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CAD:

HQ:
Farseer - Singing Spear, Spirit Stone - Telepathy
Wraithseer - Brightlance

Troops:
3x Windriders
3x Windriders

Fast Attack:
Hemlock Wraithfighter - Telepathy

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Formation Detachment: Wraith Host

Spiritseer - Telepathy/Sanctic

Wraith Knight - Wraithcannons, 2x Scatter Lasers

Wraithlord - Flamers, Ghost Glaive, 2x Scatter Lasers

5x Wraithguard - Wraithcannons

5x Wraithguard - D-scythes
- Wave Serpent - Scatter Lasers, Shuriken Catapults, Holo-fields

5x Wraithguard - D-scythes
- Wave Serpent - Scatter Lasers, Shuriken Catapults, Holo-fields

This is my first post and first time making an eldar list so please go easy on me, however, constructive criticism and advice is very much appreciated.

I love the models for the Wraith Host and wanted to make a list around it. Basic idea is that the spirit seer rides with one of the d-scythe units, Farseer goes with the cannons, hopefully providing invisibility/ shroud to the unit to help them with the foot slog. I was thinking about dropping the hemlock for more cannon guard but I love the idea of a flying ghost and the two heavy d-scythes are always nice! The bikes will probably be held in reserve for some objective securing once enemy is tied up a bit. Went with telepathy on all 3 but also considered sanctic on the spirit seer hoping to get cleansing flame which will be nice at the close range required for these units. Overall points are really tight 2002, hence no d-cannon on the wraithseer, scatter lasers on bikes and so on.

Anyway I won't ramble on any more. If you have any thoughts or suggestions please comment. Cheers

Hello and welcome!

First I'm not crazy about a Wraithseer. I love the model, he has interesting additives to a Wraith force, but ultimately he's extremely pricey for what you're walking away with. Personally I would double down on your Wraith Host idea - drop the CAD and Seer and upgrade to a Warhost of choice (Windrider I'd suggest, but whatever suits you) with added ScatRiders over regular Wind (as you're now losing ObSec and would rather help volume of fire).

This exchange gives your Battlefocus guaranteed 6s instead of non-rerollable d6s. You can't even begin to imagine the suffering of being 14'' away with your Wraithcannons and rolling a 1 Battlefocus.

Everything else is to flavor. Personally I strip Wraithlords to nothing but a Glaive / Flamer as they just feel like tax trash to me. They're slow and have minimized survivability compared to the Knight. In our area we run ITC rulings and therefore I'd take a melee Knight over a Heavy Wraithcannon Knight any day - but if you aren't then well chosen!

Good luck and enjoy running space elves!

Hi, cheers for the reply and suggestions and this is purely for casual play. Some questions though.

Firstly if taking the windrider host would it not be better to take Shuriken cannons over scats, blade storm and the one time shred seem pretty useful for the sake of one less shot,the extra range shouldn't be a huge factor when positioning correctly should it? Would you run divination on the Farseer? Prescience would go a long way to making up for one less attack from cannons over scats.

I have read that people take weapons on the Lord in this formation purely because he doesn't tend to be a priority target and if he is gonna be a trash tax anyway, might aswell get some shooting out of him? I figured scat for the extra volume of shots but with a windrider host maybe bright lances are a better choice for some anti tank?

Seems like I will lose the hemlock too in order to run the warhost at 2000pts which is a shame because there go two of the units I was excited about purely for cool factor more than what they bring to the fight. I do however get to bump up to 8 cannon-guard and if I foot slog the spiritseer with them using telepathy it could work since the d-scythes won't need the extra to-hit bonus he provides. I guess it's a case of one list for fun, one for domination :p