Iron Halo Tournament
On November 12, 2005, Dream Wizards in Rockville, Maryland is hosting the Iron Halo Tournament. The last tourney I entered was at Dream Wizards, back in January of 2004, and my Dark Eldar got slapped around like errant school children. Since then, I’ve improved my play with the Death Twinkies, treating them like an Ulthwe Strike Force with even nastier options. I’m raring to bring back the new-and-improved Kabal of the Ozone Scorpions for some cruel revenge.

A lot of DE players like to go for the Shooty-Army-From-Hell approach: heaps of Warriors armed with dark lances and some Wyches and/or Incubi as counterattack elements. I eschew that strategy in favor of spearheading my attack with Wyches and Taloses and using Warriors and Raider Squads to mop up or grab objectives. I deploy almost all of my army through a webway portal, which protects my vulnerable units from shooting (you can’t hit what isn’t there!) and lets my close-combat units get up right in the enemy’s face. 

Kabal of the Ozone Scorpions (2000 points)
For the tournament, I’m bringing the following:

• Dr. Jheste. Haemonculus w/ webway portal and destructor (90 points)
• Dr. Fybze. Haemonculus w/ destructor, scissorhands, and haywire grenades (49 points)
• Vulnavya. Haemonculus w/ stinger and webway portal (80 points)
• Silver Scorpions. Succubus Blygos w/ splinter pistol, agonizer, and trophy rack; two Wyches w/ shredders and wych weapons; seven Wyches w/ wyches weapons (183 points)
• Sky Scorpion. Raider w/ dark lance and horrorfex (60 points)
• Handmaidens. Succubus Dr’zzllah w/ splinter pistol and agonizer; two Wyches w/ shredders and wych weapons; seven Wyches w/ wyches weapons (178 points)
• Sky Scorpion. Raider w/ dark lance and horrorfex (60 points)
• The Ring of Honor. Succubus Eklavdrah w/ splinter pistol, agonizer, and trophy rack; one Wych w/ shredder and wych weapon; one Wych w/ blaster and wych weapon; seven Wyches w/ wyches weapons (178 points)
• Sky Scorpion. Raider w/ dark lance and horrorfex (60 points)
• Squad 0. Fourteen Warriors w/ splinter rifles; two Warriors w/ splinter cannons; two Warriors w/ blasters (174 points)
• Raider Squad 1. Seven Warriors w/ splinter rifles; one Warrior w/ splinter cannon; one Warrior w/ blaster (87 points)
• Sky Scorpion. Raider w/ disintegrator (60 points)
• Raider Squad 2. Seven Warriors w/ splinter rifles; one Warrior w/ splinter cannon; one Warrior w/ blaster (87 points)
• Sky Scorpion. Raider w/ disintegrator (60 points)
• Raider Squad 3. Seven Warriors w/ splinter rifles; one Warrior w/ splinter cannon; one Warrior w/ blaster (87 points)
• Sky Scorpion. Raider w/ dark lance and horrorfex (60 points)
• Raider Squad 4. Seven Warriors w/ splinter rifles; one Warrior w/ splinter cannon; one Warrior w/ blaster (87 points)
• Sky Scorpion. Raider w/ disintegrator (60 points)
• Talos (100 points)
• Talos (100 points)
• Talos (100 points)

Doing better would tend to prevent any surliness on my part, which was, I fear, a factor in my previous Sportsmanship score, which was lower than I tend to average. The army I’m bringing is different from your standard Dark Eldar list in that it conspicuously does NOT feature the nigh-obligatory Archon-with-Shadow-Field-and-Combat-Drugs-and-Agonizer, nor the terminally tedious Sniper-Squad-with-Two-Dark-Lances. Hopefully, this will score me some more Sportsmanship points. Then again, the army does have lots of “cookie-cutter” units, identical to each other, so we’ll just have to see, won’t we?

Note for the Fluff-Monkeys
Hardcore Jungle fanboys might note that two characters mentioned in the list above have changed significantly since their premieres on this site. Dr’zzllah, who once served as Dracon for the Ozone Scorpions (and who made appearance in Women’s Work) has been demoted to leader of the Handmaidens, her accompanying Wych Squad. Eklavdrah, a Raider Squad Sybarite who appeared in the series From Idea to Reality, the story The Gray Tiger, and the campaign Tooth and Claw, has been promoted to a Succubus in charge of a new Wych Squad I recently formed. It’s all part of some revamping of the army that I’ve been doing lately to make it more interesting and more competitive. More about that later….

Tune In Next Time….
Come back next month and I’ll have summaries and photos from each battle my Dark Eldar fight at the Iron Halo Tournament! 
 

Related Pages
Other Tournaments at Dream Wizards
 

Posted: November 2005
 

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