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So I've been playing 40k for a little over a year and have spent that time playing Blood angels. I was looking to switch it up a little and here's the Eldar list I threw together.

Farseer: Jetbike
Dire Avengers: 10 man
Guardians: 10 man, Wave serpent
Rangers: 5 man
Warpspiders: 10 man
Warwalkers: 3 wakers, 6x scatter lasers
Baron:
Hellions: 9 man
Ravanger: Dark lances, Flickerfield, night shields

What do you guys think?

Nice skeleton list. Only things I could suggest is to swap the second scatter laser for something else to make use of laser lock (Star cannons are nice as then you can hunt MC's as well). Drop nightshields, If your close enough for these to help, your doing it wrong...unless deep striking melta, but your dead anyway and he doesn't need the extra d6. Give the serpent (SL and unslug shuri cannon, Holofield) to the avengers who need it more, give guardians a heavy weapon to fire from hiding backfield. Drop some spiders (Down to 7/8) to add in an exarch with spinneret rifle with fast shot (Its worth it, it takes 9 spiders to put out that many ap1 wounds).

That's it really, as my next suggestion is only an option. Drop the rangers to give the farseer mantle of the laughing god to make him all but unkillable in shooting (2+ re-rollable cover save) and use the extra 20pts give the hellions a helliarch with venom blade or something so he can tank the challenge.

Alex.

Why do the avengers need the serpent more?

Is the mantle worth it? I had thought of taking it but had decided not to include it because I was worried about Helldrakes and Tau's ignore cover.

Nightshield's seem like they're worth it as it puts out of range of things like misslesides and other 36 inch range weapons.

Mantle is worth it unless your meta is full of markerlight spamming tau. The heldrake isn't really that dangerous because you are T4 and have a 4+ invul save so no insta death and you ignore 1 in 2 wounds. Against tau the game is always take out the markerlights first, and if you do then this guy is just as good against them as anything else. Its also not that hard to hide a single model on a jetbike from markerlights (A wave serpent is enough to hide him completely). Its 40pts to make your warlord all but immune to conventional shooting and the jetbike makes him all but immune to assault, not a bad use of 40pts.

Avengers need the serpent more because the avengers can't function well backfield, guardians can. Give them a heavy weapon and maybe a conceal lock and you have a perfect backfield camper. Avengers are made to be midfield shooting stuff, the serpent helps their role more then it does the guardians.

I believe missile pods are assault? Or suits are relentless or something? Even if they are not, a snap firing broadside is still a considerable threat to a ravager. Nightfields work best at stopping mid/short range fire power, it stops being effective with long range fire power because the most common AV (Las cannons, missiles) can out range even that. Its a preference choice, but i simply don't think it will come into use as much as a fast shotting exarch will.