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Planning on going to my first proper tournament in a few years come a month or so. Here's my list as things stand:-

Haemonculus

Trueborn Squad w/ 2 Dark Lances
w/Raider w/ Flicker Fields

9 Wyches w/Hekatrix, Agoniser, Haywire Grenades, Shardnet and Impaler
w/Raider w/ Flicker Fields

5 Warriors w/ Blaster
w/ Venom w/Splinter Cannon

5 Warriors w/ Blaster
w/ Venom w/Splinter Cannon

5 Warriors w/ Blaster
w/ Venom w/Splinter Cannon

Beastmaster squad w/ 3 Beastmasters, 4 Razorwing Flocks, 5 Khymerae

Beastmaster squad w/ 3 Beastmasters, 4 Razorwing Flocks, 5 Khymerae

Ravager w/Flicker Field

Ravager w/Flicker Field

Ravager w/Flicker Field


Now I still have points left over from this, and I'm torn between the following options:-

Option 1:-

All vehicles bar the Wyches Raider get Night Shields.

Trueborn Squad w/ 2 Splinter Cannons, 3 Blasters
w/ Venom w/ Splinter Cannon, Night Shields.

The Haemonculus gets a webway Portal and a few other bits and bobs of gear.

Option 2:-

Trueborn Squad w/ 2 Dark Lances
w/ Raider w/ Flicker Field

Trueborn Squad w/ 2 Dark Lances
w/ Raider w/ Flicker Field

Option 3:-

Trueborn Squad w/ 2 Splinter Cannons, 3 Blasters
w/ Venom w/ Splinter Cannon, Night Shields.

Baron Sathonyx

Haemonculi gets a Liquifier Gun



Please note that I'm not looking for cookie cutter advice here. So being told to strip everything out and replace with more Trueborn with Blasters isn't what I'm after. I want to try out an idea or two of my own here in a competitive environment. So if you could advise which of the three options you consider best, and why, that'd be grand. Thanks.

From my experience Dark Eldar wins with firepower AND mobility.

Having Trueborn with 2 DL in a venom gives you either/or.

Lose mobility to fire, or mobility and cannot fire them. it is a unit that works against itself.

Just wanted to add my thought.

Unless you deploy the trueborn in cover and use them as snipers while the empty raider moves and fires. That has the merit of offering the enemy two targets, not one, perhaps making his targeting decisions a wee bit harder.

In essence, I think, he's banking on the trueborn living longer and so firing more shots in cover than moving close the enemy to get in blaster range. It's true the squad won't be mobile but then if it's at the top of a ruin or somewhere similar it probably doesn't need to be.

If that's the case, I'd go with option 2.

And as an aside (as I realise the OP is going with beasts), I recently saw a nice list that use pain token swapping shennanigans to give the baron and 20 hellions two pain tokens turn one which made that unit rather tasty, especially as it doesn't worry very much about dangerous terrain checks for moving in cover.

If one of the others is chosen, i'd suggest rather than upgrading the HQ too much and instead of giving night shields, it might be better to give some of the venoms grisly trophies as that helps Ld 8 troops a lot. Ld8 with a re-roll is better than Ld10 without.

Are you sure your math is correct? I'm getting you at 20-30 points over each way.

I think you'd be in good shape to go with Option 2, but trade blasters for shredders and add a Liquifier. Barring this, I'd add the DL TB w/ Raider squad, then take another of the same Kabalite troops, add in a Liquifier and you should be at 1749.

Of what you listed, not a fan of 1, torn between 2 or 3. Would probably go 2 though. Love the Baron, but love DL TB even more. Would consider trying to get the Haem a Liquifer or Shattershard in ANY list though if possible.