karandras gone. An Aeldari dead
Maybe he'll be back, with his own novel detailing his misadventures, in 11th Edition.
Reaper's Wager for Drukhari is about to go so hard...jetbikes, troupe bricks, and a couple of leaders will do work.
Solitaire and Drazhar competing for who can butcher the most nerds
@@Xynth25 if only we could field Yvraine in Drukhari I'd switch in a heartbeat. Guess I can rebase her as an Archon...
@CatroiOz Archons are on a 25mm, bit small for her dumptruck of a model lol. But could work
I've already read the codex cover to cover but you bet I'm listening to Auspex's take on it
Ooh, where is it?
How have you already read it cover to cover
Aeldari Discord it was leaked yesterday
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Honestly one of the best combos just from looking at this codex at a glance is to run the war host detachment and put fuegan with 10 fire dragons in a wave serpent.
You get to battle focus the wave serpent’s movement and then disembark the fire dragons, shoot and kill like whatever you want really and then use 1cp to go reembark back into the wave serpent. I mean hell you could even disembark first and just battle focus the fire dragons to be 6 inch away from where the wave serpent is going to move (like behind cover) and then shoot with the fire dragons and then embark from 6 inches away for a 1cp. And you can ignore overwatch at any point on the dragons.
It seems insanely strong and I am for sure going to run it
That works only in ideal situation, what happen if you can't get into position in 1 turn and serpent get shot down while you wait for the next turn? I think Fire dragon is good, but prob small unit that come out of reserve to trade their life for a tank, similar to Eradicators.
What an absolute legend. Been waiting for some more videos and you go and bring out this TITAN of a video. As always, you are THE GOAT
Karandras said he'd pop out for milk...
For the striking scorpions I don’t think the chainsabres is a typo. The new kit gives the exarch dual shuriken pistols when he’s dual wielding chainsabres so I think the shooting profile with twin linked is there to reflect that
I hope the wraith units get some decent point reductions.
Wraith units are better now.
@@fateweaver9844 The knight and lords are okay but the wraith blade and guard need points drop losing a lot there key words and needing a toughness 3 model to follow them and be unable to protect them is quite a fragile chain that any skilled opponent can break.
I understand why they retired Karandras' crusty ass mini, it's old and it looks out of place compared to his fellow Phoenix Lords.
What i DON'T understand is why they didn't update him as well? Like, why specifically Karandras? Are they saving him for a narrative face-off with Drazhar where they both get new minis even tho Drazhar's is not that old?
Rumors are that apparently GW literally just forgot to update him alongside the other PL's...
According to a certain yellow Chapter Master's whispers from the Warp though, there's been new models spotted/heavily hinted at for a 'jump infantry' Corsair unit + new updated Vyper kit + new Prince Yrriel still to come out at some point... maybe GW holds that lot back & adds a refreshed & upscaled Karandras to those as the 11th ed release for Eldar?
At which point, with all of that lot on top of everything from 7th + 8th + 9th + 10th editions, maybe we can finally shove Eldar to the very back of bus and get the insanely direly needed updates & expansions for the factions that are model starved at this point, such as Dark Eldar, GK's, 1ksons, WE's, Votann and even a couple new units for DG?!
@@drunkenastarte5243 hopefully we get those you mentioned in an end-of-edition campaign instead
@@drunkenastarte5243Drukhari baffles me to no end. They’ve been in the game since 3rd edition, yet they still have some of the fewest datasheets, and a majority of those datasheets are old models? What did they do so wrong to be sidelined so hard by GW?
@ Probably just a case of no one in the Studio to champion them...
Half the choice on 'who gets a big release' comes down to how much enthusiasm there is among the Studio team for each faction.
Ever since the infamous 3.5ed codex & the Eye of Terror campaign debacle for example, Chaos as a faction have been forever in GW's sin-bin... likewise, there's just no one to really 'champion' the Dark Eldar, but lots of fans of the Kraftworlders ;-)
Then it leads into a self fulfilling prophecy of, "no one buys X faction because they never get support" so thus in GW's view as a business, "we're not sinking resources into a faction no one will buy"
So now we have a game where we have Loyalists + Guard + Eldar + Tau + Tyranids + 'Crons + Orks who keep getting model support, meanwhile the likes of GK's, Chaos in general, Dark Eldar, Custodes, etc... get table scraps if they're lucky!
Haven’t played 40k in 20 years but so happy our Codex is good 😂😂
Big thanks to you as always for creating solid content !
