How essential is a Seer Council escort for a Farseer?

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**Mr. Mayhem**

Eldrad or otherwise. I can see the merits obviously, but it also seems like the points could be very useful elsewhere.

**Fafnir**

Not very necessary... but that depends on what you want your Farseer to be doing.

If you want him to support your other units, feth the council. It's all about the synergy.

**Tri**

your doing it wrong... farseer should boost the warlocks but not be with them... see any of the many threads about jetlocks.

**Sanctjud**

^
What Tri said.

Councils are pretty much the uber unit for Eldar... only if fortune is up though.
Otherwise it becomes a glass cannon.

**Kaotik**

I play against a friend of mine that plays Eldar quite a bit, so I have seen Farseers/Eldrad deployed in a number of ways.

I always found that tossing him into a Wave Serpent with a basic troop unit for wounds coverage is good protection, good mobility, and MUCH cheaper than a council. Using fortune on the Serpent for a re-roll on that cover save you get for jetting around the field, while dooming the opponents unit you plan to focus fire on that round from inside is pretty effective. Add hollow fields or whatever the thing is that makes them roll two dice on the dmg chart and you have a very tough outer shell for your Psyker to run around doing his thing.

EDIT:

Could not remember the name of the unit I was gonna recommend, but after looking it was Dire Avengers. Popping them out of his Serpent (probably best to leave him inside) and Blade Storming the unit you just doomed is a good way to quickly remove said unit.