1500 point- no reavers, 9-10 vehicles minimum.

Another PainReaver List

Archon (Blaster, VB, Shadow Field)- 110

3 Blasterborn + Venom 2x SC, NS- 156 (Archonguard)
3 Blasterborn + Venom 2x SC- 146
3 Blasterborn + Venom 2x SC- 146

5x Warrior, Blaster + Venom 2x SC- 125
5x Warrior, Blaster + Venom 2x SC- 125
5x Warrior, Blaster + Venom 2x SC- 125
5x Warrior, Blaster + Venom 2x SC- 125
5x Warrior, Blaster + Venom 2x SC- 125

3x DL Ravager- 105
3x DL Ravager- 105
3x DL Ravager- 105

Total- 1498

24 DL weapons (9 dark lances, 14 blasters)
96 SC shots
11 Vehicles

Feedback much appreciated.

With numbers like this, i'm sort of tempted to swap out two vehicles for raiders w/DL to help with tank fighting or DC to help beat up heavy infantry.

Blast pistols are a massive waste of points, their 6" range is far to limiting. Your effectively paying 25 (syberite + Blast pistol) points for something that at most will get one shot. That's 50pts that could be put to good use else where in the list. So I would drop them.

I would also drop a blaster and trueborn from each of the trueborn units, as four blasters tends to be overkill. It also makes the trueborn feel like to many eggs in one basket as four blasters makes them that little bit too expensive.

Add all that together (including the 4 points you didn't use) and you get 135 points to spend. 125pts gets you another 5 warriors or haywire wyches in a venom and maybe a nightshield for you archon's transport.

Hope that helps.

I honestly wonder if kirby writes some of those articles before coffee. Blast pistols have less range than a thrown hwg at which point wyches could just disembark and assault for guaranteed dead tank. Either way the close proximity will be bad if its a transport but worse for the warriors.

My advice is go all warriors or all wyches, in this case probably all warriors to compliment the blasterborn, no pistols. Lose 1 BB from each squad and with all those pts pick up a 5th troops choice.

EDIT- Ninja'd!

How long would this army survive under enemy fire?

How would this army dislodge enemy from cover/objectives?

The 350 pt expansion to this army, i'm probably looking at some reavers or some eldar allies.

Or an extra warrior unit + Archon and Court just to squeeze an extra venom.

Projected Expansion

Archon w/Blaster- 75

Court of the Archon- 150
(1 of each & Venom with 2x SC + NS)

5x Warrior w/Blaster + Venom with 2x SC- 125

350 pt flat

10 x 12 venom shots- 120 sc shots p/turn (mouthwatering)

Alternatively, i may just add the warrior w/blaster, then stack the trueborn from 3 to 4 (each unit), and give every vehicle NS/FF.

Nice list although I'd have gone the route of having a Hameonculi and getting some LFGs in there with Wracks just to have some anti cover template stuff that is potentially AP1-3.

Alternate List

Archon- 110

4x Trueborn w/Blasters, Venom 2x SC
4x Trueborn w/Blasters, Venom 2x SC
3x Trueborn, 2x SC, 1x Shardcarbine, Venom 2x SC

8x Wyches, Hydra Gauntlets, Hekatrix with VB/PGL, Raider DC
8x Wyches, Hydra Gauntlets, Hexatrix with VB/PGL, Raider DC
5x Warrior, Blaster, Venom 2x SC
5x Warrior, Blaster, Venom 2x SC

3x Ravagers DL

More versatile or less powerful/survivable?