(Markconz @ Nov. 10 2007,10:34)
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Yes thanks for posting the batreps and hope to see more, though (as you say) clearly your opponents were inexperienced. That eldar list btw - voidspinners were separate I hope? Also 3 rangers is illegal?? Just one guardian formation also makes it too easy to eliminate the avatar threat in my experience - and no wraith gate or storm serpents with all those warp spiders?
But anyway it can take some competant thrashing of formations by air before you start to see how impotent the bugs really are from that sort of attack. As you say non-mixed swarms can help (but that has it's own problems in terms of flavour and construction technicalities).
No, the Voidspinners were all in a single Formation. He enjoys dropping 3 Templates on me. 
Unfortunately, I taught him the error of that tactic as well...with the requirement to drop the first template on the most models possible, then the other 2 come off that, I simply bunched up 6 or so Disposable Gaunts at one end of my formation, and kept the Synapse as far away from them as possible, and the rest of the Swarm more spread out. So he was forced to drop the first template there, the second one flopped over and hit more little guys, the third had nowhere useful to go. Next time he may very well keep the Void Spinners seperate, or just take 2 of them.
Normally he does take a Wraithgate. But I think his plan this time was "sit and shoot till my eyes bleed, then mop up whats left." As for the Guardian formation, hell...I might not have taken one at all. I might simply have bought more EoV's instead...Cobras, maybe. Downgrade the Warlock to a Phantom or even 2 Revenants, and bring even more BP weaponry, especially MW/TK BP stuff. Screw the Avatar. Go for pure killiness and mobility.
I think I would have went for something like:
Phantom or Revenants
2 Void Spinners
2 Cobras
2 Storm Serpents
5 Falcons
5 Falcons
8 Warp Spiders
8 Warp Spiders
And then a tiny Farseer/Guardian squad to sit way in the back and provide Farsight.
But, he had his own plan. If he had been more aggressive with it, I think the game might have turned out VERY differently.
As for the Rangers, meh. In the campaign, we fight games with random sizes, so we end up making our lists on the fly. He had 75 points left over, and probably wasn't thinking about it. I sure wasn't. It was no big deal. Although they WERE very annoying with their ability to pick out the Warriors in the Swarm.
if they didn't come out of the Independent section I might be much more ok with it. Simply add a line under "Hive Nest" that allows you to buy 1-3 Mieotic Spore Clouds for 100 each. Then they can function more like you want...simply drift 2d6 or 3d6 cm in the initial phase of each turn, not counting as Activations.