So giddy to have found a DE forum

Hello all.

I found this forum the other week while I was looking up recommendations for unit choices for a balanced, all-comers, 1750pts list. I started playing in 3rd edition with dark eldar after my brother and I split the starter set that contained space marines and dark eldar. I didn't play many times back in the day, but got back into the game after I built a 1750 chaos space marine army. The slow and steady nature of the army didn't appeal to me after having a few games in which a majority of my troop choices, elites, and heavy support failed to get in range or do anything against the opposing player. I mainly play against my brother's Imperial Guard army that consists of knight commander Pask with two leman russ platoon mates, two platoons of 3 leman russes, and a couple of platoons of vanilla infantry.

So after becoming tired of having pie plate after pie plate dropped on me before I was in range, and having his av14 laugh in the face of lascannons, I decided that CSM was ill suited to taking out a wall of armor without spending 100-200pts on wargear, or relying on a near perfect deep-strike from chain fisted terminators. The idea of covering half of the board in my first turn and then reducing his av14 to a petty av12 with darklances, as well as pumping a ridiculous number of poisoned shots into his infantry blobs appealed to me. So I splurged and ordered 3 units of Kabalite warriors, 2 venoms, 3 raiders, 2 ravagers, and a unit of scourges for an extremely mobile, versatile army (still far from a finished list).

In my first game back in the saddle of DE, my brother and I decided to just slug it out and see who could kill more of the opposing player. I used all of the units listed above, incubi and archon from 2nd edition, a dark apostle with 10 cultists, two rhinos with 10 man CSM squads in each with 2 meltas each, and of course, a 6 man terminator squad with 6 chainfists (every game they wreck an entire platoon in their first assault so why not).

It was a complete slaughter. I covered half of the board in my first turn with all DE transports and ravagers and broke line of sight on all of them. He could only move 6" up the board with no shots fired. 2nd turn had 5 scourges with 4 blasters land within 12" of his command squad and my termies land within 12" of one of his russ platoons. All transports, but one, and all ravagers moved to get line of sight of his command platoon and along with the scourges reduced two to stunned with one hull point each. The termies decimated a unit of guardsmen and a platoon of IG by the end of my third turn. My venoms targeted his infantry platoons and along with their riders managed to force two 10 man squads of guardsmen off the table. My incubi and archon dismounted from their venom and slaughtered a command squad and another infantry squad.

All together I had killed 3 russes, reduced his command platoon to 2 useless tanks (pask lost his autocannon ) , and killed all but one command squad of guardsmen. His untouched tank platoon was never able to move into position to fire more than one shot on the chaos rhinos and cause 1 hp of damage all game. The rhinos never unloaded, and the dark apostle didnt get within 3 feet of the enemy before my brother called the game. I had lost one ravager, 2 scourges, and 2 termies. I didn't get to use 340pts of my army all game, besides moving them.

Srry for the wall of text, I wasnt sure what to include in the intro, so I gave an army list and a first impression battle report of sorts. I'm looking to become an active member and learn the ways of the DE from more experienced players.

Welcome!