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Hi guys, I recently did my first tournament using my Eldar and I have changed the list to the weaknesses I found in my army, I am considering Swooping Hawks/Striking Scorpions/Warp Spiders in order to increase mobility and objective grabbing efficiently. I would appreciate a bit of help and advice with this list I have come up with, Thank You!

HQ:
Farseer - Eldar Jetbike, Mantle of the Laughing God, Singing Spear (160)

Elites:
5x Fire Dragons (can be placed in the Falcon) (160)

Troops:
5x Dire Avengers - Wave Serpent - Twin-linked scatter lasers, Shuriken Cannon (195)
5x Dire Avengers - Wave Serpent - Twin-linked scatter lasers, Shuriken Cannon (195)
5x Dire Avengers - Wave Serpent - Twin-linked scatter lasers, Shuriken Cannon (195)
3 Windrider Jetbikes - one Shuriken Cannon (61)

Heavy Support:
Falcon - Pulse Laser, Shuriken Cannon, Scatter laser (145)
Fire Prism - Prism cannon, Shuriken Cannon (135)
Wraithknight - Scatter Laser, Suncannon and Scattershield (300)

Total = 1496

Again feedback is appreciated and I am considering buying warp spiders, swooping hawks, striking scorpions and or some war walkers but the above list is what i currently own.

the fire dragons in the falcon presents a very tasty and not hugely survivable target. might be better taking a serpent for the dragons and riding 5 Da in the falcon

Thanks a very good idea, thank you.

Spirit Stones on the Fire Prism would be amazingly helpful. It doesn't have shields so can be penned very easily. May as well make a decent chance of ignoring those effects instead of crippling the platform

I'm not seeing Holofields. Wave Serpents should have them. They're very helpful when things get bad for the tanks.

Might consider dropping the Falcon completely and a DA squad, slapping a Serpent on the Dragons and then spending the rest of your points on vehicle upgrades. It's not the usual but I've gotten a lot of use out Ghostwalk Matrix when I can spare the points. That plus a Holofield gives the 3+ cover without needing to Jink when I land the serpent in ruins. I use a fair few ruins on my tables so it's a common ability where I play.

You actually might want to swap out the fire prism for a falcon(!) It is counter intuitive but 2 falcons can put 6 str8 shots a turn out and 2 of them are lances.. I took down a landraider in one go with 2 falcons once.. because they roll so many dice they reliably get 4 hits.. it works. Fire prisms struggle because when they miss they miss..

Also do not get the suncanon for the wraithknight take him with 2 str 10 d canon and never really expect to shoot.. just get him into close combat... don't let the model scupt fool you.. he is a close combat beast in his vanilla set up. Use it. Also add holofields to everythimg as far as you can with the points saved

Drop the Cannon off the Fire Prism. If your Fire Prism is withing 24" of the enemy, you are doing it wrong.

Replace the falcon with a Wave Serpent for the Dragons. Serpents are much better against most targets.

Serpents need Holofields before they need Cannons. Cannons are not bad, but remember they with be snap shooting if you move more than 6" (assuming you fire the shield, which you should.)

I agree with what you are saying with adding another wave serpent instead of the falcon however I only have three and getting a fourth isnt really something im looking to do at the moment, also with the suggestion to replace a fire prism with another falcon could be deemed reasonable but I again am not looking to purchase another falcon. But thank you for the suggestion to replace the cannons with shields, that will be done.

Your fire dragons are over-costed by about 50 points as well. That might free up some points for more toys, haha.

Unlike others, I'm not a fan of holofields with the amount of ignores cover shooting nowadays.

Always take ghostwalk matrices on your vehicles, however. Move through cover is one of the best rules we can give to our skimmers.