tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772567476976767812.post5964828543207739414..comments2023-08-02T01:48:17.842-07:00Comments on The Dark Eldar Kabal: Featured Content: The "Army of Shadows" ListCuchulain84http://www.blogger.com/profile/07169712457712651454noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772567476976767812.post-90558946804301531812010-09-06T16:21:02.886-07:002010-09-06T16:21:02.886-07:00Please post those lists/battle reports as I have a...Please post those lists/battle reports as I have all three of those characters.gundog8324https://www.blogger.com/profile/03592305206087956209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772567476976767812.post-32754064065894887582010-09-06T06:26:03.846-07:002010-09-06T06:26:03.846-07:00@ Collateral Jim
Don't get me wrong. I love t...@ Collateral Jim<br /><br />Don't get me wrong. I love the list and the idea. I've been toying with things outside the standard 4 raiders 2 dark lance teams builder.<br /><br />I was simply taking your model list and altering it for my area. People I play with get pretty aggressive. I engaged a guy with a list that has six empty drop pods in and dropped them all around foot-sloggers. They were pinned in by a wall of metal and half my army was out the game.<br /><br />I've been looking at a specialist list, using Kruellagh with Drazhar and Urien with some Grots and see if I can CC someone down. It'll go badly though. :PIASGATGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138060838653903195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772567476976767812.post-39850387854160208832010-09-06T00:48:51.718-07:002010-09-06T00:48:51.718-07:00Ahh, the metagame. I do tend to forget that my lit...Ahh, the metagame. I do tend to forget that my little corner of the globe is not a good representation of the world at large and the hobby in it's completeness.<br /><br />Now, I will admit that this list is not the most competitive in the game. It is far too random, lacks dedicated anti-armor (I rarely see more than a single vehicle in local games, we don't have tons of mech in my area) and fill fall to anything up to and including a stiff breeze.<br /><br />However, it is definitely a fun list and fits very well with the theme of the Dark Eldar. I would like to see each of the units represented here made far more cost effective and useful in the next Dark Eldar codex (November, if whispers are to be believed).<br /><br />To be honest, I was also wanting to show that when used together, many of the units that people consider no-go's for the Dark Eldar could pull their weight a little better. <br /><br />A quick word on tactics, also. The idea with the list isn't to hit a single unit or two with everything you have. All Deep Striking units are brought in on turn 3 (giving better chances of successfully deploying), where your Mandrakes and Decapitator himself are to dive into the targets you want tied up and unable to shoot at your deep strikers, or who you feel will survive a round of shooting or even just those you want softened up. Mandrakes are, in their current incarnation, not expected to survive combat with anything beyond Guardsmen or Tau consistently, and are treated as such in this list.Collateral Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13300983435555682694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772567476976767812.post-38185867671841750852010-09-05T10:53:01.346-07:002010-09-05T10:53:01.346-07:00yeah with poor rolls and facing an Astropath/Offic...yeah with poor rolls and facing an Astropath/Officer of the fleet your reserves will be of the board until turn 4ish at which point your mandrakes are toast and they unload hell on your deep strikersgundog8324https://www.blogger.com/profile/03592305206087956209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772567476976767812.post-73062332340800759882010-09-05T07:49:44.821-07:002010-09-05T07:49:44.821-07:00@navdi
Yes and no. The element of surprise is imp...@navdi<br /><br />Yes and no. The element of surprise is important and the more they know the less effective it'll be. However I don't think that's the critical decider.<br /><br />It relies a lot more on the assumption that your reserves will all arrive when you want them to. Not so much where, but the timing of. Scourges + Mandrakes + Hellions shooting a squad followed by assaults from Mandrakes and Hellions will kill a squad.<br /><br />The problem I have with the list is putting Dark Lances on the raiders. It means that the Dark Lance cannot be used on turn 3 when it arrives; nor can it be used if the raider ever wants to move.<br /><br />For a 1.5k game, I'd think about taking the Darklances off, putting on splinter cannons, and dropping in a Ravager or two with screaming jets.<br /><br />With Space Marine lists fielding 5 rhinos and 4 drop pods, you need AT.IASGATGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138060838653903195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772567476976767812.post-44815739964603611302010-09-05T05:50:01.749-07:002010-09-05T05:50:01.749-07:00Interesting army list. It certainly relies strongl...Interesting army list. It certainly relies strongly on the assumption that the enemy won't know what to expect.<br /><br />I suspect this army won't survive contact with the enemy. At least not until the DE get a new codex which beefs up some (or all!) of those units.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com