Current mood:

geeky

harlequins
I'm at my parents now, so I have dug out my old Harlequin miniatures. I discovered I have even more than I thought I had, because I had forgotten about a trade I made with one of my gaming club a while back. So I have 55 Harlequin figures.

Under the new official rules I mentioned, you can't have more than 30 Harlequins in an Eldar army, and most sensible players wouldn't take that many¹. But I like the models. I started wondering if I can use some as real Harlequins and others as substitutes for some of the other Eldar troop types, and that way build a valid army² out of them. My current thought is that some can be the old lesser type of Harlequin - 'Mimes', and count as Storm Guardians, while to fulfil the HQ requirement, one can be a 'High Avatar' counting as an Autarch, or a 'High Warlock' counting as a Farseer. Either way it's still not a very balanced army, but would make a legal force for playing games with.

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¹They are an expensive (in points) specialized unit, and block you from taking other interesting choices.
²A legal WH40k army requires at least two 'Troops' units and one 'HQ' unit, neither of which the Harlequins are.