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Offline ghostwalker

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600 point doubles list (to compliment tau)
« on: September 18, 2013, 01:56:35 PM »
Hi, myself and my fiancee are off to a 600point invasion doubles in february.

I am taking a tau force and she is taking Dark Eldar.

But we have a bit of a conundrum over which list to take.

Any thoughts on the following ones.

List 1

Haemonculus, venom blade, stinger pistol, casket of flensing.
incubi x4
Venom + Cannon upgrade.

Wracks x7 , liquifier gun
Raider with Dis gun.

wracks x5 , liquifier
Venom + cannon upgrade

Ravager 3 dark lances.

Or

List 2

Haemonculus, scissorhand, stinger pistol, casket of flensing
Incubi x 4
venom + cannon

wracks x5 , liquifier gun
venom + cannon

wracks x5, liquifier gun
Venom + cannon

Ravager + Flickrfield.

List 3

Heamonculus, venomblade, stinger pistol, casket of flensing
incubi x 4
Venom + cannon

Wracks x 5, liquifier gun.
Venom splinter rifles

Wracks x 5, liquifier gun
venom splinter rifles

Razorwing or void raven.

Thoughts much appreciated.

My tau list they will be supporting is.

Cadre fireblade
Riptide with heavy burst cannon, tl plasma rifles, early warning override
12 fire warriors
10 kroot with sniper ammo
4 pathfinders, ion rifle x3
8 pathfinders with pulse drone.

Offline Plastikente

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Re: 600 point doubles list (to compliment tau)
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2013, 01:27:44 PM »
My thoughts on Haemonculi and their wargear are given here, but in short...
Venom Blade.  Great value.  I often prefer a Power Axe, as coven lists have plenty of poison, and not a lot of AP, but if the Haemi is sticking with the Incubi then this is covered.
Stinger Pistol.  Cheap, but short range, and not that much better than a standard splinter pistol.  I would always take a liquifier gun instead - slightly worse range by can penetrate armour (sometimes), hit several targets and protect against charges.
Casket of flensing.  A gambler's weapon - awesome if the dice favour you, but quite meh otherwise.
Scissorhand.  Slightly better wound output than a Venom blade, but is it really worth 3x the cost?

As for your list as a whole, you seem to be very short of anti-vehicle, as do your Tau allies.  I would try to keep at least one Raider in my list, with a Dark Lance for that extra anti-armour shot.  Or try to squeeze another Ravager in.  I would do that by dropping the Incubi (I never have much luck with them - they always get shot down on turn 1 and then rarely make it into combat).  Another option would be to swap a squad of Wracks for Wyches with Haywire Grenades.

 


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