Shining Spears Aspect Warriors:

Shining Spears are among the most rare of Aspect Warriors and are rarely seen on the battlefield. There are never enough Shining Spears even on the largest Craftworlds to muster into large, self-contained assault forces, so they are confined to supporting roles in attacks made by other Aspect Warriors with their speed and ferocity.

Design notes:

• I wanted the Shining Spears to be more assault-oriented than normal Jetbikes in keeping with their role as Aspect Warriors. However, because they are on jetbikes and not wielding two close combat weapons (although the one they do wield is stronger than most), they would not be quite as good as a normal Aspect Warrior in an assault, so they have an Assault value of 3. Because they have no shuriken cannons in their squads as normal Jetbike squads do, their Firepower is reduced to 1.
• I didn¹t think it would be appropriate for there to be a large force of Shining Spears riding around crushing other detachments, as there simply aren¹t enough Shining Spears out there to make an entire detachment! Therefore I limited them in two ways: availability and numbers. They are only available as Support choices, meaning they cannot make up a detachment on their own. And since each unit of Shining Spears occupies a Support choice, you can never have more than 5 units in a detachment.
• The tactical role of Shining Spears in an Eldar War Host would be either as some extra punch in an assault, or as a screen in front of an armoured advance so that enemy troops would have to assault the Shining Spears first, protecting vulnerable transports behind them.
• Shining Spears should be available to the War Hosts of all Craftworlds, although by their very nature, they will always be few in number.

Modeling Shining Spears:

Shining Spears can be easily distinguished from normal jetbikes by their unique color scheme. This makes for the easiest way to create Shining Spear models - simply paint them to match the models shown in White Dwarf! Exarchs can be distinguished by using the reversed, mainly-blue color scheme shown on the Exarch in the battle report in White Dwarf 241. For more ambitious modelers, creating the laser lance shouldn't be too hard - just check your bits box for any small pointy things that might be the proper scale (not too sharp though - don't want to bleed all over your figures every game!) and glued into place.