2k tournament list with big restrictions

Good morning Commorragh !

In a couple of week a friend of mine organize a little tournament (we'll be 24 players maximum) with a lot of limitations in order to change of our "no-limit" meta :
- can't take the same codex entry twice (except for troops)
- 1 flyer/FMC maximum
- 1 special character maximum
- aegis defence line is the only fortification allowed
- only battle brothers allies, and they will be considered as allies of convenience for the occasion

I drafted this list and i'd like your feedback on it :

Quote :

• HQ1 : Asdrubael Vect [240] in transport 1.
  
• HQ2 : Haemonculi with no options [50].
  
  
• EL1 : 4x Trueborn with 4x blaster [108] in transport 2.
  
  
• TR1 : 8x Wyches with haywire grenades, including an hekatrix with venom blade [111].
  
• TR2 : 5x Wyches with haywire grenades [60] in transport 3.
  
• TR3 : 5x Warriors with 1x blaster [60] in transport 4.
  
• TR4 : 5x Warriors with 1x blaster [60] in transport 5.
  
• TR5 : 5x Warriors with 1x blaster [60] in transport 6.
  
  
• FA1 : 9x Reavers with 3x blaster and 1x cluster calltrop, including a champion with venom blade [278].
  
  
• HS1 : Talos with chain-flails and additional CCW [125].
  
• HS2 : Ravager with 3x DL and NS [115].
  
• HS3 : Voidraven bomber with NS [155].
  
  
• Transport1 : Dais of Destruction [200] (starting with Vect, the haemonculi and the 8 wyches aboard).
  
• Transport2 : Venom with additional SC and NS [75].
  
• Transport3 : Venom with additional SC and NS [75].
  
• Transport4 : Venom with additional SC and NS [75].
  
• Transport5 : Venom with additional SC and NS [75].
  
• Transport6 : Venom with additional SC and NS [75].
  
  
• Total = 1997pts

The dais, the ravager, the blasterborn and the voidraven are my main source of anti-tank firepower.
Anti-infantry is mainly provided by the venoms (and to a lesser extent by the talos with it's SC).
Reavers can make everything, while the talos provide a good counter-attack threat and Vect with his squad chase everything without many 2+ saves.

Any thoughts ?

Interesting list of restrictions... Can you shed any light as to why these are in affect?

Since the 6th edition we only had highly competitive tournament (without any restrictions) around my city, and we're kind of tired seing the same lists over and over (necrons with 7-9 flyers, daemons with kairos + 3 units of flamers/screamer, tervigon spam tyranid, etc...).

So this time the organizer want to try something... different. Plus he hates flyers and allies

No other thoughts ? I'm beginning to think I made a perfect list

Anyway, I'm considering the idea of droping the chain-flails and the CCW on the talos to remplace them by a TL-liquifier and 2x S7 missiles on the bomber.
Also maybe changing a blaster for a shredder in one of the warrior squads in order to get something for my haemonculi (a liquifier or whatever) or a phantasm nade launcher for the wyches with Vect.

the problem with critiquing a list like this is all the restrictions. Ofc I can be like "no, you should take this" but in reality there are too many restrictions to even think about what type of force your opponent is going to be bringing.

The only thing I can give you is that they liquifier on the talos is way better than the chain flails, and the extra CCW is really overcosted (15pts for +1 attack... yah ok...) Also PGL on wyches is amazing, and every wych squad going into assault should have one.

Also I find the caltrops suplurfious points spent on a reaver squad that should be shooting than bladevaning, and only using bladevaning when they are repositioning

The tournament is over and I made only little changes to the initial list. You can found the full report here.