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Old 10-22-2007   #8 (permalink)
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Thanks for all the help and suggestions guys, hmmmm looks like I gotta work out my list a lil more, for the autarch how would i go about getting a fusion gun? My blister only came with a shuri pistol,power blade,wings and reaper launcher, also alot of the recomendations are awsome but I need a way to trim the fat to fit them in anything I should drop?


:UPDATE:

Well I've tinkered with the 1500 point list a little bit and this is what I came up with I feel the army has more of a streamlined feel to it and more of a strategy.

1500 point Eldar army

HQ:
1 Autarch /w swoophawk wings,mandi blasters, powerblade,
and fusion gun (figured i'd have an extra from fire dragons)

1 Farseer /w spirit stones, guide, doom, and runes of witnessing

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

6 Dire Avengers /w Exarch

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, scatterlaser

1 Wraithlord /w starcannon and wraith sword

Fast Attack:
6 Swooping Hawks /w exarch, skyleap, intercept, sunrifle

Total: 1499

Now keep in mind my main opponents will be black templar space marines and necrons. I dropped the dark reapers feeling they pulled my army in a diffrent direction (making them static) and for there heavy points cost instead I opted for a wraithlord to take there place for a slightly more mobile powerhouse, I upgraded the swooping hawks to 6 on the advice of everyone but could not find the points to do so for the rangers, I also took advice on the equipment choices for my hq units. I dropped defend and opted for a second unit of dire avengers in the army although they lack numbers and bladestorm they are more for bait.

The basic strategy of my army is for the autarch to accompany the hawks and on harassing infantry and slagging vehicles, going solo or supporting my firedragons should the hawks sky leap. The fire dragons rush into the rear to slag any vehicles they can get there hands on while the exarch and falcon keep infantry off them or lacking any targets help slag tanks, the banshees run into any heavy infantry and chop them up with backup fire from their wave serpent, all of these forces are my intial attack team and try to weaken the enemy take out priorty targets and push them towards my base units. The pathfinders basically duck for cover and shoot high priority targets such as hq units or pin down infantry, while the farseer coupled with the wraithlord and two sqauds of dire avengers act as my base and push forward to smash into the front of my enemy effectivley flanking them with my intial attack squads and cleaning up the mess. The wraithlord acts a fire magnet and close combat monster shooting anything with his star cannon while advancing. The farseer dooms units for my banshees to slaughter and guides the shots of my dire avengers.

Well that about sums it up any suggestions, flaws in my tatics? units? I really wanted to add harlequins to the army but dunno if they have a place or if I could fit them in... when I eventually get to 1850-2000 point range maybe place them in with a couple of vypers and another wraithlord?

Anyhow thanks for readin, cheers mates

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