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So I pulled out all my models and found there is a lot of stuff I just don't use that I wish I did, and here is my 1850 footdar list that uses a bunch of it that I'm gonna play with for the next little while. There is a tonne of shots coming out of the army every turn, unfortunately it lacks the range that my usual mechdar has, so tactics are going to be a lot harder to work with while playing this one. Anyways, footdar means to me nothing on hover or flying bases, which means Jump and Jet is go, as is monstrous creatures, war walkers, etc. So here is my list;

Autarch;

Banshee mask
Swooping hawk wings
Scorpion Chainswords
Shard of Anaris (replaces pistol, this way when I play against another Eldar player using the exarch powers I at least have +1 S if the turn the shard into a regular CCW)

Farseer

2 Warlocks

10 Dire Avengers
-Exarch
-Power Weapon Shimmershield

10 Dire Avengers
-Exarch
-Power Weapon Shimmershield

20 Guardians
-2x Star Cannons

20 Guardians
-2x Star Cannons

6 Swooping Hawks (this is a unit i never use, autarch is going in here to hang out)
-Exarch
-Sunrifle
-Hit & Run

5 Warp Spiders (rarely use)
-Exarch
-Spinneret Rifle
-Fast Shot

War Walker Squadron
-2x Walkers
-2 Starcannon each

War Walker Squadron
-2x Walkers
-1 Brightlance each, 1 Scatter Laser each

Wraithknight
-Two Heavy Wraith Cannons

Unless your meta is full of dire avenger/howling banshee/shining spear exarchs and/or the avatar, there is no need to replace your pistol. Keep the handgun so your autarch can contribute to dakka, and even if you go up against the Avatar, the enemy won't get a +1 to the disarm roll. Disarming strike is insanely rare on anything short of the Avatar, which is likely to kill your autarch outright with our without it.

I would drop the warlocks(or at least one) for another war walker. Warlocks are fairly meh with Ld8, and you have a farseer for buffing your army instead.

The spiders could toss the exarch altogether, and the hawks could toss hit and run, but all of those have their merits if you really want.

I dislike scatter/lance walkers, as they mix roles, and you have a farseer to twin link the lances if need be, so I would run dual lances. I would also run dual scatter lasers over dual starcannons on the other squad, unless your meta is just swarming with 2+ armor(but even then, the avengers and guardians should be able to deal with it)

My meta is not swarming with 2+ armour, but it is swarming with space marines in general, and good god I hate them. Warlocks are fun and I don't have any more Walkers so I'm stuck at 4

Looks fine, Walker mixed roles isn't fantastic but under rare circumstances it can be a benefit (such as having no farseer) but I think you would be better of going SL/SC and duel BL.