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Gone back to the Harlequins codex recently and was determined to make a semi-competitive list from it. In the end I couldn't but I did come up with this list which I think has the potential to be very powerful.

1850 elder with harlequins
Eldest CAD

Farseer skyrunner, stones 130
Fraseer, skyrunner 115

5 windrider, 5 scatter laser 135
5 windrider, 5 scatter laser 135

8 shining spears, exarch, star lance 220
5 shining spears, exarch, star lance 145

Eldar CAD
Warlock skyrunner

5 windrider, 5 scatter laser 135
5 windrider, 5 scatter laser 135

Faolchu's blade formation
4 skyweavers, 4 zepherglaive, 4 haywire cannon 260
4 skyweavers, 4 zepherglaive, 4 haywire cannon 260

2 voidweavers



Mass amounts of s6 shooting deals with infantry and light armour from range. 10 haywire shots from 3 different sources should easily glance heavier vehicles to death. Shining spears great in combat with anything with less than a 2+ save. Skyweavers attack anything with a 2+ save.

Farseers and warlock there to boost the army depending on the situation. If I got invisibility and shrouding plus conceal from the warlock, I could have a 2+ rerollable cover save on the skyweavers and cast invisibility on one of the shining spear squads. If I was facing wraith knights, hammerhand on the shining spear squad should with some fire support take it down.

Not very much anti air but if i needed to I could get guide and prescience on both payers and have 80 twin linked shots, potentially with doom

What do you think? C and c most welcome

Not a single response? Not even - this is crap??

Any comments?

I don't understand why you need 2 Eldar CADs. A lone warlock is crap and can only cast Conceal on the unit he is with. Warlocks cannot join units like ICs. Drop the Warlock and combine the Eldar CADs into 1.

I love that you have an all bike list, but you are missing a key component. Where is the Autarch Skyrunner? You need one in the list badly (because of the Banshee mask). Drop the second Farseer for an Autarch.

With so many Skyweavers, the Shining spears are pointless. They also do not have Hit & Run, meaning they can get tarpitted. If you must run some fine, but try 2 units of 5 or 1 big unit of 8. Don't field more than 10 total.

With all the extra points, you can now add a few Warlocks to the Scatterbike squads. While lone Warlocks suck, a few in your scatterbike squads are quite useful.
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with the above changes, your list should look like so:

Eldar CAD

Farseer skyrunner, stones 130
Autarch skyrunner, banshee mask, lance 100

5 windrider, 5 scatter laser -Warlock windrider 185
5 windrider, 5 scatter laser -Warlock windrider 185
5 windrider, 5 scatter laser 135
5 windrider, 5 scatter laser 135

5 shining spears, exarch, star lance 145
5 shining spears, exarch, star lance 145

Faolchu's blade formation
4 skyweavers, 4 zepherglaive, 4 haywire cannon 260
4 skyweavers, 4 zepherglaive, 4 haywire cannon 260

2 voidweavers
-------------------------------------------------------1830 pts, 20 pts to fill (take singing spears)

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I agree with Galef, I love the list with all the bikes but you have some holes... Armor 14 is going to be ruff and anything with a 2+ save is going to hurt as well. Tau and Tyranids would be really bad match ups.

As for fun and semi competitive.. sounds like a great list to play. lol have fun putting all those bikes together..

Thanks for the replies.

I hadn't noticed that the warlock wasn't an independent character. Gutted. Would have been great to put him in with the skyweavers. My original idea was to have the warlock casting conceal on them and to get invisibility and shrouding from the farseers so that I could have made 3 of my close combat units very durable. But, not to be!

I have tweaked the list and what I have come up with is very similar to your list, Galef. Except, rather than keep the two warlocks, I took an extra farseer as I feel psychic buffs will greatly help the list. The Autarch is a very good suggestion. The banshee mask will be invaluable for a combat unit and his 5 attacks on the charge almost make up for the 3 shining spears which I dropped.

My initial reasoning for going for so many shining spears in one unit is so that I wipe out the unit in a turn rather than being stuck in combat. Also, i took 8 so that, if they were buffed with hammerhand, they would have a good chance of taking down a wraithknight.

Boy Blue, the army should take care of AV14 ok. 10 haywire shots should easily galnce them to death. With regards to 2+ saves, the skyweavers are ap2 on the charge and have 16 attacks per unit.

Eldar CAD 1
Farseer skyrunner, stones 130
Farseer skyrunner 135

5 windriders, scatter lasers 135
5 windriders, scatter lasers 135

5 shining spears, exarch, star lance 145
5 shining spears, exarch, star lance 145

Eldar CAD 2
Autarch skyrunner, banshee mask, lance 100

5 windriders, scatter lasers 135
5 windriders, scatter lasers 135

Faolchu's blade formation
4 skyweavers, 4 zepherglaive, 4 haywire cannon 260
4 skyweavers, 4 zepherglaive, 4 haywire cannon 260

2 voidweavers

I know you changed it a bit but try to get 3x 3 Shining spears all with a exarch with a star lance, his star lance is the main point and if you have 3 squads you can get +1WS or +1 BS as you prefer

I would be interested in how 3x 3 Shining spears at BS5 with star lances does - I have actually just finished making some up but have yet to finish painting them

I think the second list is spot on, though you typo-ed the Farseer Skyrunner's points. The 2nd seer should only be 115.

If I did the maths right, that takes your list to 1845. Put a singing spear on one of the seers. You don't lose anything for it (the spear isn't twohanded) and you gain more anti tank shots.