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A fun little concept that's more for Ace Combat than it would be for normal 40K to the point that I think Tau would struggle with the amount of air units, so hopefully skyfire interceptor shouldn't be able to keep up.
In any case all 9 flyers have vector dancer and more Bright Lances/ Pulse lasers/ Shuriken Cannons than you can shake a stick at. The Autarch means that the reserves come in on a 2+... In either case it should look amazing on the tabletop right?

CAD
Autarch Skyrunner, Fusion Gun, Banshee Mask, Shard of Anaris 140
Windriders (4) Scatterlasers 106
Windriders (3) Scatterlasers 81
Windriders (3) Scatterlasers 81
Windriders (3) Scatterlasers 81
Windriders (3) Scatterlasers 81
Windriders (3) Scatterlasers 81
Nightwing Squadron (3) 375
Nightwing Squadron (3) 375
Crimson Death Formation
Crimson Hunter Exarch 160
Crimson Hunter 140
Crimson Hunter 140

Hardly seen a Eldar army without WK
Looks good still.

I know the capability of Crimson Death formation, but what does Nightwing good at? I admit I don't know them.

Neophyte2012 wrote:
Hardly seen a Eldar army without WK
Looks good still.

I know the capability of Crimson Death formation, but what does Nightwing good at? I admit I don't know them.

Each one has two bright lances and two Shuriken cannons, they have 2 hull points but also have stealth for a better jink, supersonic, vector dancer and agile... all nightwings can take holofields at the regular price

So in short, more of the same with some slight variation

 Torus wrote:
Autarch Skyrunner, Fusion Gun, Banshee Mask, Shard of Anaris 140
Windriders (4) Scatterlasers 106
Windriders (3) Scatterlasers 81
Windriders (3) Scatterlasers 81
Windriders (3) Scatterlasers 81
Windriders (3) Scatterlasers 81
Windriders (3) Scatterlasers 81

My biggest worry with this list is getting tabled turn one. You effectively have 20 marine bodies on the board during turn one. While it's hard to clear that many models in turn one, it's not out of the picture of possibility.
You might want to trim down a squad of flyers to get some more bodies, and/or perhaps a fortification to help ensure you don't get tabled.

Another problem is that since your opponents will not have any other valid targets, they will focus fire on your 20 bikes, and will shred them. Flyers have an extremely hard time completing maelstrom objectives.

I've also tried playing with multiple flyers, and it's extremely hard. Board space gets chewed up quickly, and putting 6-9 flyers on the board is extremely difficult. I played a marine 'air force' army for a while and found it much trickier than one would expect. It also was not as much to play with or play against so I had a hard time finding good games where both players enjoyed it.

I highly suggest proxying some games with this army before spending the $$$ to buy it.