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Okay Gents,
This was a list submitted for my article on beginner army lists. I want to submit it for C&C to be properly "accepted" by DakkaDakka. So I post it here:

Hq
Farseer-Doom RoWarding (95)

Troops
10 Storm Guardians w/ 2 Flamers + Warlock- Destructor (127)
Wave Serpent- EML, SS (130)

6 Jetbikes w/ 2 Cannons + Jetlock- Embolden, Singing Spear (205)

Elite
6 Fire Dragons (96)
Wave Serpent- Cannons, SS (110)

Heavy Support
Night Spinner (115)

3 Warwalkers- Cannons (120)

Submitted by: alspal8me

Thank you gents for your time!

It's differnt. I do not know how Night Spinners work in game, I imagine they could be fun. I'm not a fan of Storm Guardians, but it looks like you have them to drive them into a bunch of units so it could be fun to run them like that. Will the farseer be heading out with them?

It looks very good. Storm Guardians with flamers are a very solic choice.

Test it out, the only thing that i see changing is the Night Spinner if it doesn't perform, but honestly couldn't tell you what to replace it with. You could drop your firedragons down to 5 and then remove the night spinner and you should have the points for another 3 War Walkers.

Unfortunately, I don't think this list will do very well.

Eldar have to rely on being incredibly mobile and capping objectives with our hard to kill WS. Jetbikes just aren't a good enough substitute. You also NEED a Guideseer for the Warwalkers, who need Scatter Lasers.

Obviously, this can't be accomplished at this point total. That brings me to my main point: Eldar simply aren't a viable choice at 1000 points. If you want to play a 1000pt game, take a different army. Eldar need at least 1500 to be competitive, anything below that and you're simply unable to build a good army. It's sad, but true

Interesting to stumble back across this list

Ive put this list through the hurdles at several tournaments at my FLGS and its done incredibly well, I actually only play my Eldar at 1k anymore creates a much more tactical game where a single loss can really cripple an army

Night spinner is invaluable at 1k not everything is mech, if it is all the better since they have sunk points into transport KPs. Ive run this with a single Fire prism as well but the ability to threaten the whole board is worth giving up the adaptable nature of the prism.

Walkers with cannons also cram in a lot of punch in small points games out flank them into the back of rhino rush armies or hordes and for 40pts a model they really are a steal.

ill have to see if i can scrounge up a Battle rep i wrote in the last tourney i brought this list to. Tabled a list using a LR/ SS/TH list at 1k was a fun fight against a cheesy list like that

Edit: Also does quite well with soft scores in my neck of the woods which is always a nice little bonus, not that i would change anything if soft scores weren't there

Drop the stones and upgrade the Dragons to an EML and I give it a A+.

That's a pretty good list. The lack of CC disturbs me, but hey that's me.

I haven't seen night spinners in many lists, but on paper they're pretty good (especially against hordes) and as you say, they can threaten anything on the whole board.

So the changes i'd make. I would drop the warlock from the Jetbikes. I guess he's there to zoom around to the side/rear of a tank and take it out with his spear? That's ok but I think he's wasted as jetbikes are really used for zooming round, shooting the odd things and grabbing objectives. I might also consider putting them into 2 groups of 3. Finally i'd use the points to upgrade the war walkers to have scatter lasers or EMLs.

Updates have been made to the list, which is now posted in my article below! Many thanks gents!

Comments about your posted lists:

500pts:
Change the Exarch to have dual-catapults, not a pistol+Diresword. It's better and cheaper.

Change the Farseer from Doom+Fortune to Doom+Guide. Guide works incredibly well with Bladestorm.

This frees up enough points to take an extra Banshee.

1000pts:
Drop a Fire Dragon and change their WS to be TL-Cannon. This squad is a suicide squad, so you want to minimize points.

You can then drop the Singing Spear off the Warlock on Bike, and give the Farseer Spirit Stones and Guide.