Eldar 1500pts

[grubnards]

As Hyv3 and Calypso have both posted their 1500pts list I figured I would post mine. I don't have my printed list in front of me so the numbers of the guardians may be off a little.

HQ
Eldrad

Elites
5 Fire Dragons

Troops
10 Dire Avengers
Exarch w/Bladestorm and extra catapult
Wave Serpent with TL Bright Lances

14 Guardians
Warlock w/embolden, Scatter laser platform

5 Rangers

Fast Attack
5 Warp Spiders
Exarch w/extra spinner, powerblades, withdraw

Heavy
5 Dark Reapers
Exarch with Tempest Launcher, Crack Shot
3 War Walkers with Missile launchers

Aegis Line with LasCannon

Nothing fancy with this list. I will be rolling spells on Divination and Telepathy, hoping to get the buffing spells. The bulk of the army will sit in cover/behind the defense line and take out the big threats from afar before moving forward to claim objectives.

Hopefully Runes of Warding will mitigate any psychic powers threats from daemons and grey knights and allow me to protect my units that need it. The warlock is there to mainly keep my guardians from fleeing off of the board and between the LasCannon and Walkers I should be able to cancel out any air threats early on. The spiders will be my only DS unit and will be there to get any luck rear armor shots or just to be a general nuisance to my opponent.

I do have another list prepared in case I'm not allowed to use my Aegis line. Basically it's the same setup except the fire dragons get a wave serpent and the walkers drop down to 2.

Regardless of how I do, I expect this will be my Eldar's last outing before the new codex comes out this summer.

[Crispy]

Any comp dings?

[grubnards]

The only thing I should have going against the comp matrix is the over 10% cost but I think that at 1500pts almost everyone is going to get dinged on that.

I am running 3 troop choices and at least 1 unit from each force org with zero duplication so I should be good otherwise.

[hyv3mynd]

Not to sound like Courtney, but don't forget the codex powers as an option. The new powers are tempting and better in some situations. However, fortune guide and doom are even more brutal coming from behind an aegis. Without the avatar, you can also go to ground for a 2+ rerollable with fortune, and mitigate the snapshots some with guide.

It's a lot of shooting made even more brutal by psy buffs, just pray you don't get into assault.

I get why DA in the serpent are appealing, but the dragons need it more IMO. t3 melta dudes on foot are first blood every day of the week. I'd say give them the ride or an exarch to use tankhunter and crack shot on the icarus.

[grubnards]

Yeah, in my non-aegis list i have the dragons in a serpent. I think i'll drop withdraw from the spider exarch and a guardian to upgrade a dragon to an exarch and put him on the gun.

As for eldar powers vs dinivation, dinivation almost always wins out for me.

Guide has 6" range vs the 12" in prescience
Doom and misfortune are pretty even. Both are 24" range but doom allows the shooter to reroll failed hits while misfortune forces enemy unit to reroll successful saves.
Psychic Shriek vs mind war. Ive failed too many mind wars to learn not to use it. I've had much more success with psychic shriek, plus psychic shriek can wipe out chunks of models vs mind wars 1.
Fortune: agreed, it is a must take when behind a wall or in cover.

Depending on my opponent, i may opt to take doom, otherwise i'll be rolling my other powes on dinivation/telepathy.

[grubnards]

Tweaked my list a bit to fit in a Fire Dragon Exarch.

HQ
Eldrad

Elites
5 Fire Dragons
Exarch, Firepike, Crack shot, Tank Hunter

Troops
8 Dire Avengers
Exarch w/Bladestorm and extra catapult
Wave Serpent with TL Bright Lances

14 Guardians
Warlock w/embolden, Scatter laser platform

5 Rangers

Fast Attack
5 Warp Spiders
Exarch w/extra spinner, powerblades

Heavy
5 Dark Reapers
Exarch with Tempest Launcher, Crack Shot
3 War Walkers with Missile launchers

Aegis Line with LasCannon

Basically I dropped 2 Dire Avengers and withdraw from the spider exarch and depending on the mission/opposing army my wave serpent can either house the dire avengers or the fire dragons as I see fit.

Since the LasCannon, Dragons, war walkers, and potentially the warp spiders can take care of vehicles, I think I should swap out the bright lances on the serpent for a twin linked scatter laser. What do you guys think? It would help increase my output of fire and free up 20 or so points to invest in another ranger, spider, or a couple of guardians.

My biggest concerns are fast moving armies like Hyv3's chaos or a lot of deep strikers (space wolves drop pods). Otherwise I think I am good to go against most other armies.

[hyv3mynd]

I like it better. Now the dragon exarch can ignore cover, eldrad can join reapers if he gets the ignore cover power.

I'd say put the scatter lasers on the serpent also. High RoF and free rerolls is always good.