no particular order WTF are you that indecisive that you cant pick Top Ten units you like to use and hate to face... make a stand have some guts oh wait you are and Eldar Player you cant help but not have any of that stuff... ..
oi, watch it with the personal insults, old bean. Don't make me get medieval with my mighty powers of Moderation. This applies to insulting anyone, but especially to insulting me. (cos im special, obviously...)
And the reason theres a few eldar units in my list is cos a) thats what i have experience with and b) eldar specialise very well. If we're talking about shooting, then the shooty eldar units are gonna be in there.
DA are really not a bad unit at all. Just cos you've gotten lucky a few times doesnt mean they arent any good. Theyre not a unit designed to flatten opposition. Theyre a unit which does well at knocking a few casualties down with a volley, then running in and tying em up until the banshees/scorps/harleys turn up to bail em out. Theyre not in my list because theyre not a very shooty unit. They are the cheapest unit in the eldar codex, though. (DAVU).
And for the record, my Reapers have killed:
in H2H:
One Dark Eldar Archon
One space marine chaplain
and have taken a wound off a chaos sorceror.
by shooting:
more space marines than you can shake a stick at. On average, 5 reapers will kill about 10~15 marines a game. A lucky volley can take out a full squad of ten in one shot. Yes, the exarch helps a lot with this.
in terms of points, theyve killed waaaaay more by shooting than in h2h, but then, they are a lot of points. (about 250 for a squad of 5 inc exarch).