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News: Eldar Attack and Building-Tastic

October 2006·p. 14

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The news page looks ahead to opportunities to inspect the revised Eldar range and rules before release, alongside a staff terrain project inspired by Cities of Death. The Direct team has turned its new modular buildings into the Celestine District, a personal part of the Sybilla Tertius campaign setting. Competition results and a reader’s irreverent Tyranid answer complete the page’s mixture of release news and hobby activity.

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Standard Bearer: Writing a Codex

Jervis Johnson uses Phil Kelly’s work on Codex: Eldar to explain the long process behind an army book. Feedback and the design of new miniatures begin well before release; an initial list then undergoes repeated tests for battlefield character, balance and clarity while the background, hobby material and production work develop around it. The account emphasises the collaboration and revision hidden behind a finished book, including the effort to keep existing collections usable.

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The tactica compares walkers with conventional tanks and divides their work into long-range fire, close support and assault. Infantry-like movement makes dense terrain useful rather than merely hazardous, but the chosen weapons and upgrades must match the task. Dreadnoughts, Sentinels, War Walkers, Ork machines and Defilers illustrate those choices, while monstrous creatures can fill similar roles and enemies with power fists, rending attacks or gauss weapons demand particular caution.

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TacticsWD 322 · pp. 81–83

Walkers: Fire Support

Fire-support walkers are divided between machines that remain back with a clear lane and those advancing behind the infantry. The article encourages choosing a target class before buying weapons, using cover to protect vulnerable platforms and considering several machines when one would be too easy to remove. Dreadnoughts can exchange close-combat equipment for guns, Defilers offer indirect fire and lighter squadrons provide a concentrated barrage if their loadouts are kept coherent.

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