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gonna drop 1 shining spear and add a 2nd warlock with jinx.

Basically. Turn 1 quicken. Strategem for a free advance. Then charge shining spears right in. Doom from the farseer. Jinx from 2nd warlock and shooting from fire prisms. The vypers and wind riders charge anything they can get into range with. Just to tie them up really.

They shoot. Then charge. Then fall back and repeat every turn. Vypers are surprisingly resilient and can survive against most units for at least a turn, until the shining spears or the fire prisms have a chance to focus down anything that is a real threat. Every turn when I disengage from combat and fall back. I’ll link fire pulsed laser discharge from the fire prisms and delete the unit. Then charge again at any survivors or another unit. Between the doom and jinx and focus firing all that prism firepower and charging in to clean up with shining spears. It should be very easy to guarantee even warlords and elite units die in one turn.

+ HQ +

Autarch Skyrunner [6 PL, 126pts]: 5: Mark of the Incomparable Hunter, Banshee Mask, Power sword, Reaper Launcher, Twin Shuriken Catapult, Warlord

Farseer Skyrunner [7 PL, 140pts]: 2. Doom, 4. Executioner, Shuriken Pistol, Singing Spear, The Phoenix Gem, Twin Shuriken Catapult

Warlock Skyrunner [4 PL, 70pts]: 5. Quicken/Restrain, Shuriken Pistol, Twin Shuriken Catapult, Witchblade

Warlock Skyrunner [4 PL, 70pts]: 4. Protect/Jinx, Shuriken Pistol, Twin Shuriken Catapult, Witchblade

+ Fast Attack +

Shining Spears [14 PL, 281pts]
. 8x Shining Spear: 8x Laser Lance, 8x Twin Shuriken Catapult
. Shining Spear Exarch: Star Lance, Twin Shuriken Catapult

Vypers [12 PL, 195pts]
. Vyper: Shuriken Cannon, Twin Shuriken Catapult
. Vyper: Shuriken Cannon, Twin Shuriken Catapult
. Vyper: Shuriken Cannon, Twin Shuriken Catapult

Windriders [4 PL, 69pts]
. 3x Windrider - Twin Shuriken Catapults: 3x Twin Shuriken Catapult

Windriders [4 PL, 69pts]
. 3x Windrider - Twin Shuriken Catapults: 3x Twin Shuriken Catapult

+ Heavy Support +

Fire Prism [9 PL, 160pts]: Twin Shuriken Catapult

Fire Prism [9 PL, 160pts]: Twin Shuriken Catapult

Fire Prism [9 PL, 160pts]: Twin Shuriken Catapult

++ Total: [82 PL, 1500pts] ++

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I feel like you 100% need Shuricannons on the Windriders and Crystal Targeting matrixes on the Prims.

You also need some heavy weapons on those Vypers, otherwise why bother making them Saim-Hann? I'd recommend Starcannons.

To make all these changes, I'd suggest dropping 1-2 Shining Spears. 7 Spears are still more than enough, especially since you are dedicating 2 Warlocks to them and this is only a 1500pt list.
You can add them back at larger points games

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I will probably do that. And also drop the wind riders totally and just run a bunch of vypers. They are much more durable for being used to tie units down and also will have shurricannons with longer ranges. Something I like is that I can fall back from close combat with one unit. Shoot a unit across the board. Then engage once more in close combat to tie that unit up again. So the shooting phase I will always have my whole army available to shoot since everything is a flyer. And can always disengage close combat. And if the vypers explode they can cause wounds


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+ - Craftworlds) [82 PL, 1495pts] ++
6 total CP

+ HQ +

Autarch Skyrunner [6 PL, 126pts]: 5: Mark of the Incomparable Hunter, Banshee Mask, Power sword, Reaper Launcher, Twin Shuriken Catapult, Warlord

Farseer Skyrunner [7 PL, 140pts]: 2. Doom, 4. Executioner, Shuriken Pistol, Singing Spear, The Phoenix Gem, Twin Shuriken Catapult

Warlock Skyrunner [4 PL, 70pts]: 5. Quicken/Restrain, Shuriken Pistol, Twin Shuriken Catapult, Witchblade

Warlock Skyrunner [4 PL, 70pts]: 4. Protect/Jinx, Shuriken Pistol, Twin Shuriken Catapult, Witchblade

+ Fast Attack +

Shining Spears [14 PL, 219pts]
. 6x Shining Spear: 6x Laser Lance, 6x Twin Shuriken Catapult
. Shining Spear Exarch: Star Lance, Twin Shuriken Catapult

Vypers [4 PL, 75pts]
. Vyper: Shuriken Cannon, Starcannon

Vypers [4 PL, 75pts]
. Vyper: Shuriken Cannon, Starcannon

Vypers [4 PL, 75pts]
. Vyper: Shuriken Cannon, Starcannon

Vypers [4 PL, 75pts]
. Vyper: Shuriken Cannon, Starcannon

Vypers [4 PL, 75pts]
. Vyper: Shuriken Cannon, Starcannon

+ Heavy Support +

Fire Prism [9 PL, 165pts]: Shuriken Cannon

Fire Prism [9 PL, 165pts]: Shuriken Cannon

Fire Prism [9 PL, 165pts]: Shuriken Cannon

++ Total: [82 PL, 1495pts] ++

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I'd swap the singing spear on the farseer to give the autarch a laser lance instead of his power sword. You don't get much mileage out of singing spears due to their lack of AP.

The Phoenix gem may be better placed on the autarch rather than the farseer, since in order to be useful your farseer has to be within 3" or something, ideally an enemy. Since charging your farseer into combat all the time is generally a bad idea, but chargng your autarch in is great, especially because of his buff for the spears.

If you're looking for points for better upgrades like galef suggested, then either a shining spear, or one unit of windriders wouldn't hurt to drop. edit: looks like you already did that haha.

The Phoenix gem I honestly just tossed on there because I hadn’t read up on all the options yet But I like the Autarch to be able to snipe characters with the reaper launcher and mark of the incomparable hunter ability. I could also give him the nova lance of Saim Hann as a fluff option. But I think 7 spears will deal enough damage on the charge

I like it! An easy upgrade would be to split this up into 3 detachments, 2 outriders and a spearhead

m3tal_h3llth wrote:
I like it! An easy upgrade would be to split this up into 3 detachments, 2 outriders and a spearhead

It already is. note the 6 CP at the top. He has 4 HQ listed, and to my knowledge there is no detachment that would support this. It's just REALLY hard to read because it's pasted directly from battlescribe.

Ah, gotcha, i did not see that!