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Hi everyone ! I'm joining a league and our first tourny is going to be a 850 pts (I know, it's an odd choice), and I'm starting this one with Dark Eldar (yes, I love painful games ).
I'm trying to do something else than Raider/ Venom/ Dark Lance Spam, and I'm going for the Webway build. My main models will come from the battleforce, and then I'll add some extras. What do you think of it ?

Archon : Venom Blade, Ghost plate armour, Blaster, Shadow Field, Webway Portal
Total: 155

Kabalite Warriors x10 : Shredder, Splinter Cannon
Raider : Night Shields
Total: 175

Whyches x10 : Hydra Gauntlets x1, Haywires Grenades
Total : 130

Whyches x10 : Hydra Gauntlets x1, Haywires Grenades
Total : 130

Incubi x4 : Klaivex
Venom
Total : 158

Reavers x3 : Blaster, Cluster Caltrop
Total: 101

Total: 849


So the Archon goes with the Incubi in the Venom and the Wyches go in reserve. How do you think it's going to do ?

Webway is pretty hard to pull off, considering your units can't assault out of it and wytches in the open make Faberge eggs seem durable. If your brave/stupid/crazy/reckless/a criminal mastermind/dark eldar enough to do it, go hard or go home.

10 wytches are going to die before they can attack something, but 15 might make it. I would combine the squad, double/triple down on special weapons, haywires and a trix with a venom blade and a PGL. Stealth can help protect you on overwatch and if you happen to pop out close. 15 also offers a decent chance to finish a unit off and get FNP. 15 poison shots are nothing to sneeze at, and you can lob a plasma grenade on top of that.

If you want to go even harder with the portal, throw those reavers in there and have them turbo boost out of it. With decent placement, there will be nothing that their bladevanes cant touch. Again, try and pick off a weakened unit for a pain token. By far the best thing you can dump out of a portal is a talos. Tough, dangerous in melee, and rocking a TL splinter cannon+TL liquifier will be the death of many things. I would try to sneak one in, probably over the reavers.

Incubi and a con are probably overkill if your also going for a portal. I would go with a hamey and some wracks, or even a con and some wracks. The con should always have drugs on the off chance you get a pain token, probably more important than the ghostplate. 9 times out of 10 if the shadow field breaks the con is instagibbed or so overwhelmed your dead. By no means bad, but not great.

Your list is a bit light on AT, so consider a blaster for the kabbies over the splinter cannon and shredder.

As always, a ravager or 2 is a good call. You will either run the table or go home early. A couple bad reserve rolls and your tabled T2, really depends on what your league considers friendly. Either way, the games will be hardcore and over fast.

The portal is a fun idea, but it's going to be very difficult to get it to work.

If your Archon gets popped too soon, you'll lose the the webway portal, and your troops will be slogging in from a table edge. Since the army is quite small, and the bulk of your troops will be in reserve, the Archon is one of the only targets on the board at the beginning. Every enemy gun will be trained on him, so there's a high chance the portal won't get deployed in a favorable position.

If you do deploy, your wyches can't assault, so they can't take advantage of their 4+ melee save. Your opponent gets a free turn to shoot them down, and their weak armour and low toughness won't serve them well.

Wyches either need high numbers to absorb hits, or boats to get them where they need to go fast.

Only things that should come from a webway are reavers, talos and chronos.