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So ive got this idea to do a grotesque deathstar, and would like some feedback on the list.

Heres the idea;

Lady malys

Urien rakarth

10 grotesques(+1 strength upgrade)

2 x 3 wracks, venom - extra splinter cannon, night shields

Voidraven bomber

4 x beastmaster, 20 khymerae

Eldrad

2 x 3 jetbikes

Shadow weaver platform x 3

Aegis defence line, comms relay

I know your probably thinking why not do beastpack, but i want something original, and my own. so malys eldrad and urien go with grotesques, with eldrad im looking for forwarning from divi, then fortune, so we have a unit that is T5 with a 4++ rerollable and 5+ feel no pain from pain tokens, 3 wounds each.........not bad, rakarths special rule also gains fearless for the unit by giving us the 3rd pain token, the unit is also immune to psychic powers have that daemons! so the list needs playtesting, but what do people think first glance?

The problem with Malys is that she will make the unit immune to ALL psychic powers, meaning no buffs from Eldrad. I would swap her out for the Baron: he costs a bit less, while providing grenades, stealth, hit and run, 1+ to go and a shadow field. He can also go hang out with the beasts if you need. Eldrad is level 4 so you should deny just about everything on a 4+, burn his runes of warding if you need to stop something ubernasty like hallucination.

Those grots will hit like a mack truck being S7 on the charge. I would take an abberation to serve as a challenge chump. At S7 a venom blade is not really required, but handy should you fight an MC. It will also give you re rolls to wound, always nice.

Voidraven needs a flickerfield to avoid having to jink. I would consider a quad gun to help with AA and long ranged dakka, even if you just have jetbikes or the weavers to man it.

Your absoloutely right about malys, making eldrad then useless, i just had in my mind enemy psychic powers. :( So will add in the baron, his hit + run can help with mobility issues aswell a bit, i don't think flickerfield is needed really on the flyer as jink should be enough really, although a quad gun or icarus is maybe needed to up the anti-air in the army.
I also like the idea of having an abberation for challenges cud also give him fleshgauntlet for more insta death attacks could help vs monstrous creatures to.

Tried a simiilar list with 3 haemo's and a farseer in with 9 grots and it didnt work very well, they move too slowly and cant shoot :(

Maybe the list needs a webway portal for it to be viable, get the portal mid-table for the unit to pop-out of, that could help quickly get the unit into the enemy lines, i was worrying about the mobility of the unit.

Eldrad / Farseer cant use the portal either which doesnt really help. You cant charge our of the portal either so again you are sat there for a turn unable to shoot anything (unless you take a Liquifier gun).

If you want to run a Deep Strike Sliscus list they could be good as most armies will have a nightmare trying to kill them because of T5, FNP and 3 wounds.

I have been toying with the idea of running 3 of them with 3 Haemos and an allied Autarch purely to sit in cover so I can deep strike the rest of my army. Should work quite well, the unit would be fearless and a nightmare to remove.

Footslogging them or bringing them through a Portal wont really work I dont think.

The best option would be to take 4 of them, shove them in a raider with 2 HQ's and just turbo boost them down your opponents face turn 1 to act as a fire magnet. Urien and a Archon with a Phantasm Grenade Launcher would work quite well, they need that as they dont have Grenades...

Yh that's a point actually damn you faq, so now in thinking maybe have sliscus and rakarth and take 3 units of 5 grotesques in deep striking raiders, with uriens ability they could possibly have 2 pain tokens and be s6/7 on the charge maybe will toy with that idea.