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I recently purchased an Eldar army off of eBay that is fully painted and based. I've never played Eldar though I tried a few years back to start up an army. The list of what I have and what is coming is:

My own collection:
- Eldrad
- 8 Wraithguard

The Ebay auction:
- Farseer on jetbike
- 14 Jetbikes with scatter lasers
- 5 Rangers
- 5 Dark Reapers
- 8 kit bashes from Shadow Spectres with dual arm mounted guns
- 3 War Walkers each with dual scatter lasers
- Wraithknight with sword/shield and dual scatter lasers

The only knowledge I have of Eldar came from the 6th edition codex and not the new Craftworlds codex. The auction included the Craftworlds codex but I was trying to get a jump on the army list. I came up with a list in Battlescribe but not sure if the point values are off or the options messed up. The list I came up with is:

HQ (310 Points)
- Eldrad
- Farseer w/Jetbike, witchblade, and shuriken pistol

Elites (256 Points)
- 8 Wraithguard w/wraithcannons

Troops (438 Points)
- 5 Rangers
- 4 Windriders w/scatter lasers
- 4 Windriders w/scatter lasers
- 3 Windriders w/scatter lasers
- 3 Windriders w/scatter lasers

Fast Attack .....this is where I need the most help, came up with 3 different units
- 7 Shadow Spectres
- 7 Swooping Hawks w/exarch added for 8 models total
- 7 Warp Spiders w/exarch and TL death spinner added for 8 models total

Heavy Support (450 Points)
- 4 Dark Reapers w/exarch and starshot missiles all around for 5 models total
- 3 War Walkers w/missile launchers

Lord of War (335 Points)
- Wraighknight w/ghost glaive, scattershield and dual starcannons

1999 points total with the Shadow Spectres added.
1927 points total with the Swooping Hawks added.
1956 points total with the Warp Spiders added.

What kind of wargear needs to be swapped out? What unit of fast attacks is the best for what I have? And any pointers on how to use Eldar in general would be appreciated. The reason this army was purchased was so I didn't have to buy any more kits to add to my enormous painting back log. This is pretty much what I have to work with and am willing to get some bits to swap out weapons or just write down the proxies and keep em handy (this is the preferable alternative). I've been playing marines and khorne mostly so any criticism or critique would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all in advance for any help.

you have a pretty good load out there. First, I advise fielding the bikes 5,3,3,3. The Farseer joins the 5-man unit and thus has more bodies to hide in (unless he joins the WG) and more models to Guide/Prescience. That unit shoots large infantry blobs, the other 3 min units do what Scatter bikes to best: Shoot-n-Scoot.

I can't say much for Shadow Spectres (until GW starts selling the rules and plasctic kits for FW stuff, I tend to avoid), but the Spiders, Hawks & Reapers can be put in an Aspect Host for +1BS.

WarithGuard either need as Wave Serpent or a Dark Eldar Archon with a Webway portal. The cheapest option is to get a DE Warrior box, convert 1 to be an Archon and field the rest as your mandatory Troop for the allied detachment.

You could footslog the WG, but that is a lot of points not doing anything all game (because 12" range guns on infantry can be avoided)

Yeah the wraithguard would have to play some back field defense. What unit is better out of the swooping Hawks and the warp spiders?

Warp Spiders. You should get 45 of them.