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Hey guys - I've finally mashed me together some 1450 points. Comment as ye wish.

Farseer – 55pts
• Spirit Stones – 20 pts
• Singing Spear – 3 pts
• Doom – 25 pts
• Fortune – 30 pts
• Guide – 20 pts
• Mind War – 20 pts Total = 173 pts

Fire Dragons – 96 pts
• Exarch w/ Firepike, Crack Shot - 25 pts Total = 121

Howling Banshees – 96 pts
• Exarch w/ Executioner, War Shout – 27 pts Total = 123

Dire Avengers – 120 pts
• Exarch w/ Power Weapon, Bladestorm – 42 pts Total = 162 pts

Rangers – 95 pts
• Pathfinders – 5 pts Total = 100 pts

Guardians – 128 pts
• Warlock w/ conceal – 15 pts Total – 143 pts

Guardian Jetbikes – 88 pts
• Shuriken Cannon – 10 pts Total = 98 pts

Wraithlord – 90 pts
• Starcannon – 30 pts
• Missile Launcher – 25 pts Total = 145 pts

Falcon – 115 pts
• Missile launcher – 20 pts
• Vectored Engines – 20 pts
• Holo-Field – 35 pts Total – 190 pts

Falcon – 115 pts
• Starcannon – 25 pts
• Vectored Engines – 20 pts
• Holo-Field – 35 pts Total – 195 pts


Subtotal = 1450 pts

Well, the Farseer is overpriced. I guess she's going with the Rangers or the Guardians on foot. If so, give him doom and guide, or doom and fortune.
I'd give the Falcons dual shuricannons since they will get close to enemy anyway when they unload their passengers.
Moreover, I tend to give the Wraithlord a brightlance instead of a starcannon.
Concealing the Guardians is a waste of points since there is 4+ cover everywhere. Give the Warlock embolden; better mount him on a jetbike and let him accompany the Guardian Jetbikes.

there are no quantities next to the units. That being said the farseer is way to bloated drop down to 2 powers. The guardians need a weapons platform to make them useful.

from looking at this army I get the feeling you are short on models.

1. Just run a doomseer. That saves you 90 pts. Could be nice to mess with your opponent and add runes of warding.
You have nothing really to fortune in your army and not much worth guiding. Mindwar is a specialist deal and might be worthwhile but that is costing 40 pts for the stone and the spell so that is a choice.

2. You need to spend +5 per pathfinder... so that is 120 instead of 100 as listed.

3. Agreed get the Bright Lance instead of the Starcannon on the Wraithlord.

4. 6 Fire dragons are one shot and dead. Just add a standard Firedragon and lose the exarch.

5. Save 5 pts on the one falcon and go EML instead of starcannon.

6. You are lacking a troop choice that can survive and capture objectives. Perhaps a 6-man Dire Avenger unit. You can let the dragons or banshees walk and get those avengers to actually claim not just contest an objective.

7. Unless you have a specific plan for them, I would lose all the upgrades on the falcons. That is enought to field a bike squad, guardian squad or DA squad. You are very light on numbers. It is not 4th Ed rules so those Falcons are not invulnerable anymore so +45 for stones/field is a lot of cost.

Personally, I like to either build around Dire Avengers or Guardians and don't run them mixed too often. DA exarch is not truly needed and the power weapon is not going to kill much at S3 or cause you to win many combats so that is kind of a waste. Just give him the catapult or two catapults and bladestorm. Better yet, with all you saved, get another DA squad out there or maybe two. Between Doom and 2 or 3 potential bladestorms you can knock out any hoard charge.

I agree that the falcon should have a missile. That way you fire it frag as a defensive weapon. And since falcons are really just transports anyway, they'll be moving at least for a couple of turns.

But if you're going to drop falcon upgrades, at 1500, I agree that you should, think about losing them entirely and going with serpents. That will allow you to up the number of banshees you've got. Or get more jetbikes.