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So this is a mostly just for fun last of eldar with a little bit of possible tactics that would make it work if I'm lucky enough;

Craft world War host

Storm Guardian Battlehost

Farseer
-spirit stone

3x Vauls Wrath (shadow weaver)

2x Vypers (dual shurican)

3x war walkers (dual lance)

3 units of 8 stormies with 2 power swords and 2 fusion guns lead by a warlock

Aspect Host

3 units of Howling Banshee with Exarch

Aspect Host

2 Units of Striking Scorpions with exarch armed with claw
1 unit of striking scorpions with exarch

Avatar
Karandras
Jain Zar

So tactics wise it's all walking but the goal is to have everything have at least a 4+ cover at all times, infiltrate the scorpions as far up as possible and hide in cover for a 2+, banshees get 15" a turn so should be able to get into some decent cover, go to ground if necessary and have the avatar pop them back up, and then have the guardians maintain conceal as much as possible. With the MSU build to this I think I should be able to get at least a few units into combat and since the units are so small I shouldn't wipe anybody out in one round, so once I'm in combat I'll never leave it hopefully. And that is how I'll save my own but.

Ways to improve this so that it keeps theme and style but avoids being rolled are appreciated

I really like foot-dar lists as my first eldar list was on foot. Unfortunately i'm a little behind with codexes so i may be mistaken on a few rules such as the banshees moving 15". But it looks good, mass number of units will be a pain to remove completely.

The only issue is reliance on cover with lots of armies having the potential to ignore cover.
If its assault based wraithlords could be another option over the war walkers. But I guess that's more of a personal preferance. Might not be with your theme though.

Well I need the walkers for the formation , banshees with the detachment get an auto 6" run +3" from acrobatic, and with jain zar as a warlord, one unit of them gets an additional 3" for a possible total of 18" a turn.

Solid but I think you'll be better off dropping one aspect host and buffing those guardian squads or taking more. If you put Karandras in a big 20 man squad they all get stealth and shrouded. Or you could drop Karandras and take a foot seer council. I'd recommend that honestly, drop one aspect host and Karandras for a seer council. You'll need that magical support.

 Silverthorne wrote:
Solid but I think you'll be better off dropping one aspect host and buffing those guardian squads or taking more. If you put Karandras in a big 20 man squad they all get stealth and shrouded. Or you could drop Karandras and take a foot seer council. I'd recommend that honestly, drop one aspect host and Karandras for a seer council. You'll need that magical support.

While a the 20 man squad would get stealth from kanadras, since the faq http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/Errata/Warhammer_40000/Warhammer_40000_Rules_EN.pdf they wont be able to infiltrate and not be eligible for shrouded.

Secondly I don't think that the magical support will work all that well if he takes out the things they would be supporting, because if he takes out an aspect host he goes from MSU to just SU.

I personally don't like MSU when using Phoenix Lords and the Avatar because you get less 2+ tanking and it is harder to have all the MSU's to be within 12 inches of the Avatar. Of course having a few bigger units lead by PL's leads to overkill. Also with the banshee's I suggest upgrading the 2 Exarchs that won't be lead by Jain Zar to the executioners so that if you aren't in range of the avatar you still have some str 5 and bonus ap 2. I would suggest taking out the 2nd vyper to find the points for this.

However I could infiltrate Karandras slightly forward of the unit and have the unit move up where he'll join after deployment