List Evolution III: The next level

So once again its time to look at my Eldar list and see what i can do to improve it. This list went 0-2 against Space marines and chaos space marines. Not a great record, but doesn't have anything that can be salvaged?

 First of all lets have a look at the current list that i was using:

Farseer – 140 (warlord) 

Runes of witness, Runes of warding, Spirit stones, guide, mind war (just to swap)

Karandras - 215

5 Pathfinders – 120

8 Dire avengers – 96

3 War walkers – 180

6 x scatter laser

6 Fire dragons – 96

Falcon – 135

Missile launcher

Fire prism - 115

Dark Eldar

Haemonculus – 55 

Venom blade

10 warriors – 115

blaster, syberite

5 wyches – 60

Haywire grenades

Venom – 65

2 x splinter cannon

Ravager – 105

3 x dark lance

What have i learnt so far with this list? After the two games the following issues cropped up both times.

Karandras - While he can kill marines by the score he has difficulty taking out terminators or monstrous creatures and surviving. Attacking at Initiative 1 really makes he a liability when he faces AP 2 weapons. Other wise he's great  most things bounce off him and hes fine. Again the way i used him, alone, he is also vulnerable to plasma guns etc.. So unless i buy him a scorpion body guard he has to be dropped. (hint: I'm not going to do that) 

Path finders - For the prince, they disappointed me. Back in 3rd edition i loved path finders, back when they had a ranger disruption table (god i loved that table) i used two units every game. But now i think i will have to reduce them down to rangers. As has been pointed out to me on forums and comments, they only have a few targets, Monsters, 2+ save infantry  and sniping special weapons. So if i keep a small squad i will see what happens. 

Wyches - While they are useful with the haywire grenades i might have to drop them in order to get more dark eldar warriors. I really liked the warriors so i will just get more and see what happens. 

So what do i think my list can benefit from? I defiantly have a lack of combat presence, that is very obvious. So what do i go for? 3 options are available to me, banshees, harlequins or incubi. I think AP 2 would be great for the army so Incubi will have to win it for me. 

With the additional points from the wyches i want to either add a second unit of dark eldar warriors, or boost my current one up to 20 strong. But which? As a lot of games are objective based i might have to go for the second squad so that i can stand a chance at grabbing more objectives. 

The final though, do i drop the tanks? they are dying quite quickly for me so do i keep them or drop them? I know i want to keep them in any list i use, so for now i will, but if they get destroyed quickly again i will have to drop them. So that's what i'm aiming for, what can i get for my 1500 points?

Eldar/Dark Eldar 1500

Farseer – 140 (warlord) 

Runes of witness, Runes of warding, Spirit stones, guide, mind war (just to swap)

5 Rangers - 95

9 Dire avengers – 108 

6 Fire dragons – 96

Falcon – 135

Missile launcher

Fire prism - 115

3 War walkers – 180

6 x scatter laser

Succubuss – 75 

Venom blade, Haywire grenades

10 warriors – 100

Splinter cannon

10 Warriors - 100
Splinter cannon

8 Incubi - 176

Raider - 70
Dark Lance, Night shield

Ravager – 115

3 x dark lance, night shield

So that's my list, how do you think it will do? It has a combat squad which can kill anything with str 4 AP 2 attacks. I have the succubuss to hang in my units to counter charge. The ravager, Prism, and falcon can take out any tanks with fire dragons as back up. Then i have plenty of anti-infantry shots with the warriors and walkers. That;s my plan any way.