Dark Eldar Army Challenge - Preliminaries and Other Stuff

 So, as part of The Independent Characters' Hobby Progress Challenge, and also to keep this blog alive and kicking, I present the first installment of my Dark Eldar army.

The idea behind the Challenge is to create an 1850 pt 40k army list with a minimum 400 pt sideboard, then assemble and paint it before Adepticon 2012, in March. Details are here.

So, without further ado, the list as it currently stands. I've been mulling over whether to go Nightshields over Flickerfields for the Ravagers, and drop the Flickerfields on the Raiders and use Shock Prows and Grisly Trophies on a few of them. This could then possibly get me one more Wych in the squad of 8.

Anyway....

HQ
110: Archon - Venom Blade, Clone Field, Phantasm Grenade Launcher
60: Haemonculus - Liquifier Gun
60: Haemonculus - Liquifier Gun

Elites
185: 5x Incubi (Raider - Flickerfield, Shock Prow)
173: 4x Trueborn - 4x Blaster (Venom - Splinter Cannon)
173: 4x Trueborn - 4x Blaster (Venom - Splinter Cannon)

Troops
125: 5x Warriors - Blaster (Venom - Splinter Cannon)
125: 5x Warriors - Blaster (Venom - Splinter Cannon)
188: 9x Wyches - Haywire Grenades, Hydra Gaunltet (Raider - Flickerfield)
176: 8x Wyches - Haywire Grenades, Hydra Gaunltet (Raider - Flickerfield)

Fast Attack
110: 5x Scourges - 2x Haywire Blasters

Heavy Support
115: Ravager - Flickerfield
115: Ravager - Flickerfield
115: Ravager - Flickerfield

Sideboard
180: 10x Warriors - Splinter Cannon (Raider - Flickerfield, Splinter Racks)
180: 10x Warriors - Splinter Cannon (Raider - Flickerfield, Splinter Racks)
188: 9x Wyches - Haywire Grenades, Hydra Gaunltet (Raider - Flickerfield)

And, as part of the Challenge, I will be submitting first and last of the month updates to show progress. I am also required to plan out what I will be doing each month, so here is that.

June:
Purchase (hopefully - if not purchased in June, model will be purchased in the month it is scheduled to be painted) Archon, 3 more Venoms, 2 Scourge boxes, and an extra haywire blaster. Convert 4 Blasters out of Shredders for Trueborn. Assemble/prime as much of army as possible.

July:
Paint 3 Raiders, 5 Scourges

August:
Paint 17 Wyches, 5 Incubi

September:
Paint 3 Ravagers, Archon

October:
Purchase Urien and a Haemo, assemble/convert as needed, and paint them. Paint 4 Venoms.

November:
Paint 30 Warriors

December:
Paint remaining Wyches and Raiders, plus anything else that got left behind.

January - March:
Finish any last details / models I may add as needed. Really hard to plan that far out. I imagine there will be some things completed early, so hopefully I can add some of the fun stuff like Wracks/Razorwings here. Army will be based/sealed as models are finished.

So there we go. I'll drop some pics of my Scourges soon, and the Raiders.

~iPaint