Eldar / Tau 1850

[SaganGree]

Well with all that has changed I thought I'd try something a little new...

Eldar 1850

HQ

Eldrad

Farseer
w/ Spirit Stones, RoWt, 2 Cheap Powers (Intend to roll on Div)

Troops

10 Wraithguard
w/ Warlock, Spiritseer, Conceal

6 Guardian Jetbikes
w/ 2 Shuriken Cannon

6 Guardian Jetbikes
w/ 2 Shuriken Cannon

Heavy

1 Vibrocannon

1 Vibrocannon

1 Vibrocannon

Allies

Tau

HQ

Commander Shadowsun - To be placed with the Wraithguard

Troops

12 Fire Warriors
w/ Shas'ue

12 Fire Warriors
w/ Shas'ue

Heavy

3 Broadsides
w/ Blacksun Filters

The thought is that since the stealth field generator now gives stealth and shrouding that with conceal, the wraithguard have a 3+/3++ vs shooting with fortune... or if you go Div, scarry amounts of counter fire should you get the overwatch at BS power... this can be played with the other Farseer to see how this deathstar should work....

[gcsmith]

Shadowsun can't join units. Sad to burst you're bubble. Not as long as her drones are alive.

[SaganGree]

/sigh....

I have been just full of fail today... oh well.

[Kambien]

also you don't have 1500 points of tau to even take shadowsun

[Josh Tokyo]

also you don't have 1500 points of tau to even take shadowsun

nice idea tho. They shoulda had stealth field generators for crisis suits as well, special issue obviously, or even better stealth gen drones... way better than shield drones. Imagine all firewarriors with a 2+ cover save... **sigh** but yeah maybe next codex. You'll have to rely on Eldrad with Telepathy for the 2+ cover save. You're not guaranteed to get invisibility but you should get some good powers. Which considering he can use 3 power tokens a turn and do a double shot of one power is nasty if you think of double psychic shrieks plus a bunch of wraithcannon shots. Also hallucination is nasty to anything with a power weapon in it. Especially if you doom it first. Powerfist sgt wipes out entire squad incl himself. :)
Only downside to telepathy is you need 2 tokens to cast invisibility or hallucination, which means you can't do both in the same turn.
Anyway instead of shadowsun, put a support commander in there. Give him Advanced Stabilization System and vectored retro-thrusters plus HW blacksun filter. Maybe throw on the cyclic ion for a bit of shooty goodness with Doom... only S3 but 1/2 your wounds will be AP1... and Iridium plates if you have the points. He can walk the Broadsides up in support of the wraithguard with ***. They can now take targeting arrays for BS4 because the BSF is on the commander and maybe plasma rifles to add even more hurt up close. If the enemy gets too close the commander can just switch to the wraithguard unit, so even if they do get assaulted they will likely be able to hit and run away. especially if you give your warlock enhance.
Then blast the offending unit to hell.
The commander can also absorb hits from AP3 and worse power weapons in CC. If you give him Shield drones you can use them as real show stopper.