Coven idea 1500 points.

Don't know if this would work, but I won't have to worry about flyers.


Here's what I came up with.

Hq

Hammy /w liqifier gun= 60 pts

Elites

4 grotesques /w liquifier gun= 150 pts

Raider /w sails= 65 pts

Troops

5 10 man wrak squads /w 2 liqifier guns= 120 pts each

5 raider /w sails= 65 pts


HS

x2 Chronos Parasite engines /w spirit vortex= 100 pts each

Talos pain engine= 100 pts

Not sure if I shuold do 3 parasite engines or not.

Anyone?

If it is a fan list, it's ok. But I think it's not competitive. Poor AV options and no AA. The monsters are too slow and your main killing power are Wracks. They are fine, but the assault is such a dangerous thing in the 6th. A Tau army behind a barricade will table you.
Use some shooty guys. For such a list it's enough 2-3 squads of Wracks. And don't take more than 1 Cronos. It's just a supporting unit. I would also recommend you to take a couple of scourges with haywire blasters as a reliable AV option. By the way these guys fit the coven list well, as scourges are the main Haemunculi clients

Well I'm not worried about flyers since most of my opponets don't have them.

THe thought was to troll a tau player friend of mine who runs mostly firewarriors and 2 squads of crisis suits including an hq version, 2 hammerheads and 2 broadsides. Sometimes one to two squads of kroot. Since he's so infanty heavy, I figured if I could get first turn I could get into his deployent zone turn one, and whatever survives one turn of firepower will just assualt him like crazy.

I'll remove a pain engine for a second talos.

How big should the scrouge squad be?

Assaulting Tau is a suicide. First he will blow up your raiders. Some of wracks die. Then he will shoot at them. Most of them will die. As you will charge he will shoot his super deadly Tau overwatch. If someone will survive this, that would be a miracle.

Regarding scourges I usually run 10 men squad with 4 hw-blasters. It's 3 glancing hits for sure. Some players use 5 men squads with 2 hw-blasters for 130 points as a supporting unit. It's also great for smaller games.

If your going to run three pain engines, you would be better off with 2 talos and one cronos, the cronos needs to get a pain token on the talos ASAP. Your lacking a lot of ranged AT, but to be honest against tau most of our ranged doesn't last.

I wouldn't bother with the sails, but I would get an aberration with a venom blade to soak challenges for your heami (who should bring a power axe btw as it adds much needed AP2 to the squad). I would also consider upgrading him to an ancient as the extra WS and A will double his damage output, and the bump to LD9 will make the grotesques a lot less likely to get pinned when their transport inevitably goes down, I5 is another nice boost as it helps the squad with sweeping advance.

When you deploy make sure you have some spare raiders set up near your grotesque unite in case their transport gets destroyed.

Hope that helps.

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Assaulting Tau is a suicide. First he will blow up your raiders. Some of wracks die. Then he will shoot at them. Most of them will die. As you will charge he will shoot his super deadly Tau overwatch. If someone will survive this, that would be a miracle.

In my experience not as suicidal as trying to out shoot Tau.

Well it was just an idea, I figured if I had 5 squads of wraks going at him, and then the grotesques, it wouldn't be that easy for him to kill everything before getting assualted. Is there overwatch that strong? I thought even if they support fire, they can't shoot more then once on overwatch.

Here's the reworked list.

Anything else I should tweek? Keep in mind I won't be facing flyers.

Hq

Ancient Hammy /w power axe= 90 pts


HS

Chronos Parasite engines /w spirit vortex= 100 pts

x2 Talos pain engine /w liquifier guns and twin linked haywires= 110 pts each



Fast attack

x3 5 scourges /w 2 haywire blasters= 130 pts each

Elites

3 grotesques /w aberation /w venom blade= 120 pts

raider /w flicker field= 70 pts

Troops

x3 wrack squads 10 strong= 100 pts each

3 Raiders /w flickerfields= 70 pts each

Not sure if I should do the scourges as a group of 10 and a group of 5.

Considering you will rarely ever have to worry about KPs thne unless you want to add another FA I see no reason to run then as 2 squads instead of three, three gives greater flexability.

Here is my version of this list.

1 Haemonculus Ancient - Warlord (HQ) @ 100 Pts
    Power Weapon; Splinter Pistol; Liquifier Gun

4 Grotesques (Elites) @ 210 Pts
    Liquifier Gun
    1 Raider @ [60] Pts
         Dark Lance

9 Wracks (Troops) @ 180 Pts
    Liquifier Gun (x1)
    1 Acothyst @ [20] Pts
    1 Raider @ [60] Pts
         Dark Lance

9 Wracks (Troops) @ 190 Pts
    Liquifier Gun (x2)
    1 Acothyst @ [20] Pts
    1 Raider @ [60] Pts
         Dark Lance

9 Wracks (Troops) @ 190 Pts
    Liquifier Gun (x2)
    1 Acothyst @ [20] Pts
    1 Raider @ [60] Pts
         Dark Lance

9 Wracks (Troops) @ 190 Pts
    Liquifier Gun (x2)
    1 Acothyst @ [20] Pts
    1 Raider @ [60] Pts
         Dark Lance

5 Scourges (Fast Attack) @ 130 Pts
    Haywire Blaster (x2)

1 Cronos Parasite Engine (Heavy Support) @ 100 Pts
    Spirit Vortex
1 Talos Pain Engine (Heavy Support) @ 105 Pts
    Close-combat Weapon (x1); Twin Liquifier Gun; Twin Splinter Cannon
1 Talos Pain Engine (Heavy Support) @ 105 Pts
    Close-combat Weapon (x1); Twin Liquifier Gun; Twin Splinter Cannon

I think it would be better to drop most of your scourges in order to take more Wracks, because most of them will die before the assault. Moreover Wracks is your main killing unit while scourges will just support you in vehicle destroying. I took Acothysts to increase leadership, which is very important in close combat and passing pinning tests. Even if your raider is wrecked and not exploded you will need to pass this test.