Trying out the Duke at 1750

I was at the office playing around with AB again, And after reading the DE codex for the 99th time i taught i do something different and play with a themed DE force of Duke Sliscus, I wanted to make an army with lots and lots of kabalite Those models are really nice and i hate to waste them all.

An added bonus to this list is i can bring back my Dracon model i made, i consider her my dukes bitch.




HQ: Duke Sliscus (150 pts)
1 Duke Sliscus


Elite: Kabalite Trueborn (244 pts)
7 Kabalite Trueborn + Plasma Grenades + Shardcarbine x5 + Splinter Cannon x2
1 Dracon + Plasma Grenades + Power Weapon (turned to power AXE but i am modeling a dual bladed powerweapon)
1 Raider + Splinter Racks + Night Shields


Elite: Kabalite Trueborn (146 pts)
3 Kabalite Trueborn + Blaster x3
1 Venom + Splinter Cannon

Elite: Kabalite Trueborn (146 pts)
3 Kabalite Trueborn + Blaster x3
1 Venom + Splinter Cannon


Troops: Wyches (135 pts)
5 Wyches + Haywire Grenades + Razorflails x1
1 Venom + Splinter Cannon


Troops: Wyches (135 pts)
5 Wyches + Haywire Grenades + Razorflails x1
1 Venom + Splinter Cannon


Troops: Kabalite Warriors (195 pts)
9 Kabalite Warriors + Shredder x1 + Splinter Cannon x1
1 Sybarite + Power Weapon (turned to power AXE but i am modeling a dual bladed powerweapon)
1 Raider + Splinter Racks


Troops: Kabalite Warriors (195 pts)
9 Kabalite Warriors + Shredder x1 + Splinter Cannon x1
1 Sybarite + Power Weapon (turned to power AXE but i am modeling a dual bladed powerweapon)
1 Raider + Splinter Racks


Heavy Support: Ravager (1#, 115 pts)
1 Ravager + Night Shields


Heavy Support: Ravager (1#, 115 pts)
1 Ravager + Night Shields


Heavy Support: Razorwing Jetfighter (1#, 175 pts)
1 Razorwing Jetfighter + Splinter Cannon x1 + Shatterfield Missile x2 + Night Shields

Edited out some individual upgrade point costs. Gob.

this list looks alot like my list so i like it alot, and for dukes raider with his trueborn, im not completely sure about this but i dont think the splinter racks work with splinter cannon/shard carbines, only with splinter rifles. But anyway, this is a really good list in my opinion

change it a little to fix some bugs,


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HQ: Duke Sliscus (150 pts)
1 Duke Sliscus


Elite: Kabalite Trueborn (252 pts)
8 Kabalite Trueborn + Plasma Grenades + Shardcarbine x6 + Splinter Cannon x2
1 Dracon + Plasma Grenades + Power Weapon (turned to power AXE but i am modeling a dual bladed powerweapon)
1 Raider + Splinter Racks + Night Shields


Elite: Kabalite Trueborn (146 pts)
3 Kabalite Trueborn + Blaster x3
1 Venom + Splinter Cannon


Elite: Kabalite Trueborn (146 pts)
3 Kabalite Trueborn + Blaster x3
1 Venom + Splinter Cannon


Troops: Wyches (125 pts)
5 Wyches + Haywire Grenades
1 Venom + Splinter Cannon


Troops: Wyches (125 pts)
5 Wyches + Haywire Grenades
1 Venom + Splinter Cannon


Troops: Kabalite Warriors (205 pts)
9 Kabalite Warriors + Blaster x1 + Splinter Cannon x1
1 Sybarite + Power Weapon (turned to power AXE but i am modeling a dual bladed powerweapon)
1 Raider + Splinter Racks


Troops: Kabalite Warriors (205 pts)
9 Kabalite Warriors + Blaster x1 + Splinter Cannon x1
1 Sybarite + Power Weapon (turned to power AXE but i am modeling a dual bladed powerweapon)
1 Raider + Splinter Racks


Heavy Support: Ravager (1#, 115 pts)
1 Ravager + Night Shields


Heavy Support: Ravager (1#, 115 pts)
1 Ravager + Night Shields


Heavy Support: Razorwing Jetfighter (1#, 175 pts)
1 Razorwing Jetfighter + Splinter Cannon x1 + Shatterfield Missile x2 + Night Shields

Edited out some individual upgrade point costs. Gob.

also i manage to get my duke done last night using my box of bits

Hi,

The Duke model is really good, and I particularly like how the double bladed sword turned out. Did you pin in, or was there the space for the glue to create a strong enough bond. I'm tempted to steal the idea for a Baron conversion I'm considering

Onto the list I think on the whole it is a very good list, however there's a few upgrades I do not think will add much to the army. First up is the power axes in the warrior squads, being unwieldly (Init1) it's likely the sybarite will be taken out before he can strike, either in a challenge, or with a precession strike. This is compoundedwith the fact that the warriors (and the trueborn) do not want to be in combat at all, and the poweraxe will rarely save them from dying anyway.

