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I have the opportunity to purchase a small elder army at a good price. Since GW has seen fit to strip Tyranids of their ability to deal with Mech, I was thinking about running an Allied Eldar Attachment with my Tyranids.

I'm eying 500 points or less of elder. What is an effective way to build an allied detachment that is mainly deep striking / out flanking (so that deployment isn't such a pain) and can pop heavy armor like Land Raiders and Lemun Russes? Ideally I would like the cheapest elder ally possible that have a good chance to pop a Land Raider in the turn they come in.

As long as I've got to take a troop choice, I might as well go for a 3-man jetbike unit.

Right now I am Eying something like this, but I know next to nothing about Eldar, so I'm sure someone can suggest something better.
Autarch

5 Fire Dragons <- Autarch joined to this group.
in a Wave Serpent (TL-Scatter Lasers, TL-Suriken Catapult)

3 Guardian Jetbikes

2 Warwalkers (Brightlance, Scatter Laser)

Outflanking War Walkers will do the trick. I'd recommend giving them each two Bright Lances.

Swooping Hawks can do heavy armour with their Haywire grenades. They just have to assault with them, which means a turn sitting around before that. Thankfully, they do shoot infantry well in that turn.

Fire Dragons can be used interchangably with Wraithguard. If you take a spiritseer, wraithguard get battlefocus, and rerolling 1's to hit. The spiritseer is real cheap too. They're tougher than dragons, and blow stuff up almost as good.

Try not to mix the roles for your war walkers, better to have double of the same thing.

Belly wrote:
Outflanking War Walkers will do the trick. I'd recommend giving them each two Bright Lances.

I was looking at Twin linking the Bright Lance. But you are right, Double Bright Lance is better at bringing down vehicles.

Belly wrote:
Swooping Hawks can do heavy armour with their Haywire grenades. They just have to assault with them, which means a turn sitting around before that. Thankfully, they do shoot infantry well in that turn.

They can also die that turn. I think no to Swooping Hawks.

Belly wrote:
Fire Dragons can be used interchangably with Wraithguard. If you take a spiritseer, wraithguard get battlefocus, and rerolling 1's to hit. The spiritseer is real cheap too. They're tougher than dragons, and blow stuff up almost as good.

Fire Dragons can take a wave Serpent to give them the mobility to be useful. Even if Wraith Guard could take a wave serpent, they are more expensive.

Well, WG can take serpents so your in luck, and as for costing more, they are T6 which is double that of dragons, their gun is S10 as apposed to S8 so you don't need to be withing half range to kill stuff. With a spiritseer they re roll 1s on their target which dragons don't. And they look awesome.