Comments on: Wraithlords

By: Meetha

Meetha — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:28:21 +0000

did you not realise? im not an eldar player, but blackhat said that theyre 75 points not tooled up.
that is only around 5 marines. id take a wraithlord over 5 marines any day. ‘wasted alot of points?’
please. go play some games first then come back and talk.

By: Meetha

Meetha — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:28:00 +0000

By: Da Gargoyle

Da Gargoyle — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:56:14 +0000

You are right about tying up a Wraithlord up in combat if he gets assaulted by a big mob of orks or nids on his own. The trick there is to use the flamers, that thins the ranks down on such creatures quite well. Also as I mentioned, a support squad of storm guardians set to counter assault changes the odds quite a bit. Also, if I am facing nids, orks or guard then a scatter laser or missile launcher on the Wraithlord also cuts down the infantry hoards.

In terms of other assault units, I have a squad of up to 12 Banshees which I use on terminator squads or Marine squads that I have thinned down with Reapers.

For heavy armour threat, I have a wave serpent, falcon and firedragons. Also my autarch is armed with a fusion gun and don’t underestimate the damage to vehicles a singing spear can do. I took out a hammer head with a warlocks witch blade because the guy did not percieve a Guardian squad as a threat.

By: Parckie

Parckie — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:12:36 +0000

I really dont see why you wouldn’t put a bright lance and a star cannon or 2 of one or the other on your wraith lord.

With a weapon skill of 4 I dont see how its not a weapon platform.

I use my wraithlord pretty much as a shooting tank. It does its job and blows up stuff wile taking alot of fire AWAY from my actual tanks and skimmers.

I really dont like the strat of using a wraithlord soly as a hand to hand combat unit. If your eldar and your dumb enough to play hand to hand I hope you have 3 squads of howling banshees. If you get orcs/tyranids and they rush ur wraithlord and its tied up only killing 3 units a turn you just wasted alot of points.

Really bad strat i m o.

By: Da Gargoyle

Da Gargoyle — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:47:36 +0000

I am an Eldar player and I have a Wraithlord tooled up with sword and flamers. I have set it up so I can change main weapon depending on the army I might meet. Wraithlords can be a little more vulnerable than you think in assault. Most infantry units carry a special weapon and WraithLords only have limited attacks. If they hit they usually wound but they are vulnerable to power fists and a unit of 10 infantry gives them time to wrack up wounds on you. Alweays support assaults on enemy infantry with a guardian unit complete with Warlock. As for vehicles the Wraithlord comes into his own. That high strength reroll sword and a bright lance or missile launcher does the trick

By: SRMcG

SRMcG — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:35:55 +0000

yes, but if you think about it there is nothing else worth sniping in the entire eldar army, so if your opponent kills your wraithlord with sniper, then they suddenly have the rest of your army to deal with and they have that many fewer plasma guns, melta guns etc etc (on top of having a load of scouts if they are sm, and scouts are that much easier to kill)

By: SRMcG

SRMcG — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:35:00 +0000

By: loimprevisto

loimprevisto — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:34:38 +0000

I don’t get the opportunity to play against eldar often (only one player in my area, and she doesn’t use wraithlords), but it seems they are tremendously vulnerable to sniper weapons. Is there any reason that a squad of ratlings or space marine scouts couldn’t take ‘em out in a round or two (especially since sniper weapons count as rending now!)

By: loimprevisto

loimprevisto — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:34:00 +0000