Topic: Haemonculi Specialty Army (995 points)

[Empty Void]

A note that this is my first post at EO so here goes....

HQ

Haemonculus - 45
Destructor, scissorhands

Haemonculus - 45
Destructor, scissorhands

Haemonculus - 45
Destructor, scissorhands

Elites

Grotesques x 8 - 120

Grotesques x 8 - 120

Grotesques x 8 - 120

Troops

Warriors x 10 - 100
2 Dark Lances

Warriors x 10 - 100
2 Dark Lances

Heavy Support

Talos - 100

Talos - 100

Talos - 100

Total: 995

I thought this army would be really fluffy but i'm not sure how well it would do in battle. The main problem i see is that has almost no shooting potential except for the warriors. It's also quite slow. It's main advantage is that it takes lots of heavy weapons to take them down so quite a few should get in combat. (Are grotesques any use in combat?)

So is it worth it?
 

[Kei'Ariq]

Welcome to EldarOnline.

That is an interesting army and could be quite fun to produce and get in character with. However, I don't think that it has much chance on the battlefield.

It is massively resilient, for a Dark Eldar army. As far as DE go, this is like our Deathwing list. However, it is slow and doesn't have much in the way of shooting. The hand to hand ability of the army is actually quite impressive, but even most assault armies could afford to sit back and shoot their way to victory.

So, I would say that it is an interesting army, but with too many limitations to win many games.

Grotesques are mediocre in hand to hand. Not terrible, but they certainly will lose horribly to any close combat oriented squad.

[Empty Void]

Oh well it was worth a thought

Maybe I'll think of another ultra themed list to try out. (Mmmm..... Reavers.....)

[Purple Area]

Hmmmmm... You could mix those two ideas actually.

You could have a few sniping squads, and then 3 hammies on Reaver Jetbikes.

Add in 3 squads of Reaver jetbikes, and the 3 talos, and you could have a decent 1k to 1.5k list.