Price Hike = Demise of Poisonblade Box?

[ThePenitentOne]

DE are awesome to collect because I really like their boxed sets. I went and bought Start Collecting + 1 box of Wyches + Haemonculus.

 

If we hadn't gone to quarantine, I would have had the Poisonblade Box. But all this webstore going down for maintenance/ price increase crap has got me thinking I missed the window. I'm checking the damn webstore every 2 hours, and if I get a chance, it's a done deal.

 

That would give me a solid Kabal and a solid Cult. The Coven would be under represented- I'd need some Wracks, but then I'm good to go.

 

... If it's still an option.

[ThePenitentOne]

I did it. Had to just search for the box and click on a link back directly to the page for the item. It was an American link, but it let me to shift the currency to CAD.  Got my confirmation email, so it's on.

 

Best part?

 

Wracks, which is the only other thing I'll need to get a core force for all three subfactions, aren't on the list for a price increase.

[Syrakul]

I used to try the three patrols raiding party but with no buff after the battlion got buffed, and with not being a fan of wyches on the field I went to running kabal/coven only, and using the bikes as a -1 cp auxillary. I just noticed you bought extra wyches as well so guess that doesn't apply to you...

in your case you have 20 warriors, 20 wyches, 2 venoms, 6 bikes, 1 flyer, archon, succubus, haemon, talos....(poisonblade+start collecting+wyches+ haemon)

What you should get is more transports, and try for 2 battalions (kabal/cult) which could look like

 

kabal battalion :

archon

second archon (use raider extras to sub a kabalite, use best kabalite parts for this archon)

venom/5 kabalites

venom/5 kabalites

venom/5 kabalites

venom/5 kabalites

razorwing

 

wych battalion

- succubus

- second succubus* (use venom extras to sub a wych, use best wych parts for this succubus)

- 10 wyches / raider

- 5 wyches / 5 wyches / raider

- 6 bikes (together for chosen +1 T drug)

 

coven patrol (though getting two more talos and going for a spearhead would be better)

- haemon

- wracks (might sit on objective in the back at best)

- talos (get more and triangulate the haemon going downfield!)

 

Wyches need a large group to be effective in melee (or get in). if you took a patrol and grouped them all into a DS bomb could be fun, sans CP and transports

To be truly effective army you would probably want to get more raiders/ravagers (look to convert the latter) or razorwings. Talos can be decent but slow to arrive after the rest. Then venom spam the kabal (I was going with flayed skull for rerolls and speed)

Edited May 22, 2020 by Syrakul

[ThePenitentOne]

Agreed. Definitely want battalions for Kabal and Cult, and definitely need raiders. I could run both the Kabal and the Cult's troops as 2x5 + 1 x 10 in order to fill out the troops, so getting them to battalion status is just 2 more HQ models if I want to run it that way. I would prefer 3x10, but I'll be financially tapped for a month or two after my paint order + my Poisonblade.

 

I'm building the army from Kill Teams using game based escalations, so my armies sometimes grow in strange ways. My succubus and arcon will definitely be striving toward acquiring transports and expanding to battalion capacity, but they have to fight their way there, and sometimes battles don't go as planned.

 

By the latest, my paint should arrive next Wednesday; the Wych Cult arena is close enough to finished that we could fight in it, though there is still a bit of tweaking I'd like to do, since I'm looking to film the battle

 

The raiding force (ie 3 patrols) is no longer the cool option it used to be, so I've known from the beginning I'd eventually build to 3 battalions. The story of how we get there, however, is very unlikely to be a straight line.

[Syrakul]

Ive noticed that advancing on foot archons and succubus can keep up with transports and putting them inside one is a bizarre situation that endangers them or messes with troop counts. eg 2 succubuss and 8 wyches in one is asking to get shot first, putting on in the next one you cant fit the two squads in.

If you did creative work with venom extras could easily get 2-3 more from each, makes 3 squads 9,9,5, then 9+succubus in each raider with a third sacrificial squad hanging back someplace