Well then, your own statement means that Dark Eldar are their own list and people griping about how the Dark Eldar can use Slavebringers as a transport option, as it is unfair to their armies and makes Dark Eldar too powerful is also uncalled for. Slavebringers cost 200 points each. You can not take a formation split up over 2 Slavebringers, it must all fit into one unit. Not many people spam Slavebringer as they are too expensive, and they are a thematic use of a bomber craft to deliver troops into battle which suits the Dark Eldar's battle tactics very much.
Dark Eldar in the NetEA list already have limitations on what they get with their fighters, Fighter Bombers, and Titan all in the 1/3 allocation. The use of overly expensive war engines as transports, heavy support (in a similar role to Engines of Vaull), and as a Bomber transport (in a similar role to the Thunderhawk Gunship) are there to off set the lack of durable transports and tanks the Dark Eldar have.
Their vehicles, for the most part are light Vehicles. They have to pay big points for their War Engines. Yes, most of them are skimmers, with a slightly slower speed than their Ravagers and Raiders, and these are the units that have the weaponry to make up for Dark Eldars general lack of longer range weapons (45cm or more) on troops, and vehicles. However these War Engines soak up the points, make list building harder as you tend to give the opponent multiple BTS if you are not careful, and concentrated fire will bring them down. Their shadow fields are lost once they are all gone, so they are not like Imperial ones, or even Eldar ones.
Why not just put the Chaos Thunderhawk Gunship in the core forces of their list, and make it a 200 point formation just like the Imperial lists do?
If you want it to go into a specific area, then not in the 1/3 section, Put into the Partisan or Kalabite section on its own a a separate formation.
I personally think the Space Marine list set out seemed silly. It needed to separate the support elements like Whirlwinds, Thunderhawk Gunships, Vindicators Squadrons, Bikes, Land Speeders, and Predator Squadrons into a support section. Elite Formations like Terminators, and any special Elite formations like Vanguard Veterans should go into an Elite Formations option.
The core formations of any space marine army should be Tactical and Scouts. Just like in 40K. You could get the flexibility by allowing 2 Support and 1 Elite formation per Core Formation.
This makes more sense to me. Also Where are the new weapons Marines are suppose to get? Thunderfire Batteries.
From listening to comments made by so many over the last year, the only thing I can see that the Dark Eldar list needs is to add in Venom Light Transports. Otherwise everyone will be wanting to get every army list re-worked, as in the example I gave for Space Marines. The Slavebringer should not be put into the 1/3 allotment as this makes Dark Eldar then have less to get their much needed AA/CAP fighters and Fighter Bombers. If it has to be moved, then in the Partisan section.
Marines do get fliers, at least in 40K. They get Storm Ravens, and other similar gunships. These can be set as their fighter, Fighter bomber transports, and so on. Make their rules so that they fill the Aircraft role.
I even think the points costing of Space Marines is silly. Rather than add in the cost of transports automatically, make it an optional upgrade that you can take for a set point value for that particular formation, and then it is Rhinos for standard troops, Landraiders for Terminators. This means it would cheaper to take termies as teleport troops, or put them in Thunderhawk Gunships. They already get the advantage of ATSKNF, however this should already be worked into their points cost along with their armour value, and other special rules.
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