The Eldar Strike Back

So I have been chugging along on my painted army project.  I have experimented with all manner of allies in the pursuit of only using painted models.  With the release of Codex Eldar, and a few games with the new book under my belt I am even more motivated to get some models painted.  My current project is the Wraith Knight.  After an evening of assembly I have quite a bit of the structure of the model put together.

The sword arm is already magnetized.  I found the arm a lot easier to magnetize than I thought.

Painted Army Project

In the area I live and play in painted armies are not the norm.  For every painted army you see there are several more that are mostly gray.  I am guilty of this I frequently suffer from gamer a.d.d. and will switch projects before I finish an army.  However GW has given us a great boon in 6th ed 40k and that is the allies system.

My plan is to only field painted units.  If I want a new unit, I will break out the paints.  Being able to ally means that armies that are mostly unpainted can still be played as an ally for another force.  For example I just purchased a Riptide that I want to play.  I already have painted fire warriors, and I can do a simple quick conversion to make a fireblade.  Now I have an ally force I can throw into my eldar as soon as I paint the Riptide.  I can slowly build up my painted tau without the worry of not being able to play with any tau until I complete the whole army.  Every time I paint a new unit I can work into my eldar army until I have enough units to switch from and Eldar/Tau army to a Tau/Eldar army and eventually to a pure Tau one.

Now my hope is that eventually allies will become an official rule for warhammer fantasy.

Eldar Vs.Tau in a duel to the death.

Eldrad stood upon the ridge overlooking the Imperial settlement.  It lay in ruins after the brief but terrible fight between the defenders and the invading Tau army.  The information that Eldrad needed was hidden amongst the dead.  The Imperial courier killed in the surprise attack.  In turn the Eldar force would surprise the Tau.  The runes had been cast numerous times, and the result the same each time.  The courier's body must be retrieved!

So my friend Robert told me that he was getting back into 40k.  After a chat we decided that with some of my models he could field a force and we should get in a game.  I have been playing a foot Eldar list while I await the Necrons.  Its a blast to play and a nice change of pace after playing DE for the last year.