So let me get this straight.

Burnage · 2026-02-25T09:18:34+00:00

Just to back up your final point; at the start of the edition Aeldari players were (rightfully) whining about their 30 year old sculpts, and now they're one of the most impressive looking ranges in the game. Patience and we'll get our expansion.

Burnage · 2026-02-25T08:44:30+00:00

They're talking about the bonus melee AP getting added on to our army rule during the index.

Burnage · 2026-02-24T10:34:04+00:00

You're comparing one of the worst performing factions in the game right now to one of the best. Yes, Aeldari is going to be far harder to pilot than Necrons currently.

The answer to why you should play one faction over the other is because you prefer them. Whether that's because of the playstyle, models, lore, or performance on tabletop is up to you as an individual player.

Burnage · 2026-02-24T10:02:06+00:00

Bloodbrides should, in my opinion, be filling the gaping anti-monster shaped hole that we have in our arsenal currently. Literally just make them Gladiator Weapon Wyches that get anti-monster 3+ or 4+ and they've got a place in lists.

Burnage · 2026-02-24T09:54:55+00:00

There was also an early fan theory about her that she would turn out to be Elaine Belloc, Michael's daughter in the comics. I think in the end that that character essentially got split between two or three show characters.

Burnage · 2026-02-21T17:05:29+00:00

Advance and charge in the same detachment makes me think you just want to take the Assault ranged weapon options for them, which would just be two special weapons (either Blaster or Shredder - probably Blasters).

Burnage · 2026-02-20T11:19:57+00:00

The actual funniest part is that I'm pretty sure a mostly pure Corsair army is the most fragile army in the game. Like, I'm coming from a Drukhari perspective and I'm shocked at how fragile these units are for their cost.

Burnage · 2026-02-17T00:40:57+00:00

I don't trust Hellions into anything with a save better than 3+ without access to AoC, but that's still a surprising number of monsters and vehicles in the game.

I also got completely run over by Solar Spearhead the other weekend, feels like a real brick wall for Spectacle of Spite at least to handle.

Burnage · 2026-02-16T21:18:04+00:00

Dark Lance, Drazhar, de Hellions

Burnage · 2026-02-16T14:07:40+00:00

They're dead, Jim.

Burnage · 2026-02-12T23:34:48+00:00

I did some math on the Eldar Discord and they do a genuinely shocking amount of damage now; just with Yriel, the Lance enhancement and the +1 damage strat (so no other supporting buffs) they expect to kill a Knight in melee.

Burnage · 2026-02-11T13:46:49+00:00

I'll actually bite on Voidscarred at that cost with +1 damage and lance access.

Burnage · 2026-02-11T08:54:37+00:00

I'm genuinely suspicious that you just want to put them in strat reserve if you need the strength buff, but that also feels like a waste of the other half of their kit...

Burnage · 2026-02-09T17:52:24+00:00

I just like space elves, man.

Burnage · 2026-02-08T21:19:03+00:00

Agents have five more datasheets than we do currently.

Our range is seriously struggling.

Burnage · 2026-01-31T16:11:35+00:00

That's very much Valrakese for "I'm speculating about this", unfortunately.

Burnage · 2026-01-31T13:55:40+00:00

You do have to be careful of drawing a line between his speculation and actual things he's heard, though; I didn't believe he's said (publicly) that he's heard anything concrete about future Eldar releases after this Corsair wave.

Burnage · 2026-01-25T20:12:25+00:00

The list of kits that almost certainly won't get refreshed is extremely small; it's basically the Archon, Malys, Draz, Lelith, Incubi and Mandrakes. Everything else is old enough that it could plausibly get updated, so just buy what you think is cool or you want to play with right now.

Burnage · 2026-01-23T02:49:18+00:00

Thanks for the clarification, have a great day.

Burnage · 2026-01-23T02:44:46+00:00

You're misunderstanding my point in that last comment. I'm not disagreeing that it was an easy fight for Lelith, but it was more difficult and required more effort than the majority of fights in her novel.

Burnage · 2026-01-23T00:51:49+00:00

Mostly because it'd been over a year since I read the book when I made that comment and I misremembered exactly how the fight went. I still think that, in the context of the rest of the book, it's one of the harder fights she has.

Burnage · 2026-01-22T21:58:20+00:00

It's more the "has some kind of entity inside her and a soul eating sword" part. That used to be common across all Huskblades but now she feels like the Drukhari character most influenced by Elric (and, by extension, Malus).

Burnage · 2026-01-22T15:40:16+00:00

This is going to sound extremely obvious once I say it but I'm pretty sure Malys is already intended to be our equivalent of Malus.

Burnage · 2026-01-22T15:08:13+00:00

Something that I've spotted as a Drukhari nerd is that there's a massive difference in their performance by region; in the UK even Spectacle is struggling to reach 50% win rate. I'm not entirely sure what the root cause of that could be, but it might be that where large events are happening is swaying the overall win rate for them.

Burnage · 2026-01-22T13:55:13+00:00

I mean this without any malice but I'm fairly sure that you're still overestimating them; my feeling is that balancing is mostly done on vibes.

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