"Hey-ho, lets do this.
Alright, lets address the first problem. The point's. 1582 is simply because I don't know jack-shit about Dark Eldar, aside from the obvious spikes and rape. It was supposed to originally be a 1500 list (Perhaps a scale back is in order) but seeing as how I went over I guess a 1750 list wont hurt.
The idea is, well, the army itself is a conversion (Kroot. Seemed like a good idea) and I'd rather have all the models generally looking the same, etc, etc, fluff reason, etc, blah-blah-blah,
The Kab-true's are the main fist of the army. Dropping the most attacks against out of anything, able to take mostly anything and doing it with spikes and style. I'm thinking two of each is overkill, but I dont know. It seemed like it would work.
The Kab's in the Venoms are more the vanguard, working on the buddy system, or in support of the raiders. I dont know about the Syb's, the thinking is "More blasters = better" though, again, I know of it only from what is on the paper.
The Ravagers are a no brainer. The nightshield/flickerfield (Or just nightshield) on all the skimmers, again, seemed like a good idea. Anything that'll keep these fellows from crashing into the ground and sending a half dozen dark space elves to their deaths can't be bad, can it?
The Archon is a victim of my inability to settle on a point limit, my lack DE experience and my disdain for over blinging him. He feels like a wasted opportunity, but I can see him doing alright on the field.
Over all I think the army is overblinged, underblinged and a paper thin. It looks like it can pack a hit, but give it 2-3 turns of sustained heavy weapons fire and they'll be crying for their incubator tubes.
Your thoughts, queries and improvements?
True to Caesar,
ComradeCowboy
Archon 65
-Venom blade
9 Kabalite trueborn 155 (245)
-2x Blaster
-2x Shredder
Raider 90
-Nightshield
-Flickerfield
-Splitter racks
10 Kabalite trueborn 167 (257)
-2x Blaster
-2x Shredder
Raider 90
-Nightshield
-Flickerfield
-Splitter racks
5 Kabalite warriors 85 (160)
Blaster
1x Syb
-Blast pistol
Venom 75
-Night shields
-Splinter cannon
5 Kabalite warriors 85 (160)
Blaster
1x Syb
-Blast pistol
Venom 75
-Night shields
-Splinter cannon
5 Kabalite warriors 85 (160)
Blaster
1x Syb
-Blast pistol
Venom 75
-Night shields
-Splinter cannon
5 Kabalite warriors 85 (160)
Blaster
1x Syb
-Blast pistol
Venom 75
-Night shields
-Splinter cannon
Ravager 125
-Nightshield
-Flickerfield
Ravager 125
-Nightshield
-Flickerfield
Ravager 125
-Nightshield
-Flickerfield
1582"
Ravagers = tick. Blaster Venoms = tick. Only thing with those is do you need both of the shields? Venoms come with flickers standard and are running towards the enemy where shields aren't going to be of much use. Drop the nightshields on them. Depending upon how you play the Ravagers, both upgrades are good choices. However, you can generally screen the Ravagers for a 4+ cover save making the flickerfield redundent. I like the flickerfield for it will always be there but nightshields work really well on Ravagers too as you can start to out-range opponents. We'll leave both for now but if we need to shave points we will start there.
What are your trueborn trying to do? It looks like they are trying to be jack of all trades whilst it sounds like you want them to be assault dudes. Your Venoms are doing a better and cheaper job of anti-infantry and your Warriors as they stand are also doing a better and cheaper job of anti-tank (as are the Ravagers). These guys aren't really designed to be Sternguard even though you can fit them out to be. So you need to deicde what you want to do with this portion of your army. Do you want assualt units? Then go Incubi/Bloodbrides and attach Archon/Haemonculi as you see fit. Do you want to fit the theme of the rest of your army? Then trueborns in Venoms with Blasters or with Dark Lances and Raiders is your better bet. Either way in the end you'll save points so you can keep this list at 1500 or move it up to 1750 with some Fast Attack.
