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~~HQ~~
x1 Autarch
Warp Jump Generator, Fusion Gun

~~TROOPS~~
x5 Pathfinders

x5 Pathfinders

~~FAST ATTACK~~
x10 Warp Spiders
Exarch, Double Spinners, Surprise Assault, Withdraw

x5 Swooping Hawks
Exarch, Sunrifle, Intercept, Skyleap

x5 Swooping Hawks
Exarch, Sunrifle, Intercept, Skyleap

~~HEAVY SUPPORT~~
x5 Dark Reapers
Exarch, Missile Launcher, Fast Shot

x5 Dark Reapers
Exarch, Missile Launcher, Fast Shot

x1 Wraithlord
Bright Lance, Eldar Missile Launcher

Not enough killy vs vehicles.

Too much killy vs toughness models.

No farseer? They're really useful....

I'd bring at least 1 more wraithlord, since all fire will be directed at the 1 you have to remove all of your anti-tank ability.

Why a sunrifle? If you skyleap, makes it difficult to shoot it, no?

shooting isn't too difficult after deep striking, the reapers can tank hunt if absolutely needed, and so can the hawks and spiders, I agree with you though on that I need more anti-horde, though 5 blasting missile launchers and 16 ap3 shots, and grenade lobbing + all my pinning shots from the hawks and pathfinders might be enough?

Most of the list seems either very static or very fragile to me; or both.

The Autarch has a sad possibility of killing himself on the jump.

Hawks are fragile, and the upgrades make them more expensive. That said, I really like Intercept.

The big weakness of Reapers is that they give up points with incredible speed, while losing firepower, as they have no ablative squad members to soak wounds. A Farseer with Fortune can be a big help, though to really make it work you want to get the unit into 4+ cover. Of course, it's much easier to manage this with one unit of Reapers than with two. Blackmoor used Eldrad and one unit of Reapers with good results at the GTs this year.

I really like the spiders, though surprise assault is iffy, and 10 can be tough to hide. 8 might be more efficient.

I have used eldrad with reapers and yeah it is very efficient, I've never tried using 2 squads though just wanted to test it out

the hawks are basically to be bait to get into LoS of my reapers, and I agree with the spider squad being too big, maybe take 2 out and then add 1 hawk to each squad?

Ummm reapers hunt tanks? I hope not, they are pure anti-marines and using a 200 point unit for 2 str 8 shots is not efficient.

The Hawks can hunt tanks, but Skimmers will blow them apart. Hitting on 4+ means little if you are left holding the bag in front of the other guys shooty.

Not sure how you are baiting people....I'll setup in LOS of your reapers, and shoot 'em dead dead dead. Most people will that have shooty armies, which is...everyone.

You missed my point about skyleap. If you deepstrike in, and don't deepstrike out....you better kill those 4 guard in front of you (and nothing else can see you, somehow) or you'll get shot at. Such small units in 'please place a template on me' formation is always bad. So my point was, if you play them like most players will with minimum sized squads and skyleap the turn you deepstrike...why bring a sunrifle when you'll never use it? Hope that clears things up!

what I meant with the reapers was that they CAN tank hunt, doesn't mean I am going to, if there are 4 rhinos on the board and my wraithlord doesn't end up killing one, then yes my reapers will shoot at rhinos?

I only actually planned on skyleaping when I get into CC

you are probably right about the reapers getting blown to bits, I will probably just go back to eldrad and 1 squad

What's going to assault 5 Hawks, yet leave them alive to Skyleap next turn? Forget that plan.

Deep striking Hawks and Spiders are sitting ducks waiting for the enemy return fire.
Possibly not the best option to let them deep strike.
The army lacks anti-tank weapons.