We now have super heavies to worry about, so I came up with a list
that could potentially take down a super heavy if I come across it, but still must
be able to deal with a regular army if I don’t come across a lord of war. It’s
a lot harder than I thought it would be.
I first tried tinkering with Eldar primary army, based around fire
dragons, lance walkers and wraithguard. It looked good but it was very close
range and could probably get killed long before it could get into the ideal
range to damage any lord of war. So I decided it was best to swap the primary
list to Dark eldar to gain more access to dark lances as I feel they will be
key to taking down any of the lord of war (bar the flyers) as they have a much
longer range.
Dark Eldar/Eldar 1500
Haemonculus – 55
Venom blade
5 Dark eldar warriors – 60
Blaster
Venom – 65
2x splinter cannon
5 Dark eldar warriors – 60
Blaster
Venom – 65
2x splinter cannon
5 Wyches – 60
Haywire grenade
Raider – 60
Dark lance
5 Wyches – 60
Haywire grenades
Raider – 60
Dark lance
4 Reavers – 98
Blaster
Ravager - 105
3x dark lance
Ravager - 105
3x dark lance
Ravager - 105
3x dark lance
Farseer – 115
Jetbike
6 Bikes – 122
2x shuriken cannon
Crimson hunter – 160
Fire Prism – 125
This list is not going to do well in a competitive world, nor is it going
to do particularly well against a horde army once the venoms and fire prism has
been taken out as they are the anti-horde. But it should hopefully do a lot of
damage to a lord of war. In the list we have:
13 strength 8 lance weapons with 36 inch range
1 strength 9 lance weapons with 60 inch range
3 strength 8 lance weapons with 18 inch range
That number of lance weapons should be able to take out most tanks,
including a bane blade or two. The farseer is there to get both guide and
prescience and make sure the ravagers hit, and if the lord of war happens to be
a flyer, give me a fighting chance of actually hitting the damn thing.
How do you think this would do in an escalation game?
Um, I assume by your comments that a number of Ravagers are supposed to be in this list but I don't see any. Assuming you have at least 2, I'd likely regret taking my new Baneblade against this list. Hell, it would give any of my tank centered lists a bad time with just a few bad dice rolls. Just remember, if you don't take the Super-Heavy out fast it'll blast all those fancy skimmers out of the sky fast.
ReplyDeleteDamn it was supposed to have 3 ravagers in the list. I will correct this soon.
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DeleteWow, that does make the list more impressive. I'm wondering how well you think it would match up against the list I've been thinking about for Escalation.
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