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This is what I have so far but I have a few options that I am considering.

1) Scrap the Eldar allies and the Ethereal and add a Buffmander and more Firewarriors. Like the phycic defense and the ability to make both Riptides twin-linked from his powers and the speed if the bikes, but don't know if a Buffmander would work better.

2) Drop the Landing Pad and 2 Missile Drones and add another Jet Bike squad and an ADL.

3) Drop the Landing pad and 2 Missile Drones to add an ADL with Quad gun. This is what I will likely do as I have very little AA.



1498

HQ
Ethereal - 50

ELITES
Riptide w/Ion Accelerator, FG, EWO -190
Riptide w/Ion Accelerator, FG, EWO -190
2 Crisis Suits w/4 Fusion Blasters, 2 Flamers- 114

TROOPS
6 Firewarriors w/Rifles - 54
6 Firewarriors w/Rifles - 54

FAST ATTACK
6 Pathfinders - 66
5 Pathfinders - 55

HEAVY SUPPORT
3 XV88 Suites w/SMS, HYMP, 3 EWS, 6 Missile Drones - 282
Skyray w/BSF- 116
Hammerhead w/Ion, SMS, DP, BSF - 141

ELDAR ALLIES

HQ
Farseer- 100

TROOPS
3 Jet Bikes - 51

Landing Pad - 75

What is the point of the landing pad? Haven't used one so not sure the point?
Also you have a TON of heavy support, which is good but I am not sure about having that much...but I don't normally bring that much stuff so you know everyone plays differently

Why not slap that Farseer on a jetbike and bring more jetbikes? That would give you better scoring units than 2 units of 6 firewarriors will.

Groups of 6 firewarriors are going to die...FAST so either bring more firewarriors (groups of 9 are good) or bring some more jetbikes, or even a group of dire avengers in a wave serpent. That would give you more of the benefits of Eldar since wave serpents and jetbikes are SICK haha

With the landing pad, I assume your going to castle the warriors/seer/pathfinders/ethereal/broadsides up there in one big party. Ethereal/farseer buffs, and dakka away. Riptides go do riptide stuff, skyray and hammerhead for support.

That works farily well, but any decent amount of blast weapons will ruin your day. 4++ won't hold up to any sustained amount of dakka, and being huddled on the pad is asking for a pie plate. This also locks 2 of your 3 scoring units up on the pad, so no way to get objectives. I agree about getting more jetbikes or scoring in general.

That said, I like the seer over the buffmander. Psychic defense is not that critical, but it helps. The buffmander is a bit set in what it does, and costs a fair penny. The farseer is cheaper, and although guide/prescience is a nice default, the potential support powers are fantastic. Doom, fortune, forwarning, perfect timing, misfortune, puppet master, invisibility, hallucination and psychic shriek are great. The buffmander would give you a tougher HQ so your not giving your warlord out; if you keep the ethereal bubble in with the sides and you should be ok.

If you swap the hammerhead for a second skyray, it would fix most of your issues. Between EWO sides and 2 skyrays, you should be okay on anti air. The skyray also brings mobile markerlight support, making you less dependent on pathfinders. Drop a unit of pathfinders to get another jetbike squad.

For the rays, take disruption pods and smart missiles

I can just imagine what a pod army will do to your scoring units. Sure you can EWO at 2 units, but that wont stop 30-40 turn 1 marines wiping out your 2 fire warrior and 2 pathfinder units before you can blink.

So like this then?



1498

HQ
Ethereal - 50

ELITES
Riptide w/Ion Accelerator, FG, EWO -190
Riptide w/Ion Accelerator, FG, EWO -190
2 Crisis Suits w/4 Fusion Blasters, 2 Flamers- 114

TROOPS
6 Firewarriors w/Rifles - 54
6 Firewarriors w/Rifles - 54

FAST ATTACK
5 Pathfinders - 55
5 Pathfinders - 55

HEAVY SUPPORT
3 XV88 Suites w/SMS, HYMP, 3 EWS, 6 Missile Drones - 282
Skyray w/BSF, SMS - 116
Skyray w/BSF, SMS - 116

ELDAR ALLIES

HQ
Farseer- 100

TROOPS
3 Jet Bikes - 51
3 Jet Bikes - 51

ADL - 50


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I'm thinking about dropping a Pathfinder squad and 2 Missile Drones to add the Quad Gun and Disruption Pods onto the Skyrays

Yea, that helps a bit. The issue i saw was that you had no real scoring troops. Adding another jetbike squad will help with this. Still, you are a little weak in the scoring department. You'll probably have to hide your troops as much as possible to prevent them from being shot off the board.

I'm thinking about dropping a Pathfinder squad and 2 Missile Drones to add the Quad Gun and Disruption Pods onto the Skyrays