A teaching level of response.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught....
Oscar Wilde


TKE's last post spoke a bit from the heart, I can almost feel some angst in it as he wrangles the situation. What follows are my views on the level of response and how I handle it watching people play and how I try and assist them.

Heresy Blog Network.

Some of the more observant readers may have noticed some of my compatriots on the blog roll doing posts about this topic (Big Jim's Galaxy in Flames, Commissar Ploss' The Founding Fields, etc) - the Heresy News Network is a blogger group, akin to the FtW group, but different in many ways...essentially, there's no purpose in me blathering on about it, rather than linking to the person who's brainchild the durn thing is!

I'm a fully-signed up member, and would recommend all bloggers to check out this potential behemoth of the blogging scene before it becomes blase to join.  :p

http://www.heresy-online.net/news/the-heresy-blog-network/

That's all for this post.  More Sunday.

Where to start...: Part One - Purchasing power.

A PM, from Heresy Online's Azrael Ironfist:

eldar

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hey i am starting an eldar army and was wondering if i could get some advice.

Well...like the title says.

The first thing that's important is learning what, if anything, you have already bought. Ideally, you haven't bought anything but Fire Dragons, Dire Avengers, Jetbikes or Grav Tanks.

Starting an Eldar army, there are a number of things you just shouldn't bother wasting yuor money on. These are ofc well enough documented, but a summary here hurts no-one.

- Swooping Hawks

- Shining Spears

- Artillery

- Avatar

- Phoenix Lords

- WRAITHGUARD!!!!

- Wraithlords

- Striking Scorpions

- Dark Reapers

- Howling Banshees

- Warp Spiders

- War Walkers

- Guardians

- Rangers

...Now, I know that's a lot, and not everyone will agree. But I don't care. In a nutshell, we've just separated the wheat from the chaff, and left ourselves with the core elements of the Eldar:

Fire Dragons

Wave Serpents

Seer Councils

Eldrad

and the supplementary things good enough to be considered, in some capacity at least. NOTE - Vypers are still in contention. This is primarily for scaling up to larger points when the FoC gets slightly restrictive, but also because they can provide fairly cheap flurries of S6 shots...they are the least viable unit remaining, of course.

On the one hand, starting Eldar can be expensive. The requirement (OUT Blackmoor-philes) for a fully mechanised list pushes the cost up a lot, as does the critical factor of Fire Dragons not being plastic. Converting your own Seer Council is also a tricky and expensive process. Fortunately, I just saved you a lot of money by relegating most of the Codex to the scrapheap.

Setting up a Space Wolves FAQ...

Any questions?

Seriously.

lol

I'm going to do my own, rather than wait 6 months + for GW, or rely on dubious quality from other people. Obviously, I'm going to use my FAQ, but while I don't expect you to necessarily use it, anyone is welcome to do so. Finally, I intend to provide two answers to each question, where applicable - a Strict RaW answer, and a Common Sense answer...if they don't clash, only one will be presented, but quite often they will...you know GW. ;)

You can submit in the usual ways;
PM me on Heresy/Dakka/BoLS Lounge/Rules Lawyers Forum (I don't check ATT, Ammo Bunker, Astro or Warseer enough, tbh.)
Email me: Mindwar_ftw@hotmail.com
Post here.
Pigeon post.

Thanks for your contributions guys!