Im just glad my plans for an Ynnari army were still just plans, wouldve hated having bought mandrakes at that ungodly price then be told "lol they useless"
Thank you for your time!
Ty AT, keep up the good work
He is a machine. Cheers, man, I love all the content!🎉
No he needs to rest some. My guy is trying for a early grave
Very happy with the wraith support in their detachment. Got a lot of list crafting work to do with them but super excited to run bunches of wraiths all over the board.
I'm sad they lost 1T and wraithknight basically a lot easier to get killed now
Kinda interesting that Phoenix Lord of Spiders can't Flickerjump on her own hmm :P
frkin stupid is what it is
I'm so incredibly excited for the Spirit Conclave detachment! My Iyanden army won't be a meme anymore :D
I played it today with the rules and points in the codex, it seems pretty fair tbh.
I could be wrong, but I thought the blitzing Firepower Strategem for the Warhost detachment was sustained hit 1 if you're within 12 inches and if you already have sustained hits then you score critical hits on a 5+.
No you're right, thanks for the heads up, will update the correction comment!
By RAW, warlock skyrunners have the "Warlocks" keyword, not the "Warlock" keyword, so not only can they not receive enhancements, they technically dont receive their own ability, as it states "Warlock" models
24:30 I retract my previous comment. I understand what you wanted to say.
The expectation of the d6 when re rolling 1s only increase from 3.5 to 3.91 which is around 11%, not 16%.
However it is true that in WH40k, the expectation is not important. What matter is the "at least" function, so to say.
And in that sense, when you reroll 1s, then "at least 2", "at least 3", etc, increase by 16%.
For example, at least 4 goes from happening 50% of the time to 58% of the time which looks like 8% increase, but it is 58/50= 1.16 exactly.
Thank you for making me think.
Your comment updated before I could reply lol. I appreciate you correcting it.
What’s the model on the spirit conclave slide? 31:57
Bonesinger, it is a legends model that the Spiritseer kind of replaced. Used to heal Wraith Constructs.
The harlequins are going to move so much. Reactive move in movement phase, reactive move in shooting phase, charging on the opponent’s turn, and go into reserves. Lots of things that can screw an opponent over if they don’t respect them.
I want to take my complaint about cannons losing sustained. Not my favorite change, but with other synergies it may hit harder into bigger targets. Just takes a bit of the versatility it had
Arguably has more versatility with auto wound as it is only slightly worse against lower toughness targets and is now much more effective against higher toughness targets
And the Oscar for a feature-length tabletop tisim video goes to:
Really excited for flitting shadows, it has been the biggest feel bad to have whole squad of elves wiped to overwatch pretty regularly
Small moment bout Psychic Destroyer - not only eldrich stom gain +1 damage - singing spear also gain damage 4!
I really hope that there's a post release wave during one of the big 'events' that gives us karandras and Autarchs on bikes because its absurd these didn't get rules for the codex. Also lost two anrathe leaders and other fun toys....
Karandras will come back with the Shining Spear Pheonix lord.
Autarch bike is probably in the can.
Having him lead Shining spears would have been a bit nutty is probably why.
Auto 6" advance,
Tag the unit with advance and charge for free.
Guaranteed 22" movement (with battle focus)
pulling out a 29" average charge thru terrain, over infantry into the enemy artillery cross map is a bit toxic.
@EwanCareyLive I mean that's why you give them a different ability?
I dunno just feels lame having wind riders he relegated to being led by only psykers now.
Have them fighting the necron characters that got axed and you have a deal sir.
Corsairs aren't given access because they're free agents, so to speak. Not aligned with craftworlds, quins, or comorragh, even if they associate with the former three. Despite being battleline, they're thematically more like agents of the imperium. Why do quins and Ynnari get them? Your guess is as good as mine.
Haven't seen it pointed out yet, but Wraithlord get +1 to weapon skill and ballistic skill, not +1 to hit, so it can stack with things like the Farseer's +1 to hit ability or the Wraith detachment one, unlike the smaller Wraiths
That’s actually a great catch. Seems like that would be intentional and if so, I really appreciate the fluffiness of it
6 wave serpents + 1 solitaire + 3 troop masters and 69 troops is 1975 points + Cegorach's Coil on one of the Troop masters = 2000pts on the dot. not sure how good this kind of list is but it seems fairly scary as each squad will have 50+ attacks with blades with devastating wounds.
Finally. So, is Armoured Warhost the most op thing in the game now? I'm sure this codex was what it was all leading towards and now it's an amazing detachment.
