Craftworld Eldar

Eldar were my first army. Before Space wolves, before Dwarves, before any other I bought Eldar. Back then Autarchs didn't exist, wave serpents hand to be modified from a falcon and wraithlords were a very heavy, awkward looking metal figurine.

I'm fairly certain my first model was a box of guardians.  Now seen as a great troop choice with improved statlines and better shuriken performance, their original quality left something to desire, and as troop choices they were mandatory. I remember reading a white dwarf with Phil Kelly's Ulthwé against chaos space marines.  Small guardian squads with starcannons can be the bane of marines, and so I followed the example with my troops.

Around the same time the expansion for craftsworld eldar came out. I think I love all 5 craftsworld in their own way, Alatoic ranger army has such an appeal, both visually and the idea of pinning whole sections of your opponents army due to the vast number of snipers. Iyanden, with the new models could be amazing, but back then I didn't want an army of the dead made exclusively out of heavy metal figurines. Saim-hann could be fantastic, but until they update the jetbike model a little I can't see me every going down that path.  Ulthwé. Army of psychers and guardians. Nowadays it has huge appeal, but I always worried about the glass cannon nature of a heavy psychic force with guardians who at the time where pretty poor to average. So Biel-Tan was left. I could care less for white and green armour. But an army of specialist aspect warriors, able to be fielded as troop choices. (Which you could do back then).

Since then it has changed a little, and I'm no longer able to field them as troops (though the potential Biel -Tan craftworlds  supplement may amend this). instead a balanced army featuring as many aspect warriors as I can, supported by some guardians, falcons and a small farseer+warlock combi/avatar for HQ support represents the bulk of my forces.

The vast majority of my army needs repainting, or at the vary least some touching up. As the blog goes along I'll hopefully post up updated photos of my squads or models.