Windrider Host: The 11th-Edition Aeldari Jetbike Detachment

Your Asuryani Mounted and Vyper units can start in Strategic Reserves and, when they arrive, are treated as if the battle round were one higher — so they can come on early and almost anywhere legal. Even better, at the end of the opponent's turn you can pull eligible units back into Strategic Reserves (1 unit at Incursion, 2 at Strike Force, 3 at Onslaught) to redeploy next turn. And Windriders gain the Battleline keyword, so your core jetbikes score and screen. It's the ultimate hit-and-fade engine: appear, strike, disappear.

• Death from on High (Shooting/Fight) — re-roll Wounds for a Mounted/Vyper unit that arrived from Reserves this turn. Your alpha-strike amplifier.
• Wind of Blades (Movement) — a Mounted/Vyper unit can shoot and/or charge even though it Advanced or Fell Back.
• Focused Firepower (Shooting) — +1 AP to a Mounted/Vyper unit's ranged attacks.
• Spiralling Evasion (defensive) — a 4+ invulnerable save against the opponent's shooting.
• Daring Riders — a unit arriving from Reserves can set up more than 8" from enemies (tightened from 9" in the pack) for aggressive placement.
• Overflight — a Mounted unit that killed an enemy this phase makes a 7" move.

• Mirage Field — -1 to Hit against the bearer's unit, hardening your fast attackers.
• Firstdrawn Blade — the bearer's unit gains Scouts 9" for an aggressive first-turn reposition.
• Seersight Strike — the bearer's Psychic weapons gain Anti-Monster 2+ and Anti-Vehicle 2+, turning a mounted psyker into a tank hunter.
• Echoes of Ulthanesh — a chance to generate CP for pushing the bearer up the board.

• Windriders — the core; they gain Battleline here, so they score and screen while providing the mobile shuriken and scatter-laser firepower the army is built on.
• Autarch Skyrunner — leads Windriders and auto-Advances the unit, plus a CP discount.
• Warlock Skyrunners — join a Windriders unit to grant Ignores Cover, plus psychic support and the Seersight Strike carrier.
• Vypers — cheap fast skimmer weapons platforms for hit-and-fade.
• Shining Spears — hard-hitting jetbike melee that loves the reserve-and-redeploy rule.

Take it for a fast, evasive, hit-and-fade skimmer army that excels at board control, late-game objective grabbing, and picking off targets before vanishing. Choose it over Warhost when you want a focused mobility archetype rather than an all-comers mix. At 2 DP it leaves 1 DP for a support.

Sample gameplan: deploy most of your Mounted and Vyper units into Strategic Reserves (Ride the Wind), scoring up front with a couple of Windrider units thanks to Battleline. Flood in where the enemy is weakest, using Daring Riders for tight placement and Death from on High to re-roll Wounds on the alpha strike. Use Wind of Blades to shoot or charge after Advancing, and at the end of the opponent's turn pull exposed units back into Reserves to redeploy and repeat.