Yes GW please only nerf armoured warhost that's the only OP thing we got, it's unfair to judge the rest of the army by it.
NONE of the detachments are OP. 😅😅
It's a strong codex but not early index strong.
@@fateweaver9844 Early index felt more like an adult vs toddlers, This codex feels more like it competes with the other strongest in the game. Their are other broken armies now, start of 10th eldari were the only brocken army.
Time to dust off the aspect warriors and put the wraiths back on the shelf.
They get their rest... for now
So there isn't a way to teleport wraithguard/blades?
Don't think so. Wave Serpents may be our best option
@ Crap. I lost my Eldar army in 2020 and I bought a bunch of new boxes to assemble another but hoped to avoid the Wave Serpent kit this time.
There is not a single webway strike stratagem in the entire book and not a single unit can reserve at end of turn like most armies have now, the "uppy downy" taken from eldar...
@@theophrastusbomblastus821uh bro it’s in the detachment rule of wind rider host I think. And I think there are two strats for it spread around. And baharroth gives it to swooping hawks
I beg of you GW. Bring back spells and casting rolls. I just can't deal with the fact that an army of poweeful psykers only has a single detachment to remotely feel like they are casting spells. Damn, its just saving cp on stratagems.
Eldar figured out we live in a marines world so alot of their aspect units delete bricks of marines. HOWEVER: WHY DID THEY MAKE AVATAR T11 AND WRAITH INFANTRY T6?
It appears we’ve traded durability for lethality and mobility. Of course, we already had a good bit of mobility. We’ll see if it’s a fair trade.
@@j.k.prufrock5605 Eldar were always sold as glass cannons, so sound alike they're finally fulfilling their intended purpose.
@@j.k.prufrock5605 The board is only so big lmao, i already feel like i can make it anywhere with any unit minus wraithguard/blades. I could forgive losing toughness on alot of them if they actually got a decent point reduction but only 10pt decrease for wraithguard losing devwound and bricks of 10 and a toughness does not really feel like a fair trade.
@ 30:44 what is that model its that something i can buy?
That's a bonesinger. You can buy it from your friendly neighborhood Chinese recaster
It's a bonesinger inspired from dawn of war. It was a forge world model. Out of production I think
4th edition bonesinger. Not available officially but you might be able to find it on ebay.
it's a bonesinger, an old 4th edition mini, no longer on sale.
Yeah, my 15 scourges, 15 mandrakes, and Lellith are all useless now unless I build a whole Drukhari army. My troupes are also useless, so maybe I have to make a Reaper's Wager list.
isn’t the suncannon on wraith knights now strength 10? i thought i saw that in some of the leaks
Would the collector's edition be worth it this edition?
So the Shining Spears are the only Aspect Warriors that get no leader? Seems weird, that they are the only ones.
Spiralling Evasion? You mean "Do a barrel roll!".
Oh man I was so excited for skyweavers in windriders host. But they don't get the rule or use of the strats
How do ppl get these so early?
Many leaks since the codexes get distributed early to vendors. Naturally many slowly leak them.
Reddit
Great codex imo. Nothing seems super trash. Detachments all look fine though I think Aspect Host will be the best, just depends on final points.
Glad to see the shooty version of the Wraithknight come down. 435, if it sticks, makes more sense
On the leaked codex I watched through it seemed like the Suncannon was S10, big difference really!
Good spot, updated the correction comment. Thank you!
Does ignores modifiers to AP actually count as ignores cover? Cover doesn't affect AP after all, it modifies the target's save directly. It'd work against AoC, but in my reading shouldn't affect cover saves
Someone else can correct me but I think AT was wrong there. Armour of Contempt affects characteristics, so would be ignored. Cover modifiers your armour save ROLL, which I think remains unaffected.
Eldar are looking broken, but honestly, not the say broken they were at the beginning of 10th.Beginning of tenth was the single adult among toddlers, But now they feel more in line with some of the other strongest in the game.
I like how there rule is no longer "just win" Instead its all movement tricks. If you play right, It's incredibly strong play wrong and you go splat. I like that a LOT more then just spiking dice rolls, more counterplay. what's the counterplay to spiking dice? Throwing more dice at them?
I don't know how to feel about some of these reveals. The Autarch losing lone operative, the Wraithguard losing devasting wounds and toughness, the Spiritseer losing leader and +1 to hit. Idk, it's just small gripes, but I can't help but feel a little let down
Thank you for being the only reviewer i've seen so far point out that Rangers should get AP-2 on their rifles. Being a cheap trash unit is good and all for objectives and secondary play but I wish they were actually elite snipers. Ratlings are better IMO. This and Corsairs being totally looked over are my only complaints.
