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Having problems dealing with my friends eldar corsairs (IA11). He brings a heavy mech list with 2 falcons with pulse lasers and rockets, 2 Hornets with 2 pulse lasers a Venom and a Corsair fire storm (TL anti air). For troops he brings two squads of corsairs with the prince going in one of the squads. He also has a squad of harlequins and a far seer with a jet bike squad. He also has a flyer but im not sure on the name of it right now.

Idk if you are fimilar with facing corsairs but they eat up tyranid MCs, even in cover. most are bs 4 and have ap 2 & 3 weapons at 36in range. His fire storm prevents me from flying up with flyrants and harpys. The thing that really kills me is that all his vehicles are skimmers so 5+ cover plus his prince has a speical one time in the game ability that lets him turn night fighting on for one turn making his vehicles have 4+ or 3+ cover saves.

Anything you can think of other then drop poding hice guards and zonethropes to take out all his tanks?? He usually hides in the corner and kills me from a distance then rushes after hes killed most of my MCs and takes the objectives easy.

Why no Hive Guard? It's probably the perfect shooting unit vs Corsair vehicles consdering the speciAl rules of their shots?

All the stuff that you have listed is AV12 or worse and most of it is very overcosted. Falcons havent been good since 3rd, even the corsair ones. Hornets are decent, but ungodly expensive with 2x pulse lasers for their defensive profile. Firestorm is a joke, so bad that only someone who wants to find an excuse to run it would do so.

The generic 2x flyrant, 6x hive guard, 3x tervigon list beats this any day.

Falcons are 160 points for 3 BS4 S8 shots. A las/las pred is less points for 3 lascannon shots that also TL one. a longfang squad is 2/3 the cost for 5 S8 AP3 shots. This isnt a very unusual amount of fire for that cost.

Hornets are AV11 and i believe 2 HP meaning your hive guard hit them and they should die easily. 2x pulse lasers are nice, but they are ~155 points for that setup IIRC.

Firestorms do nothing to tyrants with iron arm and very little to even generic ones. 6 shot BS4 TL S6 means he will score ~2 wounds on the tyrant that you can save. Passing your grounding test means you may lose a wound that turn, but are likely to come out with no wounds. When you factor iron arm firestorm's wounds drop to 0 fast. Also, the firestorm is 180 points.

Ymargl stealers kill this list as skimmers are not hard to hit in melee. Hive guard kill this list as it ignores jink and is reliable high str. Zoans kill this list with only needin 1 or 2 pens to kill or cripple and the pod's S6 can even be effective vs rear armor or the hornets. TL dev fexes and tyrants strip HP all over the place and outright kill hornets. Nids have all the options to deal with this. If he brought a real strong Corsair list this could be a problem but this list, not really.