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Hi, I haven't been playing Eldar for long and need help deciding what I should get next.
Currently I have:
1 Farseer, 1 Spiritseer, 20 Guardians, 10 Dire Avengers, 2 Wave Serpents, 1 Fire Prism, 6 Jetbikes, 10 Wraithguard, 1 Vyper
Help is appreciated.

I would get Swooping Hawks. No scatter deepstrike is great.

Swooping hawks or warp spiders for super fast movement and plenty of dakka

Or

A Wraithlotd to just tank across the battlefield shooting everything up.

I am also in the swooping hawks camp, no scatter deep strike + scoring is great for getting those objectives that you need or contesting the ones you dont have.

Crimson hunter, or wraithknight.

How much money are you looking to spend?
- A wraithknight would help you out a lot, but they are quite expensive
- War Walkers are extremely effective and versatile. They are best in squads of 3.
- Warp Spiders or Swooping Hawks are very good harassment units.
- 2 additional vypers would fill your squad.

Wraithknight - great model, great Str10 shooting for vehicles and superheavies.

Swooping Hawks - fun, great utility, fantastic pinch-hitters that can threaten almost anything.

Second belly. WK or birds. Spiders are fine too. Not a whole lot you can go wrong with in the eldar dex...

For those of you who run Swooping Hawks... what size unit do you usually run. I'd assume 6+, but I have found with my Warp Spider units that 7 seems to be the magic number for me. Is there a magic number for Swooping Hawks?

I'd go with War walkers. Versatile, and don't forget that 5++
But I also echo the other people saying Warp spiders and Swooping hawks. If you assign them a job to do they won't let you down.

Also this is a side note, but if you dont have a heavy weapons platform for your guardians I would get 1-2 of those.

The more variety the more I enjoy my Eldar. Only a few things in the book are bad, but they're all still fun. Whatever catches your eyes?

 Gangrel767 wrote:
For those of you who run Swooping Hawks... what size unit do you usually run. I'd assume 6+, but I have found with my Warp Spider units that 7 seems to be the magic number for me. Is there a magic number for Swooping Hawks?

Swooping hawks are like beer, they both come in six packs. The only other option to consider is the exarch and sunrifle. Both have merit, but neither are required. There is some lulz when you take 10 hawks and shoot 30 shots at a unit though...

I always use my spiders in 5 man teams, but then again, I always deep strike them as spot removal for backfield heavy support or other things. If your using them for a more generic combat role, 7-8 is good.

 Dr. Serling wrote:

I always use my spiders in 5 man teams, but then again, I always deep strike them as spot removal for backfield heavy support or other things. If your using them for a more generic combat role, 7-8 is good.

I keep reading about people deep striking spiders but I can't find anywhere in the codex which states this is legal. Where is it? Have I missed something?

Gonna have to try and squeeze some hawks into my list now

Fantome wrote:

 Dr. Serling wrote:

I always use my spiders in 5 man teams, but then again, I always deep strike them as spot removal for backfield heavy support or other things. If your using them for a more generic combat role, 7-8 is good.

I keep reading about people deep striking spiders but I can't find anywhere in the codex which states this is legal. Where is it? Have I missed something?

Gonna have to try and squeeze some hawks into my list now

They get it from Jet infantry dont they?

 Gangrel767 wrote:
For those of you who run Swooping Hawks... what size unit do you usually run. I'd assume 6+, but I have found with my Warp Spider units that 7 seems to be the magic number for me. Is there a magic number for Swooping Hawks?

6

If you can remove the turret from the Vyper, use it as a jetbike for your Farseer. It's pretty handy when adding relics. Look for tips on the Laughing Seer, or any of the other names it gets.

What you seem to have a lot of is troops.
I second (again) getting Warp Spiders. As a Jetpack unit that can warp in movement, they're very fast. They're not much slower than jetbikes, after the assault-move nerf. S6/7 weapons are great, when massed.

Do you have cannon for the jetbikes?

To Daba: No I don't

If you get 3, you can run a unit of 9, or 6 with the 1/3 cannon so they can do a bit more than objective grabbers, although objective grabbers is one of their strongest roles.

I always take Hawks in 6-man units, and upgrade one to an exarch. This is mainly due to having to use the model. He sometimes gets a sunrifle.