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Ive played about 4 games of 6th edition over the last year and a half. All of them were different armies.

I have through addiction or accident, acquired about 30 of the new wraithguard and am in the process of converting some warpspiders.

I thought using the Iyanden rules was appropriate because of the Voice of Twighlight power.

Would foot slogging Wraithblade/guard work?

I'm looking about about 1500pts to start

I was thinking of
3 spiritseers (one with spaer of teuthlass)
9 WB with axes and forceshields
7 with Wraithcannons
7 with wraithcannons
7 with D-scythes
7 Warp Spiders
I've got about 180 pts left for maybe some bikers.

I know everyone's drooling with excitement over the SM codex, but there have to be a few Eldar players still around to comment. If not, some opponents to Eldar at least.

I'm not a fan of foot slogging overall as wave serpents seem to give so much more bang for buck.
I'd be tempted to have squads of 5 in serpents.

IIRC wraithguard are 30-35pts each? dropping 2 from the d-scythes and the wraithcannon squads will save about 210pts - add that to the 180 left and that'd be enough room for 2-3 wave serpents and would deal with the main problem of this list as I see it.
lack of speed - even with the voice of twilight, you're still foot slogging for a couple of turns before you're in range.
anything st6 ap3 (heldrakes I'm looking at you!)+ will result in losing too many wraiths to be very effective.
I do however like the wraithblades - a 4++ goes a long way.

Have you considered wraithknights or wraithlords? purely for the long ranged firepower.
At the moment, you've got no guns with a range bigger than 12" - I know spiders are fast so this helps, but you'll still struggle to close with the enemy fast enough and spiders can't do everything

buckero0 wrote:
Ive played about 4 games of 6th edition over the last year and a half. All of them were different armies.

I have through addiction or accident, acquired about 30 of the new wraithguard and am in the process of converting some warpspiders.

I thought using the Iyanden rules was appropriate because of the Voice of Twighlight power.

Would foot slogging Wraithblade/guard work?

I'm looking about about 1500pts to start

I was thinking of
3 spiritseers (one with spaer of teuthlass)
9 WB with axes and forceshields
7 with Wraithcannons
7 with wraithcannons
7 with D-scythes
7 Warp Spiders
I've got about 180 pts left for maybe some bikers.

yes wave serpents would really help this list. while it would probally become less of a "foot wraith list" it is still a wraith list, and a more comeptitve one also.

Agree tougness 6 will not get you as far as you think with 1 wound models. you may need to scale back and add wave serpents. im not a fan of wraithknights however it may be a model you want to look into.

If you want WG to footslog their way up, you need some distraction forces to draw fire away from them, as well as warlocks to add conceal.

WG have a very small threat range, so they will have difficulty corralling your enemy within range without support from other units. Which is why Wave Serpents are so often required.

I would add some Night Spinners, Reapers or War Walkers to "encourage" your enemy to move forward into the WG.