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HQ
Autarch (135)
-Jetbike
-Fusion Gun
-Mantle of the Laughing God

Farseer (100)

Troops
Guardian Defenders (250)
-Wave Serpent w/ Holofields + Scatter Laser

Guardian Defenders (250)
-Bright Lance
-Wave Serpent w/ Holofields + Bright Lance

Elites
Fire Dragons (297)
-Exarch w/ Firepike
-Wave Serpent w/ Holofields + Shuriken Cannon

Fast Attack
Crimson Hunter Exarch (180)

Heavy Support
Wraithknight (300)
-Suncannon + Scattershield
-Scatter Laser

Total- 1,502 Points

The idea is that the Farseer will cast invisibility on the Autarch. When invisibile, he will be have to be snap fired at, making his 2+ rerollable jink work better. The Guardians will be diversion units and hold objectives, the Fire Dragons will gank tanks or MCs the Autarch can't take out, and the Wraithknight will kill TEQs and MEQs.
I need your help. How would you go about utterly crushing my list?

Obviously the best choice to kill cover save Wave Serpents is... more Cover Ignoring Wave Serpents!

Eldar lists ironically counter each other very well. Also how does this Farseer get invisibility every time? Where does it get the WC needed to fuel it?

Greentide!

I would play 1500 and call my opponent out for cheating

If I played Tyranids, I would probably utilize Flyrants and force HP on the WS. After that it's easy pickings.

If I played DE...I would probably ally in my own WS. Trueborn Venoms should also deal with the army quite nicely and DE generally won't have a problem with infantry and Wraithknight with tons of poison.

 Quickjager wrote:
Obviously the best choice to kill cover save Wave Serpents is... more Cover Ignoring Wave Serpents!

Eldar lists ironically counter each other very well. Also how does this Farseer get invisibility every time? Where does it get the WC needed to fuel it?

Hmm... Yes... I should probably add a Warlock Council to the list to farm Warp Charge for invis. I have a 50% chance for Invis, so I'm just blindly hoping, but lack of invis won't kill my army too badly.

Yea, the current lists I see out there that rely on Invisibility... make me very sad. Of course it is an amazing ability, anyone who gets it would be a fool not to use it whenever they can.

But far too many lists (Looks at Daemons and Centstars) use it as a corner piece of their force. It is weird... for some reason I feel deathstars are slowly being phased out, probably due to maelstrom.

 Quickjager wrote:
Obviously the best choice to kill cover save Wave Serpents is... more Cover Ignoring Wave Serpents!

Eldar lists ironically counter each other very well. Also how does this Farseer get invisibility every time? Where does it get the WC needed to fuel it?

Yeah. The standard Eldar template of 4x Dire Avenger Serpents and 2x Wraith Knights will happily fit into 1500 and beat that list

Bartali wrote:

 Quickjager wrote:
Obviously the best choice to kill cover save Wave Serpents is... more Cover Ignoring Wave Serpents!

Eldar lists ironically counter each other very well. Also how does this Farseer get invisibility every time? Where does it get the WC needed to fuel it?

Yeah. The standard Eldar template of 4x Dire Avenger Serpents and 2x Wraith Knights will happily fit into 1500 and beat that list

I can't afford the new, maximally gouged Dire Avengers. What I do have are Guardians.

If the farseer is casting invis, its on foot. Either hiding in a Guardian squad, which is easily killed if you focus it, or a FD squad, which isn't too hard to kill and you should be nuking the first turn it shows itself.

The Autarch is going to get his 1 FG shot a turn, if he's within 24". If you have a big tank (LR), try not to stop within 18", island its not that scary. With lighter vehicles, you're only looking at one shot a round, for 135 pts. So if you can assault him or hit him with anything Ignores Cover, you could drop him. If you have a spare missile or anything, you should be able to force a jink. But for the points -especially if he Invis's him, he's just not a threat.

