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Hey!
This is my first draft up of my Eldar Pathfinder army. If you have any suggestions as to what I'm doing well, wrong it would be greatly appreciated! Tell me what you think, all comments are greatly appreciated.
Thanks!


GRAND TOTAL = 1508pts

HQ #1: Eldrad Ulthran - 210pts

HQ #2: Farseer - 140pts
Psychic Powers: Guide & Mind War
+ Runes of Witnessing
+ Runes of Warding
+ Spirit Stones

Troop Choice #1: Rangers x9 - 216pts
+ Pathfinders x9

Troop Choice #2: Rangers x9 - 216pts
+ Pathfinders x9

Troop Choice #3: Rangers x9 - 216pts
+ Pathfinders x9

Heavy Support #1: Wraithlord - 170pts
Flamers x2
+ Brightlance
+ Brightlance

Heavy Support #2: Wraithlord - 170pts
Flamers x2
+ Brightlance
+ Brightlance

Heavy Support #3: Wraithlord - 170pts
Flamers x2
+ Brightlance
+ Brightlance

I'd drop second farseer for avatar... He would be nice adition to the army... You really don't need farseer with eldrad...

You will lose against horde armies... You need something with lots of shots... Perhaps changing one wraithlord for 3 warwallkers (that's 24s6 shots)...

Also, rather take ML and BL on wraithlords... 2 BL makes it TL... So it's better to have (and cheaper) 2s8 shots than 1 TL S8 shot...

This can be a very fun list, but it won't win a lot of games. You have almost zero firepower and even less mobility. For an idea of how much damage you'll do:

A squad of 9 Pathfinders: 9 shots; 3 regular hits, 3 AP1 hits; 1 regular wound, 0.5 rending wounds, 1.5 AP1 wounds (0.5 of which are also rending). So, you'll do a total of 2 wounds at AP1 and 1 wound at AP6. Factor in that you have three squads, and you'll be killing 7 MEQ per turn. And, if you give the Marines cover saves, you're only killing 4 a turn. It's a little better when you factor in guide and doom, but not a whole lot.

I'd really recommend dropping one of the Pathfinder squads and taking DA. They put out way more firepower than Pathfinders.

Drop your 2nd Farseer. Eldrad is already eating up 210 of your 1500 points, don't sink 140 more into HQ.

I like Wraithlords, but they aren't great. Don't run Dual-Brightlance. That makes them twin-linked rather than giving you a 2nd shot. Run them with a single Brightlance and an EML.

I like the suggestion of an Avatar. He's big and scary. He gives your opponent another MC to worry about. Keeping Fortune active on him makes him very hard to kill. He keeps any nearby Pathfinders fearless. And, he's more anti-vehicle (which your army is very lacking).

Also, your list is 8 points over.

Grakmar wrote:This can be a very fun list, but it won't win a lot of games. You have almost zero firepower and even less mobility. For an idea of how much damage you'll do:

A squad of 9 Pathfinders: 9 shots; 3 regular hits, 3 AP1 hits; 1 regular wound, 0.5 rending wounds, 1.5 AP1 wounds (0.5 of which are also rending). So, you'll do a total of 2 wounds at AP1 and 1 wound at AP6. Factor in that you have three squads, and you'll be killing 7 MEQ per turn. And, if you give the Marines cover saves, you're only killing 4 a turn. It's a little better when you factor in guide and doom, but not a whole lot.

I'd really recommend dropping one of the Pathfinder squads and taking DA. They put out way more firepower than Pathfinders.

Drop your 2nd Farseer. Eldrad is already eating up 210 of your 1500 points, don't sink 140 more into HQ.

I like Wraithlords, but they aren't great. Don't run Dual-Brightlance. That makes them twin-linked rather than giving you a 2nd shot. Run them with a single Brightlance and an EML.

I like the suggestion of an Avatar. He's big and scary. He gives your opponent another MC to worry about. Keeping Fortune active on him makes him very hard to kill. He keeps any nearby Pathfinders fearless. And, he's more anti-vehicle (which your army is very lacking).


Also, your list is 8 points over.

Thanks for the heads up dude. Really helpful. I'll bear it in mind when composing a secondary prototype list. Although I'm probably going to steer away from playing castle-Eldar and try something more mobile. I'll put a link in this thread when I've sorted it out. I really want to incorpirate my Harlequins into my list. I'll keep you posted.
Thanks again! Much appreciated.

Well hard and heavy eldars aren't bad at all... It is nice army that can sustain lots of firepower and advance towards opponent... If this is the kind of army you want to play, I wouldn't discourage you...

Basic hard and heavy is made from wraithlords with Bl and eml, avatar, eldrad, wraithguards and harlequins... It is quite a nice army...

So basically you have this or full mech army... seer lists can be fun too...

Chinchilla wrote:Well hard and heavy eldars aren't bad at all... It is nice army that can sustain lots of firepower and advance towards opponent... If this is the kind of army you want to play, I wouldn't discourage you...

Basic hard and heavy is made from wraithlords with Bl and eml, avatar, eldrad, wraithguards and harlequins... It is quite a nice army...

So basically you have this or full mech army... seer lists can be fun too...

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I'm in the middle of composing a list that should be ready soon, sadly, with all the college work I've got I don't have time to chill out with a codex and play around with the list.
Thanks for the heads up and suggestions though! I'm taking them on board.