"Hi Kirby.
Like the blog and thought, "hey why not send in a armylist and see how slaughtered the idea will be". Well really the idea behind this list is a DE Leafblower. Yeah i know i'm putting out AV 10 tanks on the table instead of the more durable ones IG presents. Well as a DE player i do not have much of a choice. Anyway, this list is nothing new. just my take on a leafblower version of the darklight spam.
I am not bothered with the fact this list is pretty much copy & paste, it looks fun and hopefully it will do enough damage.
The question i have been playing with is if i should try and fix up the raiders a bit more giving them flickerfields and such. If i would do so that will cost me one of the warrior units. I would gain a few more trueborns with blasters so the shooting will remain the same but one less scoring, one less target and more marbles in the same bag. Would be nice to hear what you have to say about this.
Thanks.
Duke sliscus 150
3 x Trueborns: 3 blasters in a venom with 2 x splinter cannons 146
3 x Trueborns: 3 blasters in a venom with 2 x splinter cannons 146
3 x Trueborns: 3 blasters in a venom with 2 x splinter cannons 146
5 x Warriors: 1 blaster in a raider with dark lance 120
5 x Warriors: 1 blaster in a raider with dark lance 120
5 x Warriors: 1 blaster in a raider with dark lance 120
5 x Warriors: 1 blaster in a raider with dark lance 120
5 x Warriors: 1 blaster in a raider with dark lance 120
5 x Scourges: 2 heat lances 134
5 x Scourges: 2 heat lances 134
5 x Scourges: 2 heat lances 134
Ravager: 3 dark lances, flickerfield 115
Ravager: 3 dark lances, flickerfield 115
Razorwing Jetfighter: 2 dark lances, 4 shatterfield missiles 175
Total: 1995"
List overall is solid but a few things. You're running the Duke so I'd prefer to see Reavers than Scourges as they are going to benefit from the combat drug double roll. The missile upgrades aren't really needed on the Razorwing and I do question whether or not the Razorwing is necessary at all. You'll have plenty of splinter fire so do you need those four missiles? Dropping this down to a Ravager will save you quite a bit of points (which you can use to upgrade the Scourges to Reavers).
I don't really like the small Warrior squads in the Raiders though. I'd prefer them to either be larger or in Venoms. What I might do then is drop one of the Trueborn squads and grab a Haemonculus so you can have some Wracks as Troops. Grab two of those squads and stick them in Raiders with a Liquifier gun and change the other four Warrior squads to 5x w/Blaster + Venom. This gives you 6 Venoms so you don't need the flickerfields on the Raiders/Ravagers. You lose one unit without the 3rd BlasterVenom but you have the three Reaver squads and still are running six Troops.
In terms of it being a 'leafblower' type list. No. Dark Eldar and Imperial Guard run completely different styles beyond the whole concept of leafblower being a non-optimised list.
