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Hey guys,

Myself and a friend are going to be playing our first tournament next month and it's a doubles tournament. Is 1000points per ally.
Open to suggestions on what would be a good combo to take! So far I was thinking of the following for my eldar:

Farseer on jetbike

6x Fire dragons w/ Exarch (fast shot, firepike) & Wave serpent (holo fields, scatter lasers and shuri cannon)

5 x Dire avengers /w Wave serpent (holo fields, scatter lasers & shuri cannon)

5 x Rangers

Wraithknight /w suncannon & scattershield, scatter laser.

Was thinking my friend could go with TWC, long fangs, Wolf guard terminators, a couple of packs of grey hunters and the new logan on chariot. But really have no idea about space wolves.

Well, the new codex ruined the space wolves, so pick something else. Here's a hint at why it sucks with the clown shoe spaceship and the Logansled. They're supposed to be space marines with a Nordic flavor not Nordics with a space marine flavor. Choose something else.

Looks good, but IMHO - Drop the Rangers, replace with Jetbikes. MUCH better for objective games. If you did that and also dropped the exarch and the chin cannons you could probably squeeze in two jetbike units. For my playstyle, it will be much more efficient that way.

Here are the changes I would make (not to say your list is bad, just this fits my playstyle better):

Spiritseer - (Telepathy)
5 Dire Avengers - Wave Serpent - SL
5 Fire Dragons - Wave Serpent - SL
3 Jetbikes
3 Jetbikes
7 Swooping Hawks
Wraithknight - Suncannon, SL

999 Points

 Gangrel767 wrote:
Looks good, but IMHO - Drop the Rangers, replace with Jetbikes. MUCH better for objective games. If you did that and also dropped the exarch and the chin cannons you could probably squeeze in two jetbike units. For my playstyle, it will be much more efficient that way.

Here are the changes I would make (not to say your list is bad, just this fits my playstyle better):

Spiritseer - (Telepathy)
5 Dire Avengers - Wave Serpent - SL
5 Fire Dragons - Wave Serpent - SL
3 Jetbikes
3 Jetbikes
7 Swooping Hawks
Wraithknight - Suncannon, SL

999 Points

To be honest I'm not much of a jetbike lover, but I do agree they're probably a bit better than my rangers (I'm a bit biased towards my rangers cause I love the paint job I've done on them haha)

In saying that, I think I'll take some of your advice, drop the holo fields on serpents, and one shuri cannon, drop my exarch, and add in one jetbike unit which my farseer can join. I'll also add in either 5 x warp spiders (prefer them to swooping hawks tbh) or 6 x Swooping hawks. Thoughts?

ATM your farseer has nowhere to go, no one to join. That means one dead farseer. Drop rangers for jet bikes, (like above)

And then drop fire dragon exarch and there upgrades for the mantle of the laughing god on the farseer.

lliu wrote:
Well, the new codex ruined the space wolves, so pick something else. Here's a hint at why it sucks with the clown shoe spaceship and the Logansled. They're supposed to be space marines with a Nordic flavor not Nordics with a space marine flavor. Choose something else.

Yes, the look of certain things has made the Wolves completely unplayable, definitely choose something else. Hold up, let me just find my big bucket of sarcasm...

TWC seem like the new go to for most Wolves players, they got cheaper and a whole lot better so expect to see a lot of them. Definitely give them a shot, they're just fun regardless. They're going to take a lot of shots because they are terrifying so Storm Shields are a great thing to have on them. How many are you thinking? I run three with two shields in front and a fist in the back. If you're taking a few, my suggestion is take half, round up and that's how many should have shields. Don't be afraid to sprinkle some Wolf Claws in there as well to shred whatever gets in your way.
If you go for WG TDA, I'd suggest either a Land Raider or a Stormfang so they can assault. If you can't do that, get a Drop Pod with a locator beacon and have them come down on that.
Long Fangs are Long Fangs, can't think too much of what's changed with them. Personally in my experience, anything SW HS can do, I've seen Eldar do much better (I'm still bummed about a Land Raider that was instagibbed by an Eldar platform cannon I don't know the name of).
Grey Hunters took a bit of a hit not being able to take a Wolf Standard in every squad or have MotW, definitely need transport for them though. Try Blood Claws as well if you have some way of getting them quickly into combat. They're better at assaulting than GH and they don't have to pay for CCW and they have more bodies to absorb fire and add to the number of attacks. Chuck a Wolf Priest in with them and wave bye bye to most things they charge into.
I don't know about LoganClaus, some people love him, some hate him. Some say he's unstoppable, others have stories about him getting taken down in turn one. I'd say give him a shot some time but in a 1000 point per army game, I'd leave him at home since he'd be such a points drain.

The way I play my Wolves is get in fast and hit them hard. Transport and speed are your best friends. Don't give your opponent a chance to shoot and do your best to weather that overwatch.

Hopefully that helps out a little. Good luck in your tournament.

 Thorgrim Bloodcrow wrote:

lliu wrote:
Well, the new codex ruined the space wolves, so pick something else. Here's a hint at why it sucks with the clown shoe spaceship and the Logansled. They're supposed to be space marines with a Nordic flavor not Nordics with a space marine flavor. Choose something else.

(I'm still bummed about a Land Raider that was instagibbed by an Eldar platform cannon I don't know the name of).

Vauls wrath D cannon.