Monday 30 March 2015

PeteB's new nu-Eldar

If you've been following the blog for any length of time you may recall long time gaming buddy PeteB is a bit of a 'faction' butterfly. I think since I first met him he may well have gone through 7 or 8 armies to my one! After Blog Wars 8 he went and offloaded his Space Wolves and had been hobby sober up until my birthday when, having witnessed the crazy antics of my 40k @ 40 bash, promptly fell off the wagon and jumped headfirst back in to his first love - Eldar.

Given, how my own progress is a little slow I asked him where he was at, because he paints like a fiend and manages to achieve really good results in such a short time. So he sent me though a bundle of pictures with a little bit of text to explain his colour scheme and is army list, which is frankly filthy and I'm sure I'll not look forward to facing it in the future ;)  Anyway, there's loads of pics with a bit of text so I'll hand you over to PeteB hisself:

 Eldar (again!!!)
Colour scheme, same as space wolves (ish)

Guns and helmets sprayed with humbrol matt undercoat (no 34), rest of models undercoated with the fang, then drybrushed with russ grey, then drybrushed with fenrisium grey. Final highlight with etherium blue.









 


Fire prism has magnetised turret








Wave serpents have magnetised turret.




Wraithknight arms magnetised for transport.
Suncannon/sword wraithknight has magnetised shoulder weapon mounts, and magnetised r arm to swap weapons.


















    

    


List for blog wars should be

Illic Nightspear
Fire dragons (5)
Fire dragons (5)
Dire avengers (5)
Dire avengers (5)
Rangers, either 1 squad of 10 or 2 squads of 5
Wraithknight with suncannon / scattershield
Wraithknight with heavy wraithcannon
Fire prism
4 wave serpents for dragons and avengers
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18 comments:

  1. WandererWandering31 March 2015 at 11:42

    Blue fire warriors? Interesting colour for them, I am thinking a cool gas flame to make it work :-)

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  2. Mike (Didcot Wargames Club)31 March 2015 at 15:45

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  3. Mike (Didcot Wargames Club)31 March 2015 at 15:46

    I thought blog wars was supposed to be a friendly event with friendly lists? Two wraithknights and four wave serpents doesn't seem too friendly.
    Other than that, the army looks really nice. I like the colour scheme a lot.

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    1. greggles31 March 2015 at 16:54

      Based on previous years, I'd call it similar to other friendly events. You'll still face hard battles, but it won't be min-maxed to wipe people out like in a GT.

      2 WK and 4 WS is a friendly list! (compared to a GT).

      That being said, with eldar being up next in the codex revamps, the WS's might not be so scary much longer.

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    2. Mike (Didcot Wargames Club)31 March 2015 at 17:41

      We can only hope. Wave serpents are annoying, but manageable with my marines. Against my guard or orks however, they are an absolute nightmare.

      Actually, the worst unit to play against with guard or orks is swooping hawks, they don't seem to get much play, but are absolutely devastating against horde armies.

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    3. greggles31 March 2015 at 17:45

      Green tide at adepticon was...
      fearless
      mix of 5++, 4+, and FNP
      and the entire mob was covered by a void shield.

      So you can get around that type of stuff.

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    4. Bluewarp Studios31 March 2015 at 18:16

      That's an evil list (says he who has 3 Riptides in his Army) and I would not like to fight that list, sorry Pete but no thanks..... Excuse me I play him all the time, can I swap with someone else please :)

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    5. 40kaddict1 April 2015 at 20:21

      I think the inspiration for the list came from just seeing what happened at my birthday and rekindled Pete's love of the space pixie. It's the list he wants to play, it just so happens it'll be what he takes to BW9. It might not be quite the fluffy list soem folk can muster but starting from scratch again doesn't always provide a lot of options.

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  4. Unknown31 March 2015 at 21:50

    Wraithknights are easily countered by small gribblies that are fearless. Markerlights strip cover. It's not a hard army to counter if you get your target priorities sorted. Hive guard with homing spears ignore cover. Wave serpents ignore cover, the list goes on.

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    1. 40kaddict1 April 2015 at 20:23

      Ha, ha, Hive Guard! As much as I love them and their ignore cover, the fact they can no longer shoot straight coupled with the ammunition having the armour penetration of spaghetti they're sometimes neither use nor ornament. The fearless horde of gribblies is good though, how about poisoned gribblies too!

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  5. Unknown31 March 2015 at 21:51

    And I agree, hawks are superb against hordes, especially landing next to aegis guns and robbing them!!!!

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  6. Unknown31 March 2015 at 21:52

    I could chuck in a couple of buff seers casting invisibility.......

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  8. Unknown31 March 2015 at 22:08

    And I agree, hawks are superb against hordes, especially landing next to aegis guns and robbing them!!!!

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    1. Mike (Didcot Wargames Club)1 April 2015 at 09:55

      Especially if you get a really nasty Eldar player and it is impossible to harm them unless you have interceptor.

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  9. Unknown31 March 2015 at 22:18

    Wraithknights are easily countered by small gribblies that are fearless. Markerlights strip cover. It's not a hard army to counter if you get your target priorities sorted. Hive guard with homing spears ignore cover. Wave serpents ignore cover, the list goes on.

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  10. Unknown4 April 2015 at 15:48

    Pah two games and I've wupped those Space pixies each time bring on a harder list please Pete ur just not trying 😁😄

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  11. Unknown4 April 2015 at 15:48

    Pah two games and I've wupped those Space pixies each time bring on a harder list please Pete ur just not trying 😁😄

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