[Mart007]

Originally Posted by FunkyFellow

Hey guys, I'm pretty much completely new to whk40 and have been amassing materials and units to start my first game! so far I've got my hands on:

10 guardians+weapon platform
13 dire avengers+2 exarchs
5 howling banshees+1 exarch
1 wave serpent
1 war walker
1 autarch /w wings,powerblade,and reaper launcher

My main opponents and only friends(battle-ranch!) who play whk40 will be fielding black templar armies and necron armies respectively, as a group we're all new to the game. Now I've made a 750 point list using what I have and a 1500 point list for future plans and was wondering if anyone could give me pointers/tips/all out criticism

750 point Eldar army:

HQ:
1 Autarch /w swoophawk wings,mandi blasters, powerblade, and reaper launcher

Troops:
10 Guardians /w starcannon heavy weapons platform

10 Dire Avengers /w Exarch, Dual Shuriken Catapults, Bladestorm,
and Defend

Elites:
6 Howling Banshees /w Exarch, Mirrorswords, acrobatics, warshout

Heavy Support:
1 warwalker /w 2 missle launchers and spirit stones

Transport:
1 wave serpent /w spirit stones, scatter laser, star engines

Total: 750 points on the dot

Well I don't know much about tatics but the transport goes with the banshees to either flank the opponent or attack any vunrable spot while everything else lays out support fire... ya simple could probably use help in the tatics department...

1500 point Eldar army

HQ:
1 Autarch /w swoophawk wings,mandi blasters, powerblade,
and reaper launcher

1 Farseer /w spirit stones, guide, and doom

Troops:
10 Dire Avengers /w Exarch, Dual Shuriken Catapults, Bladestorm, and Defend

5 Pathfinders

Elites:
10 Howling Banshees /w Exarch, Mirrorswords, acrobatics, warshout + Wave serpent /w spirit stones and a scatter laser

6 fire dragons /w exarch, dragon flamer, tankhunter

Heavy Support:
1 falcon /w spirit stones, holofields, starcannon

5 dark reapers /w exarch

Fast Attack:
5 swooping hawks /w exarch, skyleap, intercept, sunrifle

Total: 1501!


Ya I'm one point over wonder how to shave it off....suggestions? For strategy pretty much load the banshees and fire dragons in their taxis drive em in to heavy infantry/tanks respectively and start shooting with support fire from the path finders and swooping hawks and dark reapers while the dire avengers close in for the kill. Any thoughts, suggestions criticism will be welcome also any tatical advice appreciated as well.

cheers mates..... and rock on!

What you have is a good base. As you expand to your 1.5K you need to be looking for some bigger guns. DR are great but only if you deploy them well as you cant move and shoot, so you have to deploy them very carefully as they will draw fire very quickly.

I think the inclusion of a Fprism is something to think about. Bladestorming Dires are great for covering fire with18" range as your Banshees get into combat.

maybe bring your FD in Falcon in as a reserve as you can pick out which enemy tank you want to target.

Eldar are tough to work out how to use, but when you have they are a very strong army. You have to get units working together and create small combos as each unit is very specailised and very good at what it does, but on the otherside of the coin it usually means they are very weak at something else so can be exposed by the enemy.

You will probably lose your first lot of games before you get a grip on how to use them. But when you do....