More blood spilled

Had a second game (1500 point) with Grimcron this morning. Black Beard assulted the Tau encampment as the sun reached its zenith, ready to capture some slaves and trophies (skulls anyone) to embellish the new Raiders with. The plan is not to do what I did in game 1 and melt his tanks with mybarrage of formidable dark lances.

Grimcron's 1500 list (vaguely, sorry)
Boss in Crisis Suit
2 Crisis SUits
2 Squads of fire warriors in devilfishes
2 Hammerheads
2 Piranhas
1 large squad of Kroot (12 dogs and 11 Kroots I think)
5 Stealth Suits

Black Beard's 1500 List
(HQ)Dracon, Shadow Field, Drugs, Punisher, T. Helm, Grenades, RJB
(ELITE) 2 X 5 Wyches, 2 Shredders in a Raider, Nightshield.
(FAST) 4 RJB, 2 blasters, Succubus, Punisher
(TROOPS) 4 X 5 Raider Squads, Raider, Nightshield
2 X 10 Warriors, 2 Dark Lances
(HEAVY) 2 Ravagers, 3 Disintegrators, Nightshield

Things do not actually go to plan though.

Highlights
1. 14 dark lances (and 2 blasters) and 5 turns later, non of the 6 Tau tanks were wrecked or destroyed. I got immobilised results at best.
2. Teach the Dracon failed 2+ shadow field save. Hmmm I kinda expected this haha.
3. I can go on ranting but Grimcron played a good game and I made noobish mistakes again (e,g,, sending my Wyches on a Raider to go after the Stealth Suits (bait), away from the main battle.
4. 2 Ravagers and 5 Raiders scrapped by Railgun (leaving only 1 Raider at the end of the game)

Many thanks to Grimcron for the wonderful game and feedback to improve my army list (Increasing (Raider squad's) warrior-count from 5 to 10 with close combat powress too).

Planned changes
1. I will reduce my RJB to 3 with Succubus and 2 blasters. Normally they die in one turn to volume of fire anyway.
2. Change Shadowfield to Horrowfexes (not sure)
3. Addition of one more dracon with retinue on a raider (or wyches for more CC capabilities)
4. WWP. Hmmm still trying to see what I can come up with...

Thanks for accompanying me on my journey to build and play the pirates correctly. It had been really fun using them though I lost horribly for the first two games
(which I would definitely love to attribute to my rubber lances lol. Still, having more CC goodness could serve as a good backup when that happens. What do you think?) My pirates will recuperate for now and attempt once again to charge up their dark lances batteries. Next battle will be my wolves. Krom is restless. Really restless.. =)

Thanks for reading,
Teach