New Ship (Eldar Dawn)

Eldar Dawn Class Cruiser (225 points)

The Dawn Class cruiser seems to be a new development, although many previous sightings may have been misidentified as the Shadow class. The Dawn class seems to be reserved for brief but heavy assaults or delivering the killing blow to an already crippled vessel. It differs from the Shadow in the construction of its solar sails, and in the use of lances instead of torpedoes.

The most complete data on this ship was first retrieved from the burnt-out computers of the hulk of the Heroic Anomaly, but an Imperial ship has yet to both report a confirmed sighting in any detail and survive. Only one individual Eldar vessel has been tentatively identified, by a distinctive pattern of scarring across the prow, codenamed the Emergent Sun and feared for its merciless pulsars.

Type/Hits	Speed		Turns	Shields	Armour		Turrets
Cruiser/6	10/20/25		Special	Holofields	4+		0
Armament		Range/Speed		Firepower/Str.		Fire Arc
Prow weapons b.		30cm		8		Front
Keel pulsar lance		30cm		3		Left/front/right

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Emergent Sun

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This marks the first Eldar vessel on Dark Sector Armada. The Eldar are one of the most unique and complex fleets in BFG and I was very hesitant to mess around with them. The Eldar are the only unbalanced core fleet in the game, able to slaughter Orks, but in turn slaughtered by Necrons. I myself have a 100% defeat rate while fighting Necrons with Eldar. Although not the only reason for creating the Dawn Class, I am hoping it will fill a gap in the Eldar fleet list - a gap sorely needed against Necrons. I know this is somewhat 'putting lipstick on a pig', in that there will always be an imbalance at the core; but it may even the playing field a little bit.

The ships of Dark Sector are not primarily designed to fix imbalances - generally they just make fleets slightly more versatile or give them new options, but if I can help with some imbalances too, that can't be a bad thing! I have plans for many Ork vessels too, some of which will be gap-filling enough to give them slightly more hope against Eldar.