1500 Coven

Hey guys, looking for some feedback on my 1500pt list, I intend to field this in a local tournament, so it needs to be workable but this is between friends and I have no plans to sacrifice the theme solely for the sake of winning the tournament. So I guess semi-competitive Coven list is my aim. So nice and simple yes?   

HQ
Heamonculus - 70pts
LG, VB

Baron Sarthonyx - xxpts
Converted him to be a supped-up Scourge with two sets of wings and a nice imposing halberd/glave!

Elites
3 Grotesques (heam goes here) - 180pts
Abb, VB. Raider w/ DL
Converted from Crypt Horrors

3 Trueborn - 146pts
2 DL. Raider w/ DL
Back up for grots raider.

3 Trueborn - 86pts
2 DL

Troops
5 Wracks x4 - 500pts
LG. Venom w/ 2 SC
Converted from Crypt Ghouls

Fast Attack
3 Beastmasters - 186pts
2 RWF, 10 Khy
Converted Scourge Beastmasters, Bat Swarms and Dire Wolves

Heavy Support
Ravager x2 - 210pts

Total = 1478pts


The Grots w/ Heam and Beasts w/ Baron would be the main focal points of my assault with the small Wrack squads acting as supporting units and giving me those all important Venoms!

My main worries are:

• The Heam w/ Grots lacking that real assault power without an Archon in there. Would finding space for another Grot help to solve this?
  

• The two Trueborn squads were sort of thrown in to give me some more DL support, but they don't really gel with the much more aggressive assault elements of the list, and because I have an odd affection for those old DL warriors.
  

Any thoughts? I know it's a bit of a stretch to ask for help whilst being fairly restrictive so any feedback would be great.

No thoughts at all?

I came up with a second list which might work better...

Archon w/ SF, VB. With 3 Grots w/ Abb, VB. In a Raider with Sails.
Heam w/ LG, VB. With 9 Wracks w/ LG, Aco, VB. In Raider w/ Sails
2x 3 Trueborn w/ 2DL. One with Venom w/ 2SC (can go do its own thing)
3x5 Warriors. In Venom w/ 2SC
3 Beastmasters w/ 2 Flocks and 10 Khy
2 Ravagers

Any better?

Looks okay to me. I don't run a whole lot of coven. On the second list I think the haem is wasted in the wrack unit. He'd be better with the archon and grots.

And I don't like the lanceborn regardless. That's just a personal thing though, I don't like any heavy weapons on our units. A unit that has a heavy weapon should have slow and purposeful. Not fleet. That's why my trueborn either have blasters or splinter cannons(which double as assault)(Hell I think I'd give them shredders over a lance). You could dismantle one lanceborn unit and add a blaster to each warriors' squad and have points left over. You just traded two DL weapons for three.

I would really recommend going up to 4 grots, I've ran 3 at 1.5k (with archon) and its just not quite enough. At 1k it's doable but any higher definitely stick with 4. My suggestion would be to lose a unit of trueborn to upgrade the haemie to an archon full kit.

The lanceborn are for the models I get that so I'll leave the other unit alone. Although on second thought you could still utilize the models in a scoring warrior unit for camping, maybe even with ADL. I've never tried this though so grain of salt since its just an alternative to 3 squishy models.