1) You are kind of light on troops. Yes the avengers are decent all around troops and yes the pathfinders are a good choice, but you only have 3 units that can actually hold objectives and that (as I found in a tournament recently) can really hurt you.

2) You are kind of light on anti tank power. The bright lances on the wave serpents are a good plan, but after that, you are kind of lacking.

3) Reaper exarchs and missile launchers don't mix. I understand that you were looking to overcome your anti tank deficite but every single time you fire a reaper squad at a tank, 4 reapers worth of anti troop death are completely wasted. That sort of waste just really offends my eldar sensibilities.

4) As things are now, your farseers are set up best to ride along with the dire avengers. However, you may want to consider making one of them a back field unit. If you do this, you can ditch doom and the spirit stones and then place the else where (like on spirit stones for the serpents, or runes of various kinds for the farseers).

If I drop the EMLs then my only heavy AT are the BLs, which is not good! The ELMs are currently near the top of the list in points expenses, to get it so cheaply on a BS5 model that can up its RoF is just a great deal to me! I used these back in 3E before to great effect. So the other 4 guys aren't going to effective on the target, how many times to does a marine squad have to all sit there while the one guy with a ML tries to kill a tank their bolters can't hurt? Sometimes you just gotta make those kinds of choices, and taking the EML gives me that option, as opposed to not having it at all (Step 1: open can. Step 2: squish contents!). Again, my experience chimes in and tells me that it's not a waste to fire missiles at MEQs since you are nearly guaranteed to hit and wound, with the added benefit of instant death!

Really I am not set on having the Farseers ride with the DAs. I do know that whoever they are with, they will be standing BEHIND THEM! I think it'd be hard to screw up using them in this army, they can help everyone out! The little voice of experience also says that things are going to get close so I will very likely have range for Doom, even in the back field. It's there for when I see the pending assaults...

As much as I hate to argue with someone who's obviously made up their mind, you may want to consider something a bit different.

Putting them with the scouts or the reapers means that doom is going to be a waste since its going to take half the game (or longer) for an enemy to close within range. In the mean time, your avengers and scorpions may well be running around getting into trouble without the support of the farseers. The other thing to consider is that the only back field unit you have that really benefits from doom is the scouts. The scouts wound on 4+ so they have a 50% chance of wounding and doom adds 25% to get you up to 75%. If you need a 3+ to wound (reapers at T4 targets), doom only adds an extra 22%. If you wound on a 2+ (scatter lasers at T3 or T4 targets) doom adds 13% extra damage. So in the end, if you want to really put doom to use, you'll need to keep it on whatever the dire avengers and the striking scorpions are attacking. Keeping a doom in the back field to put on things that are getting close to your rear fire base isn't really worth it...particularly when you could be spending the points on another troop unit.

Magnets my friend, magnets! I really think that the best arguments I've heard for the Tempest Launcher don't take into account that there is an entire game unfolding with multiple units of all types on both sides that are moving around and with terrain etc. You don't get the prefect shot every turn. What if for one turn all I have line of sight to are Armor 12+ vehicles? Well then you could say my entire unit of Dark Reapers are a waste then because they aren't shooting anything! Frankly under the current 'dex, "something a bit different" is taking the EML. Hey if I'm wrong, then it's an easy magnetized weapon swap!

Some good points here, but plans based on MathHammer tends to fall apart when it comes time to hit the table top. Yeah, using the Farseer with squad A gives a higher % then squad B, but it may be squad B's weapons that I really need to hit this turn! Either way even the lowest % bonus to hit is better than no bonus. As for Doom... Well Doom has a 24" range. Tables are 48" across. Given deployment zones and objectives, by the end of the first player's 2nd movement phase I will be within 24" of something, by his plan or mine.

Okay ya'll are making me think here to defend my arguments. That last part really got me visualizing a battle unfolding on the table. Generally speaking my planning is tending to focus on the mid-field fight at the moment.

Not quite sure what you mean by magnets.

In practice, I find that my back field farseer is almost never in range to use doom. Your experience may vary *shrug* so do what makes sence for your battle field conditions but with 2 units of back field reapers, I wouldn't expect much in the way of infantry to get that close to you.

My real argument against Guardians is this: I do not like playing large horde style troop units, spending lots of money on the figures and spending lots of time paint large repetitive looking hordes. So that's three major strikes right there.

In this case I specifically mean I can make the Exarch so I can swap out weapons between games without any need to repaint or reglue anything.

I'm still pondering a few changes. I've been looking at some of the Special characters, possibly dropping a Farseer for one of them.

I'd love to have it in a 3rd Waver Serpent too, possibly with EMLs.