First 500pt List

So, to my pleasant suprise I found my old post as a 'draft' - Blogger rocks! :D

My toys finally arrived!... and then I went to Download. Had the day off for recovery yesterday, so I got everything built. The dire avengers are still missing an arm and heads, but thats because I need to paint the torso's* before I attach the other arm, and green stuff the hair on the helmetless heads i'm using. Oh, and one of the Rangers' rifles was broken in the box, so that's gonna need some greenstuff-glueing!**

List:

HQ: Farseer (55) Doom (25) Singing Spear (3) = 83

Troops: 5 Rangers (95) = 95

Troops: 8 Dire Avengers (96) Exarch (12) Power-Weapon & Shimmershield (15) Bladestorm (15) = 138

Elites: 5 Fire Dragons (80) = 80

Dedicated Transport (For Dire Avengers): Wave Serpent, Twin Linked Shuriken Catapult, Energy Field (90) Twin-Linked Shuriken Cannon (10) = 100

Total: 500 Points
This is a list that I know will not win every game. It's implicity weak because it realies getting fragile units close to the enemy in order to do any damage (apart from the rangers) without any cc support. The mainstay squad is the Dire Avengers, who will be resaponsible for doing most of the damage. The idea is to use them in combination with the Farseer to fly close to the enemy, decimate them with a combination of Doom and Bladestorm, then escape in the Wave Serpent before the reach me (Unless the enemy have fleet, this is easily done with an 18" range). I took a power weapon + Shimmershield with the dire avengers so that they can deal with smaller/remainder units in cc if desired.

The Rangers are there to sit on an objective and, if they are lucky, pin down low-ld enemy squads that I don't want to deal with (Ork nobs for example).

The Fire dragons are cheap Anti-Tank choice that are also effective against elite infantry like nobs and marines.

Finally, the Farseer represents the leader of the expedition. Young, inexperienced, but full of determination and constantly thinking, she sees the future and utilises this knowledge to exploit her enemies' weaknesses.

*Tip #1: NEVER build a model without first considering how it will be painted! I once built a whole regiment of Grave Guard, then pondered exactly how I was going to paint the chestplates after I had attached the shields -_-

**Tip #2: Putting metal models together with superglue works ok, but can often prove brittle and break during transit. A good solution to this is to apply glue to either part, then put a tiny blob of green stuff on one surface before pushing the parts together - a bit like bricks and cement. The green stuff reacts with the superglue and turns hard as rock, but also tough enough to withstand minor shock.