Eldar Thread - Epic Legions

At the moment the tenative buildtree is all I have completed for you to work with when you can. I will be, of course, modifying and expanding it later, as well as fleshing out ingame text for the race and adding the upper tier units such as Vehicles and Harelquins.

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Basic Eldar Tech Tree

Farseer or Avatar for the Commander unit? The Avatar is suitably powerful, but the Farseer makes more sense in conjunction with the ability to construct structures and units, through use of the Warp.

Anyway, after the Commanding unit we would have...

>Storm Guardians
>Guardian Defenders
>Standard - Building
>Warpgate Portal – Building
>(Other Resource Structures, Basic L1 Structures)

The Warpgate Portal would have the ability to construct
>Warlocks
>Rangers
>Storm Guardians
>Guardian Defenders
>Jetbike Guardians
>Crafter – Constructor

The Crafter, or whatever, should have a better name... anyway, it would construct tech 1 structures and buildings that allow tech 2... so, possibly these?
>Warpgate Portal – Building
>Standard – Building
>Greater Warpgate – Building
>Direct Warpgate Portal - Building
>(Other Resource Structures, Basic L1 Structures, Specialized L1 Structures)
>(A Few Vehicles)

The Greater Warpgate would construct vehicles and transports.

The Direct Warpgate Portal would construct the elite infantry...
>Striking Scorpions
>Warp Spiders
>Howling Banshees
>Fire Dragons
>Wraithguard
>Swooping Hawks – Require Jump-jet ability

Possibly Exarchs as well...

Eldar Balance

Individual Eldar should cost more, move faster and deal more damage or have more range than their Space Marine or Chaos Space Marine counterparts, with slightly less durability in the form of weaker hit point and armour totals. The vehicles should be similarly light, fast and suited in general for raiding.

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Anyway, I would suggest getting a Farseer done for a commanding unit, just so you have a starting ground. After looking over what I wrote, that does make the most sense as a commanding unit... though the Avatar would be something that you could better explain not replacing.

The Avatar would be more like a super-unit, rather than a leader. Farseer for the starting bloke

And we may as well call the 'Crafters' Bonesingers, as they seem to be in canon now...

Makes perfect sense. I haven't seen the newest codex, myself.