Reddit reviews Chessex Dice D6 Sets: Teal with White Translucent - 12Mm Six Sided Die (36) Block of Dice

A lot of it depends on what kind of army you want to build. Eldar is capable of many styles; long range shooting, sturdy close range fighting, mobile close combat, mechanized, vehicle-based, and so on. Eldar is currently one of the strongest factions, capable of competing at the top level with any faction in a variety of styles.

A fairly standard way to start things off is:

• Get a Start Collecting box, which contains 5 Wraithguard, a Farseer, a Wraithlord and a War Walker (£50, ~500 pts). This is a great core for an army. The Farseer appears in every Eldar army, almost without fail. The Wraithguard are considered strong, particularly with D-Scythes. The Wraithlord is best taken as just a beatstick with a sword, and is reasonably effective in this role. The War Walker, armed with Shuriken Cannons, makes for a nimble harasser.
  
  
• Add a Wave Serpent hover transport, which contains a Wave Serpent with various weapons (£28, 150 pts). This is a necessary unit in many lists, and will be particularly useful for the slow-moving Wraithguard in the Start Collecting box. I never leave home without one.
  
  Where you go from here depends on what you want to do.
  
  
• One Option, Adding Troops to form a Battalion: A simple way to reach 1,000 pts is to round things out with some troops and a Warlock HQ. Guardian Defenders have great firepower and weapon options, while Rangers have good durability at range and a unique deployment power. 3 squads of Guardians/Rangers is 300 pts of troops and will run you £60 total. The Warlock is 7 and 35 pts. If you think you will need several and a Farseer, there's a cheap bundle available.
  
  
• Another Option, Adding Heavy Support to form a Spearhead: You already have 2 Heavy Support units, you can add more to form a Spearhead detachment. The trusty Fire Prism is a classic, with £31 getting you a top-notch model that runs about 160 pts. Buying two will bring you to 1,000 pts. Two Fire Prisms will allow you to use the linked fire stratagem.
  
  General Advice
  
  No matter which of these options you go for, you'll end up spending about £50 on Start Collecting, £28 on the Wave Serpent, and £65 on filling out the rest of your 1,000 pts, leaving you with about £100 to spare in your budget.
  
  Don't forget to buy the Codex/cards (£35), a measuring tape (£4), some dice, and hobby equipment, which I describe in detail below.
  
  For dice, I find Chessex tends to sell pretty cheap cubes of 12mm dice that are easy to roll many of at a time (example) for ~£15. These dice are cheap, but are fair dice even if they are a little round and roll all over the place, and the black/white ones are quite easy to read. There are other manufacturers as well.
  
  For superglue, any Cyanoacrylate glue will work. The kind with a brush cap or narrow nozzle is ideal, since you will easily put too much as you start out.
  
  For paints, I prefer to use Citadel paints as GW recommends, but there are as many opinions on paint brands as there are painters. If you can, a spray-on base coat makes things easier. I recommend this guide for the beginning of painting, but there is much to read and watch about painting.
  
  When painting a model, first you must apply primer to the model (spray or brush on) in a thin layer. This is a special substance designed to stick to the plastic or metal surface of the model, and present a paintable surface to apply paint to. If you've used a whiteboard, you'll note that the dry-erase marker wipes off of it easily, even though that same marker leaves a permanent mark on cloth or paper. Primer is like a layer of cloth or paper on top of a dry-erase board, so the paint can stick.
  
  For brushes, buy cheap paintbrushes. Buy a cheap set for like 10 quid. You will ruin them, it's what happens. This way, you won't feel bad about it.
  
  Read and watch lots of guides for newbies.
  
  Paint with friends if you can, it's fun.
  
  Hope this helps!

I have a small "draft kit" that I take to drafts/prereleases.

The outside is an old core deckbuilders tool kit box. Inside is another smaller box similiar to this. Along with it is one of those small boxes of d6's, about 20 of each land, and a handful of sleeves.

I like having the two boxes as back in the day my LGS would do back-to-back drafts so to prevent accidentally cheating while tuning my deck between rounds, I'd always keep the cards I currently drafted in the smaller box and move draft 1 cards outside.

I greatly prefer to play with sleeves, and they've come in handy to use as tokens more than once.

I'm just going to use a bunch of six sided dice. Like one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Chessex-Dice-d6-Sets-Translucent/dp/B000RMQOGA/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1539631345&sr=8-5&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=chessex+six+sided&dpPl=1&dpID=51o0A2LF9sL&ref=plSrch

I’d recommend a nice deck box. It’s the sort of thing I want, but never would buy for myself. I was given an ultimate guard deck box. It’s got a spot for dice, and two sleeved decks. Amazon has it for $35, but my FLGS has them for less so it may be with shopping around.

Also dice in general. Your buddy probably has a bunch of d20’s, but something mini dice are super useful for counters. These are generally lost or “borrowed” and not returned, so this is something you can always use more of.

Hope this helps!

Get one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Chessex-Dice-d6-Sets-Translucent/dp/B000RMQOGA/ref=lp_2587153011_1_15?srs=2587153011&ie=UTF8&qid=1511711505&sr=8-15

And you'll be set for life.