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Well its that time to update my Eldar list for 5th Edition.

Mierin
1 Farseer (HQ) @ 173 Pts
Singing Spear; Shuriken Pistol
Ghosthelm, Runes of Warding, Spirit Stones, Jetbike, Fortune, Mind War

Arionne, Eilea, Cephina, Ximona, Gwydion, Katia
6 Warlock (HQ) @ 310 Pts
Witchblade (x6); Shuriken Pistol; Jetbike; Linked Shuriken Catapults
Destructor x2, Enhance, Embolden

6 Fire Dragons (Elites) @ 264 Pts
Fusion Gun; Melta Bombs
1 Exarch @
Dragon's Breath Flamer; Melta Bombs

1 Wave Serpent @ [140] Pts
Shuriken Cannon Upgrade; Linked Missile Launchers
Spirit Stones

3 Guardian Jetbike Squadron (Troops) @ 134 Pts
Shuriken Pistol; Linked Shuriken Catapults (x2); Shuriken Cannon (x1);
Jetbike
Ishtar
1 Warlock
Singing Spear; Shuriken Pistol; Jetbike; Linked Shuriken Catapults

3 Guardian Jetbike Squadron (Troops) @ 134 Pts
Shuriken Pistol; Linked Shuriken Catapults (x2); Shuriken Cannon (x1);
Jetbike
Aurora
1 Warlock
Singing Spear; Shuriken Pistol; Jetbike; Linked Shuriken Catapults

3 Guardian Jetbike Squadron (Troops) @ 76 Pts
Shuriken Pistol; Linked Shuriken Catapults (x2); Shuriken Cannon (x1);
Jetbike

Dragon Knights
3 Shining Spears (Fast Attack) @ 177 Pts
Laser Lance; Linked Shuriken Catapults; Jetbike
Davion
1 Exarch
Laser Lance; Linked Shuriken Catapults; Jetbike
Withdraw

Heaven's Light
1 Fire Prism (Heavy Support) @ 160 Pts
Linked Shuriken Catapults; Prism Cannon, Spirit Stones.Holo-fields

Heaven's Judgement
1 Fire Prism (Heavy Support) @ 160 Pts
Linked Shuriken Catapults; Prism Cannon; Spirit Stones ;Holo-fields

Heaven's Raine
1 Fire Prism (Heavy Support) @ 160 Pts
Linked Shuriken Catapults; Prism Cannon, Spirit Stones, Holo-fields

Models in Army: 33

Made some updates to my old list for 5th. Theme is the same mobile Space Knights on Jetbikes army.

Choice explainations are below.

HQ
Farseer Mierin has fortune to fortune the seer council unit and mindwar to kill particular dangerious units like power weapon welders or lower leadership ICs that are a threat.

Jetbike Warlocks - 6 Warlocks + Farseer average 4 wounds on a Carnifex on the charge and thats not including destructors or shooting. They also are very effective against MEQs in close combat. Two Destructors is enough most of the time. I've tried 3 before. You don't want to kill to much otherwise you can't charge. Might put in redudant embolden and enhance because of the new wound allocation but don't have points.

Troops
Jetbike Squads.
Not to sure about the small Jetbike squads with 5th edition they were really effective in 4th with Jump shoot jump and the warlock with spear and destructor ads flexability. Not to sure about surviability in 5th with the new rules though.
Maybe I should be going with some dire avengers in wave serpents?

Elites
I droped the Harlequins because of the no more massacre consolidation.

Fire Dragons are for roasting tanks. They now ride a wave serpent because no reason for a falcon. I arm the wave serpent with missle launcher and shuriken cannon so it can shoot all weapons at infantry if it wants and move 12 or just shoot a twin linked shot at a vehicle. Dragon's breath flamer actually is pretty nice as you can hit infantry taking cover next to the tank or if you drop the dragons in front of a monsterous creature screening gaunts or something the flamer is great. They are necessary for killing Land raiders

Fast Attack
Shining Spears because they are like futuristic calvary the withdraw to get to charge again get the benefit of additional attacks and not get bogged down in assault is really nice. can also hunt some light vehicles.

Heavy Support
3 Fire Prisms. I dropped the Falcon for the full 3 fire prisms. They hang back hopefully in cover and shoot infantry or vehicles. 3 big pie plates seems really good against armies like Orcs. No Shuriken cannon to save points If the prism cannon is destroyed can ram with them.

Haven't actually tested this list yet. But made it based on what I heard of 5th edition rules. What do you think?

Looks solid but the spears are in for a rough time when everyone gets countercharge and removes models in the back. Full 10 man dragons would be nice, so would another HQ.

I'm with Kallbrand on this one, as it is right now the fire dragons and spears are both decent choices but only if you put a few more men in each squad. Personally I've had horrible experiences with shining spears in 5th -- They have to roll initiative to withdraw it's no longer guaranteed. Also as Kallbrand stated the countercharge USR on everyone and the removal of the "kill zone" means they'll likely get overwhelmed if they charge a large unit...

Thanks for the advice.

I think I will be droping the shining spears. People on Warseer said to drop them too.

Will try to squeeze in some Dire Avengers and remove the fire dragon exarch and just add some more dragons incase I want to use them to burn terminators or something else that isn't a tank.

If you are going to run Spears, you need Warlock units to hold the enemy while they run away. Without them, spears < harlies, sadly.