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I have an upcoming mini-tournament coming up and I wish to try out Harlequins. Here is my list:

HQ:
Eldrad with 3 Warlocks with 1 Singing Spear, 1 Destructor, 1 Enhance and 1 Embolden - 318
Phoenix Lord Fuegan, The Burning Lance - 205

Elites:
5 Fire Dragons including an Exarch with Firepike and Crack Shot - 105
10 Harlequins with 7 Harlequins Kisses and 2 Fusion Pistols including Troupe Master with Power Weapon and Shadowseer and Death Jester - 288

Troops:
8 Dire Avengers including an Exarch with Power Weapon and Simmershield and Defend and Bladestorm in a Wave Serpent with Twin-Linked Eldar Missile Launcher and Shuriken Cannon and Spirit Stones - 283
5 Rangers all upgraded to Pathfinders - 120

Heavy Support:
Falcon with Eldar Missile Launcher and Holo-Fields and Spirit Stones - 180

Total: 1499 Points

Tactics:
I plan to have Eldrad and the Warlocks in the Wave Serpent with the Dire Avengers. He can back them up with Fortunes, Guides and Dooms. The Fire Dragons with Fuegan will be in the Falcon, heading straight for enemy vehicles. The Harlequins will remain hidden to pop out and mash infantry units in assault. The Pathfinders will simply sit on an Objective. Please comment any advice. Thanks in advance.

A few things. Eldrad can't go into the Wave Serpent with the DA's unless he's alone as an IC. The Retinue of warlocks make him a squad and thus he can't join units.

Harlequins are too hopped up, get rid of the troupe master (too many points for an upgrade of 1 attack and a PW) and the DJ who really isn't needed. Just take a squad with a shadowseer and all kisses and pistols.

Fire dragons don't need to be in a Falcon made for long distance killing. That's just... weird. Get them a serpent. DA's are better suited to being in a falcon. Also, both Fuegan and an exarch with a firepike are OVERKILL. just use 5 and fuegan, or 5 with exarch, or just 6 normal ones. They'll kill just about anything.

Obviously you'll need to decide what to do with the warlocks because your plan for them is illegal.

Sorry, but its a mess.
Drop Fuegan and the FD Exarch. Give the FDs as said a Serpent with stones and shuricannon.
Beef up the DA to 10 men and give the Exarch blade storm, nothing else. The DA units shouldn't be shot (by clever deployment) if possibly and never been charged.
You need to decide what to do with the HQ.
Eldrad is too expensive at the 1500 pt level and 3 Warlocks are never enough.
Take a FortuneSeer with both runes and 8 Warlocks with enhance and embolden in a cheap Serpent.

Agreed with Wuestenfux.

FD exarchs may be pretty cool on paper, but in games they rarely do more than the average fire dragon

I agree all on these points. Mainly:
1. Too much HQ. A farseer (D/G+Stones and RoWarding) ought to do, or just Eldrad.
2. Exarch FD needs a demotion.

One point not brought up:
With the points freed up by tossing an HQ, get another Troop. General rule of thumb: a troop choice per 500 points, and you're gonna need the 3rd in a tourney.

I could see the two characters at 2k+, but not 1500.

Zain60 wrote:A few things. Eldrad can't go into the Wave Serpent with the DA's unless he's alone as an IC. The Retinue of warlocks make him a squad and thus he can't join units.

Harlequins are too hopped up, get rid of the troupe master (too many points for an upgrade of 1 attack and a PW) and the DJ who really isn't needed. Just take a squad with a shadowseer and all kisses and pistols.

Fire dragons don't need to be in a Falcon made for long distance killing. That's just... weird. Get them a serpent. DA's are better suited to being in a falcon. Also, both Fuegan and an exarch with a firepike are OVERKILL. just use 5 and fuegan, or 5 with exarch, or just 6 normal ones. They'll kill just about anything.

Obviously you'll need to decide what to do with the warlocks because your plan for them is illegal.

Semi correct, Eldrad or a Farseer with warlocks is never a retinue, but you are correct that DA + Eldrad + Warlocks can't go in the serpent. Drop the 3 man locks, it's a pointless unit that won't achieve any role.

Overall you are overspending on just about every unit in the list, which leads me to believe you are short on models and stretching for points. If this is the case nothing will really fix it but shelling out a few more bucks lol.

BlueDagger wrote:If this is the case nothing will really fix it but shelling out a few more bucks lol.

Alas. Isn't it always money that's missing?

Money missing? If you want to play 40k? Maybe you should look for another game to play.

wuestenfux wrote:Money missing? If you want to play 40k? Maybe you should look for another game to play.

sad but true

True, but most people have so many unpainted models that by the time they get through them all, they can buy more models.

I completely agree with all the previous posters, except I'm not sold on one idea fully.

Definately:
No Fuegan, no FD Exarch, 10-man Avengers, Harlies need trimmed heavily, Eldrad brought to a regular Farseer.

With those savings, I'd shoot for another DA squad with Serpent for more scoring opportunity.

As for the 'OMG 3 Locks are useless', I do not agree with this. Falcon transporting them around to deal with units they excel at killing is plenty useful IMO.

Farseer Faenyin wrote:I completely agree with all the previous posters, except I'm not sold on one idea fully.

Definately:
No Fuegan, no FD Exarch, 10-man Avengers, Harlies need trimmed heavily, Eldrad brought to a regular Farseer.

With those savings, I'd shoot for another DA squad with Serpent for more scoring opportunity.

As for the 'OMG 3 Locks are useless', I do not agree with this. Falcon transporting them around to deal with units they excel at killing is plenty useful IMO.

This is not 4th edition, a falcon should never be in range of an enemy threat unless it's with DA for scoring purposes. Eldrad with 3 locks would be good at killing a vehicle, but at 318pts there is a lot better options out there. 3 Warlocks aren't worth their space as a melee unit since they won't have the # of attacks to take most things down.