Wraithhost

Recently I have had a lot of success playing with 3 big heavy midfield units, including the Avatar of Khaine, 10x Wraithblades and 10x Wraithguard both bricks with spiritseers. I have been able to bully and dominate the midfield of the board easily against several factions, and backed up by some fast units like 2 x 3 windriders for secondary scoring, have not lost the last 6 games against CSM, SM, Thousand Sons, Knights, etc. The rest of the list is made up of the autarch wayleaper, a farseer skyrunner and warlock skyrunner both leading seperate msu windriders, a guardian defender unit for holding the back line, a war walker, MSU dark reapers, and MSU Shining Spears for reactive shooting/charges and secondary scoring. I feel like this is the most optimal list that I can run, bar the shining spears, but even they aren’t terrible even in a vacuum. The question I have is, why don’t I tend to see Wraithbricks anymore in the competitive scene as much as previously, and how are skilled Eldar players making up the toughness difference with the mobility advantage of aspect lists featuring MSU aspect warriors? Perhaps it is just me, but I have been unable to find the logic behind leaving behind very durable and self-healing heavy bricks in favor of lighter and more mobile units when Eldar already excel at secondary scoring? Why not try to compete on primaries more instead?

Edit: The 10 man wraithblades have been a darling for me so far especially. Their durability and ability to return leaves opponents baffled. Some couldn’t believe they were T7, and lethal hits and volume of attacks has dragged down multiple Chaos Primarchs, Knights, tanks, terminator bricks, etc.