How to BEAT the Eldar! | 10th Edition | Astra Militarum Tactics! 

The most mind-blowing thing about Aeldari is their “OK I will re-roll that. Oh it failed again? Well I just turn it to six with my magic dices” and you like dude…wtf?

As a guard and eldar collector this is a win win for me😂

just faced an Eldar list on a tournament this weekend! My major mistake was trying to use a Rogal Dorn to go toe-to-toe with an Avatar of Khaine (with a -1 to wound buff from a farseer...) Just force the avatar to deal with 20 man blobs of infantry. It doesn't have enough attacks ;)

The Avatar of Khain has Sustain D3 on its attack. So, in overwatch, they will fate-dice the hit role to a 6. At 12 inches d3+1 hits S14 Ap4 D6+2Dmg this will really ruin your tanks day. Something to keep in mind if you are move blocking, or falling back with Vehicles. Top Anti Eldar tip: the base ballistic skill of Wraithguard is 4 and they often run around with a +1 to hit from a character. I use suppressing fire from my mortars. If you have free CP, you can pop smoke on a tank in their shooting phase, and they will be hitting on 5s (4+1-2) Alternatively, they will make their wraith guard -1 to wound, in which case, you just need suppressing fire to make them hit on 5s. You can also use this trick to mitigate the return fire by hitting them with Infantry in the first in the shooting phase. As your opponent misses all his hit roles, read from the uplifting prior to shatter his moral completely. Top Anti-Eldar Tip 2: You can try to bait out fate dice at the start of the shooting phase by shooting the characters with Larkin and/or Karskin snipers. They will Fate dice to save them. This is a very situational strat, they may also just Phatasm the character or CP reroll. If the Elf across the table lets their character die, remind them that slaneesh will eat their soul. Top Tip 3: Reinforcing with Flamers near their infantry can force their phantasm, this is an important way to apply pressure and stop their phantasm ruining your fun. When you do this, remind your Elf-eared enemy that the guard does not need the witchcraft of farsight to outwit their targets. Top TIP 4: besides fire prisms, their long-range anti-tank is limited to Bright lancers. A rogal dorn in cover will happily tank them if they have a lot of Bright lances, pop smoke. Hitting of 4s, Wounding on 4s, and saving on 4s will leave your pointed-eared opponent very upset.

Remember your training men, the Eldar are deadly!

As an Eldar player, I have a nightmare aganst hordes of infantry. Tanks are easily destroyed, but I never have enough guns/attacks to deal with waves of infantry. Also, we're not that durable.. If you have the ability to trade even at your own detriment eventually you're bound to overwhelm us in the later rounds as we have expensive limited units. Hide as much as you can from bright lances, destroying those vehicles with indirect fire. Good luck Mon-keighs.

Always take 3 Hydras vs Eldar, as almost all of their best units can fly, including the Yncarne. Also Ursula Creed and autocannon against Wraithguard.

Suffer not the Xenos to live!! For the Emperor!!!

This is such a good series idea!

I won’t lie, as an Emperor’s man, I have always loved to hate the Eldar. It makes it fluffy and crunchy both when you get the upper hand on em, it even makes the toilet dice saga a weirdly on brand Eldar thing to do. I think it’s almost ok for factions to all have their own unique brands of bullshittery, but some parity would be nice. Like you’ll sell more models for more factions if more of them are… well, viable. Radical notion. Also, love this format, have almost finished my force (have a land raider and a handful of characters to go) and I’m psyched to face the Xenos. -.- Edit: Also, the notion of a Know Your Foe series is fantastic. Especially as you yourself can add so much perspective with even admittedly anecdotal experience but it’s not irrelevant data at all.

Loved seeing this video! Very constructive advice without the BS or over complaining/ whining about Eldar I hear from other people creating 40K content. Excellent work!

This is exactly what I needed to get better at warhammer 😊. Thanks mordian, looking forward to this series

Good idea for a series :)

Fluff wise I can't help but think that Wyverns are the bane of Eldar. They are a mobile indirect fire vehicle with its own auspex scanner and which fires automatic vollies of mortar bombs. Against things like light skimmers and troops its basically death on tracks.

