Pain Coven

A quick and dirty list

5x
Homunculi w/ soul trap, liquifier, huskblade

5x
7 wrack w/ liquifier
aco w/ flesh gauntlet
Raider w/ FF

3x
Rav w/ FF

1850 points exactly

Sure you can figure out how this one works...

I feel as though it's a little light on the AT side, but it should eat MEQ up pretty quickly...

agreed, 14 dark lances at 1850 although yes, you could eat marines up nicely

14 Lances isn't bad for 1850; I myself think people spam lances a little to hard, 20+ Lances is just unnecessary. I understand their awesome; but we have so many other fun toys we can use those points for!!



As for your list it looks fine; quick and dirty just how she likes it

Ironically the reason we spam lances is because they are NOT awesome!!!

14 is way to few for a tourney or even a friendly with more that 6 vehicles

And I was going to say, "what, no Talos? This is a Coven list, no?"

Then thought better of it, nevermind.

XD! I don't think that a talos is mandatory in a coven list, but like to think that the deep denizens of Commoragh have access to a vast array of death and destruction that the archons don't know about, but that many have whole armies of more conventional means to accomplish a mission.

That is a billion points of Haemonculi. When they get into close combat, won't the enemy (especially the Independent Character you're in base-tobase with) just target them and deal them two wounds no sweat? I can't see them actually getting a second round of close combat to use their Soul-Trapped strength, and that's if they even get it off against an Independent Character in the first place!

You could pick up so much arcane wargear for the points you're putting into Huskblade+Soul Trap. Heck, if you drop all five, you could probably afford a unit of Grotesques!

I think you would find that may be a bit harder than what youre thinking. They ARE t4 and start off with fnp, and in cc, you can allocate wounds away from your ID dudes...

Ruke wrote:

I think you would find that may be a bit harder than what youre thinking. They ARE t4 and start off with fnp, and in cc, you can allocate wounds away from your ID dudes...

no you cant. In close combat ICs are treated as their own unit basically. So for him to get damaged, the enemy has to be in base to base contact, and has to pick to allocate wounds to him. So one power weapon cozies up next to your haemie, and he is dead. God help you if its a power fist...

The big problem here is with the Haemis. There aren't enough enemies out there with multiple wounds that you could kill with the Huskblade to make it worth having 5 of them, and there are too many IC's and MC's that have weapons that will insta-gib you the soonest chance they get for an easy kill. If the IC doesn't, a Power Fist will, and that 45 points of Soultrap/Huskblade will be lost. On the off chance that you do get it, the squad will be open to a lot of fire after their assault, and your enemy is going to shoot you to death before you can enjoy the upgraded Strength.

If you pass your Ld 8 test.

I'd drop all that spiffy stuff off of the Haemi's in favor of a Venom Blade, or alternatively a Power Weapon, seeing as those guys will be getting a nice Furious Charge bonus. You could then spend the rest of the points into... more Wracks I suppose. Or you could drop a squad of Wracks and spend those points on a unit of Grotesques, which will be a nice bit of extra strength when push comes to shove.