The list is almost all anti-hard-targets. Should punk a GK 2+/NDK spam army. But Nidz and Orks should have some fun. The Serpents can do some nasty shooting, but without SL, not too scary.

Even my SM half-company lists wouldn't be in too bad shape against it, and this list really only scares that sort of thing.

With a Vulkan drop pod list, probably. The Serpent Shield doesn't cover the rear arc, so I ought to be able to pop 2 or 3 of those serpents on turn 1. The first wave of drops would be Sternguards and a Command Squad, the second wave would be two tac squads. Vulkan would ride with the command squad, and split off so that he could flame the infantry who disembark from a WS. The Sternguard would combat squad, with HF in one, and combimeltas in another. They would follow the same script: pop and burn. If I roll badly on my melta shots against the Wave Serpents on turn 1, then the game will go poorly. I also need to eliminate as many of the guardians (and firedragons) as possible on turn 1, as the will be in perfect position to nail me with tons of rending shots. If I can accomplish those two tasks, then I'll have about 25 marines sitting in Eldar's back field, and they will have lost most of their capability to kill marines en masse.

Another option would be to just take 5 tac squads, which would free up a lot of points for other stuff in the list. In any case, by turn 2 I will have 30-40 marines on the table. Their main job will be to just survive until the end of the game and cap objectives.

I'll also have a squad grav/melta bikes or melta speeders, who will be the ones to engage the WK. I'll have to be sure to space out all my models so that I don't get slammed by the suncannon (which will be twin-linked). If this unit dies, I'll have to satisfy myself with just shooting poisoned rounds at the WK, or tar-pitting it with marines for a few turns (which is admittedly not a great tactic). It's more important to kill and scatter the Wave Serpents, Guardians and Firedragons before trying to engage the WK.

The Crimson Hunter and HQ units I'll just have to ignore. The Autarch is only ever going to be killing one model a turn. Presumably he would be worth Warlord kill points, but with a 2+ rerollable it's just not worth wasting shot against him. If I can somehow slingshot Vulkan into close combat against him, that's what I'll do. Same with the Farseer - if I have no better shots to make, I'll sling some bolters at him, but most other stuff in the list is a more pressing concern. The Crimson Hunter is dangerous, but won't have any decent targets to shoot at besides Vulkan (who might luck out and make all his invul saves).

Broadsides with buffmander behind an aegis. The ap 2 stuff comes in you go to ground for the 2+ cover, and to counter the BS1 from going to ground you use marker drones to up them back to bs 4.

Should be able drop all the serpents in 1 or 2 turns. Wreck up the autarch in a half volley from something. and then just work on the wraith knight who will be dropped by weight of fire.

Space Marine bikes and/or Drop Pods. As far as the I can see.

They can't run, they can't hide, they can't kill enough of it.

Well, the Autarch and the WK with his equipment are questionable. It has only three Serpents.
It's definitely not the best Eldar list at the 1500 pt level.

Taking down three Sepents is not easy but not impossible.
Drop pods or Tau could do it, also deep striking Obliterators.
Serpents are very vulnerable in cc. Fast moving units like Flesh Hounds could reach them quickly.

CWE + DE have some toolz that can greatly reduce that list's power. 2 WWPs with attached tough AV like WG or FD will cause some explosions. Several squads of MSU Spiders can take care of a lot of other targets. Be sure to throw in DAVU Serpents of your own.

With pure DE you can WWP in some Blasterborn Venoms. Use Beastpacks to close the distance quick and force target prioritu away from other DS Venoms.

CWE + DE can put the hurt on a lot of armies.

Just a suggestion here - if you do get invisibility, and also manage to get it off - do not cast it on the autarch. Cast it on your wraithknight. He benefits soooooo much more from it than the autarch.

Also - scrounge up the points to get the autarch a laser lance. He needs a way to put all those high initiative attacks to good use. Remember, it's not his job to take on heavy hitters in the enemy list - he just wants to be able to harass backfield units, units already damaged by previous shooting, fast scoring units, etc. It gives him something else to do other than make fusion shots.