Getting ahead of the Meta: how to beat the new Eldar

I thought I'd write up some thoughts on how to beat the new Eldar codex before I rage-quit. I'm so upset by this Codex. It's already cost GW $150 odd dollars because my insecurity about whether I would keep playing meant I declined to buy the new Assassins game. I've put all my purchases on hold for the next 2 months until I get some games in against this codex. This codex is so busted I can't even imagine having fun casual games against it. I would need to bring a very powerful marines list to combat just about anything the Eldar Dex can put out. I basically can't play Deathwing against it, weak Ob-sec spam will get beat by better ob-sec spam jetbikes, and anything remotely social will get totally dominated by aspect warrior builds or the guardian host. That leaves drop pods and bikes, which aren't exactly social. I won't be buying Knights anytime soon because of D, which also means I won't be starting a Skitarii army anytime soon.

Scout shame

A list sporting a tonne of scouts came second at the Las Vegas Open and then did very well at Adepticon. These are big tournaments, and the list is really cool, so I thought I'd profile it.

7th edition was glorious and then....GW - thoughts on the Eldar Codex

So the Eldar codex is out and things don't look good. At the end of 6th edition I was starting to consider moving to another game. My club is fast transitioning to Infinity and as much as I hate the pewter models and don't really dig the fluff, I love skirmish games and game balance, so I was this close to moving over. 7th edition stopped me. Formation, detachments, unbound and infinite CAD are heaps lame, but the 7th edition codexes all seem to be written with an eye to powering down the game. The nastiest codexes - Eldar, Marines, Necrons and Tau (though they aren't so nasty since Ob-sec became a thing) were primed for fixes this year. The new Necron dex is very strong, especially with Decurion, but at least Decurion forces people to play a variety of models, and the absence of ob-sec and few ways to ignore cover makes hard counter armies like lictor-shame and scout-shame quite easy to produce. Eldar serpent spam lists on the other hand...ugh, especially at the club level. So I was really excited about the re-doing of the Eldar dex. Unfortunately, it seems the design studio just couldn't resist.