Ok... i am coming right off the bat and saying i am not a Harlie savvy or anything. I downloaded the codex a couple of months ago in case they might come in handy. I am not one to play a cheesy "i will destroy everything from 4 feet away" kind of person. to tell you the truth, i am more of a "kiss my power sword you tin can" kind of person, and believing that asssault is the coolest thing to do (range can't do anything if you are fending off scorps or bansees) thought the harlies would be an interesting addition to my army.
I originally dowloaded the codex for one reason... jet bikes. For 45 points they are a steal over the pieces of crap they even dared to print in our codex, but i realized a realitively good squad could run me past 250 points... quite easily in fact. So i settled on a solotaire.
In my 1500 point army (2 waveserpents 8 scorps/bansees, exarch and a farseer with fortune [kicks major behind], 3 Vypers with b lances/s cannons, 6 spiders and exarch and a falcon with 6 dragons [good for armour pircing]) getting up close and personal comes natrual. They all require close qaurters to be sucesful, and all can do that pretty quickly, the slowest unit being the spiders which can move an average of 18" any way.
The reason i am posting this really long question is because i am over literate. I always say more then i really need to, but i thought you might want to know my reasoning before i start asking. Ok... this is what i want to do...
In the rare occasion that the scorpians can infiltrate, i figured i would take out the waveserpent (subtracting 20 points from it for stealth) and then spending the 140 points on something else. The only problem was that everything i wanted was too slow. A wraith lord would be nice, but 6" is really sad compared to verything else, then i thought maybe some range, but that was stearing away from the point of the army in the first place. I finally realized how stupid i was and started thumbing through the harlie codex and decided on the solitaire to add a serious "boo yaa" kinda gusto. I added wargear and came up with this pretty number.
141 Solotaire: power weapon, harlies kiss, phase field, pistol, tanglefoot grenade, bio explosive amunition, plasma grenades, halucegeni grenades, haywire grenades
for just above 140 points i can get a mean, lean fighting machine that can pop space marines like cans of pepsi... i hope. That is where you come in. Tell me if this is a worthy investment and if i should take/add things. Keep i just around 140 points please... thanx.
The second order of buisness (oh yess... there is moer) is what to take it in. Yeah... the phase field makes it pretty fast, but i need it really fast, not so unpredictible. The idea is then to take out a Vyper (something i would need to do anyway to make a slot for the solitaire) and replace it with a venom. Give the venom a holofield and it fits perfectly. Now... with that done, comes the real question.
Does the venom count as an elite or transport on the force orginazation chart?
If it counts as an elite, i could probably combine the two vyper squads, but i have never done that before... is that a good idea.
If it counts as a transport then i am one lucky person... and happy.
Any answer to my questions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and patience in reading my overly long question...