1500pts Wych themed vs Blood Angels

Had a game against Blood Angels last night with my Wych Cult themed army and thought I'd share as various members had provided me with advice on the original army list thread here


My list was:

Succubus with Archite Glaive, Animus Vitae and HWG

4 Incubi
Venom with 2x Splinter Cannon

8 Wyches with 1 Hydra Gauntlet
Hekatrix with Agoniser and HWG
Raider with Lance, Night Shields and Enhanced Sails

8 Wyches with 1 Shardnet and Impaler
Hekatrix with Agoniser and HWG
Raider with Lance, Night Shields and Enhanced Sails

8 Wyches with 1 Hydra Gauntlet
Hekatrix with Agoniser and HWG
Raider with Lance, Night Shields and Enhanced Sails

Razorwing Jetfighter with 2x Dissie

Razorwing Jetfighter with 2x Dissie

Razorwing Jetfighter with 2x Lance

3 Reavers with Blaster and Caltrops

3 Reavers with Blaster and Caltrops

3 Reavers with Heat Lance and Caltrops


His list was something like:

ML2 Librarian in Terminator Armour (In the Crusader)

Baal Predator with Heavy Bolters and Assault Cannon

Land Raider Crusader with Hurricane Bolters and Assault Cannon

Mortis pattern Dreadnought with Khrys? guns (2 x Heavy 6, S6, Skyfire, Interceptor if

standing still)

5 Vanguard Veterans

5 Sanguinary Guard

10 Assault Marines with Flamer and Power Sword (In the Crusader)

10 Assault marines with Flamer and Power Sword (Jump Packs)

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Deployment was long table edges, mission was crusade? (D3+2 objectives)

Forgot to roll for night fight

I won the roll for deployment and chose to deploy first, go first - He chose to seize and won, but then didn't want to seize so we let it go.

Warlord Trait was fearless (6 on the DE chart) which I kept, and combat drugs were +1LD (boo)

The table had a good amount of terrain on it using the modular buildings from Warmill, with a good mix of cover and line of sight blocking terrain, although it'd be difficult to get total cover with a raider.

I deployed the 3 raiders and my venom on my left flank behind some buildings in cover, and my 3 units of Reavers roughly in the centre.

He deployed the Baal predator directly opposite my transports but behind a building, the Sanguinary Guard next to it, and the Land Raider on the same side just off centre with Terminator Librarian and Assault Marines in it.

Just off centre to the right he deployed his Mortis Dread, with the Assault marines on the far right (his left)

Vanguard Vets are in reserve

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I took first turn and considered what to do, the Land Raider was scaring me but at the same time I'd like to deal with the Mortis, then I found out it was only 24" range which made the decision much easier for me as I decided I'd come on the other side of the board from it and try to pretty much ignore it.

I moved one of my raiders 12" towards the centre, while the other two raiders boosted past him and over to behind a building just right of centre. (If I moved these two 12" I couldn't draw LOS to the Land Raider anyway so chose to reposition)

My venom moved forward slightly into the building but keeping LOS blocking terrain between himself and the Baal.

Reavers moved forward to centre mid whilst the unit with heat lance boosted to the area that the transports had vacated behind a building on the left, waiting for the Baal to emerge.

Shooting - Two blasters from the Reavers and the one dark lance shot at the Land Raider and took off one hull point with a glance. The venom shot at the Assault marines on the right and killed one.

Reavers then used their jetbike move to pull back slightly behind terrain where possible.

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Crusader moved forward 6" and fired Assault Cannon at the Reavers but they passed jink saves (Hurricane bolters were out of range). Baal moved 12" and fired at the Reavers and killed 1 before the Mortis stepped forward and revved up those beasty guns, 12 shots later and the other 2 were dead giving first blood to the Blood Angels.

Sanguinary Guard he thought about for a bit before deciding, well, they're blood angels - And jumped them over the building and towards the centre of the board, in the open to try and chase the transports down.

Assault marines jumped on top of the building on my right out of LOS and about halfway onto the board.

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Turn 2 Dark Eldar Reserves - One Dissie Razorwing and the Lance Razorwing come in diagonally from my left side and draw a bead on the Sanguinary Guard.

The venom moves forward to get LOS on them as well, whilst the 3 raiders move 6" forward towards the centre and prepare to open up on the Land Raider.

Reavers in the centre move forward and shoot but miss the Land Raider before jumping back.

My Succubus opens up first as I REALLY want to try out the animus vitae, I shoot it at the Sanguinary Guard and hit, rolling a 4 to wound which kills and gains me Fearless Charge T2.

Venom also shoots at the Sanguinary Guard and kills one.

Dissie Razorwing then opened up on the Sanguinary Guard with 2x Monoscythe Missiles and 6 Dissie shots, clearing the remaining 4. (I love the Disintegrator cannon, they did me proud this game)

3 Dark Lances from the Raiders fire at the Land Raider but either miss or fail to penetrate. Dark Lances from the second Razorwing then fire at the side of the Land Raider, hitting twice, penetrating once, and exploding the Land Raider. (Score!)

Nothing dies in the explosion and marines pass pinning.

Heat Lance bikes then fire at the Baal, hit but fail to pen (3+2 on the melta penetration) then charge in and the rending caltrops penetrate and get crew shaken.

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Baal backs up away from the reavers and as he has to snap fire anyway he fires everything at the Dark Lance Razorwing, penetrating through jink and getting Crew Shaken.

Assault Marines on the right jump towards the centre and fired at the remaining unit of Reavers there but thankfully the flamer was just out of range, the bolt pistols caused one wound which was saved with Jink.

Librarian casts invisibility on his Mortis dread (opponent said afterwards this was a big mistake and he should have cast it on the marines)

Mortis and the marines with Terminator Librarian walk forward towards the 3 transports in the centre and open fire, hoping to down one of the transports and charge the occupants however after the shooting phase the front raider is still there with 1 hull point and is now immobilised.

Marines and the Mortis dread then charge in on the transport and the Mortis wrecks it but this then leaves the marines standing grouped up and not locked in combat...


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Turn 3 my final Flyer turns up on the right, aiming at the assault marines coming into the centre from that side. My Dark Lance ravager Flies off the table as he can only fire snap shots this turn and my other Dissie moves towards the centre, also pointing himself at the assault marines coming in from the right.

Wyches and Raiders shuffle around the centre unit of marines with the Librarian and everything disembarks, with the marines now staring down 22 Wyches, a succubus and 4 Incubi.

Both units of reavers on the left surround the Baal and then fire with blaster and heat lance, the Heat Lance penetrating and exploding it, the blast catching all 6 reavers in it and killing 2 from one unit and the Heat Lance from the other (Should have thought about placement better here)

Both flyers open up on the assault marines with 4 large blasts and 12 DC shots between them and wipe them out.

Wyches all open up on the marines with grenades and splinter pistols and kill about 5 or 6 marines (I had around 18 hits from the 4 grenades, bunched up infantry and nice targets!) one unit of wyches and the succubus/incubi then charge in with Furious Charge and the succubus butchers the Librarian in a challenge before the wyches wipe the unit.

We call the game at this point as my opponent only has the Mortis dread and vanguard vets (still in reserve) left.

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Overall I enjoyed the game and the speed at which the dark eldar can redeploy is great. I think I had a decent matchup against his list in particular and the disintegrator Razorwings were just brutal although it does leave me short on anti tank.

Any thoughts guys if you've got through that wall of text?