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Hi, this is perhaps a very honest and open post that you seldom see (but perhaps people should be showing this more often) I have limited time (as do we all) and I have a lot of painting to do so my question is - if you had the following list what army would you make out of t for a 1850 list and what priority would you paint them up in, and how would you play it:

bear in mind the less "unpainted" models in your version of my army the longer it will take to get going and the lower the amount of fun to be had! Therfore the challenge is simply do as little as possible to get going. Order it for me :-)

pretty please! I made a massive loft raid and travelled all over the re-gather my old kids warhammer stuff from 3 houses so that I could be here today typing this.

I also know that you can play without painted models - but I am slightly OCD about things being painted :-) - wanna play asap and wanna play painted and wanna play the models as they are if poss since I like to play what I see (WYSIWYG) and for me, changing loadouts any at all would mean a re purchase / unglue- reglue-repaint cycle ergo: time sink

here is my painted list ready to go today

5 Wraithblades with swords (yes I know)
20 guardians
2 support platforms (EML + Starcannon)
1 Wraithlord (bright lannce and glaive)
6 fire dragons (inc exarch with pike)
6 banshees (inc exarch with mirror swords)
1 falcon
1 wave serpent
1 war walker with bright lances
16 dire avengers with 2 exarchs with sword
6 swooping hawks with lasblaster exarch
5 striking scorpions

here is my very nearly finished list, in addition to preceding

2 wave serpents with star cannons
1 falcon with scatter laser
3 vypers with shuikan and scatter
3 war walkers with shuikan and scatter
1 wraithlord with bright lance
7 fire dragons including exarch with plasma gun
6 swooping hawks with exarch with las gun
6 dark reapers

here is my assembled base coated list

40 guardians
1 bright lance support platform
8 harlequins
2 death jesters
9 warlocks/seers including 2 farseers AND including eldrad all with witch blades except 2 with spears
5 rangers

here is my unassembled list

1 falcon (thinking of converting it into a wave serpent)
3 plastic jet bikes (thinking about a jet bike seer council)
2 lead jet bikes including harlequin bike - that I had as a kid, found last week after 25 years, and started stripping - thinking of making MotLG farseer on bike
20 warp spiders
5 warp spider exarchs

so my question is, if they were yours what would you do to get going asap for 2014!

I don't know much about Eldar except that I'm getting the codex (due in the post tomorrow) except that you can start by finishing the other two wave serpents (not sure about the star cannons?). War walkers are a must just cos they look so damn cool on the table! It looks like you are going to have fun.

With what you have painted, you could field an 1850 army. It would not be very good and it lacks an HQ unless you proxied an exarch as an autarch. Your first priority is to get an HQ model painted, or kitbash a MotLG seer/autarch(make both once you have the time)

Lets pretend you paint up one of your farseers(could be a spiritseer) or kitbash your MotLG HQ. Next step is to finish your serpents. Starcannons are OK, but you should really look into getting scatter lasers. Falcons are not bad, but far inferior to serpents so build a serpent from your falcon kit. A prism or spinner is also acceptable. Also, not sure how competitive of a list you want? Are you going up against top tier super power lists, or are you playing with friends in casual games? With your painted and near finshed you can get a semi competitive list, so here we go.

Autarch-Bike, mantle, laser lance, banshee mask, scorp chainsword.

Guardians X10. Wave serpent with scatter's and holo field.
Guardians X10. Wave serpent with scatter's and holo field
Dire AvengersX10. Exarch w/diresword and pistol. Wave serpent with scatter's and holo field.

Swooping hawksX6. Exarch with sunrifle
Swooping hawksX6. Exarch with sunrfile
VypersX3. Scatter top shuirken cannon bottom

Wraithlord. Dual flamers, dual lance, glaive(I am sure you have a bright lance bit you can throw on real quick)
Wraithlord. Dual flamers, dual lance, glaive.
War walkersX3. Scatter&shuri

1850 on the nose. Laughingtaurch, serpents, vypers and lords start on board. Outflank walkers, drop hawks. Play fast and aggressive.

You have a bazillion other builds and things you could do, but that is something you could get on the table quick. I went autarch over seer for the reserves boost and assault utility.

thanks for your help! you've really helped me - also I found a whole 10 more banshees (OOP metal BNIB) in my sisters attic today.. lovely times! I have quite a lot of infantry... but not much heavy infantry.. will probably buy a few more wraithguard/blades soon .. you've helped so much ty!