Eldar Vampire Raider

Eldar Vampire Raider

  Forge world Warhammer 40K (Very Rare) Eldar Vampire Raider - The Vampire Raider is a Superheavy Flyer with Hover mode, coming at BS4 AV 11/11/10 and with a whopping 12 Hull Points. Unlike the Phoenix Bomber is does not get Stealth which is unfortunate, and unlike regular skimmers or Flyers it is unable to Jink either, due to being a Superheavy, but that does seem quite fair when you see the model. It does come with Strafing Run which is a nice bonus, as well as Supersonic and Deep Strike, which are a bit meh when you consider how enormous the thing is, making it very hard to place on the table in a lot of games. In the weapons department the Vampire Raider is less than amazing, rocking two twin-linked pulse lasers and a scatter laser. The pulse lasers can be upgraded to a twin-linked Pulsar, which is much more appealing, putting out 2x S: Destroyer ordnance large blasts, or twin-linked Phoenix missile launchers, which is a typo and a joke – it should be 2x twin-linked Phoenix missile launchers, but even then 6x s5 ap3 shots is not that great. That’s it for weapons, but the Vampire does also come with Corsair Kinetic Shrouds (or Holo-Fields for the Eldar version), and a 30-model transport capacity, which is bumped down to 20 if the weapons are upgraded. As a Superheavy Flyer, the Vampire cannot jink, but it can at least carry multiple embarked units, and the unit entry specifies that up to 3 units may disembark in a single turn. You are still limited to a single unit embarking per turn, but that’s not such a big issue.