I have given this a lot of thought, and here is my statted proposal:
- The following entry is added in the Master FAQ: "Q: When a unit that got into b-t-b with the enemy during the assault phase does not have an enemy unit in contact when it comes to rolling for its attacks, can it still use its CC attacks, or can it only make FF attacks? A: When a unit gets into b-t-b with an enemy during an assault, it always will have to resolve all of its attacks in CC, independently of the order of deaths in the enemy formation."
- All Eldar CC Exarchs gain Ancient weapons (base contact) (assault weapons), MW, EA (+1)
- Banshees gain Infiltrate and Lance and return to their 3+ CC stat.
This way, Banshees are an interesting addition to the Eldar army, CC exarchs are a viable alternative to FF exarchs, making full CC Aspect formations more viable (and giving some defensive use to the Avenger exarch, which is fluffy), and the First Strike problem for Banshees, but also for Rough riders and other First strike formations is finally solved.
Even though Lance is somewhat of a stretch to banshee 40k stats, it is only a design choice of GW to make power weapons useless against vehicles. Fluff-wise, power weapons wad through anything with ease. Also, this is what the Shining Spears power weapons have as stats.
The sum of all this makes Banshees very deadly and very fast, while staying pretty weak defensively and vulnerable to FF counterassaults, which is exactly what they are in 40k. Also, it solves their 2+ CC stat which is not quite fluffy anyway.
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