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Hey all! Through a production error I found myself with two copies of the Corsairs combat patrol and I'm struggling to figure out what to do with the second Kharseth. My experience is that anyone near me interested in corsairs has already bought one of the combo boxes containing them and online info on what to do with multiples seems sparse since they're a new unit. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Also here's my first one painted.

Very fun game! Tried a bunch of 11th edition rules revealed so far - love the upcoming edition!

These were the lists https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldar/comments/1tj25vp/bringing_the_big_boy_to_the_game_today_will_try/

Didn‘t take a picture of the Wraithknight in action since he was hiding behind buildings for most of the game providing his OC10 to hold an objective.

By the end of the game only had half a unit of Rangers and 2 Warlock Skyrunners left, while the opponent still had 4 tanks and 3 units of dudes.

Still Eldar valiantly sacrificed themselves for move blocks (you can still move block tanks in 11th) and denials, and secured a win by exactly 1VP! Lots of fun!

Progressing on the guardian squad... I'd love some feedback if you see anything you think could be improved!

I've seen this idea suggested more than a few times, so I though folks might want to know that way back in 1999 players were already crafting ideas for an Avatar of Cegorach.

For those not deep into oldhammer, Inquisitor Magazine was a 40K letters forum published by Tim DuPertuis of Armorcast (a precursor to Forge World) whose readership included Games Workshop employes, and served as an official FAQ for 2nd Edition (and early 3rd), with answers by Andy Chambers.

While the fan-submitted content (including the Avatar) was never GW-official, you would be well within your rights to ask your playgroup if it was okay to bring to a table in the same way one might with its in-house successors The Citadel Journal or Fanatic Magazine.

I personally love the idea of Cegorach disguising himself among the Harlequins only to do a grand reveal partway into the battle.

So the wave serpent is the one model in the eldar range I don’t really mess with. And on top of it of course it has weird dimensions in terms of a proxy. So I was thinking of getting this as at the bottom it says “90mm oval”. Would something on that size of a base be a good representation for a wave serpent? Or is this not the move?

Im painting my War Spiders and I wanted them to be camouflaged as they teleport into battle from the warp, so I picked a purple/black paint scheme.

However I think maybe it's too much of the same colour and perhaps they need more contrast of some kind. Opinions?

I've also only just got back into painting so any advice/mistakes you see please feel free to point out :)

Looking forward to the game!

My list: Aeldari - Spirit Conclave (2000pts)

• Avatar (280pts)
• Spiritseer (65pts): Warlord
• Spiritseer (95pts): Light of Clarity
• 5x Wraithblades (150pts): Ghostswords
• 5x Wraithblades (150pts): Ghostaxes & Shields
• 5x Wraithguard (160pts): D-scythes
• 5x Wraithguard (160pts): D-scythes
• 5x Rangers (55pts)
• 5x Rangers (55pts)
• Warlock Skyrunner (45pts): Singing Spear
• Warlock Skyrunner (45pts): Singing Spear
• Warlock Skyrunner (45pts): Singing Spear
• Wraithknight (435pts): Starcannons, Suncannon & Shield
• Wraithlord (130pts): Bright Lances & Flamers
• Wraithlord (130pts): Bright Lances & Flamers

VS: Chaos Space Marines - Pactbound Zealots (2000pts)

• Cypher (90pts)
• Huron Blackheart (120pts)
• 5x Masters of the Maelstrom (115pts)
• Chaos Lord (105pts): Warlord
• 10x Cultist Mob (50pts): Mark of Chaos: Chaos Undivided
• 5x Legionaries (90pts): Mark of Chaos: Mark of Slaanesh
• 5x Legionaries (90pts): Mark of Chaos: Mark of Slaanesh
• 5x Chosen (125pts)
• 2x Obliterators (160pts)
• 5x Possessed (120pts)
• 3x Chaos Bikers (70pts)
• 3x Chaos Bikers (70pts)
• Chaos Predator Destructor (140pts)
• Chaos Predator Destructor (140pts)
• Chaos Predator Destructor (140pts)
• Chaos Vindicator (185pts)
• Chaos Rhino (75pts)
• Chaos Rhino (75pts)
• 3x Nurglings (40pts)

I bought my first Troupe box the other day and discovered it's not that hard to chop the top of the Troupe Master's Shuriken Pistol off and replace it with the top of a Fire Dragon Exarch's Fusion Pistol. Just cut around the hand and glue the trigger guard back in the right spot and it looks nearly seamless.

If you've got spare Fire Dragon bits, its a really easy way to get that 3rd Fusion Pistol for the Troupe kit.

On my binge-paint Eldrads been done. Still terrified of putting the decals on his cloak in case they get placed wrong

A pair of Fire Prisms. The completed one, Addaioth's Gaze, and the incomplete, Illurien's Lance.

Im contemplating magnetised the second so I can use it as a Night Spinner, should they prove useful in the coming edition.

But mainly I imagine they're gonna be prisming things in the main.

I am contemplating lightning effects on the gems but I need to practice before making a serious attempt.

My first miniature

(I am a dumbass)

Color recommendations?

Finished up this wraithlord. Bit of a sword conversion, since I had an extra avatar blade kicking around.

Finally finished this absolute unit 😄 Thanks to whoever it was that suggest I run her as an avatar of khaine instead of a wave serpent - on reflection it makes so much more sense, and even inspired a bit of extra lore to boot!

And now, some guff:

For the Exodites of Nythrheim, ongoing survival is a challenge even by Aeldari standards. Nudged from its orbit by an ancient calamity, the once verdant maiden world is now a frozen waste of blizzard-swept tundra and jagged black glaciers, the perils of which only the hardiest lifeforms can hope to endure.

The great owlbears of Nythrheim are one such threat, albeit a mercifully rare one. Leviathans of fur, feather and a seemingly limitless instinct for aggression, these creatures are regarded as quasi-mythic beings by those exiled clans brave enough to call the icy plains and crystalline forests home. Indeed, many regard them to be no mere beasts but avatars of Kamus herself - living, murderous manifestations of the world spirit made flesh. As such, the owlbear is spoken of in hushed, reverential tones when it is spoken of at all.

All life native to a maiden world typically shares to some degree a psychic connection instilled by the network of psychoactive crystals that lattice the planet's crust, and Nythrheim is no exception. But while this feature often facilitates a deep empathic bond between the Exodite clans and their chosen mounts, the owlbear is uniquely resistant to any such attempts at mental unity. It is a fiercely intelligent and ferociously solitary animal, and many a would-be beastmaster struck by the foolhardy notion to pacify an owlbear through strength of will alone has met with an unpleasant end, their minds ripped apart by the creature's violent capacity for psychic resistance just as their bodies are rent to pieces by its razor sharp talons. 

Union is not completely impossible, however. For those intrepid - or stupid - enough to dare, an owlbear can occasionally be temporarily brought to heel, although the process is an exhausting one. It can take weeks to hunt an owlbear to exhaustion, wearing its resilience down with javelins infused with psychoactive crystal that gradually dull the beast's cognition until an exodite can get close enough to finally mount and bind it with a collar of runestones that allow the captor to exert some small measure of control.

Goaded into battle, an owlbear is a terrifying opponent capable of tossing tanks aside with ease and reducing entire squads of armoured infantry to  little more than a gory smear on the tundra. Exodites that march to war beside such a beast are suffused with a ferocity to match it, believing themselves to be in the presence of a living god.