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I've been trying my damn best NOT to do Eldar with Dark Eldar Allies. I really have, but I can't quite find the right balance with my squads being Dark Eldar feat Eldar, so I thought I'd try to flip the script, even though point wise, it comes out to 650 Eldar, 800 Dark Eldar. I'm not even sure that is legal... but I didn't find anything about how much your allied contingent can account for, so for now, its all gravy.

Enough talk. Lets list.

HQ
115: Farseer with Eldar Jetbike
50: Warlocks with Eldar Jetbikes
105: Baron Sathonyx deploying with Farseer and Warlock with the squad of Windriders.

Elites
183: 4 Kabalite Trueborn with Blasters, in a Venom w/ Splinter Cannon Upgrade, Night Shields

Troops
180: 10 Kabalite Warriors with 1 Splinter Cannon in Raider with Nightshields and Splinter Racks
135: 5 Wyches with Haywire Grenades in a Venom w/ Splinter Cannon Upgrade, Night Shields
122: 6 Windrider Jetbikes with 2 Shuriken Cannon
60: 5 Rangers

Fast Attack
152: 8 Warp Spiders
123: 4 Reaver Jetbikes with 1 Blaster and 1 Cluster Caltrops

Heavy Support
125: Ravager with 3 Dark Lances, Night Shields and Grisly Trophies
150: Fire Prism with Holo Fields and Splinter Cannon

Total: 1497

So my big questions are as follows.
- Should I drop something to make space for DA in a Serpent?
- Should I drop something for a squad of WG? Maybe add a WL?
- Is this list too fragile to function?
- 2 squads of 5 spiders, or 1 of 8?
- Do Reapers or Rangers fit into this list at all?

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Beep.

Seems decent enough, I just question the size of your bike squads. Bikes should be in multiples of three to unlock the heavy guns, and if you combined your eldar bikes into 1 bigger unit you can best protect your farseer and make use of the baron. This also frees up points as you drop the second warlock. Maybe put the points into more reavers, warp spiders or heavy support/ a DA serpent?

Ah Serling. Always with the helpful tips of economizing squad sizes.

Ok, I dropped the extra Warlock and Jetbikes. With those points, I bought a squad of Rangers (which I needed to fill the force org chart and I now realize could also just be a squad of 3 bikes), and extra Spiders, but I couldn't afford the DA Serpent without gutting literally everything else. I really want to run it, but that would have taken the spiders down to 6, the both the Windriders and Reavers Jetbikes down to 3. Here's what it looks like with the Spam Serpent, compared to the list above. I'd love to hear thoughts on which one you all like better now.

HQ
115: Farseer with Eldar Jetbike
50: Warlocks with Eldar Jetbikes
105: Baron Sathonyx deploying with Farseer and Warlock with the squad of Windriders.

Elites
183: 4 Kabalite Trueborn with Blasters, in a Venom w/ Splinter Cannon Upgrade, Night Shields

Troops
180: 10 Kabalite Warriors with 1 Splinter Cannon in Raider with Nightshields and Splinter Racks
135: 5 Wyches with Haywire Grenades in a Venom w/ Splinter Cannon Upgrade, Night Shields
61: 3 Windrider Jetbikes with 1 Shuriken Cannon
195: 5 Dire Avengers in Wave Serpent with Shuriken Cannon and Twin Linked Scatter Laser

Fast Attack
114: 6 Warp Spiders
86: 3 Reaver Jetbikes with 1 Cluster Caltrops

Heavy Support
125: Ravager with 3 Dark Lances, Night Shields and Grisly Trophies
140: Fire Prism with Holo Fields

Thoughts?

Not sure what the Trophies are doing on the Ravager? It would make more sense to put them on the Venom with the Wyches.