2000 Dark Eldar Tantalus

[calitom]

So I've been thinking about where I wanted to go with my Dark Eldar with 6th edition coming up soon, and I was honestly thinking the Tantalus looks like a super neat piece to have on the board... And I've always loved the concept of Grotesques. So let's see a list incorporating both.


HQ
Urien Rakarth
Vect

Elite
7 Grotesques (Urien upgrades)

Troops
5 x 5 man warrior squad with blaster in a venom with extra SC
9 Wyches with hydra gauntlet and agonizer in a raider with flickerfield and sails

Heavy
2 x Ravager with flickerfield
Tantalus


So the list involves having the big fatty bock of 7 grotesques with Urien and generally Vect (I left one spot open in the wyches raider in case if that looks like a better idea for some games) and man does this unit sound sick...

STR 7 on the charge with 28 attacks at Init 5 on Toughness 5 three wound models... then Urien and Vect punching stuff. Sure they have balls for saves, but thunder hammers won't one shot them We'll see how this idea progresses and if I still think it's a good idea when 6th comes out, but for now it looks pretty sweet.

[redshirt2375]

I hope to at some point convince my Boss (aka the Girlfriend ) To let me get a Tantalus just to have as a show piece for my army.

I have read on one forum where a guy was running grotesques and pointed out that if you upgrade 1 to the Aberration and give one the Liquifier and it allows for some extra wound allocation.

Though if rumours are true and Wound Allocation is going away in 6th that won't really matter But for 5th it's nice to have with a mullti-wound unit