2000 pts vs Blood Angels

Greetings, warlords.

I made an appointment of battle vs Blood Angels on coming Saturday (2000 pts). I haven't played with him so far, but I've seen his army several times, which is like:

Deepstriking Dante with death companies
Deepstriking sanguinary guards
1 vindicator, 1 dreadnaught, 1-2 land speeders, 1-2 devastator squads
+ termies and marines for the rest of points.

As expecting so many +2/+3 armors, I've selected AP2/AP3 cannons rather than our classic splinter weapons for this battle. However, it's my first time not to use trueborns/warriors at all and thus I really need your advice for the following list:


Kabal of Gum-Un'dar (1999 pts)

Vect, Baron, 5 beastmasters, 15 khymerae, 4 razorwing flocks
- They will charge everything near them, but priority targets are the deepstriking (expensive) units.

Three squad of 6 haywyches in a raider /w enhanced aethersails
- They will fly to enemy vehicles (esp. vindi & dreadn) utilizing aethersails & jink and wreck them (hopefully) in Turn 2. After then, the dissie raiders will attack marines and/or grab objectives.

3 wracks
- They will stay in my backyard objective and, more importantly, provide one FF raider for wraithguards.

5 wraithguards /w D-Scythe in a FF raider
- Fearless T6 infantries in open-topped skimmer will attack everything (except vehicles) with AP2 flamers and a dissie cannon.

2 dissie FF ravagers & 1 dissie FF jetfighter
- Another S5 AP2 bombardment. They may attack land speeders (10/10/10) as well as armored infantries.

1 spiritseer, 5 dark reapers /w exarch
- Concealed in a ruin, they will fire AP3 starswarms and tempest missiles

Is anything stopping you from taking a second combined arms detachment? Because if not, I'd go with haywyches/disintegrator spam to the extreme.

At 2000 points, you could run a triple force org with:

3 Haemonculi w/ liquifier guns
6 units of 5 haywyches in dissy raiders w/aethersails & grisly trophies
9 dissy ravagers
And still have 100 points to spare.

That's 6 haywyches to take out armor, then 99 shots at S5, AP2, and 3 liquifier guns.

BetrayTheWorld wrote:

Is anything stopping you from taking a second combined arms detachment? Because if not, I'd go with haywyches/disintegrator spam to the extreme.

At 2000 points, you could run a triple force org with:

3 Haemonculi w/ liquifier guns
6 units of 5 haywyches in dissy raiders w/aethersails & grisly trophies
9 dissy ravagers
And still have 100 points to spare.

That's 6 haywyches to take out armor, then 99 shots at S5, AP2, and 3 liquifier guns.

Thanks for the advice, BetrayTheWorld. There are no limits for the number of force orgs. However, currently I have only three raiders, three venoms, and twenty wyches. I also felt (from a couple of my previous games) that haywyches in a venom were too fragile to even reach an enemy vehicle. That's why I brought the Eldar ally.

Anyhow, your idea looks very cool! I may add one more haywych unit (that's maximum capacity with my models). Thank you again.

I've just come back from the battle mentioned here. I'm gonna upload an illustrated battle report in a few hours    Thank you for your advice again, BetrayTheWorld.

Did it go well?

Theatakcat wrote:

Did it go well?

Better than my thought: haywyches, dissies, transports
Worse than my thought: wraithguards
As expected: others

I've nearly finished my battle report. Whoa, it takes more than three hours...! Now I really admire those who have uploaded reports frequently