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I have done pretty well with my 1500 point DE List but everything in my area is 1850 and up.

My only losses (W10 - 2L) are to mechanized IG so I am kinda gearing it towards defeating that army type but still being competative to others.

Duke Sliscus
3x Ravager DL, FF
2x Warriors x5, Blaster in Venom w Dual Splinter Cannon
1x Wyches x9, Hydra, Agoniser, Haywire in Raider FF
1x Wyches x10, Hydra x2, Agoniser, Haywire in Raider FF
1x Wyches x10, Shardnet x2, Agoniser in Raider FF
2x Trueborn x3, Blaster x3, in Raider FF
1x Warrior x10, Splinter Cannon, Blaster in Raider FF, Splinter Racks
1x Trueborn x3, Dark Lances x2

Duke deploys with Large Trueborn squad, but then breaks off and mounts up with 9-Man wych squad on turn one.

The large trueborn squad may be overkill but they are there to wipe out hordes, nids, monstrous creatures

15 Lances
8 Blasters
6 Splinter Cannons

I still have 15 points to spare, I don't really know what to do with them (chain snares?)

Any and all comments and advice are welcome

Shock Prows for a few Raiders. A successful Tank Shock can win games.

Looks a lot like the list I'm working on.

Gotta drop the trueborn squad to 9 so you can put the duke in. Also, unfortunately splinter racks only work for splinter rifles and splinter cannons, so you wont get to reroll misses with the carbines. The splinter trueborn squad with the duke is really deadly, but I'm partial to just sticking him with 9 warriors, 81 points for 9 warriors instead of 163 for 9 trueborn w/ 7 carbines and 2 cannons. The trueborn are twice the points and have twice the firepower, but the same survivability, and they're not a scoring unit. Matter of opinion I guess, 35 poison 3+ shots are nice.

Consider; instead of 5 warriors with a blaster in a venom, how bout 5 wyches with haywire grenades? They'll probably be just as good at tank hunting, plus they make use of the dukes combat drugs and have a decent chance to start with FNP. I've never play tested it, but I've considered putting a shardnet in these squads so they can tie up dreadnaughts.

Good call on the splinter racks.

I agree that the warrior squad is a more cost effective solution, and I doubt I will really need that much firepower in one squad.

The Duke only has to deploy with the trueborn, he is an IC so he can split off and mount with the wyches. I want to use his 2+ poison weapons in CC with the wyches.

Why use splintercannons on those trueborns splinterboat ? 1 more shoot for 5points cause you will be moving i hope.

I dropped the truborn splinter boat all together in favor of a regular warrior squad and 3 footslogging trueborn with lances.

This gives me more lances and I think the 3 Warrior squads and 2 Venoms should give me enough splinter weaponary for high toughness creatures.

Thoughts?

I like what you had first. Because now who does Sliscus deploy with? I personally feel without a Trueborn gunboat, (minus splinter canonsthe only other option for including Sliscus is 20 warriors. And then you loose out on maneuverability.

I also like getting the best out of Sliscus which means a 10 man squad, and having him break off from them first turn. But mechanized IG are still going to give you problems with this list. I myself am having difficulty making a good sliscus list utilizing his special abilities (giving wyches rerolls on drugs, and giving a bonus to a trueborn gunboat) while still having an answer for heavy mech lists. Because it seems to me that you need to burn elite slots on trueborn blasters. I'd love to see a good solution to this conundrum. (Scourges? suicide RJBs?) Or maybe its just old fashioned balancing that leaves us without a solid answer.

What's the point of having different Wych weapons in different units? I'd rather just have Razors or Hydra Gauntlets on all the units.
Don't really worry about losing to Mech IG, unless you completely focus on AT (we're talking 3x Trueborn units, big units of Scourges with heatlances, Ravagers, Warriors in Raiders with Blaster/DL) it's going to give you a hard time.