It looks good, I'm pretty excited. Especially because aspect warriors got better, bit bummed about the wraith.. but still might be interesting if using their detachment.
My other gripe is the psykers, they feel even more boring than before.
Still I didn't like index eldar much, this looks like I will be able to get back into the faction :)
Intial reactions, aspect host seems like the best host. Seer council seems okay same with wraith host. I still wont be taking the grotmas detachment tho lol
I am very excited about the Aspect Host and the Guard Battlehost. How many Dire Avengers will you run? :D I can't decide if 5, 10 or 20 Dire Avengers shall I buy. Yes, I am just starting Aeldari. :)
My suggestion - 15. Three squads of 5, one led by Asurmen. Maximizes the number of Exarchs who take double catapults, and Asurmen with 5 fits right into a Falcon and has great synergy with it.
The combat patrol will come with 10 Dire Avengers so there's a great start!
As a Biel-Tan guy I am very pleased with the Aspect Host...and Dire Avengers...and "The Assman"
Actually i would rather run 30 fide dragons inside 3 wave serpents. They look extremely powerful (especially in combination with new Spider-lady).
Super sad about the Ynnari changes tbh.
Definitely a lot of wasted time and money (recently too) that I now can't use.
Did not expect them to rip out more than half the Drukhari roster from being used.
They also could have scaled the Ynnari core rule to work better at different army sizes, rather than just being a 1 size fits all, so its more effective in smaller games, and less in larger ones.
Thanks for this
Dont think you can re embark same turn you disembarked as in core rules no matter what power strat you use
Irielle was never part of the codex to begin with. He was imparmoe and they don't write rules for FW units after the index anymore
Wait if most of the forge world models got to legends the soon custodes will either get a bunch of plastic model or they will get annihilated
I'm still confused about warlock conclaves. Can they still have a farseer? Because I have 8 warlocks (2 full conclaves)
Yes, they can. You can attach 4 to a guardian unit as well! So with conclave and farseer guardians get the -1 to wound
So I could field 6 wraithknights is all I'm hearing
"you can still run your halequins in other detachments!" GW said while forgetting to mention that they don't get the keyword to function in other detachments statagems.
Also Ynnari is basically an entirely new army that is more akin to a horde army than the supposed super elites of eldars combining together to destroy a God.
Harlequins still have Aeldari keyword, which plenty of stuff like stratagems and unit abilities key off of.
The Shadowseer can buff wraiths for instance.
Harequin Troupe got a lot better for Reaper's Wager
@@Noskills no, stratagems keyword off of Asuryani not Aeldari.
well wouldn't you still get the universal strats though?
@@Adamantios-Alian woop dee doo
Auspex… do you really think the army wide battle focus role is pretty powerful? I mean, it really isn’t. I don’t know how you could say it is. They gave a really fragile army small bonuses for moving. I don’t see how that is very powerful. And I used to be a wood elf player so I kinda don’t know what you’re talking about, bro.
Movement wins games in 40k. If you can't figure that out that's on you. The battle focus mechanic is EXTREMELY powerful when mastered.
This codex is going to take more skill to win with than the index.
@ yeah like in general, the entire Codex got hit with the nerf bat pretty heavily. And then with the new rules, you have to get gud to not waste your time setting up your models. I think a lot of content creators are going to be trying to showcase this as a good thing. But it’s not. i’m gonna come back to this comment in about a month or two when the tournament results start getting published and Eldar are at the bottom of that list.
2 and a half hours what the hell? Just wow
Dis!
I know it's Games Workshop but it's a bit of a dirty trick to not have the points available on codex release. Not only that but they clearly printed "fantasy" points to sell more models. Nobody believes Warp Spiders will stay at 85 points. The new Phoenix Lord is going to be more than 120 points given its stat line. It looks like they are trying to trick people into buying the new models to incorporate into their armies before they get completely hosed by a point rug pull. They also did this with Tyranids.
Where you been for 2 editions? Codexes go to print almost 6 months from release. GW updates points every 3.
It would be nice if the points were the points but it's not as if you are waiting 3 months for them to change them.
@@fateweaver9844 Warp Spiders have been 125 points forever. Certainly, longer than 8 months. I just find it odd that it's generally the new release models that are incredibly favorable with respect to points and then almost immediately get changed. Couple of these units are going to bamboozle people when the true points are out.
