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Hey guys. So I play a lot of small scale games due to the majority of my friends being relatively new to the hobby, and the nearest gaming store being an hour's drive away. I play eldar and for our 500 point games my lists all seem to end up as some variation of the following.
Avatar or Farseer
Guardians
Guardians
X unit. (warp spiders, jetbikes, wraithknight, a tank of some sort... pretty much whatever list I roll for, as we do random list selection to prevent list tailoring.)

Anywho, it's getting a bit dull running the same sort of list over and over, and I know there's not a lot of room for variation in a 500 point list, but I figured I'd ask you knowledgeable gentlemen what your favourite 500 point eldar list would be. Some things to note are that I play mainly against Tau (hence avoiding rangers), and Necrons. Winning is not my main objective as we are extremely casual, so don't feel the need to avoid silly lists.

What I've got to work with:
HQ:
Avatar
both autarch variations, and one on jetbike
3 or 4 farseers
about 6 warlocks
every phoenix lord except Jain Zhar and Asurmen

Troops
60 guardians
10 jetbikes (3 cannons)
15 rangers
20 dire avengers, 2 exarchs

Elites
5 fire dragons
5 howling banshees
5 striking scorpions
12 wraithguard (7 old bases, 5 new bases)

Fast
10 warp spiders
1 vyper
10 swooping hawks

Heavy
3 weapon platforms
3 warwalkers
1 falcon
1 fire prism
4 dark reapers
1 wraithknight
1 wraithlord

and a few wave serpents.

So preferably using what I've got, throw me some FUN 500 point lists! winning not required! (I know I am SEVERELY lacking in the elites department. don't worry they're next on my shopping list)

I would say a really fun list would be

HQ
farseer

Troops
5 dire avengers
5 dire avengers

Heavy support
Wraithnight w/ 2 shuriken cannon

Wraithknight at 500pts? How is that a 'fun' list?

Do you still play full organisation chart at that level? (Our group plays 0-1 HQ, 0-1 Elite, 1+ Troops, 0-1 Fast Attack and 0-1 Heavy Support)

RyanCoyle40k wrote:
I would say a really fun list would be

HQ
farseer

Troops
5 dire avengers
5 dire avengers

Heavy support
Wraithnight w/ 2 shuriken cannon

meybe fun for him to play, but not for his oponent.

also why the 2 shuiken cannons? he can only shoot 2 weapons a turn, so those shuken cannons probally wont ever fire.

I would recommend something along these lines

(120) Farseer- Singing Spear, Jetbike
(61) 3 Guardian Jetbikes- Shuriken Cannon
(195) 5 Dire Avengers : Wave Serpent- tl Scatter Laser, Shuriken Cannon
(60) War Walker- 2 Shuriken Cannons
(60) War Walker- 2 Shuriken Cannons

The Jetbikes are your second troop and some albative wounds for your Farseer, and it gives you a lot of solid fire power. If the Min DA Squad and Serpent seems too cheesy for you, it is easily replaced by

(60) 5 Rangers
(135) Falcon- Bright Lance