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Just trying to see how my TAC list looks to y'all. Plan on taking it out a few times before the new codex/models drop. Let me know what you think.

HQ

Spiritseer-85 (anath’lan) (with guard)

Troops

Wraithguard-305 (160-145)
serpent w/TL-SL/HF and scannon.

Guardians-285 (105-145-35)
Warlock, SC platform, serpent w/TL-SL/HF and scannon.

Fast Attack

Swooping Hawks-96 x6

Warp Spiders-114 x6

Heavy Support

Wraithknight-300 suncannon/shield (warlord)

Wraithlord-165 2xbl+sword

Falcon – 150 SL/HF

Total: 1500

I know Swooping Hawk grenade packs look good, but they tend to not do too well... I would drop them and the guardians for more Wraithguard.

The wraithlord is totally lost in this list as it's not a jump/jet unit or a skimmer.

The Falcon is pretty bleh.

I would drop both in favor of two fire prisms, or another scoring unit in a wave serpent.

Falcon and swooping hawk are the weak links in the list. I'd drop the falcon to upgrade the wraithlord to another Wraithknight, the lord will have a hard time keeping up. Maybe also consider dropping to base versions of the Knights to make room for switching the hawks to another unit of Spiders?

Also, this may be personal preference, but I'd go shuriken cannon over Star cannon on the weapon platform. IMO, the shuriken cannon helps support the guardians as they shoot targets they would normally be effective against, while the starcannon encourages you to pick targets the guardians themselves will be less effective against. Seems like there is more synergy with the shuriken cannon.

Swooping hawks do well on tables with lots of LOS blocking terrain, and in those situations are murder on vehicles, like Imperial Knights!

And yeah, wraithlords and falcons suffer from other units being vastly superior.

Thanks for the replies and suggestions guys.

The Falcon: I actually like it in this list and find with the scatter laser the pulse laser gets much more mileage, I also need it for the armor saturation.

The Hawks/Wraithlord: I agree these are my weak points. The hawks I could bump up to 8+exarch or just add the exarch, I like the blind rifle a lot and overall think hawks are a strong choice, but agree that just the 6 probably wont deliver much. In fact I dropped the hawks to 6 to fit the wraithlord.

Which brings us to... What should I do about the wraithlord? He brings another 2 str 8 shots, which is why I'm running the knight with the suncannon (and the marine prevalent local meta), and the obvious melee potential, but yeah he's super slow. Unfortunately I don't have much to swap him out with, my fire dragons arent based, and the only other things I have are baharroth, a callidus, and a scorpion squad. Still I'm open to suggestions as long as they're not just another serpent or knight. Thanks again.

I run a Wraithlord sometimes with the same set up as yours. They aren't bad, they just aren't as good as some other units out there. Based on your model selections, I'd say stick with the Wraithlord.

Flacon and wraithlord are still trash. Rest of list looks good.