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Thinking about starting up some Eldar. Looking at a baseline 500 point army.
I'm not very pleased by the Battleforce box so I built one list around it and another on my own.

Using Battleforce:


Farseer
Singing Spear

Dire Avengers
4x Avengers
Exarch
In Wave Serpent
TL Brightlances, Holo Fields, Shuriken Cannon

Guardian Defenders
10x Guardians
Weapon Platform with Scatter Laser

1x Vyper
Shuriken Cannon, Scatter Laser, Holo Fields
500 on the spot.

Not happy with the 1x Vyper as it dies to any shooting and gives points away easily. Guardians also blow with their 12" range.
Here's what I would play without battleforce, also costs a lot more €€€.

Spiritseer

Striking Scorpions
5x Scorpions + Exarch

5x Dire Avengers

8x Dire Avengers + Exarch
Wave Serpent, TL Brightlances, Shuriken Cannon

499/500.
Models are much more useful in my opinion. I also love the idea of scorpions so I want to play them.
Cheers!
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Anyway, if you feel like they're not your bag, then don't get the battleforce and go with the second list instead.
The Scorpion Exarch wants something fancy - if we can find the points a Scorpion's Claw is very dangerous (an at-initiative, non-specialist powerfist? yes please) and deals with targets that the ordinary Scorps can't handle (termies, monsters, etc). As much as I like Scorps, they often feel like little more than an Exarch-delivery system.

On the flip side, the Exarch in the DA unit, and the Shuricannon are nice-to-haves - The Exarch costs almost as much as another DA, which would equal more shots, and the Shuricannon will most likely not want to be targetting the same thing as the Brightlances.

An alternative would be to drop the Spiritseer (as fun as Protect-ed Scorps sound, Infiltrate means they can't deploy together) and take an Aspect Host as the entire army instead. You'd be forced to add an exarch to the other DA unit (or indeed, replace them with almost any other aspect) but would have points spare for Holofields on the Serpent and a few extra bodies in the units.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/686956/8578098.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/686956/8578098.page GMT