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So I've had 3 battles so far with my army and I've had mixed results, I've killed lots of men, but still struggled over all,

These are my units i can currently field, i mix and match depending on the opposition, ( don't run the scourges unless i face armour)

HQ-

Archon - djin blade, shadow field - 130
Haemoculus - armour of misery, stinger pistol, WWP flesh gauntlet. -135

Elites

9 incubi - 180

True born x 19 + dracon (4 blasters) - 290

Troops

kabalite warriors x9 (splinter cannon) + sybarite with raider (racks night shields) 190

kabalite warriors x9 (splinter cannon) + sabyrite with raider (racks night shields)190

Fast attack

scourges 4 with haywire blasters + solarite 130


Heavy Support

Ravager (nightshields) 125


I have changed unit sizes and strategically gotten a bit better, but a few things have stayed true in every battle.

Incubi (with archon) have chopped up well, but after they kill the whole unit, usually die from shooting in that next phase (i don't know if thats just a battle field placement thing or there a high threat but still don't get a lot of combat out of them)

true born seam to work well with the WWP from the haemi, but i still have night mares about large blast weapons

splinter weapons... i can get of lots of shots, but that never translates into casualties, with my warriors in the raiders i get of at max 23 shots a squad but agasint marines or necron warriors they never seam to die.

which is why i love disintegrator cannons, because they mow through troops. my raider has always made its points back, but at str 5 they can't take down armour or high T units well...

which leaves me with 4 blasters to take down high toughness and 4 haywire blasters to help with armour.


I can never seam to get the combination right that will bring me the V. I fell I need more high strength fire power but i don't know what to sacrifice for that?

should i swap all my heavy weapons for dark lances were possible? should i buy a void raven bomber?

any advice would be helpful, looking to keep it a kabalite based army, so i don't want any wracks grots, pain engines ect... and i don't wanna have any allies. i know it limits my competitiveness but i have a fluff theme to stick with.

Welp first thing is to reduce your crazy elite units down a bit. 20 trueborn is a little ridiculous for 4 blasters. Try to squeeze in another ravager if you can.

Incubi are very flavorful though they have the disadvantage that you mentioned. You can either keep them or drop em and get more scourges/ravagers for AT.

At 1500 I would add at least one warrior/raider squad.

I would also recommend using only 1 HQ for now, you could put in a flyer with points saved. I would recommend an archon with blaster, shadowfield, wwp to go with trueborn.

I would recommend a razorwing with dark lances over a voidraven. Cheaper and those missiles can easily kill a squad of space marines.

Other than that it's a pretty good list. You just happen to be playing one of the harder armies. We do have the advantage of speed so you can get maelstrom objectives a bit easier.

thanks heaps, ill tweak it a but, i really only use the heami for the WWP so swapping him with the archon sounds good,

what size true born unit would you run? 9? with the archon, so 5 blasters 5 splinter rifles?

whats the max incubi you would run?

Trueborn work best in units of 5 w/ 4 Blasters in a Venom. Maybe (and I stress MAYBE) a unit of 5 w/ 2 Splinter cannons or Dark Lances, but in any case, in a Venom

Any bigger and you are just wasting points. If you want a large unit with all the Splinter weapons, just field 20 Warriors w/ 2 Cannons

Or even better, more of the Splinter Rack squads you already run.
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Interesting side note about BlasterBorn: 5 w/ 4 Blasters cost 5pts MORE than 5 Eldar Fire Dragons. Yet those Fire Dragons have a 3+ armour, the whole squad has Meltaguns & Melta bombs, and Battle Focus is equal to/better than the extra range of the Blaster

I personally field an empty Fast Attack Venom for my Dragons
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As for Incubi, I would run mine with a Succubus, and keep the unit small, like 4 Incubi and the Succubus. I dont run a Klaivex, but he is a really good purchase.

Basically, DE dont do large squads very well, especially with their elites (Grots excluded). What DE excell at is MSU squads. Warriors are the only units cheap and expendable enough for field in units big enough to need a Raider