More Ways To Get Started As Eldar For Warhammer 40,000
June 18, 2016 by brennon
Games Workshop have two new sets up for grabs when it comes to the future of Warhammer 40,000. You can now delve into playing as the Eldar and the Dark Eldar with these two sets that give you the basics for the game.
Inside the Dark Eldar set you get a set of Kabalite Warriors, Dark Eldar Reaver Jetbikes, an Archon to lead them and floating in the background a Raider. This is a good way to get started with these folk as you have some good foot troops and a big heavy piece of kit in the background for floating them around in.
The Eldar get a decidedly slimmer package but I guess you'd say its more elite?
Within this set you have a full on Fire Prism for blasting your foes into pieces as well as the Windrider Jetbikes and finally a Farseer Skyrunner. I think that this might take a bit of a beating when paired up against some of the other boxes but I suppose they've potentially balanced it in some way.
If you have a knowledge of Warhammer 40,000 I'd love to know what you think of this as away to get started.
Which set would you choose?
"The Eldar get a decidedly slimmer package but I guess you'd say its more elite?"
I have always liked the look of the Dark Eldar but still not enough to get into 40K
Dark Elder one seems better of those two boxes.
Sorry, Dark Eldar, not Dark Elder.
Dark Eldar one looks really good for the cost. Craftworld one not so much. Probably still good value compared to buying individually but not many models in the box.
always thought they were two of the best looking of the gw 40k armies.
looking forward to what forge world does with them when they make their heresy debut.
but they will have to be cheap as those raging heroes void elves are some hot completion.
Heresy debut? Did the eldar and their angry variant play a part in the HH?
Dark Eldar didn’t exist in 30k, they came later on. Eldar could be used in 30k.
Not entirely accurate, the fall occurred prior to the start of the great crusade, it was the birth of Slaanesh that calmed the warp and cleared the warpstorms isolating the Terra that was the go for launching the crusade an event the Emperor was prepared to move on. One of the Horus Heresy short stories has a Space Wolfgreat company fighting ‘proto’ dark elder, they may not have been today Dark Eldar but they are clearly the origin.
These two boxes side by side clearly demonstrates how stupid GW pricing can be .. for a new player it will just look like the eldar box is missing 10 infantry.
Agreed. Still, if they can grab a brain and get that sorted, this is the way ahead if GW wants to attract new blood. The models are still expensive, but cheaper than buying the stuff separately. as @rasmus said, this is still not enough to get me into 40k.
Yeah if they could get that fail sorted sometime soon it would be a definate step fwd. Ive played a few games of 7th edition with some old tau i found and let me tell you … pricing is easily overshadowed by the bloated nonsense ruleset :p its complete random crap, and thats putting it mildly.
Yup… glad you said that @hatamoto 😉
Though the models tempt me every now and then, I’ll never return to 40k… Unless it gets the Age of Sigmar treatment
That has to be the first time I have seen someone asking a game to get AoS’d.
I agree it needs a complete rules review but I don’t think AoS is the route. I think they need to decide what type of game thye want first and maybe 8th ed is 3 different games with shared models not 1.
Deffo grabbing some Dark Eldar, lovely looking models. Box seems like good value for £38.
Wouldn’t fancy it for £50 though.
Dark Eldar is the more tempting for me, added to what I have would get close to a nice rounded force.