UK40kGT Army Ideas: 1750 Dark Eldar

Or I could go Dark Eldar?

I know. I’m fickle.

But it would save me from having to take IG or SW! Be good to try and give the new kids a damn good showing.

But how would I run it? Check out the first ideas I had here.

I’ll continue that theme with Baron, Hellions, Ravager support.

Baron

Haemonculus

Trueborn x 4, 3 Blasters, Venom – Dual Cannons

Trueborn x 4, 3 Blasters, Venom – Dual Cannons

Trueborn x 3, 3 Blasters, Venom – Dual Cannons

Hellions x 15 (Baron goes here)

Hellions x 12

Wracks x5, Liquefier, Venom – Dual Cannons

Wracks x5, Liquefier, Venom – Dual Cannons

Warriors x 5, Blaster, Raider – Lance

Ravager – 3 Lances

Ravager – 3 Lances

Ravager – 3 Lances

Anti Tank:

We have 9 threat vectors across 21 anti tank weapons.

10 if you count 5 S6 attacks on the charge from the Baron.

12 if we get a good result on the Combat Drugs roll.

Hellions are S4, if we get a bonus pain token we can do a lot more. To be honest, the ideal result if a 3.

This is extra Strength, making our guys S5. Across 45 attacks multicharging vehicles…well I’l take that…you better be always moving IG or you’re scrap metal.

This also potentially reduces the incoming fire. Take any IG army with Autocannons on embarked troops… gone now as you’ll be moving to reduce the attacks hitting you. (P.S. This idea of autocannons on Vets is NOT a SoS exclusive!! This is not just something we three IG players do…I’ve seen it across so many different sites and at tournaments in the UK)…it also reduces plasma range if we keep them moving.

So with our vastly reduced threat vectors at range when compared to IG, we need to focus fire on an element of the opposing army.

We can achieve that through utilising our speed. Most of the army can move at 12” and use its firepower.

Whilst the blasters from the Trueborn are wicked, they do only have a 24-33” range. If the guys can disembark into cover then all the better and we can use the blasters 18” range after the guys have moved 12” and disembarked.

If not then our long range anti tank is reduced to 5 threat vectors. Not great at all. Poor in fact.

Anti Infantry:

Loads. 118 poison shots.

32 from the Barons squad alone with a range of 30” from move and shoot.

In combat the Hellions have 3 attacks each on the charge…with a charge range of 19-24” there is no reason to assume they will not get that charge. The guys will slaughter most things in close combat.

I wonder though how they may end up vs Rocks. TH/SS Termies? Before we get to that though I need to explain a couple of Pain token ideas

Power from Pain:

We have a Haemo and 2 units of Wracks. That’s 3 pain tokens on the board. We may hit up a 6 on the combat drugs which means all 3 Hellion squads have FNP.

But we can’t plan for that. We can plan for some token manipulation.

One squad of wracks start on the board with the Baron attached.

The 15-man Hellion squad starts just ahead of the Wracks with the Haemo attached.

Turn 1: The Haemo walks away from the Hellion unit, leaving his token. He doesn’t join the Wracks straight away but gets into cover or out of LOS. He’s pretty much irrelevant now. The Hellions then move away…this happens simultaneously as the Haemo, but the Hellions leave a trail of a couple of guys so the Baron can leave the Wracks, taking their pain token with him, joining the Hellions…who now hav 2 pain tokens…FNP and Furiuos Charge….S5 on the charge now, whether or not we roll a 6 or a 3 on the Combat Drugs…even making a roll of 4 damn useful! 60 S5 attacks? Ok…

Vs Rocks?

Hmm… Hellions shooting then charging? 32*0.66*0.5*0.133*0.5….equals not many! I assume here it is the Barons squad shooting at 5 termies wih FNP.

Dead? A whopping 0.7 so we round up and take 1 dead termie!

Without FNP…1.4 so 1 still!

Hellions charging with FC? What about CDrugs? Lets go first with +1S. So S6 Hellions… Jesus. 1.1 dead termies.

+1A? 1.2 dead termies.

Ok. Fuck this. Avoid Terminators! Shoot them they are pissing slow!

Monstrous creatures and tough stuff? Shoot it! Poison is awesome. Realistically I can do about 12 wounds after 3+ save vs monstrous creatures.

The negative side of poison is of course that whilst the saves decrease and our poison wounds increase versus lighter armoured foes, we’ll still be doing similar wounds. So CC is the way versus light infantry.

So what do I need to finish this? 7 Hellions, Baron, Wracks, 4/5 trueborn more..

Cheap online…thinking ghouls from WFB and warriors together to create Wracks, using Dire Avenger bodies with warrior legs and other bits for Trueborn (I’ve run out of old Incubi with shredders or blasters!)

What do you guys think?