This one's Boc's fault.
To be perfectly honest, I think taking Eldar without grav tanks is...honestly, ignoring their greatest strengths: tough tanks and mobility. It's a hell of a theme list, and you'll see this when it comes to actually getting to an objective. Play a Table Quarters game with the Capture The Flag scenario, and watch him slap it in the far corner. Cry. Fight for that tie.
That being said, here's about as good as I can give you.
Eldar 'What The Foot?!' 1850
HQ
Eldrad [210]
Maugan Ra [195]
Elite
7 Harlequins [226]
-5 Kisses
-2 Fusion Pistols
-Death Jester
-Shadowseer
-Troupe Master w/ Power Weapon
7 Harlequins [226]
-5 Kisses
-2 Fusion Pistols
-Death Jester
-Shadowseer
-Troupe Master w/ Power Weapon
7 Harlequins [226]
-5 Kisses
-2 Fusion Pistols
-Death Jester
-Shadowseer
-Troupe Master w/ Power Weapon
Troops
7 Rangers [133]
7 Rangers [133]
6 Rangers [114]
Heavy Support
Wraithlord [135]
-Scatter Laser
-Missile Launcher
-2 Flamers
Wraithlord [135]
-Scatter Laser
-Missile Launcher
-2 Flamers
Wraithlord [135]
-Scatter Laser
-Missile Launcher
-2 Flamers
Total: 1849/1850
Once you put in 'foot only', well...you're left with these choices, and with Wraithguard. However, Harlies are by far the best/only viable footslogging Elite Choice, and you're dropping around 400 points to get a single Wraithguard choice. They're great at taking up space, and if you want them, you can retool the list by dropping a harlie squad and a ranger squad or two
If you do, be prepared to fortune them all the time, and hope you can bail them out of assault with the Harlies.
Rangers are in there purely to score. You go to ground for a 2+ save if needed, and pray to Ynnead that you don't meet flamers, because they'll poof you.
Wraithlords are your foot choice for heavy weapons support. Part of me would want to just slap Wraithsword + Scatter Laser + 2 flamers and have them RUN at the enemy (...lead it with a harlie squad + phoenix Lord and you've got a 800pt block of your army running at the other guy and putting the 'laughter' in slaughter.)
Past that...hope to get the enemy light armor with what guns you have. That's also why we dropped almost 200 points on Maugan Ra; he sits with some harlies, and provides them with a BFG.
Normally I'd probably overlook Death Jesters, as I'm not really a fan of them. However, in this list I think you just might want the guns. If you don't, you free up 18 points dropping the Jesters for regular Harlies with kisses. Again, normally I'd probably not bother with them, but we're kind of short on firepower here.
Now, why Eldrad? He's going to be in the trailing Harlie squad. See, he doesn't have Fleet, so he'll be slowing you down in assaults. He supports you with psychic powers, as by the time you've bought a foot Farseer with a couple powers and some psychic defense, well...chances are you've dropped something like 150ish points. Go ahead and get that third psychic power; this army will probably benefit from it.
Disclaimer
...I cannot help but feel like I'm sacrificing some utility to fit with the theme. I don't feel that Eldar usually have a solid foot list, but this is what strikes me as an option. Can you win with it? Sure. It'll probably be more of a challenge, but this is the kind of army you play because you want to convert it, not because it's the badass of badasses.
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Obviously 10 Wraith Guard, Eldrad and Maugan Ra is totally super awesome and broken. I know so cuz people at my FLGS think so. /facepalm
Would jetbikes qualify as foot? They'd be handy for some mobile objective grabbers or whatevs.
Jetbikes probably would qualify as foot, but I think part of the problem you'll run into with the foot army is targets.
Once the enemy realizes that you can readily grab 2+ saves on your Rangeres, and that he can't see your Harlies, that leaves him with...Wraithlords...to shoot. T8 forgives a lot.
The instant you put Bikes in there, they have a target to sink their teeth into. At best, I'd think about going to two 6-man Ranger squads and two 3-man jetbike teams with shuriken cannons in each. Then, I'd promptly reserve the jetbikes, and hope they come in at the right time to grab objectives.
I just think that in a pure foot list, they'd be way too obvious.
In a pure, pure biker type list...probably a different story.
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