Farseer's mind War"

BigStupidGuy

First off let me say I've collected Eldar for long enough and the only real problem I have with them is probably their biggest advantage, "Mind War". The fact that a farseer can pick out any ememy (even those in a group) and take anything in the range of 6 wounds off without armour saves of any kind. This makes killing even the nastiest Necron c'tan god a breeze with just one lucky roll. All this at the cost of only 15pts is pretty good. The only downside is that you need a prefect line of sight and it does't work against someone if in any tank (even open-topped).

Does onyone else think it's just that little bit too good?

Pugsley

You do need a pretty good roll to beat the larger charecters to be fair, and if u fail you just wasted your farseers turn really, so no I wouldnt really rate it too highly, good charecter killer but thats about it.

tba

I can see both points and I think if it was treated as a heavy weapon it might work better i.e. no moving and using it.

Lemming

Originally posted by BigStupidGuy
First off let me say I've collected Eldar for long enough and the only real problem I have with them is probably their biggest advantage, "Mind War". The fact that a farseer can pick out any ememy (even those in a group) and take anything in the range of 6 wounds off without armour saves of any kind. This makes killing even the nastiest Necron c'tan god a breeze with just one lucky roll. All this at the cost of only 15pts is pretty good. The only downside is that you need a prefect line of sight and it does't work against someone if in any tank (even open-topped).

Does onyone else think it's just that little bit too good?

If you know your Necrontyr Vs. Eldar background, you'll know that psykers are anathema to the Necrontyr, thus I find it quite in character that a farseer could pick off a C'tan in such fashion.

Bearing in mind that the Eldar psychic powers (which gave them their "umphh" factor) were crippled in 3rd ed, they lack the level of survivability & punch of the likes of the Marine armies and that the C'tan are very, very nasty.

Kold

Mind war has a 12" range... It HAS to be an assault move, otherwise a farseer would become a suicide bomber, using his move once and then being blasted off the face of the battlefield.

funky penguin

I thought it was 18"