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Home for the holidays and I dug out some old Eldar, I have 1500 points pretty much exactly. Wondering how this list would fare in casual play. I don't want to add much in the way of models, until I finish my other army: I would maybe pick up 1/2 units if it would make a huge difference. I had more, hopefully I can dig them up.

HQ

Farseer, singing spear, witnessing 120 - probably chills with the quad gun and some guardians

Troops

Dire avengers x5 65

Wave serpent (TL scatter, cannon, holo field) - 145

Guardian avengers x10 (starcannon) - 110

Wave serpent (TL bright lance, cannon, holo field) - 145

Guardian avengers x10 (bright lance) - 110

Wind rider x3 cannon - 61

Elites:

Striking scorpions x5 exarch, scorpion claw, monster hunter -120

Fast attack

Vyper (brightlance, cannon, holo field) 85

Heavy

Wraithlord (starcannon, glaive) 145

Wraithlord (bright lance, glaive) 145

Wraithlord (starcannon, glaive) 145

Fortifications

Aegis defense line - quad gun

Possibly three Wraithlords is too many for "casual", but that depends entirely on your local players.

Looks like a fairly fun / solid list, and should be hilarious in Big Guns with scoring Wraithlords!

Whilst I shan't suggest adding any units, perhaps shuffling the heavy weapons about would be a benefit:
Scatter Lasers on the Wave Serpents, so sayeth the Internet.
Scatter Laser or Shuricannon on the Vyper turret, to synergise with the under slung.
If you feel you need more Lances after these changes, add them to the Wraithlords instead of Starcannons.

I would only suggest one unit, the crown of Eldar cheese (no not another WS!) a farseer on bike with MotLG.

Either way id go double lances on all WLs, double cannons on vyper, and twin scatters on WSs.

If you have some cash to spend and want something slightly more competitive then just add another Ws for the guardian squad, and maybe some spiders because they are cool.

I do have some weapons lying around so I can shuffle those. Most of the models are old metal ones and the old wraith lords can only accommodate one weapon unless I think of some conversion which won't be hard just might look funny.

I might grab the Farseer bike that would be cool and not a huge cash outlay to upgrade what I have.

I believe it will make the army more competitive by far with 6 lances and a shriekseer.

Thanks, yea that is definitely good advice. I will round up the bits I need and a farseer bike.

What I did for my jetseer was take a guardian bike use the body and use some green stuff on the helmet to make the farseer crest (you can add detail to the green stuff by pressing detailed objects into it gently) used a GK halberd as a singing spear, and a Empire knights wolf cape to add epicness (capes always make things look epic).

Haha yes it needs to be the most epic. I think at some point in the history of the game the jetbikes had exarchs, All three of my riders have metal bodies and one is holding a sword. He is the one I would convert, and buy a plastic one to fill the troops back up. I can swap the sword for a spear pretty easily, (probably ninja the one from my current farseer) and I have some Mordheim guys I can steal a cape from.

Hmm, maybe a staff with 2 short sword heads so hes like darth maul but cooler because hes on a bike?

Yea I could go for something like that haha. I think I can clean this list up well if I snag a few ebay dire avengers and bikes and swap around weapons.

HQ

(1) Farseer (spear, bike, motlg) - 145

(2) Warlock - spear - 40
(shrouds the guardian blob in the aegis and mans the gun)

Troops

(1) Dire avengers x5 -65

Wave serpent (scatter, holo field, cannon) - 145

(2) Dire avengers x5 -65

Wave serpent (scatter, holo field, cannon) - 145

(3) Guardian avengers x20 (2x starcannon) - 220
Blob in the aegis and enjoy their nice invul saves.

(4) Windrider jetbikes x7 (cannonx2) - 139

Heavy support

(1) Wraithlord (ghost glaive, bright lance) 145

(2) Wraithlord (ghost glaive, bright lance) 145

(3) Wraithlord (ghost glaive, bright lance) 145

Fortification

Aegis defense line + quad gun - 100

Total - 1499

Only change would be drop the 1 useless jetbike dude and take spirit stone of anathan for the farseer, se he can kill more stuff.

Heh ok then its settled. Seems I did ok for myself when I bought these units in the third edition. It was originally an Iyandin army but I can't find any of the wraithguard, but I still have all the wraithlords.

Haha, I like the old ed WLs so tiny (actualy the size of the new wraithguard models).

Darn for only another 60pts you could have double lances on all WLs, maybe find someone who wants to play 1600pts? Just add double lances and upgrade the warlock to a spiritseer and with 15pts left over you can take the rending singing spear of "why did I buy this?".