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I have an upcoming local tournament where I am planning to try something a little different to standard serpent-spam. Let me know what you think.

HQ
Spiritseer-70 (with wg)

Autarch- 150
bike/motlg/laserlance/fusiongun/bansheemask

Troops
Wraithguard-305
serpent w/TL-SL/HF and scannon.

Guardians-250
SC platform, serpent w/TL-SL/HF and scannon.

Rangers-60

Elites
Striking Scorpions-159 x7 exarch w/claw

Fast Attack
Swooping Hawks-133 x8 exarch
Warp Spiders-114 x6

Heavy Support

Wraithknight-240

Wraithlord-165 2xbl+sword


Assassin

Callidus-145
(as solitaire)

1791

Now I still have a few points remaining. I was considering either bumping up my aspects (an extra spider, scorpion and exarch upgrades) or dropping the rangers and trying to squeeze in a falcon with scatter laser). At this point I don't have too many more units to add and don't want to buy/paint anymore for the tourney, so I'm looking to work within my means. Although I could drop the autarch/assassin and get a falcon full of fire dragons and something else.

The goal of this list is to provide heavy threat saturation. The assassin can take out any single squad it needs to, the knight- autarch- and scorpions all provide dangerous fast threats, and everything is backed up by serpents and the mobile dakka of hawks/spiders. Hopefully I can take out key targets early then use my speed to outmaneuver my opponent.

So, do you think its a solid list? What should I be changing/modifying? Any thoughts to the last 60ish points? Much thanks in advance.

Scorpions and wraith lord are slow and wont actually accomplish anything. Rest is fine.

 ninjafiredragon wrote:
Scorpions and wraith lord are slow and wont actually accomplish anything. Rest is fine.

They would hang out on a back objective and be fine.

My only concern is the odd squad sizes of the spiders, hawks, and scorpions. The scorpions and spiders really need larger numbers. I would drop the Autarch and distribute the points appropriately. In that configuration the Autarch has never worked well for me.

partninja wrote:

 ninjafiredragon wrote:
Scorpions and wraith lord are slow and wont actually accomplish anything. Rest is fine.

They would hang out on a back objective and be fine.

My only concern is the odd squad sizes of the spiders, hawks, and scorpions. The scorpions and spiders really need larger numbers. I would drop the Autarch and distribute the points appropriately. In that configuration the Autarch has never worked well for me.

Their are much better units to hold the back field.