Greetings fellow warlords.
I am trying to construct an army of 1500 pts for casual play. I don't play that often and last time I played was some months ago. My regular opponents are Dark Angel and Chaos Space Marine. An opponent is gonna try Necron against me next time.
My previous postsFor this list I am trying to apply the Hammer and Anvil tactic by having some units sitting at shooting and some units pushing forward. With that in mind here's my list. I call my army Malleus Vaul:
+++ Malleus Vaul (1498pts) +++
++ Eldar Craftworlds: Codex (2015) (Combined Arms Detachment) (1498pts) ++
+ HQ (220pts) +
Autarch (100pts) [Banshee mask, Haywire grenades, Laser lance, Plasma grenades, Shuriken pistol]
····Skyrunner [Twin-linked shuriken catapult]
Farseer (120pts) [Ghosthelm, Runes of the Farseer, Shuriken Pistol, Singing spear]
····Skyrunner [Twin-linked shuriken catapult]
+ Elites (235pts) +
Fire Dragons (235pts)
····5x Fire Dragon [5x Fusion Gun, 5x Melta Bombs]
····Wave Serpent [Serpent Field, Shuriken cannon, Twin-linked scatter lasers]
+ Troops (297pts) +
Guardian Defenders (110pts) [Platform with Bright lance]
····10x Guardian [10x Plasma grenades, 10x Shuriken catapult]
Windriders (106pts) [3x Windrider with twin-linked Shuriken catapult]
····Windrider Warlock [Singing spear]
········Skyrunner [Twin-linked shuriken catapult]
Windriders (81pts) [3x Windrider with Scatter laser]
+ Fast Attack (246pts) +
Crimson Hunter (140pts) [Pulse Laser, Two Bright Lances]
Swooping Hawks (106pts) [Grenade pack]
····5x Swooping Hawk [5x Haywire grenades, 5x Lasblaster, 5x Plasma grenades]
····Swooping Hawk Exarch [Haywire grenades, Lasblaster, Plasma grenades]
+ Heavy Support (500pts) +
Fire Prisms (125pts)
····Fire Prism [Prism cannon, Twin-linked shuriken catapults]
Vaul's Wrath Support Battery (165pts)
····3x Support weapon [3x D-cannon]
········6x Crew Guardian [6x Plasma grenades, 6x Shuriken catapult]
War Walkers (210pts)
····War Walker [2x Brightlance]
····War Walker [2x Brightlance]
····War Walker [2x Brightlance]
Image linkMy anvil is my Vaul's Wrath + Guardian Defenders + Fire Prism. They will deploy and move forward if necessary into cover. Hereafter they will bomb away anything that is within 24". I haven't played D-Cannons before. Defenders will take care of units coming closer to the cannons. Fire Prism will stay back and shoot with the long range.
The Windrider's with Scatter Lasers will zip around mid-field popping transports or any medium toughness units along with the Wave Serpent carrying the Fire Dragons.
The other Windrider squad will be joined by the Farseer and the Autarch. The Warlock should give good combat powers to the squad by rolling on Runes of Battle hoping for Empower/Enervate. This way the Autarch will get S7 charges. This unit is also capable of taking out vehicles with Laser Lance + 2 Singing Spears. They're ment to be either an aggressive unit or a counter assault unit. I want them to deal with any deep strikers which threatens the Anvil. I also thought of a Wraithlord to fulfill this role, but with the current setup, there's no room for a Wraithlord.
Also the most important task of the Farseer is to Guide Vaul's Wrath because it's the centerpiece of my army.
For the Hammer I use the Crimson Hunter, Swooping Hawks (I have no experience in these but I will try to start them on the board then Skyleap) and outflanking War Walkers. I really love the War Walkers, they've proven very good in my previous games.
I think I have a solid all-round army, which should be able to deal with my opponents. What do you think? Any weaknesses I should enhance?