Goatboy’s Grimdark Armylist – Defiled World Eaters
If you didn’t know – the new 40K Defiler is an amazing vehicle for the World Eaters. Here’s a lean and mean army using two of the new Daemon-engines!
The new Defiler does a lot of things the World Eaters army loves – punches strong, shoots hard, and moves fast. It is a giant chunky model and I think most players will at least want one in the army. I get the feeling I will be trying two so today I want to talk about fitting two of these jerks into an army.
The World Eater Defiler is an interesting vehicle. It gains Rapid Fire on its shooting weapons, hits on a 4+ for shooting, has more close combat attacks, and moves faster than its other counterparts by going 14”. That is an important distance as it can easily get over most terrain and get into a spot to be annoying for most enemies. This ability to easily leave its deployment cage is important as this giant pie plate of a base can be a huge issue.
Putting An World Eaters Defiler Army Together
Right now will go with two of them – one set up to move close and the other to be a lane hog throwing out Lascannons shots. These guys are 250 points a piece so they do take up a lot space in the army but I think they can be a big help – especially as your other parts get closer.
World Eater Defiler – Excruciator Cannon X 2, Ectoplasma Destructor, Hades Lascannon X 2 – 250pts
World Eater Defiler – Electroscourge, Heavy Baleflamer, Magma Cutter X 2 – 250pts
Total – 500pts
This leaves me 1500 points and I think the next thing is a pretty easy set up with at least 2-3 units of Khorne Berzerkers in Rhinos to help stage and counter charge. This means you would want Kharn in at least one to help ensure you can do a ton of damage as needed. Let’s do 2 with Rhinos to help build this army out.
Khorne Berzerkers X 10 – 180pts
Khorne Berzerkers X 10 – 180pts
World Eaters Rhino – 85pts
World Eaters Rhino – 85pts
Kharn – 100pts
Total – 630pts
This leaves us 870 points to work with for extra things. I do think having one deep striking in Exalted unit with Slaughterbound would be very useful to help kill things as needed. We could also use a hidden Eightbound Unit to help the front Defiler be a problem.
Exalted Eightbound X 3 – 140pts
Eightbound X 3 – 135pts
Slaughterbound – 100pts
Total – 375pts
Right now we are sitting a 495 points left to utilize. I think getting some utility options is the best bet to help the army out. We have some good punching options but throwing in the always lovely 3 Chaos Spawn units and a unit of Jakhals will help shore some things up.
Chaos Spawn X 2 – 90pts
Chaos Spawn X 2 – 90pts
Chaos Spawn X 2 – 90pts
Jakhals X 10 – 65pts
Total – 335pts
This leaves us at 1840 which is a decent amount of room for one more utility piece, an enhancement for the Slaughterbound, and hopefully has us sitting right around 2000 points.
Slaughterbound – 135pts
Total – 135pts
Will throw the Berzerker Glaive on the Slaughterbound at 35 points and we can either go with another unit of Jakhals plus extra HQ character or the interesting option in a Helbrute. I would think the Helbrute could be a fun piece as it is another punch up unit that can easily come in from reserves and hopefully get a cool little charge into the enemy. There will be games where that will be enough to wreck the enemy. Let’s go ahead and throw in a Helbrute as the winning piece for the list. Let’s put this all together.
World Eaters – Goatboy “Crap I need to get Defiler” Armylist
World Eaters
Berzerker Warband
-HQ-
Kharn – 100pts – Warlord
Slaughterbound – Enhancement: Berzerker Warglaive – 135pts
-Battleline-
Khorne Berzerkers X 10 – 180pts
Khorne Berzerkers X 10 – 180pts
-Dedicated Transport-
Chaos Rhino – 85pts
Chaos Rhino – 85pts
-Other Datasheets-
Chaos Spawn X 2 – 90pts
Chaos Spawn X 2 – 90pts
Chaos Spawn X 2 – 90pts
Jakhals X 10 – 65pts
Eightbound X 3 – 135pts
Exalted Eightbound X 3 – 140pts
World Eaters Helbrute – 120pts
World Eaters Defiler – 250pts
World Eaters Defiler – 250pts
PTS: 1995
World Eaters Defiler Armylist Tactics
This has enough punch to hopefully kill at least one C’tan Star God, has some good horde action in the Berzerkers, and even enough utility pieces to score objectives. We’ll see if it ends up being good but this is something I will definitely be building when the new kit becomes available to purchase. I am exited to test some big monster robot action in the coming months.
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
