A 2000 pts list and some after-action thoughts

by | Jun 5, 2011

Played a 2K match today and had a blast! It was Capture & Control against a doublewing Dark Angels list with no vehicules.

My opponent managed to seize the initiative and proceeded to wipe my 3 ravagers, 2 Venoms, 2 Raiders and some embarked units on turn one. Epic! I managed to come back in the game after that and barely won in the end thanks to one Reaver Jetbike contesting his objective (should have been a draw, he made a small placement mistake allowing my jetbike to come close to his objective - had we played another turn it would have ended in a draw).

I didn't use Sliscus and his squad much, they killed a ravenwing squad early but didn't do anything afterwards, they were too far from the action.I should have re-embarked them to move them around but didn't. Bad move on my part.

One blaster-trueborn squad was almost wiped out turn one, the other proceeded to kill a couple units during the game. They had no vehicules to kill, but the Terminators were a nice fallback target :)

One Wyches squad was wiped early, the other, like Sliscus, were useful early on but I also forgot to re-embark them and they spent the whole game trying to reach the other objective... just in time to get slaughtered by Assault Terminators during the last turn (I had hoped that with the full squad, Furious Charge, 1 Attack from the drugs they would put enough wounds on them, but they passed all their saves and I didn't).

The Kabalite Warriors stayed on my objective the whole game, shooting at everything in range. Not a very agressive way of playing them, but it worked.



I quite like the list. Most of it functioned well, I learned from my mistakes. I really don't want to start spamming Kabalite Warriors in Venoms, so I won't change the core. I think I'll remove the special weapons from the wyches and add Shock Prows to the Raiders, it could be useful to contest objectives. Need to play against some form of razorspam now to see how bad I would do.

The list I played (1997 pts):

Duke Sliscus the Serpent (150pts)

3 x Kabalite Trueborn with 3 x Blaster, in Venom w/ Splinter Cannons (146pts)
3 x Kabalite Trueborn with 3 x Blaster, in Venom w/ Splinter Cannons (146pts)
4 x Kabalite Trueborn with 2x Shardcarbine, 2 x Splinter Cannon, in Venom w/ Splinter Cannons, Grisly Trophies (148pts)

10 x Kabalite Warriors with 1 x Blaster, 1 x Splinter Cannon in Raider with Dark Lance (175pts)
10 x Kabalite Warriors with 1 x Blaster, 1 x Splinter Cannon in Raider with Dark Lance (175pts)
10 x Wyches with 1 x Shardnet and Impaler, Hekatrix with 1 x Agoniser, in Raider with Dark Lance (200pts)
10 x Wyches with 1 x Shardnet and Impaler, Hekatrix with 1 x Agoniser, in Raider with Dark Lance (200pts)

6 x Reaver Jetbikes with 2x Heat Lance (156pts)
6 x Reaver Jetbikes with 2x Heat Lance (156pts)

1 x Ravager with 3 x Dark Lance, Nightshield (115pts)
1 x Ravager with 3 x Dark Lance, Nightshield (115pts)
1 x Ravager with 3 x Dark Lance, Nightshield (115pts)