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Please help a noob out folks, getting into fantasy! Be as HARSH as you can!

High Elf Prince (White Sword, Guardian Phoenix, Helm of Fortune, Dragon Armour, Shield, Barded Elven Steed) 276pts

High Elf Noble (BSB, Armour of Caledor, Helm of Fortune, Great weapon) 168pts

High Elf Mage (LVL2, Silver Wand, Lore of Death) 145pts
High Elf Mage (LVL 2, Silver Wand, Seerstaff, Lore of Life) 175pts

17 Sea Guard (Shields, Full Command) 246pts
28 Spearman (Full Command) 277pts

12 Swordmasters (Full Command) 210pts
12 Swordmasters (Full Command) 210pts
5 Dragon Princes of Caledor (Full Command, Banner of Ellyrion) 215pts

Eagle 50pts

28pts to spend

First off, you can't have multiple magic items, so no dual Silver wands or Helms of fortune. Also you can only have one magic item of any group on a character, so no silver wand and seerstaff on the same mage.

I would also give one of my mages High magic, too good to pass up, especially if you don't have an archmage in the list.

12 Swordmasters with full command isn't great. Probably replace them with 25 Phoenix Guard with full command and a magic banner, something like arcane protection.

Otherwise play and experience the game.

Drop the swordmasters and get Phoenix guard or run them in bigger units, . Otherwise play and lean.

Get a net list and collect that until you have a feel for the game then you branch out and tailor the list to your playstyle.

Or just do some research on dakka and work out what units to avoid spending your cold hard cash on.

The main objective wen collecting an army for a new rules system is not to feth up and buy a useless collection of models that simply cant win games.

I am a firm believer in that you dont need to win to have fun but you need to stand a chance and not loose every game or you will not get a good return on your investment.

List looks like you have too much points spent on Characters. This leads to too few Special units (no points for more). The Special units are the strength of the High Elves (mainly White Lions, Sword Masters, Phoenix Guard), so too few Special units means your army will probably not fare well. You only have slightly more points spent on Core then required, so that's good. I'd probably drop the Prince (or if you really want to field a Prince, drop one of the Mages) and spend the points on more Special.

As for upgrades, full command isn't really necessary on all units (generally: champions only for units that will be joined by Characters, musicians always, banners on combat units and if you need more Fortitude points for the Blood and Glory mission). As Turalon said, some of your Character Magic Item choices are illegal (no taking 2 Magic Items of the samy type on one Character, no taking the same Magic Items on multiple Characters).