Dark Eldar List Revisions after the GT

So I played in the Colonial GT this past weekend with my 1850 Dark Eldar list that looked a bit like this....


HQ

1. Baron Sathonyx – 105
2. Haemonculi Coven
-Haemonculus Ancient- Animus Vitae, stinger pistol, shattershard- 105
-Haemonculus – casket of flensing, hex rifle- 75

Troops

1. Hellions x9, Heliarch, stunclaw- 159
2. Kalabite warriors x10, dark lance, blaster, Sybarite, agoniser, - 240
- Raider, Night shield, flickerfield,
3. Kalabite warriors x10, dark lance, blaster, Sybarite, agoniser, - 240
- Raider, Night shield, flickerfield,

Fast Attack

1. Reaver Jetbikes x3, heat lance, cluster caltrops- 98

Elite

1. Hekatrix Bloodbrides x9 , shardnet/impaler, hydra gauntlets, haywire grenades x9, syren, blast pistol, agoniser-289
- Raider, Night shield, flickerfield, enhanced aethersails
1. Hekatrix Bloodbrides x9 , shardnet/impaler, hydra gauntlets, haywire grenades x9, syren, blast pistol, agoniser-289
- Raider, Night shield, flickerfield, enhanced aethersails
Heavy support

1. Ravager, night shields, flickerfield -125
2. Ravager, night shields, flickerfield- 125


Now I had some horrible dice rolls and a few tactical errors. I thought this list was fully optimized yet a few flaws in it showed pretty quickly. First off the hex rifle did nothing at all in the list. I was better off leaving the haemonculus with it in the aquad and using him in close combat. So inn the future I am switching around the wargear for my haemonculus to take up the extra points and to be more suitable for close combat. Next off was the dark lances were always moving in the warrior squad so they never got too shoot. For 60 points this was kind of a waste. To fix this I was originally gonna change them out for splinter cannons which have a heavy 6/Assault 4 profile which better suits my Warriors needs yet I am cutting the unit in half and putting the two lances into a trueborn unit with 3 trueborn. The reasoning behind this was I lacked enough firepower to do anything usefull, especially when the Ravagers went down. eventually I want to add a Voidraven into the list to make up for the fact that a dark lance is still only S8 and has trouble penetrating armor regardless of being a lance. I like the reavers still but unless you get into 9 inch range a heat lance wont do anything for you. The night shields proved thier worth tremendously at the tournament. It messes with an opponents mind when he visualizes how far he can shoot. It also nerfs melta guns and brings enemy rapid fire weapons inside of my own range. i also noticed the need for advanced aethersails in the warrior raiders since they are scoring. finally I desperatly needed the ability to tank shock as proven over the weekend so shock prows for the raiders. It also opens me to the ability to use kamakaze raiders. The last thing changed was a power weapon for the stun claw with the hellions since the claw was useless in a unit that basically would wipe out any unit it touched before it could grab anything.

So until I get a voidraven model, as well as more models with blasters and a venom done i will be using this list. Hopefully if any Grey Knights pop up that crucible of malediction will be fun even though it only takes out the seargents in the squads instead of every model....pity

Total Points- 1849


HQ

3. Baron Sathonyx – 105
4. Haemonculi Coven
-Haemonculus Ancient- Animus Vitae, stinger pistol, Shattershard, - 115
-Haemonculus – casket of flensing, liquefier gun, venom blade, crucible of Malediction- 95

Troops

1. Hellions x9, Heliarch, power weapon- 159
2. Kalabite warriors x5, blaster, Sybarite, agoniser, - 180
- Raider, Night shield, flickerfield, shock prow, enhanced aethersails
3. Kalabite warriors x5, blaster, Sybarite, agoniser, - 180
- Raider, Night shield, flickerfield, shock prow, enhanced aethersails

Fast Attack

2. Reaver Jetbikes x3, heat lance, cluster caltrops- 98

Elite

1. Hekatrix Bloodbrides x9 , shardnet/impaler, hydra gauntlets, haywire grenades, syren, blast pistol, agoniser-294
- Raider, Night shield, flickerfield, enhanced aethersails, shock prow
2. Hekatrix Bloodbrides x9 , shardnet/impaler, hydra gauntlets, haywire grenades, syren, blast pistol, agoniser-294
- Raider, Night shield, flickerfield, enhanced aethersails, shock prow
3. Trueborn x3, x2 darklances, plasma grenades -86
Heavy support

1. Ravager, night shields, flickerfield -125
2. Ravager, night shields, flickerfield- 125


No extra lances yet more dispersed to allow more shooting which I need as the vehicles get taken down too quickly for thier own good. Poisoned 2+ weapons for the haemonculus in case he runs into something his S3 cant handle. I like static anti-tank squads, hide them in cover and shoot away.....gives those lances from the warriors a use, at 30 points a lance in a normal squad the unit costs no more than a normal warrior unit. Now I am worried the Raider warriors will die too easily yet with a blaster they still can do something....more on this later....