2000 for Giant Fanatic (Danish tournament)

Hi all,

This my army I attend to use in an tournament in October. It needs playtesting ( I only had one game with it until now) but I thought: why not hear what you experts have to say. This is my 1st post in this forum and allthough I have been reading alot 40k for a long time, my play experiences are only a few months old.

The tournament has some Restrictions: 2000 points, 1 HQ, 2-6 troops, 2 Fast, 2 Elite, 2 Heavy. In addition (depend on the army you choose to play) you get either 1 or 2 break points, that you can use to add 1 or 2 "free" choises (HQ, Elite, Fast, Heavy) or get to roll an extra warlord trait. Dark Eldar have 2 break points.

My army:

Duke 150 (break point)

2 Heamo with venom blades and LG. 130

3 Incubi + Klaivex + Demi + Venom + SC 188

4 blastborne + venom + SC 173

14 warriors + Sybarite + SC 155 ( Duke deploys with them and then moves on to join Incubi)

10 Warriors + SC + Raider with DC + Racks + NS 180

8 Wyches + Hekatrix + Power sword + Raider + DC + NS 198 (1 heamon joins them)

8 Wyches + Hekatrix + Power sword + Raider + DC + NS 198 (1 heamon joins them)

5 Reavers + Champion + 2 HL + 2 Claster Caltrops 206

1 DL Ravager + NS 115

1 DC Ravager + NS 115

1 Voidraven + FF + 2 Necrotoxin + 2 Shatterfield 195 (break point)

That gives me 2003 points (need to remove 3 points).

The tournament is 5 games, there are 50 players. ½ of them are playing MEQ.

What are your thoughts?

Not going to be of much use to you, but for what it's worth, I think this is a great list! Maybe toy with removing one of your Elites choices and adding some more models to your larger Warrior squad and maybe one or two more Reavers? More 3+ poison attacks (and a large squad in cover with Feel No Pain is surprisingly difficult to shift...), and more wounds before your more costly heat lances and cluster caltrops start taking hits.
Just a matter of personal preference though; I'm relatively new to Dark Eldar as well, so maybe I'm being a bit crazy here. Best of luck, though!

Thx. A bit of play testing (2 games) has actually given me the same conlusion. 3-4 Incubi die very easily. And the bikes are amazing!!! People hate them... So I' ve made some changes and the list looks like this: (for now)

Duke 150 (break point)

1 Heamo + WWP 85

3 Wracks + Venom + SC 95 (Heamo deploys with them and drops the WWP in turn one)

4 Trueborn with Blasters + venom + SC 173

5 Wyches + Haywire Grenades + venom + SC 125

12 Warriors + Sybarite + SC 137 (Duke deploys with them and the joins the 9 Wyches)

8 wyches + Hekatrix with power sword + Haywire granades + Raider with DC + NS 203

10 warriors + SC + Raider with DC + Racks + NS 180

5 Reavers + Champion + 2 HL + 2 Claster Caltrops 206 (in reserves and deploying via WWP)

5 Reavers + Champion + 2 HL + 2 Claster Caltrops 206 (in reserves and deploying via WWP)

1 Ravager with DC + NS 115

1 Voidraven + FF + 2 Necrotoxin + 2 Shatterfield 195 (break point)

1 Talos + Flails + Stinger Pod 130

I am a bit suprised over my self choosing a talos in sted of the second ravager but I think it has worked great for me. Am I crazy?? What are you people using? What are your experiences with the Talos. Better or worst that a Ravager? I know it depends alot of the situation but I like to use the talos to scare the opponent and make him shoot at it and not the other stuff of my army. And if it gets a pain token before it gets down to one wound then WOW... It can really survive a lot of shooting,,,