2k swarm list

Took a long, hard look at the reaver list and realised I was falling for the curse of shiny. Gave things a serous thought and came up with a fast and mobile list that can handle anything I encounter.

HQ

Archon: Huskblade, shadow field, soul trap, splinter pistol: 135pts

Drazhar: 230

Elite

3x Incubi: 146pts
Venom: 2x cannon, night shields, retrofire jets: 80

5x Trueborn: 2x blasters, 2x splinter cannon, 1x Dracon with venom blade: 120
Venom: 2x cannon, night shields, retrofire jets: 80

5x Trueborn: 2x blasters, 2x splinter cannon, 1x Dracon with venom blade: 120
Venom: 2x cannon, night shields, retrofire jets: 80

Troops

10x warriors: blaster, splinter cannon: 115pts
Raider: dark lance, splinter racks: 70

10x warriors: blaster, splinter cannon: 115pts
Raider: dark lance, splinter racks: 70

10x warriors: blaster, splinter cannon: 115pts
Raider: dark lance, splinter racks: 70

10x warriors: blaster, splinter cannon: 115pts
Raider: dark lance, splinter racks: 70

Heavy support

Ravager: 3x Dark lances, night shields: 15pts

Ravager: 3x Dark lances, night shields: 15pts

Ravager: 3x Dark lances, night shields: 15pts

Total: 1996.

The potential firepower is a bit awesome with 12x dark lances, 14x Splinter cannons and 10x blasters.

The tactics are for the venoms to be held in reserve while the raiders and ravagers engage and destroy high profile targets.

The archon/drazhar combo is a deathstar fire brigade, their job is to hit and hit hard any enemy deathstars and either kill them or keep them pinned down while the rest of my army does it's job. Drazhar ad the incubi go after the grunts while the Archon issues challenges.

The two trueborn venom units are a mobile fire brigade who will deepstrike to engage targets that pose threats on the enemy backline.

I feel that Trueborn are best set to one role on the board. either anti infantry or anti armour.
I think either go with cannons or plasters.
the range of the cannon is much greater than the blaster range as well. so you won't be getting max use out of the blasters.

I used to love retrofire jets. but since you can't get out of the vehicle the turn it deep strikes then you will be only firing snapshots. which sucks

As colinsherlow said, i would go for 4x true born with blasters and drop the dracon from those squads, the sargents for our squads are worth the extra points.
Having our anti tank on the table turn 1 is important, and the true born will have a 30" threat range for their blasters, 6" move for the venom, disembark 6" then fire 18".
I know drazar looks good but you may as well plum for vect for 10 points more, means you will steal the initiative on a 4+ and he is a monster in cc with his sceptre of the dark city 7 attacks on the charge, and ancient nemesis rule.

(little DEldar experience)
Deep striking is more hassle than its worth in my view, especialy for DEldar, we can cross the board in a turn anyway

Your deathstar isnt that deathy, and is comparitivly fragile.
Do DEldar death star?
I'd much rather run away from the enemy deathstar or tar pit it than smash in to it.


I'm very much in favour of one unit one task
Your Trueborn are much scarier with 5 blasters, and your kabalites (minus blaster) and venoms pack plenty of anti infantry.

@dominicj: there is actually one unit with star potential-
Beastmaster units can get to around 300 pts. Add baron in there and you have gazillion attacks at I5 and I6.

However i digress. I agree with the trueborn philosophy of specialising in one thing.