Very useful. Love to see this series continue on to a more factions.

great series idea, much needed.

You said the world Eldar. THAT'S GOING IN THE BOOK!!!!

Commander, I've been waiting for this kind of debrief.

Excellent video and series idea!

I played my first two games of 10th against an eldar player, lost first in turn 3 and drew second as store was closing (End of round 2). Really focused my mind to improve my play. He'd played Eldar forever and I was kinda happy his army has its time to shine. They do need hitting with the nerf hammer though lol

as a relativly new guard player i must say you videos really helped me thanks

Looking forward to this new series. Can't wait to see the World eaters one

Fantastic content my friend!

Things to watch out for about the yncarne: if it charges a unit with a character, he can spend cp for precision, kill the character and teleport out the combat(because the teleport rule says out of engaegement range) and with you wont be able to strike it back...

Good segment idea. I don't get to play often so I know my friends factions and the bones of others but I want to do tournaments soon because I really only know how to play against guard, SM a little necrons and tyranids

6:40 After the January dataslate, this no longer is the case. Anyone referring to this video (good idea) should also look into the dataslate changes to Eldar (also a good idea, one good turn deserves another.)

I love this ! ❤

But MG, my uplifting primer told me that the faithless eldar are slow, stupid, hardly more than target practice.

cant wait to see the custodes video

How to beat them? He human. Have faith in the Emperor.

Im super new to warhammer, and guard is my first and only army. Is it "normal" to feel disillusionment? Like it feels like every other army has all sorts of tricks and gimmicks or flavor, but we are fairly plain. Orders are cool, but thats our only flavor it feels. I love the lore of our guard but damn does it feel bad sometimes when it feels like everyone else has something cooler.

Please god, do a know-thy-foe for CSM. They are awful to play against and my meta is full of em. Weirdly I also struggle against Death Guard with their -toughness +ap etc etc shenanigens. Not nearly as tough as CSM though. forgefiends blast my tanks and their regenerating melee fellas feel a bit impossible to deal with

a natural choice for a series, but show us more enemy stats :P

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Mordian do some videos for Space Marine players

FIX BAYONETS!!

Nice, ☝🏻😄👍🏻

Strategy for playing against Orks?

You cant beat us boyos!

Very surprised you haven't run into any Nightspinners, they are in almost every top table list atm. At the recent World Championship in the US held by GW there were dozens of Eldar lists and most of them ran triple Nightspinners. Basically it's Eldar indirect at 48" D6+3 S7, AP0 and 2 dmg hitting on a 3+ with a similar effect to the Basilisk, causing -2 to movement . Except you don't get to advance once hit, at all. On top of that it has Blast and Dev Wounds with Twin Linked. So your pricey Exalted Eightbound or Meganobz are -2 to move, can't advance, getting Dev Wounded (with rerolls) to death and also can never hide. Its not that expensive at 180, so why not take three. It murders guardsmen with its Blast keyword, can fish for dev wounds on tanks via twin linked and it hides out of line of sight so can't be shot back. Its only T9 so I guess you take manticores and win the artillery duel? Or tag it with Gaunts Ghosts/scions/callidus via backfield deepstrike. It's not unbeatable for some armies, like Chaos with the Mark of Nurgle strat but it definitely needs nerfed. Also when the Yncarne teleports to a dying unit, for some reason GW decided it doesn't count as a Normal move. So it can teleport across the entire board, then move its 10", and then guarantee a charge (with Fate Dice). Enjoy.

Hadn't played for two editions.... When did Striking Scorpions get so OP? Banshees? Yeah they hit hard but can deal with. Shining Spears, Fuck they hit Hard, but can still deal with... Striking Scorpions though are Horrific. Have yet to see them Not make their points back. (And usually, they are the MVP)

Imperial Guard are probably one of the least effective armies against Eldar. First turn all the guard vehicles and characters are dead from rangers and Fire prisms. From there it is just mopping up (an Eldar and guard player)

First?