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Ive tried a list with harlequins a few times now & Im coming to understand the term glass hammer & in the list I put em with, it was too shooty (generally too mixed)

So ive reconcidered and decided I like dakka more at the moment so (Comments and dissmissals all welcome) :

1xAvatar

5xpathfinders

10xguardains
+Scatter

10xguardains
+Scatter
+Warlock
+ Spiritseer

6xWarp spyders
+Exarch
+Spinneret rifle (Purely shooty role - surprise assault redundant now?)

1xwraithlord
+Shruiken cannon (Scat L prefered but points..)
+Eldar Missile launcher

2x Fire prisms

The way I see me using this is having the avatar & guardains together with the wraithlord close by to the spiritseer. Out of the two the lord is more vunerable to proper AT fire where-as the avatar is making all my guardains fearless + hes quite powerful. My prisms will largely go after whirld-winds and other troop killy blasty stuff over standard anti-armor battletanks.

Pathfinders infiltrate and are my surviveable troops supported by the warp spyders jumping ahead to cover them then moving on to general jump, shoot and annoy/pin/make go boom etc.

I Like having the lord (with the assault Scat lasers) as a nice mobile fire base. Im gonna go for volume over ap weaponary on the whole & rely on the pathfinders for TEQ dealings. Its a small list and definetely footslogging. Id scale it and keep it footslogging.

In all honesty in a purely shooty army I'd take a farseer over an avatar, give him spirit stones and runes of witnessing and have him spam guide and fortune.

I don't know what i think about two prisms in a 1k point list. Yes they can link and toast MEQ, but the other side is that if one is even glanced they cant link and only one can fire and they have no transport capacity. If you want tank hunting drop the prisms for another lord with a BL/EML combo as well as upgrading the other's ShuriCat to a BL.

Also I dont know how your points are working out but I'd give that unit of Guardians a lock w/conceal or they are just a target.

i don't know what to say about the warp spiders, I havent play tested them enough. Some love them and some hate them.

At such a small point army, there isnt anything worth fielding to couple with a farseer. A second wraithlord is a good amount of dakka but its slower, shorter ranged & those focoused blasts are pretty good at toasting MEQ's. Granted its not a large linked blast but with all these combat squads slinking around I reckon (and have shot at, many a time) focoused singular shots are just fine. Also, people shoot at the avatar. Tis fine by me, the wraithlord will live longer. As for conceal... Points. It 'may' be worth 1 spyder and spiritseer but I reckon not, with the amount of cover (I can sit in and still be in range with my scat l's) to be had.

Also being able to deal with a monolith or LRC, or big bunch of nasty marines is quite nice because I face people who do field em.

Warp spyders...well.. they replaced some harlequins. Somthing shooty. I like my heavy sup slots. Leaves me fast attack/dragons/jetbikes.

Dragons are too short ranged to be footslogging. Jetbikes - well I like that spinneret rifle ok

I really like Warp Spiders but a unit of 6 is pretty small. One or two units shooting at them will probably cause a morale test, especially if exarch is killed. That is an expensive unit to lose, especially in a 100 point battle.

3d6 fallback sucks.

At least those small squads of guardians will be fearless

Let me know how it goes. So what are you fighting?

Tyranids, necron, tau, space marines. Possibly some imperial guard..so a bit of everything really.

Heres me thinkings on the spyders in terms of being shot at & running away;

The exarch will be the last to go (due to that cool rifle) but otherwise thier all similar in equipment and stats bar +1A. Ld is 9 so more respectable than guardains.. I hope to shoot my spyders, then pull them back & either past blocking terrain or out of range (but 12'' distance + 2d6 is only good for rapid fire/18'' weaponary) - that said its risky as they could always loose models and depending on placement, may have to take difficult terrain tests as jump infantry. A good amount of dakka though.

I want things to shoot at the two monsterous creatures.. if they dont, they wont go away & the lords immune to str 4 weapons where-as the avatar is weaker but has an invunerable. Plus, as this scale of play.. there wont be that many units able to fire - so my idea is target priority saturation.

The guardains can and probably will go down veery quickly. I cant afford conceal. cheap though.

Razerous wrote:

The exarch will be the last to go (due to that cool rifle) but otherwise thier all similar in equipment and stats bar +1A. Ld is 9 so more respectable than guardains.

Well, that is where I'm thinking this unit might have problems. With only six models you'll probably start having to make armour saves on the exarch after the first volley of shots. Odds are he won't be the first to go but odds are he won't be the last

I certainly won't try to dissuade you. Like I said, I run two units, I just haven't had much luck when they are in smaller units.

Ahaa, i see what you mean. Only 17pts (extra) lost if he does get gibbed.. at 1k im hoping that there wont be much shooting to go round.