WALKING THE WALK

As I write this, my good friend and fellow Eldar player Ant Reynolds is sticking together yet another War Walker for his burgeoning Biel-Tan army. That is because every time he has used them recently, they have caused utter carnage. Ant's weapon of choice is the Scatter Laser, upgraded to a Heavy 4 weapon in the new Codex – a full squad of Ant's War Walkers can throw out 24 Strength 6 shots each turn. More often than not, he Guides them with his Farseer so that he can average 18 hits! You should see what that can do to a Tyranid horde...it's not pretty. Of course, every Eldar heavy weapon has a speciality, just like the Eldar warriors. With the War Walkers, you can really heap on the pressure by taking lots of the same type of weapon: very few tanks can survive six Brightlance shots, and as we have mentioned, War Walkers can tear the heart out of a numerically superior army in a couple of turns.

	SHURIKEN CANNON The Eldar are famed for their widespread use of Shuriken weaponry. A Shuriken weapon is designed to generate a hail of razor-sharp monomolecular discs.
	STARCANNON Each weapon's plasma core produces the incandescent heat of a sun, but sophisticated containment fields ensure that the weapon remains cool to the touch.
	ELDAR MISSILE LAUNCHER Unlike the simple rocket-firing tubes employed by the Imperium, Eldar missile launchers use complex chambered pods that contain several different kinds of ammunition, all but eliminating the need to reload.
	BRIGHT LANCE Eldar laser weapons use psychically grown crystals to filter and refine laser bursts to their optimum potency. Many Eldar consider the laser weapon the most elegant of all, exulting in the fact that their technological mastery extends even to light itself.

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