Good evening / morning / afternoon / whatever it is in your time zone.
I've got an 1850 ITC tournament coming up March 31. This will be my 2nd tournament since coming back to the game at the end of last year. I've been playing around with lists, and tried this one yesterday with good success, tabling death guard and defeating black legion 29-10. I wanted to submit it for review and see if anyone had any suggestions for tweaking it to be a bit better.
Thanks for your input.
Batallion 1 (832 points)
HQ
Autarch with reaper launcher (warlord, mark of the incomparable hunter) - 99
Farseer (doom, fortune, faolchu's wing) - 100
Troops
7 Dire Avengers, exarch with twin catapults - 100
7 Dire Avengers, exarch with twin catapults - 100
7 Dire Avengers, exarch with twin catapults - 100
Elites
5 Wraithguard (wraithcannons) - 200
Fast Attack
9 Swooping Hawks, exarch with hawk's talon - 133
Batallion 2 (363 points)
HQ
Illic Nightspear - 80
Warlock (conceal / reveal) - 35
Troops
7 Dire Avengers, exarch with twin catapults - 100
6 Dire Avengers, exarch with twin catapults - 88
5 Rangers - 60
Spearhead
HQ
Warlock (protect / jinx)- 35
Heavy Support
Fire Prism (spirit stones, shuriken cannon) - 175
Fire Prism (spirit stones) - 170
9 Dark Reapers, exarch with tempest launcher - 275
The way I'm planning this is to use the wraithguard in the webway to come in and attack any unscreened tanks or other hard targets while the reapers form a firebase behind a dire avenger screen. Meanwhile I hide both tanks out of LOS, and on turn one move one to where it can see the enemy and start spamming linked fire. Illic, the rangers, and the autarch try to snipe enemy characters, and the farseer provides psychic support from a fast-moving platform as the dire avengers advance to claim objectives.
So far I haven't found any weak points in it, as I handily won the two games I played with it yesterday, so please critique away. What would your plan look like if you found this army arrayed against you at a tournament, and what things might I be able to do to derail said plans?
Thanks for your feedback.