Shingen wrote:
Flickerfields are almost certainly better than night shields and jink (especially if you don't get t1).

I would probably drop the blasterborn down to 3 man squads and use those points on more troops (even if that means dropping a blaster from each unit).

Don't worry about spam. The DE codex doesn't exactly have many VIABLE units in it.

Shingen wrote:
Drop the Lances from the warriors you don't need them. Give them a splinter cannon and give the raider splinter racks, should save you another 10 pts.

Shingen wrote:
If you want to use in a tourney you need to take a haemo or 2 ideally so you can equip the crucible of malediction and shattershard.

Read the DE Codex in relation to them but they are very good at dismantling Beatpacks (Shattershard kills Baron on a 4+ with no Saves) and the Crucible forces a leadership test on every psychic model in 3d6, fail the save its removed from play again with no saves.

I take Wracks in my Tournament lists, a lot of people say they suck but they are a pretty good cc tarpit unit and the variable ap flamers are great for mincing bikers and the like. I had a squad of 5 of them hold up 3 Necron Spiders and 2 Necron HQ's for 3 rounds of combat on Sunday allowing me to mince the rest of the army.

Blasterborn I would run in squads of 3, they are too expensive and too easy to kill, squads of 4 are a bit of a waste of points. The 60-70 pts you would save from dropping 3, plus the 10 pts from dropping the Dark Lances to Splinter Cannons on the Kabalites would allow you to perhaps work out some way to get another ravager or some more troops in the list (or add the haemo's as I said.

You can stick the 2 haemos in with 2 of the blasterborn squads, that should make them more survivable.


There is no one size fits all with DE, but you can cover a lot of bases.

If you want to be ultra competitive you need to have a Besatpack, Eldar Allied Farseer, possibly a Wraithknight and the Shattershard & Cruciible.

DE are never going to be a top tier army in their current incarnation, not in highly competitive tournaments anyway but you can make them give people headaches for sure...