Next is the splinter racks on the trueborn's raider. I think they only work on splinter rifles and pistols and therefore do nothing for the squad.

Finally is the razorwing upgrades. Apart from Nightshields will the rest be used that often. As you can fire only 4 weapons while zooming how often will the cannon be fired ? The shatterfield missiles are cheap, but I'd drop them back to monoscythe if you need the points elsewhere.

Where do you spend these points if you drop some of the upgrades I suggest ?

Well I suggest increasing one of the wych squads to a larger size. The large trueborn squad is a perfect squad for the Duke to start in, but they really don't want to be in combat, a larger wych squad would make a great place for the Duke to move to. 63 points would increase the wyches to 9 (including haywire grenades and hekatrix with venom blade), and I think you can afford this without losing any models. 2 x sybarite upgrades (20), 2 power axes (30), splinter racks (5?), 2 shatterfield missiles reverted to monoscythe missiles (10), that makes the 65 points to increase one of the the wych squads (Their venom also switches to a raider).

Rathstar

I'll echo the others in saying that the splinter racks are redundant unfortunately. I also worry about the vulnerability of Duke's unit, that's over 400pts that will go down quite easily, your opponent will gun for the 2 quick VPs they could get for taking them out quickly; if that Raider explodes most of the squad will die. I think the Dracon is a bit unnecessary.

I'd also add a Flickerfield to the Razorwing to make it that much more survivable.

Ty for those constructive comments, will take notes on those. Definately will feel better with a larger wych unit ^^

I really like this list.
I may give this a try to be honest.
Really liking your Duke conversion great job!

This will be my last Army list, till i put some games in,

On my modeling side i am in the midst if refurbishing my old DE warriors with new parts from my new DE bit box they actually look kinda cool and gives this old skool veteran look to them



Some improvements
- Basically i put a little more punch with my wyches so that they can not only blast stuff but have one cc unit that can do the mop up. They are also optimized to take out tanks if need be.

- My warriors now carry blasters instead of shredders, Took out the sybarite for more points

- Retooled my razorwing, to cost less

- Retooled my Trueborn, i added another guy and reduce the dracon weapon to a venom blade... i know its a point wastage, but i kinda modeled a cool looking guy so i taught what the hell might as well put him in for fun sake

If they really really need to charge they are quite decent, actually it has more attacks than the wyches as their guns are all assault and has 2 base attacks per model. something like 27 poison shots, 1 blaster shot, 24 attacks on a charge, 4 2+ poison attacks and, 5 2+ poison 5+ ignore armour attacks

Thats 61 dices in a turn!



HQ: Duke Sliscus
Duke Sliscus

Elite: Kabalite Trueborn (9)
Kabalite Trueborn + Plasma Grenades + Shardcarbine x6 + Splinter Cannon x2
Dracon + Plasma Grenades + Venom Blade
Raider + Night Shields

Elite: Kabalite Trueborn (3)
Kabalite Trueborn + Blaster x3
Venom + Splinter Cannon

Elite: Kabalite Trueborn (3)
Kabalite Trueborn + Blaster x3
Venom + Splinter Cannon

Troops: Wyches (5)
Wyches + Haywire Grenades
Venom + Splinter Cannon

Troops: Wyches (
Wyches + Haywire Grenade + Razorflails x1
Hekatrix + Haywire Grenades + Venom Blade
Raider

Troops: Kabalite Warriors (10)
Kabalite Warriors + Blaster + Splinter Cannon x1
Raider + Splinter Racks

Troops: Kabalite Warriors (10)
Kabalite Warriors + Blaster + Splinter Cannon x1
Raider + Splinter Racks

Heavy Support: Ravager
Ravager + Night Shields + 3 Dark lances

Heavy Support: Ravager
Ravager + Night Shields + 3 Dark lances

Heavy Support: Razorwing Jetfighter
Razorwing Jetfighter + Flickerfield + 2 disintegrators



Total Roster Cost: 1750

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