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 Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:10 am
alucard no life king thank you at the moment im useing burst and the missle pod with mulit it seems to work well agenst most of the people i have been playing but a new player now uses elder and thats now the problem i have never faced anther shooting army Remember, Eldar DO NOT stay still, their CC units (SS or HB) will cut your Kroot to pieces. Get a Hammer head, and use the blast fire for the rail gun.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:54 am
Also take into account, Eldar are one of the few armies that can out-shoot you as well. Between War Walkers, Dire Avengers (the bladestorm ability can punch out massive amounts of fire right before crashing into an assault), Fire Dragons, and a half-dozen other gun-heavy units, they can really tear you up from the mid-range. As best you can, keep a deadzone between you and the Eldar where you have range and they do not (which is hard, especially considering their speed).
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:21 pm
i found that out the hard way last night i set up my normal fire line but he was able to hit my sides befor they were up i can not think of a way to outdo there massive speed
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:01 pm
alucard no life king thank you at the moment im useing burst and the missle pod with mulit it seems to work well agenst most of the people i have been playing but a new player now uses elder and thats now the problem i have never faced anther shooting army one word "Railguns" your broadsides have em, and your hammerheads have em. use em, they hit hard, target the most threatening units while your crisis suits deal with infantry. i personally have never used the Skyray, but have heard good things about it when teamed up with a stealth unit, or a pathfinders team.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:19 am
at the moment the railguns saved me but he is geting smart fast he targets my hammer heads right off the start now its rather intesting style of play he uses its a risk but if it works out right he does massive damge but on the other hand if he messes up for just a single turn he riskes his army
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:10 pm
heres a possibility if your willing to try it... swap out your hammerhead gun for something else... to make it less intimidating. get more broadsides, give them shield drones... MIGHT be a better plan then what you have now.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:16 pm
allright i have meany ways to swap
i have 3 hammer heads
6 sets of broadsides
a skyray
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:31 pm
uhm, last thing i can suggest... i know next to nothing about eldar, but what i do know is, i think, they can out-shoot tau. so, my last suggestion being, get a couple high strength AP guns on crisis suits. probably plasma rifle, twinlinked if needed. jump them in to attack the units that will screw you up most. allow your broadsides to assist them.
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:07 pm
thank ya so far its still hard to play agenst him but thos broadsides keep him runing into my traps
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:48 am
lol
thats awesome
are the shield drones helping?
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:36 am
yes aha they saved me a number of times that and this kid has really bad luck with rolls wich has allso been keeping me alive ((his warps missed there target and landed in a pit of my troops))
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:02 am
Is an ethereal worth the risk? you know the price of failure? it seems really bad. and with the lose of just one guy my whole army can crumble?
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:43 am
Keep him at the back, with a body guard of Fire Warriors, and there.
Give him the Power Weapons if need be.
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:34 pm
Well, I'm afraid unit with ethereal will be a fire magnet no1...
Eldar maneuvrability is hard to counter for Tau as they usually rely on mobile firepower to form moving firebase, capable of retreating from closing enemy intent of hack/slash. Kroot are dead meat if plasma grenades equipped melee Eldar elites get them, cover or not.
My ideas?
1. Hammerhead submunitions kills eldar very DEAD. Especially with pathfinder squad to reduce cover and/or help hitting. And it can be switched to solid slug for tank hunting.
2. Alpha strike with skyray firing off all of its missiles can be deadly vs war walkers or wraithlords. Needs pathfinders to be done, too.
3. Tau are vulnerable to psykers without any dispelling ability like Imperials psychic hoods. Doomed Fire Warriors are usually exactly that. If possible hunt down Farseer, deepstriking suicide single crisis can do that if Eldar exposes himself, and SMS can do the same under certain conditions.
4. KILL Dire Avengers. 60 of them can unleash a salvo of 180 shuriken with 2/9 kill probability vs fire warriors, cover or not. Thats 40 dead FW!
5. SMS is great as it allows your units to engage enemy without him returning firepower. Use it to full effect!
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:37 am
wow thanks for the help I have an etheral with an honour blade, a Commander battlesuit, an XV8 battlesuit, 9 firewarriors, 8 kroot, a hammerhead tank, ((don't ask why I have such small # of troops. the others were horribly botched and unfit for service ... it made me sad sad but I can use them
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