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This is a list I'm taking to a tournament this weekend. It kind of goes against everything dark eldar are supposed to do (no vehicles) but works really well..

2x Realspace Detachments

2x Lhamean
4x5 Warriors
3X12 Reavers
3x5 Scourges (3 heat lances per unit)
6X12 beastpacks (6x beastmasters, 6x khymera)

Nice and simple.

Don't Eldar and Tau just spray this off the table? I get that its a rush list but if you have less than half of it by the time you get across the table and everything is spread... doesn't it just die super easy? Curious how it plays out. Also - no cluster caltrops?

There is way too much there that is way too fast for tau to blow off the table in a turn. Even with the trademark ripwing, double surge combo, there is just no way...

That looks super fun to play with and against. Good luck! Dropping a few reavers to add caltrops does seem like a good idea

 gameandwatch wrote:
There is way too much there that is way too fast for tau to blow off the table in a turn. Even with the trademark ripwing, double surge combo, there is just no way...

you don't need to blow everything away. You only need to kill back enough of everything to make it handleable. The bikes have a good chance of running if you knock off a few and you need to kill the beast packs.


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A good tau player will get two turns of shooting (three for the riptides) and a turn of over watch to kill it all.

143 models or so? Great.
I do think you have a couple weaknesses, though. What do you have for popping light transports? I feel like a battle company in rhinos would be pretty effective at stopping this list, between the firepower of a zillion of their own models and a ton of vehicles you'd have trouble killing if they just focus on your scourges. Can you kill a drop pod (AV 12 all around) without them?

I played a Tau list and after using hailstorm on turn 1 he blew 4 of the beast units off the table.

The game was close in the end as I got into his lines and started removing units in combat.

Was painful to watch.

Transports are not too hard to dispatch, the Scourge do it well enough and I can easily kill tanks on reaar armor 10.

No points for caltrops, I would like them in it but they wont fit without dropping something I need.

The reavers can kill up to AV13 with hammer of wraths.