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Hi all.
Been looking to expand my Eldar with some FW units and just wanted to get some general opinions if possible please.
Mainly looking for advice on the revenant titan, wasp, hornet and the super heavies.
I currently use a wraithseer and love the way he plays, but wanted to expand more.

So, mainly looking for advice on those but also any others that stand out please.

Thanks in advance.

I believe the Lynx was all the rage in the last round of tournaments, due to its low points cost, D-weapon, and ability to fly off the board if needed. The Hornets were a good unit with the firepower they could bring for their points, but they may be outclassed by the new jetbikes. The titan should still be a good choice, but expensive.

In apocalypse battles, revenant titans are the gak. They just wreck face. Str D large blast 2 shots? And IT HAS TWO OF THE SUCKERS? Count me in!

Hornets: Good if you use old eldar, kinda outclassed by jetbikes now tho.

Lynx: If you've got enough for a lynx, you've got enough for a revenant.

Revenant Titans are amazing.

Shadow Spectres are great if you run Freakshow lists.

I will just touch on the units I have experience with. Overall the forgeworld units for CWE are good to very good but there are a number of hiccups due to the age of the rules.

*Revenant Titan: I actually have never gotten to play with this in 7ed. The model is built but TBH the rules are just too good and people hate playing against it. With the nerfed ranged D rules in the ITC and NOVA IMO it is perhaps balanced and in the ITC might be a little under powered. The sonic lance version is IMO actually a more interesting unit but again is way too good against a lot of lists. Make sure if you play a revenant people understand it is a no holds barred game or people will be give bad memories.
*Wasp: This unit is actually really excellent. What makes it different than scatbikes is that you can take a single wasp and DS it behind the opponent. This means wasps 1) don't get shot at before they can shoot and 2) can shoot rear armour. However if you do decide to run DSing wasps make sure you take some reserves manipulation.
An alternative take is you can also take other heavy weapons on wasps. They don't have to be scatter lasers. Unfortunately most of the other weapons are victims of bad pricing choices in the previous CWE codex and thus pretty badly overpriced. However the shu cannon wasp is only 50 pts for a unit that can DS and shoot 6 Str 6 shots with pseudo rending. The missile launcher option is also not bad as it can DS or jump behind flyers or vehicles and shoot the rear armour.
Keep in mind that wasps are not that much slower than scatbikes due to the 6+2d6" and their shu cannon firepower is 85% the pts efficiency for Str6 shots but with the addition of a more durable platform and bladestorm. The biggest negative is really that the wasps don't get ObjSec.
*Hornet: IMO this is perhaps the "best" forgeworld CWE unit. The pts efficiency for pulse laser hornets is extremely nasty. They also fulfill something that is not common in the CWE codex; ie pts efficient Str 8 AP2 firepower. They are everything the vyper wishes it were and a great model too. These things are nasty firepower and tactically flexible.
*Lynx: This made a big splash at the LVO in a number of CWE lists (one of which was top 10). It is extremely pts efficient firepower and very durable when put on a skyshield landing pad. Very effective against elite models and vehicles due to the Str D shooting.
*Vampire Hunter: Pretty much no event allows this and people don't want to play against it. It is good but not really amazing as flyers rarely get more than a few turns to shoot. Mostly this unit is just durable and many people don't bring enough anti air to bring it down. I actually really like the rules and model but I never get to use it. This unit is 2 times the pts of the lynx with about the same firepower but twice the HP and is force to start in reserves unless you bring a ready to take off skyshield landing pad.
*Warp Hunter: This units badly needs to be updated. It is still pretty good as a source of Str7 AP3 barrage blasts but over costed for it's use. However it is probably going to be broken when they update it as it has a distortion weapon which should logically go to StrD -1 on the chart, like scythes. Currently the rules are actually unusable as distort is no longer defined as a rule in CWE codex. I love the model however.
*Irillyth: This is perhaps my favorite character. He is the centerpiece of any freakshow (thanks Jimsolo for a great name) style seer council list. The combination is absolutely brutal and can cause you to just erase entire board sections. I have been toying with him attached to a foot seer council with a shadow field archon w/ armour of misery as well, it is extremely effective and surprisingly mobile. Fantastic model as well.
*Nightwing Interceptor: This is a pretty good air superiority fighter. It is a bit overpriced for what it can do and is made somewhat redundant as the crimson hunter tends to do the same jobs but better. The one kind of cool thing about this flyer is that it actually gets a 1+ cover save when it jinks thus -1 cover abilities still leave it with 2+ cover saves. It is also shrouded so if you have large buildings you can claim a 2+ cover save from large fortifications or ruins.
*Phoenix Bomber: This is a "ground" attack flyer that is actually pretty good at it's job. People may assume that it competes with the wraithfighter but this is not true as the wraithfighter is best used against elite hard to hurt targets while the bomber is best against either MEQ or GEQ depending on the configuration. Note however that when taken in the right configuration it actually becomes a pretty nasty flyrant killer. The units is definitely significantly overpriced though and needs probably a 20 pts drop. The weapon options are also ridiculously price as the pulse laser is vastly better than the other options.

I second the Hornets, for 80 pts a fast skimmer with 4 S8 AP2 48" range shots is very good.

Thanks guys.

So it seems that everything non-air based is between half decent and good.

The local area all have an agreement that unless we have a fun game, its purely competative as they find it the best way to improve thier armies and playing.

The revenant seems pretty solid also.
So i might grab one this week as we are upping points to 2,000 - 2,500 and including larger models, so it seems like a solid choice.

Thanks again everyone for all of the input.

Own a revenant, 4 hornets, warp hunter, Lynx. Never use the warp hunter or Lynx but in Apoc games the revenant on a skyshield along with the farseer power that lets you re-roll saves (forwarning?forshadow?) give you the 4+ holofield, followed by 2 4+ invul saves from shooting, it is a powerhouse and my apoc strat has typicall revolved around protecting it and it always kill more than its points worth.

The hornets on the other hand, i use pretty much every game (2 squads of 2). great source of high strength AP2 firepower, i almost always run a list with an autarch to manipulate reserves and being able to re-reroll the side i come in on, they often arrive jsut were they are needed.

Thanks
Just ebaying a ton of old epic 40k to fund the growth as I treated my nice to a harridan as well.
Don't want my Eldar feeling left out.

got 2 lynxs for 100$ total off yoymart.
They are my babies and are amazing

I keep hearing about this yoyomart but have never looked at it to be honest.

But got a harridan and brought the other half a carmine dragon she wanted for £300 total.
Rather just grab it from FW as it turns up at my house the next day and any issues, they send replacements.

Waiting for payday tomorrow though and going to grab a revenant titan to tinker with.
From what i have heard the one with twin pulsars is the best, so i will go with that.

I have a revenant titan, but 3 wraith knights are such a good option now that revenant isn't as crazy good as it was for the same point cost. The blast is awsome, but when you are firing at stuff like hierodules or imperial knights, then you have 4 strength D shots instead of 6.

Warp Hunters are way too expensive.

Hornets will be my next buy, those things looks hella sweet.

Hornets are acceptable.

If you play with super heavies, Revenants are unbeatable and Lynxs are ok.

Everything else is complete garbage.