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I was thinking running a list something like this.
Please excuse any errors, its more an idea than a list at the moment.
The idea is to have a very focused shooting eldar and brutal assault dark eldar.
All ideas and critique welcome.

Eldrad

2 x 5 pathfinders

1 x 10 dire avengers
W/exarch bladestorm & wave serpent

1 x 5 fire dragon
W/exarch, crack shot & falcon

1 x 3 dark reapers
Wexarch, crack & fast shot

Aigis defense line


3 x haemonculi
W/ liquifier guns & venom blade
1 web way portal

1 x 10 wracks
W/ liquifier gun arthosist & raider

1 x 8 grotesques
W/ abboration scissorhand & liquifier gun

Haemonculi do not give FNP to eldar. They give a pain token which only works if the unit has power from pain. Unless you were trying to stick them all in the grotesque unit? im not seeing how that would work either.

Are the grotesques the only thing in the portal? Without the ability to assault out of the portal it really makes that trick quite expensive and not really very strong.

DR exarch cant use both crack and fast shot in the same turn, so he does not need both. If you want to take DR, you need an exarch with crack shot and tempest launcher. Otherwise the unit does not do enough wounds to make it worth it. The unit is incredibly costly for the few wounds it can put out.

Eldrad, fire dragons, and a falcon all make 1 heck of a fire magnet. That transport will be blown open before it gets anywhere near the enemy, leaving eldrad in the open with a 5 man squad that probably got 1-2 guys whacked from the explosion.

If you want to run this list, run a haemonculi w the portal, the grotesques with another haemonculi, 2 full squads of dire avengers w exarch, bladestorm, and 2x catapults, and 2 squads of 6-8 fire dragons with exarch, crack shot, and pike in the portal. Portal moves up 1st turn and drops it 24" away from your board edge then goes to ground to survive fire. Then, your turn sees your troops able to move out 30" from your board edge and fire 12-18" into the enemy, giving you full shots from pretty much any squad that comes out. Grotesques are counter-charge/ screening. Also yriel might be a good addition to one of the squads as he can take on just about anything and be perfectly fine.

I did intend to run all the haemonculi with the dark eldar.
1 with the wracks and 2 with the grotesques to max out on pain tokens early, giving me quite reliable wound spam

Grotesques can play with wound allocation and look out sir, but still throw enough attacks at most things to tear through plenty.
Rangers can snipe characters out of squads to really make this idea effective, stopping any "to die" characters soaking up
Wounds
Reapers I was going to stick with the aigis defense line to use exarch powers and the fire dragons and dire avengers as general support.

Looking at it now I'm thinking I need some more mobile firepower to back the DE as rangers should be sitting on objectives.
Dire avengers sound good for this.

As for what's being held in reserve I'm still pondering.

Could guardian blob squads with an avitar & conceal warlocks make for a better fire support than avengers?