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So my friends and I are planning a league between us, I'll be facing necrons, nids, chaos marines and dark eldar, this is the list I've come up with, the idea is the troupe master goes with the troupe with kisses to make up for the S4 with the reroll wounds and the seers go with the other two troupes.
My main concern is the necrons (the player always takes two units of 20 warriors and orikan) and the nids because of the unit sizes.
Any comments on the list or recommendations are welcome!


Shadowseer
Shuriken pistol

Shadowseer
Shuriken pistol

Troupe master
Fusion pistol, caress

5 players
Fusion pistols, caresses

5 players
Fusion pistols, caresses

5 players
Fusion pistols, kisses

3 skyweavers
Zephyr glaives, shuriken cannons

3 skyweavers
Zephyr glaives, shuriken cannons

Starweaver

Starweaver

Starweaver

Two big guns from the crons (which is pretty likely in most lists) means 2 starweavers are dead T1, so you gotta hope you can do enough damage to survive the rest of the army while footslogging. 4++ is very good, but against 20-40 warriors backed by a GA, cryptek and lord in rapid-fire range..... 80-100 gauss shots, or even 10 MWBD tesla immortals is going to put some serious hurt on that army. Infact you can fit all that into <1500. Just some food for thought.

I have to agree with Klowny, you'll get your 1st turn charge, but those Starweavers are going to be high priority targets without much to dish back. I would swap a Star for a Voidweaver. You have some footslogging to do with a troupe but you'll have a bit more firepower.

i haven't had my transports destroyed before disembarking in 8th.
But after they were out, overwatch, counter charge and melee by mob units usually decimated my troupes.

4++ is poor against mass shooting and even regular melee by 10 man units.

The way you equipped your troupes, loosing even 1 model is gonna hurt you.


I suggest you use 2x 5 troupe equipped with fusion only, and a big, foot slogging troupe, with caresses and even embraces (from the points of the caresses and kisses)
First turn your shadowseer will push them, with (8"+d6) x2 they will reach almost anything.

My tactic is: shadowseer is in a transport, disembark 3"+8"+d6, the big troupe stays within 3".
Push them, hope they don't get denied.

Multi-charge 2-3 units if you can.

If you can get in range, first turn charge with the starweavers, to get some overwatch off the big troupe.