First attempt at my themed Coven list

Coven of the Silent Scream

HQ

"Sughmithex Vaunte" - Haemonculus Ancient
Flesh Gauntlet
Vexator Mask
Dark Gate

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"Yscoth the Voiceless" - Haemonculus
Agoniser
Liquifier Gun
Vexator Mask

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"Crypticant Tsavoc" - Haemonculus
Scissorhand
Crucible of Malediction

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"Clautaeagha, Mother of Monsters" - Haemonculus
Agoniser
Webway Portal
Vexator Mask

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HQ Total = 425



Troops

"Vaunte's Mannequins" - 9 Wyches
Hydra Gauntlets
Haywire Grenades
"The Red Bride" - Hekatrix
Agoniser

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"The Sepulchre" - Raider
Torment Grenades
Chain-snares
Grisly Trophies

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"Snuff Dolls" - 9 Wyches
Hydra Gauntlets
Haywire Grenades
"Dementia Doll" - Hekatrix
Agoniser

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"Hell's Nursery" - Raider
Torment Grenades
Chain-snares
Grisly Trophies

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"Suture Puppets" - 9 Wyches
Hydra Gauntlets
Haywire Grenades
"Hollowface" - Hekatrix
Agoniser

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"The Slaughter Husk" - Raider
Torment Grenades
Chain-snares
Grisly Trophies

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"Numb Bodies" - 10 Wracks
2 Liquifier guns

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"Ruins of Vanity" - Raider
Torment Grenades
Chain-snares
Grisly Trophies

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"Clautaeagha's Children" - 8 Wracks
Liquifier gun
"Anointed Child" - Acothyst
Flesh Gauntlet

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"The Murder Cradle" - Raider
Torment Grenades
Chain-snares
Grisly Trophies

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Troops Total = 1059



Fast Attack

"Shepherds of Madness" - 3 Beastmaster
5 Khymerae
4 Razorwing Flock

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Fast Attack Total = 156



Heavy Support

"Massacre Engine" - Talos Pain Engine
Chain Flails

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"The Brass Leech" - Cronos Parasite Engine
Spirit Vortex

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Heavy Support Total = 210


Army Total 1850



New to Dark Eldar, just switched after ten years of Tyranids. Constructive criticism welcome, but I'm not looking to break the metagame, and would prefer to stick to my coven theme rather than run a ton of ravagers and junk.

Ok Mod hat on, as per forum rules no posting of individual costs for wargear.

Non mod hat I also removed the spoiler blocks because they are annoying.

Right, forgot about the points costs, I just copy pasted the list from the text file I wrote it in, my mistake. Thought the spoiler tags might make it easier to read though.

GraftedGodflesh wrote:

Coven of the Silent Scream

HQ

"Sughmithex Vaunte" - Haemonculus Ancient
Flesh Gauntlet
Vexator Mask
Dark Gate

135

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"Yscoth the Voiceless" - Haemonculus
Agoniser
Liquifier Gun
Vexator Mask

90

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"Crypticant Tsavoc" - Haemonculus
Scissorhand
Crucible of Malediction

85

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"Clautaeagha, Mother of Monsters" - Haemonculus
Agoniser
Webway Portal
Vexator Mask

115

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Loving all the individual names let me know how the vexator masks work out, only concern is it is a buttload of points on HQ
HQ Total = 425
Troops

"Vaunte's Mannequins" - 9 Wyches
Hydra Gauntlets
Haywire Grenades
"The Red Bride" - Hekatrix
Agoniser

148

You could lose a wych from this squad and still remain effective
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"The Sepulchre" - Raider
Torment Grenades
Chain-snares
Grisly Trophies

75

Try and fit enhanced aether sails it really helps when setting up for charges especially if your coming in from reserve
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"Snuff Dolls" - 9 Wyches
Hydra Gauntlets
Haywire Grenades
"Dementia Doll" - Hekatrix
Agoniser

148

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"Hell's Nursery" - Raider
Torment Grenades
Chain-snares
Grisly Trophies

75
As above below
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"Suture Puppets" - 9 Wyches
Hydra Gauntlets
Haywire Grenades
"Hollowface" - Hekatrix
Agoniser

148

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"The Slaughter Husk" - Raider
Torment Grenades
Chain-snares
Grisly Trophies

75
Same again
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"Numb Bodies" - 10 Wracks
2 Liquifier guns

120
Not tried them but would suggest 9 as they are a better retinue for your haemie and they would start with furious charge
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"Ruins of Vanity" - Raider
Torment Grenades
Chain-snares
Grisly Trophies

75

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"Clautaeagha's Children" - 8 Wracks
Liquifier gun
"Anointed Child" - Acothyst
Flesh Gauntlet
I'd prefer to see an agoniser YMMV
120

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"The Murder Cradle" - Raider
Torment Grenades
Chain-snares
Grisly Trophies

75

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Troops Total = 1059
Fast Attack

"Shepherds of Madness" - 3 Beastmaster
5 Khymerae
4 Razorwing Flock
Solid unit if you can find the points add another beastmaster and 2 more flocks and it becomes lethal
156

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Fast Attack Total = 156

Heavy Support

"Massacre Engine" - Talos Pain Engine
Chain Flails

110

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"The Brass Leech" - Cronos Parasite Engine
Spirit Vortex
Spirit probe as well if you can find the points it's usefull

100

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Heavy Support Total = 210


Army Total 1850



New to Dark Eldar, just switched after ten years of Tyranids. Constructive criticism welcome, but I'm not looking to break the metagame, and would prefer to stick to my coven theme rather than run a ton of ravagers and junk.

Looks like a fluffy list love all the names, my only concern would be long range anti-tank (thinking on it maybe give the talos haywire blasters) but once you get into cc someones in for a very rude awakening. Try it out and let us know how it went.

Thanks for the feedback, I spent quite a bit of time on the names and I'm also planning on customizing pretty much all of the models to fit a sort of silent hill theme with some influence from the Phyrexians from MtG. My wych units for example are actually going to be modeled as disturbing faceless flesh dolls and puppets.

I would like to shave some points off of my HQ but I just can't bring myself to drop any of the haemies or their personality-tailored wargear.

I'll try out your advice on dropping a wych from each squad, and good call on the aethersails - I forgot about coming in from reserves, will add those.

I like the squad of ten wracks because it lets me take an extra liquifier... but on the other hand I could easily make up for that by sticking Yscoth with them. I'll do that as well.

As far as Flesh Gauntlets go, the two friends I play against most often run 'nids and grey knights with lots of paladins and dreadknights, so I feel like instant death will actually score me more kills than power weapons against their MCs and warriors. My wyches run plenty of agonisers to deal with the one-wound units I feel.

Two more flocks of razorwings almost sounds like overkill to me in the beastmaster squad, I'm already getting 24 rending attacks on the charge! But maybe I'll try it out someday when I increase the list to 2k.

Lastly, in regards to the lack of long range AT, I'm hoping that the dark lances on my raiders will be enough to stun the most threatening ones for the first turn or two until I can start wrecking things with my wyches haywire grenades and the Talos. I'll see how it goes.