God, I’ve never been this early
36 Windriders here we come! 🎉
Wraithguard went from LD 6+ to 8+ wtf??
Only if they go too far from a psyker, while they are near one they go back to LD 6+
10th ed continues to be the best edition for playability and core rules and the absolute worst edition for the actual game design and list building. So many terrible pigeon-holes in this codex, so many unnecessary restrictions that don't even help balance but just cuck list building. Harlequin datasheets are great but the fact that they are pretty much locked to the one detachment which then has nothing to help any other craftworld units is cringe. The fact that the bike detachment is pretty much just "THE WINDRIDER DATASHEET DETATCHMENT" is cringe. I really hope everyone is behind codex design in 10th ed finds a new job before 11th ed.
So many comments the same in here. Call the ad mech their bots are loose.
Gw must love aeldari this edition the worst they've had is a 50% win rate and had a high of 87% win rate at the start of the edition. And the most detachments a single army has
face reveal when?
I've played eldar since they could be played and IMO this codex is hot stinking garbage. 4/6 of the strats and 3/4 of the enhancements for every detachment are weak and unimpactful. There are SOO many nerfs it is ridiculous and what few "buffs" there are are just "glow ups" to quote Proxy Hammer (poor guy has the copium delusions somethin fierce). The leadership thing is tragic and insulting, in what world does a human, marine or not, have more mental discipline than an Aeldari. And the points do not reflect this sweeping and punitive change, but the points changes don't reflect any of the brutal and ruinous nerfs featured in this tome of horrors (like war walkers going from 4+ invuln and -1 to be wounded by range to 5+ invuln only, avatar -2T, wraithlord -1T, in a low toughness army the toughest guys all made weaker is a feast of shame). When people actually take the time to count and note all the small, medium and large nerfs they will realize the army was better off without this codex. When you compare the units and their points costs to similar units of other armies the contrast is just plain pathetic. Only in niche circumstances, using the right detachment and the perfect stratagem with a particular unit will anything good ever happen for the Aeldari and there will be no room for error, of course there was never any room for error with the Eldar, but at least the units in and of themselves didn't outright suck. Veteran Harlequin players will see some success as they seem to have avoided most of the mass nerfing and their signature attachment is better than most, although even the masters of the webway have no strat to choose a unit to deepstrike into battle, that is correct the ghosts of the webway cannot even perform a function that has been a faction defining feature for 25+years. And the infamous "uppy downy" mechanic that typifies webway finesse and eldar agility is now the province of marine scouts and necrons but not the swooping hawks (Baharoth's unit still can, but what he had is gone and what the hawks had is now his, while the hawks got nothing), not the rangers even to balance the loss, and no longer the mandrakes for Ynnari. The Ynnari are now the biggest joke in 40k and everyone who began playing them in 8th as I did is now the proud owner of 600-800$ of plastic trash collecting dust. Why ruin the Ynnari? Two easy reasons, 1) Many, and I mean many players will buy into Drukhari to make up for the loss, good ole GW, and 2) Had GW not ruined the Ynnari they would have been the only detachment worth playing from this dumpster fire codex, with the possible exception of Harlies. Ideally an aspect host might do well but the army's points will be eaten up by the overpriced, mostly nerfed to some degree phoenix lords and their pitiful and small array of abilities that in no way compare to say the marine epic heroes for example, with their paragraphs of impactful mechanics and multi leader combos and potentials. Over the years every single forte the Eldar have ever had has been taken away (ranged shooting, deep striking, psychic powers, melee psykers, flyers, mobility), usually to be given to another faction, now that they have nothing left, not even the mental discipline of leadership, GWs only hateful recourse is to water them down into pale shadows of their former glory. Nothing remains but fluffy situational gimmicks that don't even begin to qualify as trickery or shenanigans, in a game entirely dominated by a durability based take and hold table meta. I have no doubt that the Nanavati level players will find a way to win a few games versus the overwhelming force of the dice shitting reroll everything marines, but for most players, when the new codex smell wears off this book, they are in for a rude awakening to the unethical, unprincipled and utterly dishonorable practices of Games Workshop.
YEEEEEEEEEEES
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when are you going to talk about brood brothers and the new guard codex
Are Solitaires count as special characters that you can only have 1 per army? I don't see the point of Harlie detachment other wise.
Yeah, pretty sure you can normally only have one Solitaire or Death Jester.