DocKeule

I have very little hope that we will be getting additions any time soon. Apart from the SCE pretty much no faction got new unit and the battletome is only a few month old, Best I would hope for is some tweaks with the points in the next GHB so the now less appealing choices might become more of an option. I played another tournament today and ran the following: Volturnos 2 Soulscryer Eidalon Sea 30 Thralls 20 Reavers 6 Ishlaen Guar 3 Ishlaen Guard 2 Wrecks It went OK. First match was against SCE and kind of even for a while until my opponent shocked in 2 Ballistas and 20 Evocaters. The mortal wound from the evovaters alone are just silly for that pointcosts. (2 dices per model and on a 4+ a mortal wound every round for 200 point per five models). Second game was against Nighthount and again mortal wound was a big factor. The other one was the debuffs that that only the glass-part from my glass-cannons ? I won the third match against a Moonclan heavy mixed Destruction but the list was for from being maxed and the player pretty unexperineced so I don't consider that much of an accomplishment. For the future I think the Eidalon will have to go for two Tidecasters (at least for cempetetive play). I will play the thralls in blocks of ten to get more into close combat and lose fewer in battleshock. Reavers did not do terrible. I think I will try a setup with 3x10 Thralls and 2x10 Reavers with Lotann in the center, I think that might have some value. And I guess I will have to get some more eels.

Thank's for your reply. Looking back I would have probably bought just one Allopex in case I wanted to field the batallion. They look cool but their stats aren't something to write home about. The provide reliable rent but at a much too small output I think. I think Lotann could have some value in an Namarti heavy list if you manage to keep him in the center of the army and all Namarti units in his bubble - maybe more in a defensive and stationary scenario (not exactly the IDK's strong point). As for the Soulrenders: I had a match against Khorne demons and held a bottleneck on the table with 30 Thralls and two Souleenders, bringing back anyone the chaos-dudes killed round after round. Again this is probably more valuable in a stationary situation while in other cases the Thralls tend to be glass cannons and break pretty soon. A unit of 10 is usually gone after a melee with nothing left to bring models back to. Reavers I am not sure about. Under 9" their output is not too bad and especially in tournaments in our area you usually have a lot of mission objectives to hold. You could park them on the objective and have them do at least a little with their shooting. Better that having to leave an eel trio there that would be much more useful in the front.

Hi everybody, I have been playing IDK now for a little while and with mixed results, I did OK in casual games but I played the first tournament yesterday and the results where kind of underwealming. The event had three different sized games so I tried three completely different lists, one pure infantery, one mixed and one pure cavelley. In my opinion the IDK are good on average but they lack some highlights and spectacular synergies that other factions have. And one of their biggest weaknesses are mortal wounds - both in output and protection against it. This is what I have bought, built and painted so far: Akhelian King / Volturnos Eidalon of Mathlann Lotann Warden of the Soul Ledgers 1 Tidecaster 2 Soulrender 2 Soulscryer 30 Namarti Thralls 20 Namarti Reavers 9 Akhelian Guard 2 Akhelian Allopex 1 Akhelian Leviadon 2 Gloomtide Shipwrecks I would really like to not get too eel heavy. I know they are what most people seem to concentrate on but I don't enjoy that model that much (especially the building and painting) and I would like to variety on the table. Consensus seems to be that the Leviadon and the Eidalon are not really worth their points so I might take only one or none of them in competetive situations although they are the two most spectacular models.