500pts escalation list

Hi all i really could use some feedback on this list.

Before you guys start:
- its 500 pts max to bgin with
- i dont excpect to much vehicles so ravager will be added in 750 pts

now for the list:

HQ (60pts)
Haemonculus (60pts)
* Liquifier Gun

Troops (440pts)
Kabalite Warriors (125pts)
* 5x Warriors – Blaster
* Venom – Splinter Cannon

Kabalite Warriors (125pts)
* 5x Warriors – Blaster
* Venom – Splinter Cannon

Wyches (190pts)
* 9x Wyches
* Hekatrix – Agoniser
* Raider – Dark Lance, Flickerfield

Haemy goes with wyches giving them a free paintoken, rest is clear i guess

I would try and gypsy in some haywire grenades on the wyches. your anti tank is two blasters and a lancce . thats three darklight weapons. thats a bit slim even at this point level. The haywire grenades would be a good alternative to your lances potentially failing ( and they probably will, they always do

i was thinking about that too ... but ive seen some battles in my local store and the only real "problem" i have are 1 or 2 chimera's so im going to ignore those completly .

if i ever get to play against that chap

most ppl at my local gamesstore that are involved in this 500 pts escalation campaign started out with footsloggers only, im actually the one dark eldar and player with vehicles except that IG player////

unfortunately, chimeras are one of our worst enemies. their multilasers wreck our plans no matter how devious and their AV12 makes them as hard to kill as anything. at this point level obviously going for a stun lock build with scourges is out of the question so the best alternative i can thnk of is haywires. Maybe drop the liquifier and put 5 grenades on your wyches. To be honest, i never really end up using my liquifier gun because every situation i am able to use it, using it would kill to many models and thus i wouldnt be able to assault.

You have to take haywires on the entire squad, you cant just give them to 5 models... Drop the liquifier and change the agonizer to a venom blade (you should see the same or similar results in terms of kills) and you should have enough. Alternatively, you can pare you wych squad back to 7 members, and keep both the agonizer and the liquifier and should fare just fine against most things. But you definitely want those haywires in this list... personally, I would drop a warrior squad altogether and pick up a ravager.

i have a hard time disagreeing with the concept of taking a ravager but, i feel like a ravager is a tad bit overboard in this scenario due to the fact that ravagers (assuming ur suggesting a triple DL one) are much to finesse and serve only one purpose. At such a small point level it is entirely possible for all the armor to be destroyed and then the ravager would be used to shoot at infantry which is the last thing we want.

However, by no means would it be a bad idea to take a ravager, or even an noncompetitive idea to take one. My statement simply reflects my personal opinion and either variant of this seems at about the same teir (assuming the wyches have haywires)

ill think im drop the agonizer and the liquifier and go for the haywaires

thats smart. that still leaves a few points open to throw around