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I go down yo my local GW every so often for a few league games but normally I game at my FLGS. My GW tends to run a lot if not entirely just 1k doubles games so I figured I would put out something mean because we do tend to have a few mean/competitive tau players that probably shouldn't be running such a good list for friendly games and I will need something to fight that.

Anways on with the list

HQ
DLord
Weave

TROOPS
5 Warriors
NS

5 Warriors
NS

FAST ATTACK
3 Wraiths
Whip

3 Wraiths
Whip

3 Wraiths
Whip

HEAVY SUPPORT
Anni Barge
Anni Barge

So this is my sweet little baby wraithwing to stomp silly tau gunlines and should be able to carry whatever my partner runs (I usually duo with a SW player but I also go with a crons player and a DA player so I should be good with all of those matchups.

Anyways thoughts? I never ran much of wraithwing due to its boringness outside of an apoc formation from 3rd ed crons so I'm curious to see how this could play out even though I have a good idea of what to expect (a unit or two get shot up depending on who has first turn and LOS blocking terrain etc. Then they crash into the gunline, kill ethereal and unit or riptide if the barges and NS did it already

Well, if you want to be extra mean, combine one of the wraith squads and drop 3 coils. Use the points to get Mindshackle scarabs for extra pain. If your worried about tau, their I2 is the same as your wraiths meaning you strike at the same time, only needing a single whip to tie em down to I1. In a challenge, they don't get coiled, so extra pain from the scarabs forcing them to kill themselves.

Also more ablative LOS wounds for your dlord.

Oh ya I haven't thought of the i2 on tau I won't really need the whips much I guess I will drop two for MSS. I'm probably not gonna combine the squads since tau are great at focus firing and the more I can make them split markerlights the better since tau are great at focus firing

Whip coils are not a must-have since weapons that hurt Wraiths most are init. 1 anyway.

Ya I will just have one with the Dlords squad to go riptide hunting

 wuestenfux wrote:
Whip coils are not a must-have since weapons that hurt Wraiths most are init. 1 anyway.

Because Wraiths are vanilla Toughness 4 but have the saving grace of 3++ saves.