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The normal answer to not being able to handle deathstars is to play keep away and play to the mission. Or spam D weapons a/o magic at it, which an Eldar should be able to do. A fully tricked out HQ and command squad like that should be eating up the bulk of your points. It can only be in one place at a time, killing one thing.

If you want to downplay, there are a ton of options for you. One of the advantages of softening up a list is you can take fluffy and fun options you would otherwise pass on.

One simple thing would be just to not max out the captain. No relics, just a basic weapon or two, artificer armor. Still a reasonable foe, but not the smash* that could be.

You could replace him with a chaplain. Keeps the slot filled in the formation, buffs the command squad. Unit is still going to be nasty, but removing the giant beatstick character tones it down.

If going with a CAD, so you have more options, a techmarine is not a bad character. No invuln (but could LoS! as needed to the SSs in the squad) but a 2+ and some nice wargear. Very fluffy for IH armies.

Librarians are never a bad choice.

LRs are in an odd spot vs. Eldar. They are immune to scatbikes, but vs. lance/D they are very fragile for their points, as you pay a hefty price for that AV14. They can still be fun, but generally only are going to get their cargo to one target.

I can’t help much with ideas on bike chaplains; mine’s the old metal one that’s been OOP for a while now. Might be some cool bits in the DA range that could be poached to fancy up a kit-bash.

I’ve actually got a bike tech working his way across my workbench now. Mostly built from the vehicle accessory sprue, not sure where the axe is from. The servo arm is the loader from an old ML backpack. I also cobbled together a c-beamer from a HK missile and the little radar dish from the vehicle sprue (magnetized swap for the arm).