Worthy of note - if you were advancing or sustaining, then with the origin stats 70% of the time you had 3 shots (before the 2008 downgrade).

Averaging things out, it probably had an average of what, 2.5ish hits(?) on a typical advancing or sustaining action (no modifiers). It now has an average of 1.67 hits when advancing/sustaining.

So it has been downgraded in number of shots from what it originally had, and iirc not for balance concerns but for style concerns.

3x shots at 3+ would be an average of 2 hits on an advancing or sustaining action... Below its original number of expected hits (which as I said, never caused any Balance problems that I remember, Eldar lost "pulse" entirely because of style of play reasons). I guess the balance of number of hits will close as you add modifiers due to how "pulse" used to work, and I've not done the full spread of stats with doubling or cover modifiers, but my main conclusion is that when Advancing or Sustaining 3x 3+ is still worse than the original swordwind stats, stats that were "accidentally" downgraded, and were not downgraded due to concerns that they were overpowered.

The 2008 change to "Pulse" was not intended to be an upgrade or a downgrade, but to be a change to the Eldar playstyle (hopefully inspiring more use of fluid playstyles).


Food for thought.




Disclaimer- Some maths above is approximate and was marked with a (?). I have had four hours' sleep.

Why would anyone take NetEA Fire Prisms full stop?

So are you saying that you would favour straight 3 MW shots at 2+ ?

You could put "doesn't look 20 years old" into the Pro column if you wanted

Could someone run the numbers for Doubling?

the problem with old Pulse was that Sustained Fire was too good and Double too weak, wasn't it?

I understand there is a general agreement that the NetEA Scorpion is slightly underperforming.

If it is the case that the Scorpion is under performing...

At my last tournament I took 4000pts of Saim-Hann to Britcon. This list included 3 EUK Scorpions. The role for them in this list was to focus on smaller formations with their MW shots hopefully killing two stands a turn and breaking the target formation. Now this didn’t always work, rolling 1’s & 2’s, failed activations etc. but the biggest thing that I found as a problem were the rules affecting pop-up attacks and units hiding behind cover. I found it very difficult to draw a line of sight to the units that I wanted to hit.

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