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Hey guys,
I'm experimenting with adding allies to my eldar.

Does this look like it could be any good?

Eldar detachment:
jetseer - singing spear 120pts

9x direavengers 117pts
wave serpent - scatter lasers, holofields, shuriken cannon 145pts

9x jetbikes + warlock: 3x shuriken cannon 218pts

wraithknight 240pts

Tyranid detachment:
Flyrant - hive commander, regeneration, 2x twinlinked devourer with brainleechworms

Flyrant - 2x twinlinked devourer with brainleechworms

30x termagaunts - devourers 240pts

Tervigon - regeneration, scything talons, cluster spines, shreddershard beetles 240pts

I haven't actually looked too at the tyranid codex yet, the info that I have is just what I can see from battlescribe

hmm bit of a shock to me: it seems like it lacks melee (other than the WK).. a shooty Tyranid list is bizarrely poor in cc and this is too (ie. if/when people figure out they can melee you, you're doomed ) .. there are also no hive crones.. and no tyrant bodyguards, and they are (I think) pretty good.. also you have 2 fliers who can pack the dakka, so why not just have one on the ground and get bodyguards, don't get me wrong Flyrants are the best unit Tyranids have, but for me at least one needs to be a close combat nuke bomb.. also think about zoanthrops they help ur shooty hive tyrant stay alive. 9 dire avengers.. hmmm I would get 5 fire dragons.. more punch and you have termaganuts for the other good stuff.. the jet bikes will struggle with 10 odels physically not being out in the open all the time (it's a model size thing) the best thing is either think about shining spears (they get 2+ jink and can hit and run melee after so do not need conceal) and if you can get fortune from the jetseer all the better! IC him into the squad and use them for wounds - if you don't do that get mantle for the jetseer

*phew*

lool yeah that was one long sentence aha.

Anyways the dire avengers are really only there as a troop choice and I guess to get the waveserpent. I can drop the whole squad, and split up the jetbikes. That leave 262 points to get zoanthropes and make one hive tyrant a close combat nuke

That is coing to be an awkward to play list. Nids are come the Apocalypse with everything. Your main synapse source nukes your termigaunts out of existence if it dies and they are in 12", the same as synapse.

Why would you want to weaken the Eldar like that anyway? Your not really adding anything they can't do better already, other than maybe cheap tarpits.

I don't see Tyranids as a viable ally option to Eldar - they are Come the Apocalypse which is going to limit your movement which as an Eldar player, you do not want.

You are also restricting yourself on what models you can take as you would have to think about Synapse and which models are affected by IB the least.

But if you really wanted to run Nid Allies, Flyrant with Devourers, Deep Striking Rippers/Genestealers with Broodlord(for WC and Pinning), Mawloc with AG or Exocrine, Hive Crone and Zoanthropes are probably going to be your best options as they function reasonably well without Synapse. The Tervigon is unviable in a competitive sense as the Termagants aren't OS.