I'll be fighting a campaign battle vs my good friend Tom's DA on Sunday.
As per campaign rules, we've submitted our lists and then been assigned a scenario and shown each others lists.
Something else to bear in mind is that this is an attrition campaign, so any model removed as a casualty in this battle is no longer available for future battles (we started with 4,000pts each)
Mission: Crusade
DA list:
CAD
HQ
librarian, lvl 2 - Telepathy
librarian, lvl 2 - Telepathy, TDA, combi-plasma (Warlord)
Troops
Tactical squad (5) (veteran sergeant, combi-melta, melta gun)
DT - Drop pod (locator beacon)
Tactical squad (6) (veteran sergeant, melta bombs, combi-flamer, flamer)
DT - Drop pod (locator beacon)
Tactical squad (5) (missile launcher)
DT - Rhino
Elites
Dreadnought (AC, HF)
DT - Drop pod (locator beacon)
Deathwing Terminator Squad (Cyclone, 2x TH/SS, 1x CF)
Fast Attack
Nephilim Jetfighter
Ravenwing bike squad (3) (melta bombs, 2x melta)
Heavy Support
Relic Sicaran Battle Tank (lascannon sponsons)
My List:
CAD
HQ
Autarch (Wings, mask ,shard)
Troops
3 x Windriders w/ Scatter
10 x DA inc Exarch w/ power & shimmer
Elites
5 x Wraithguard with D-Scythes
DT -Serpent: EML, chin cannon, holo
Fast Attack
6 x Hawks inc Exarch w/ Sunrifle
Heavy
Wraithlord w/ 2 x flamers & ghostglaive
Aspect Host (+1BS)
5 x Fire Dragons inc Exarch w/ DBF
DT -Serpent: EML, chin cannon, holo
3 x Reapers, starshot, inc Exarch w/ EML
3 x Reapers, starshot, inc Exarch w/ EML
I'm thinking of reserving the Jetbikes, DAs, dragons & wraithguard, sky-leaping the Hawks & Autarch, and trying to place the 2 Reaper squads in cover away from any objectives and reasonably close together so they can both be supported by the WL.
The idea being the drop pods can either chase my troops, in which they have a long slog to secure objectives mid & late game, or land on/near objectives, in which case I'm protected from the alpha strike
I don't often play the reserve game though, so would appreciate any tips or alternative ideas.