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My friends are stupid, and i thought i would give them a list to work off of as a intervention. The Eldar player has a habbit of fielding bad units, and not enough of them. The tau player likes to put so much upgrades on stuff its not even funny, and then he doesnt use 3/4 of them. These are lists, me and another friend collaborated on, and we think theyre pretty good for our purposes, which is tag team 1500 each with a random partner (BT, Necrons, Tau, Eldar, Nids and Daemonhunters are the armies in our group of friends). The nid player plays Nidzillia, and me and the BT player have 3+ saves, so AP is well apreaciated. I also get decimated by CC units. The Daemonhunter is a lost cause.



Eldar 1500

<HQ>
Farseer
-Spirit Stones
-Fortune
-Guide
-Doom
[150]

<Elites>
Fire Dragons x5
Wave Serpent
-Star Cannons
-Spirit Stones
[215]

Striking Scorpions x10
Exarch
-Biting Blade
-Stalker
-Shadowstrike
[202]

Striking Scorpions x10
Exarch
-Biting Blade
-Stalker
-Shadowstrike
[202]

<Troops>
Dire Avengers x10
Exarch
-Two Shuriken Catapults
-Bladestorm
[152]

Dire Avengers x10
Exarch
-Two Shuriken Catapults
-Bladestorm
[152]

Dire Avengers x10
Exarch
-Two Shuriken Catapults
-Bladestorm
[152]

<Heavy Support>
Fire Prism
-Holofield
[140]

Fire Prism
-Holofield
[140]

Total: 1505
56 Models + 3 Tanks
7 AP 2 Shots, 2 AP2 Blast Templates

You could try to get rid of 45pts. For Shimmershields on all of the Dire Avenger Exarchs (15 pts ea.) and that protects them from Power weapons.

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Tau 1500

<HQ>
Shas’O Commander
-Plasma Rifle
-Airbursting Fragmentation Projector
-Multi-Tracker
[120]

Body Guard Team
2 Crisis Suits
-Plasma Rifles
-Flamers
-Targeting Array
[138]

<Troops>
Fire Warriors x10
[120]

Fire Warriors x10
[120]

Fire Warriors x10
[120]

Fire Warriors x10
[120]

Fire Warriors x10
[120]

Fire Warriors x10
[120]

<Heavy Support>
Broadsides x 2
-Team Leader
-Target Lock
-2x Shield Drones
[190]

Broadsides x 2
-Team Leader
-Target Lock
-2x Shield Drones
[190]

Hammerhead
-Railgun
-Burst Cannons
[150]

Total: 1505
7 Suits, 60 Models, 1 Tank
11 AP 2 Shots.

Option: Drop any of the heavy support choices to wiggle in 2 sniper drone teams (for the ap3)


What do you guys think about these lists. I think theyre pretty darn good, but i want to know if you guys find any flaws.

Tau suck. Those Aspect Warriors will eat them alive.

You could take an Avatar instead of the Farseer but Farseer is always good. Meltagun, general ownage and it gives you a 4th large target on the table.

Tau need Missile Pods. Following which they will continue to suck.

There are way too many squads of fire warriors in the Tau army, but I like the Eldar army it is very stable.

What would you suggest to replace the fire warriors? There needs to be 1+ of them, and might as well make the most of them. The kroot arent going to do any good against all the assault armies. Against me, they could do something, but im 1/5 opponents that they would work on.

I suppose i could drop some in favor of more crisis suits. Stealth suits suck ass, and are completley underperforming IMO. I could see Piranhas doing well, but theres already 5 railguns in the list.

In view of the Eldar list, foot slogging is a slow way to die.
I'd mount the Dire Avengers into Serpents and drop those Scorpions.