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Here is my dark eldar list for an upcoming tournament. Pretty much every army gets played in these tourneys so I needed something well rounded. My least likely opponent is horde (ork / tyranids)

HQ
Baron Sathonyx 105

TROOPS
Hellions x14 (Helliarch x1, Agonizer x1) 249

Wyches x10 (Heatrix x1, Agonizer x1, Hydra x2) 170
Raider (Flicker) 70

Wyches x10 (Heatrix x1, Agonizer x1, Hydra x2) 170
Raider (Flicker) 70

Wyches x10 (Heatrix x1, Agonizer x1, Hydra x2) 170
Raider (Flicker) 70

ELITE
Kalabite Trueborn x4 (Blaster x4) 108
Venom 55

Kalabite Trueborn x4 (Blaster x4) 108
Venom 55

HEAVY
Ravager x3 (Darklance x2 Disentegrator x1, Flicker x3) 345


Total 1745


The idea is pretty obvious, baron + hellions are pretty tanky. Keep them in cover, take a bunch of shots and hold objectives. Can also do quite a bit of damage at range or in CC depending on combat drugs roll.

The wyches get in CC as fast as possible, first turn move raiders 24 second turn assault. Any raider that I think might get killed will instead move 12 into cover allowing the wyches cover saves so they don't evaporate.

Venom / blasters are anti-tank / anti-meq same with disentegrator.

Darklances just shoot tanks all game, hopefully killing something before the paper airplanes they ride on die.

All feedback welcomed / wanted! Thanks

I don't know much about DE but as far as I know there is only one really competative list which is venom spam. But this list looks competative enough so that you will win games, and when you win it will be down more to skill than cheese.

Be warned, Hellions are hard to get into cover, unless its area terrain, which then remember, they are Jump Troops.

Three Squads of Wyches ... hmm, see, they wont kill all that much, S3 REALLY lets them down, i'd take Shardnets.

The idea of Wyches is to bog your opponent down.

Trueborn in Venoms, nice, few vehicles can stand a round of shooting from them.

I haven't had a problem with the hellions, with the baron you get to reroll dangerous terrain tests so you will almost NEVER lose one. I haven't had a problem getting them into cover and even if you can't they can become a great shot soaker, 5+ go to the ground in the middle of open area =)

I completely agree with the S3 on wychs, anything that is above tough 4 usually wont have more than about 5-10 models in it, meaning 4 agonizer attacks will do the trick. I play T5 all the time (plague marines) and 10 wyches easily kills 10 plauge marines even with t5.

Love the venoms, cant afford to lose one which means there isn't much wiggle room at 1750 to get more kill power.

I'm just a huge Duke fan, and with all the Combat Druged units you're running it would make sense.

I like him as well, however he doesn't seem that great considering I miss out on a lot of his abilities (having no good kabalite squads). He's also a lot more, plus to pay for him I would have to lose baron, make hellions pretty bad IMHO.

heifinator wrote:Kalabite Trueborn x4 (Blaster x4) 108
Venom 55

Kalabite Trueborn x4 (Blaster x4) 108
Venom 55

Yee, gods, no second SplintCan? You gotta have the 12 dice venom.

heifinator wrote:The wyches get in CC as fast as possible, first turn move raiders 24 second turn assault. Any raider that I think might get killed will instead move 12 into cover allowing the wyches cover saves so they don't evaporate.

Haems. Girls really need the Pain Token to survive.

The 3rd venom fulla trublasters would be good; cutting a wyche boat to do it. Which leaves points to add extra SplintCans and maybe a haem.

Problem is I then have 3 troop choices. Is that ok....

heifinator wrote:Problem is I then have 3 troop choices. Is that ok....

It's a stretch, but do-able. If anything, try adding a 45 point 5 man KabaliteW unit for that 4th troop fall-back. I used that, and still do, only at 1850 or 2k, it's two 5 man troop squads ... in venoms.

The rest being 3 wyche-raiders.