Armoured Warhost: The New 1-DP Aeldari Vehicle Detachment (11th Edition)

Your Aeldari Vehicle units' ranged weapons gain Assault — so your grav-tanks and gunships can Advance at Aeldari speed and still fire their heavy armament at full weight. That's a big deal for single-big-shot platforms like the Fire Prism: normally moving fast means giving up firepower, but here mobility and shooting come together. It's a straightforward, powerful firebase rule for a vehicle-heavy army.

The pack gives this detachment three focused stratagems:

• Soulsight (Shooting) — a Vehicle unit re-rolls one Hit roll, one Wound roll, and one Damage roll. This is the fix for a Fire Prism's single big shot — spend it on your key anti-tank fire each turn.
• Vectored Engines (Movement) — a Vehicle unit that Falls Back can still shoot this turn, peeling out of melee while keeping its guns online.
• Layered Wards (reactive) — a Vehicle unit gains Feel No Pain 5+ against mortal wounds, blunting a mortal-wound spike.

Both enhancements go on an Aeldari Psyker (a Farseer or Warlock), so a psyker character is near-mandatory to unlock them:

• Guiding Presence — at the start of your Shooting phase, a nearby Vehicle unit's ranged attacks gain +1 to Hit. Funnel it into your biggest gun each turn.
• Spirit Stone of Raelyth — the bearer gains Lone Operative near a friendly Vehicle, and can heal D3 wounds on a Vehicle each Movement phase.

• Fire Prism / Falcon / Night Spinner — the main-gun grav-tanks that most want Assault to reposition and still fire full effect; Soulsight fixes their single big shot.
• Wave Serpent — a durable transport-gunboat and a prime Layered Wards / Vectored Engines target.
• Vyper — a fast skimmer weapons platform that leverages Assault to hit and run.
• Hemlock Wraithfighter / Crimson Hunter — Fly vehicles that add to the all-vehicle firebase.
• Farseer or Warlock — the only models that can carry the enhancements, so a psyker is near-mandatory.

At 1 DP it can be your main detachment for a vehicle-heavy Asuryani army, or a cheap firepower package alongside a 2-DP core. Take it when your list is built around grav-tanks and skimmers rather than infantry — you want gunboats and Fire Prisms firing at full weight after moving fast. It has no ACROBATIC or Ynnari lock, so it pairs freely.

Sample gameplan: deploy Fire Prisms, Falcons and Wave Serpents with a Farseer holding Guiding Presence. Advance and reposition freely turn one thanks to Assault, then put out full firepower — funnel Guiding Presence (+1 Hit) and Soulsight re-rolls into your key anti-tank shot each turn. Screen the psyker with Lone Operative from the Spirit Stone, use Vectored Engines to peel tanks out of melee while still shooting, and Layered Wards to tank incoming mortal-wound spikes.