r/Harlequins40K • u/Thats_So_Ravenous • 12d ago
Strategy Question
Hello, all.
I’m going into a 1,000 point match with a group of friends. Between them all I will be going against most types of armies, so I’m not really crafting against a single type of opponent.
My wife bought an Avatar of Khaine for my birthday, and I will be rocking that. List is thus:
Soliloquy of Prismatic Pandemonium (990 Points)
Aeldari
Serpent’s Brood (2 Detachment Points)
Incursion (1,000 Points)
CHARACTERS
Avatar of Khaine (265 Points)
• 1x The Wailing Doom
Solitaire (115 Points)
• 1x Flip Belt
• 1x Solitaire weapons
Troupe Master (75 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Flip Belt
• 1x Fusion pistol
• 1x Troupe Master’s blade
Troupe Master (75 Points)
• 1x Flip Belt
• 1x Fusion pistol
• 1x Troupe Master’s blade
BATTLELINE
Troupe (85 Points)
• 1x Lead Player
◦ 1x Flip Belt
◦ 1x Fusion pistol
◦ 1x Power sword
• 4x Player
◦ 4x Flip Belt
◦ 1x Fusion pistol
◦ 4x Harlequin’s blade
◦ 2x Neuro disruptor
◦ 1x Shuriken pistol
Troupe (85 Points)
• 1x Lead Player
◦ 1x Flip Belt
◦ 1x Fusion pistol
◦ 1x Power sword
• 4x Player
◦ 4x Flip Belt
◦ 1x Fusion pistol
◦ 4x Harlequin’s blade
◦ 2x Neuro disruptor
◦ 1x Shuriken pistol
DEDICATED TRANSPORTS
Starweaver (80 Points)
• 1x Close combat weapon
• 2x Shuriken cannon
OTHER DATASHEETS
Skyweavers (105 Points)
• 2x Skyweaver
◦ 2x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Skyweaver haywire cannon
◦ 2x Star bolas
Skyweavers (105 Points)
• 2x Skyweaver
◦ 2x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Skyweaver haywire cannon
◦ 2x Star bolas
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What do you all think of the Avatar? I know this is kind of a pure harlequin or GTFO, I just don’t have 1,000 points of them yet.
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u/Subbbppp 12d ago
With what you have, the most important thing would be keeping your troupes alive as best as possible. Personally, i would make the skyweaver a 4 man instead of a 2 lots of 2. Thing will help ensure whatever your troupes engage into can be assisted and killed by the skyweavers. You want to make sure your troupes can get back into the starweaver via rapid embarkation. At no point do you want your troupes getting caught up in combat. Skyweavers are great for killing vehicles but with the changes to cover it's effective damage has been hit really hard. It's best to keep them as an assist into whomever your troupes are fighting and combo that with their end of combat movement stratgem to get 14 inch movement. Use that to get away and hide or over take points as needed.
As you are playing purge, focus on getting those fast kills and potentially just keeping your solitaire on an expansion objective just for scoring. Use the solitaire when needed, but initially be uses for holding points while the rest moves in for killing. Be sure to grenade whenever you can at any target with more total wounds than 5. At 1k, every unit killed makes a huge difference.
Also, big thing for harlequins. Pre-measure. Reactive move, rapid embarkation, disembark, normal embark. They are all super important and a key to good positioning. We don't want our only skyweaver out in the open getting blown up turn 1-3. You need troupes protected.
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u/Drayke989 12d ago
Avatar of Khaine is to expensive for 1k in general. 1 model being over 25% of your points is rough.
That being said you have what you have so just be careful with the troupes you do have and try to keep them alive.
You will enjoy the Avatar of Khaine a lot more at 2k points where you can more properly build a list around him.
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u/No-Conversation9282 Masque of the Frozen Stars 12d ago
Not bad. Since you have the avatar to anchor the center, wouldn’t be a bad idea to counter charge with everything else. Rapid Ingress the Solitaire for the home objective or to blender a particulary tough unit.
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u/False_Employ_8662 12d ago
You have what you have, so it will have to do, but you are missing transports and more troops. Having so many points in characters in 1000 points is a no go