I'm A bit surprised to see no transports, as elder vehicles are super versatile as they have the fly-keyword, so can retreat from combat and still shoot. A great way to soak up overwatch and tie up enemy shooting units/ vehicles so they cannot shoot.
Sure, but I can take unit decent sized scorpions unit for the cost of that transport. For me overwatch against scorpions is about 60% chance of nothing happening, go the extra unit is very handy
The units I'm taking now longer need transports because of some of the changes to the rules. For example Turn 1 deepstrikes or the fact I'm most likely going second (most enemies will move toward me in their turn), so I'm planning on going 2nd, not very fluffy for an Eldar army I know
From my perspective as CWE I will only take a transport if I need to send heavy hitters like FD or wraithguard into the back line. There are some rather interesting cases for Ynnari and transports now thanks to Ynnead's Will though and of course DE and transports is now scary as I found out the hard way.
Went up against a 1500 point DE list, which had 6 raiders and 1 venom. The net effect is very fast units that put out a lot of shots, spreads out anti-tank weapons. While the Raiders are killable, they still can soak up a considerable amount of fire and unlike a lot of other transports can actually be handy in CC. Opened topped is just boss.
DE are now, surprising resilient, and power from pain is amazing. If you go up against them, playing defensively against them is rather risky as they just keep getting better.
Hemlock's are sooo good at soaking up fire and still dish out a good amount of damage, they don't out right kill things, but they do a fair wack so another unit could finish them off. Highly recommend them.
For the record it was still a close game, but the DE won from victory points. Xenos vs Xenos as I suspected is really enjoyable, great fun.
The new rules have some very, very odd wordings, such as the rules for shooting ranges only requiring 1 model to be in range, I would expect to see an FAQ soon as it is easy to abuse, think Horde conga lines lol.
Make use of you full charge distance against transports and remember the consolidation move, you can effectively lock some of them in close combat or simply prevent over from being able to disembark...
Illic died first turn, since the anti-tank in the DE for was so dispersed, some of it went his way.. he got vaporised. So yeah I think the Autarch on skyrunner would have been a better option.
Archons are crazy good for their points, no more instant death, so they can take a pounding.
All in all, I'd say its not a bad list, one that I'm likely to run again with the Autarch.
