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Run a council army at 1750p, or going to. Gonna buy the HS next and I'm having second thoughts. My first idea was to have a squad of reapers w/tempest and crack, 2 walkers w/ scatters and a wraithlord with BL, flamers and sword. Figured it to be a good mix of anti-tank and anti-infantry. Most other players here tent to aim at 3 prisms w/holo. I can see why it's a good choice against infantry and I suppose with a combined fire that it's a fairly good anti-tank. Perhaps this is the better for facing both Mech-armies and Hoards. Dunno what to aim for. Any advice that can help me tip the balance is welcome.

Have 2 serpents, a council, clowns, avatar and guardians w/ scatters besides + path and jet's.

A modest man does nothing well with a smile on his face.

Three Fire Prisms is the way to go. The Council will ride in the Serpent. I suggest a few more Serpents for troops.

Yup. I basically meant that if you can't spam FPs happily enough, then at least you can lose to three FPs happily.

The problem is finding fire prisms cheap on ebay. Otherwise you're looking at 150 bucks

On Eldar HS:

Realize your troops can deal with all the infantry in the game through volume of fire. Fire dragons deal with a single tank (two if your lucky).

Items that are left that give you trouble? Monsterous creatures, 2+ saves and additional tank hunting, Resilience on objectives.

Reapers are great fro clearing troops but so is everything else in the Eldar list. HS really needs to fill those other roles.

That's why you see everyone take Fire prisms, or wraithlords with bright lance /EML. Other HS choices are good but you have to build your army around them.

Pete