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Hi everyone

I was wondering if this list could make a worthy tournament opponent, so I decided to ask you what you tought about it !

So here goes :

Archon w/ punisher, tormentor helm, combat drugs, animus vitae - 315 pts
    leading 9 grotesques in a raider

Dracon w/ agoniser, ccw, combat drugs, shadow field - 311 pts
    leading 6 incubi in a raider

10 dark eldar warriors w/ 2 dark lance - 100 pts
10 dark eldar warriors w/ 2 dark lance - 100 pts
10 dark eldar warriors w/ 2 dark lance - 100 pts
10 dark eldar warriors w/ 2 dark lance - 100 pts

10 dark eldar warriors w/ 2 dark lance, sybarite, webway portal - 156 pts
10 dark eldar warriors w/ 2 dark lance, sybarite, webway portal - 156 pts
 
5 jetbikes w/ 2 blasters, succubus (power weapon, tormentor helm) - 181 pts
5 jetbikes w/ 2 blasters, succubus (power weapon, tormentor helm) - 181 pts

As you have guessed, both the archon and the dracon are designed to go in with the WWP starting on 2nd turn. The dracon and incubi go against armoured troops / elite, while the archon goes against footsloggers and abuse the automatic fall back caused by the grotesques.
The jetbikes are there to provide additionnal close combat punch as well as drawing a little fire off the WWP carriers, their main goal being turboboosting on 1st turn to make their saves invulnerable and putting themselves in position to assault on turn 2.

I'm actually wondering if it would be best to interchange the archon/dracon, and if the lack of any ravagers (which from my experience tend to blow up really, really fast) will cripple this army.

So, what do you think ?

Oh Lord.
Your HQ: Shuffle the Shadowfield to the Archon. For the Dracon, maybe a pistol, the shot might do something. The incubi are good, sicne this is WWP. Not so sure about the grots, though.

Troop: Blasters and splinter cannons, sybarite with an agoniser. You want these guys to unload their shots and assualt. Keep two of the Dark Lance squads.

Same layout for the portal squads, you want them fleeting up the flanks to drop the portal.
Fast Attack:
Agonisers on the Succubi! Agonsiers on the Succubi! Repeat this ad nauseum.

Remember, you are putting only two raiders on the field. They will die. be careful with them.

I'd put more warriors into the two WWP carrying squads. 10 DE can die really, really easily. I played a game a couple of days ago against my friend's IG with my WWP army, and by the time I could deploy the portal at all (unit pinned first turn) my 20 warrior squad (in cover) was down to about five. I'd make those squads BIG.

Grots are awful, they are slow and cannot fleet of foot.  Your lord won't like not being mobile.  Take Wyches w/ succubi and put the lord with them and call it a day.  Wyches are cheaper and far far more effective in CC and survivable.  Also, with so many fearless units, the auto fallback does not yield you the slaves you want, and thus the animus won't work.  You will find yourself hard pressed to get a slave and pump up the Archon.  For a Lord, I deck mine with SF, TR, Ag, PG, CD all else is not needed.  You will always get a head on the rack, leadership 10 is great.  In 1500 pt games, a dracon will serve just as well.

Reavers, are hit and miss, I put mine in the portal.  They are fragile.  I like the power weapon on the succubus, a chance at Str 5 power wpns is cheaper than the agonizer.  That is the setup I use.  Although an agonizer has the added chance of wounding big Tough things and glancing armor.

You will find it difficult to have shots with 6 sniper squads, drop one of them, beef up the others, and make one SC X2 and Blaster X2 so they can move.  In my WWP army, I drop one portal early and move one up if I can with a mobile Squad.  Stick the snipers in cover if you can.