Warhammer 40,000/10th Edition Tactics/Dark Eldar
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This is the current 10th Edition's Dark Eldar tactics. 9th Edition Tactics are here.
Why Play Dark Eldar
Pros
- With Poisoned weapons being made Anti-Infantry, they're quite capable of wounding most things despite their poor strength.
- The decoupling of weapon types makes Assault weapons far more common and usable.
Cons
- Blasters have lost their moment in the limelight, as tanks and monsters now have Toughness scores that far outstrip S8.
- Coupled with your poisoned weapons being merely Anti-Infantry, monsters could actually pose a problem to you now.
Faction Rules
- Power From Pain: Rather than progressing as the battle goes on, the devs took a note from Kill-Team and made it all based on a pool of tokens. You start with 1/2/3/4 of them (dependent on the game size) and can gain more as you kill units and force them to fail Battleshock checks.
- Empowered Through Pain: Depending on the phase, you can spend these tokens on various perks:
- Movement/Charge Phase: This unit can re-roll Advance or Charge rolls.
- Shooting/Assault Phase: This unit can re-roll Hit rolls.
- While simpler, this does come at the cost of losing any durability through things like the FNP saves and cover. As with your craftworld kin, you'll absolutely suffer like no other the moment the enemy gets an edge on you.
- Empowered Through Pain: Depending on the phase, you can spend these tokens on various perks:
Detachments
Realspace Raiders
Special Rules
- Realspace Raiders: As with before, this is an amalgamation of the various sub-factions of the Dark Eldar, only now you don't need to split your army up into three for it to work. Instead, you just get 1-3 extra Pain Tokens if you field at least 1 Archon, Succubus, and/or 1 Haemonculus in the same army - in each case, fielding at least 1 gets you the token and taking more of the same does nothing.
Stratagems
- Alliance of Agony (1 CP): You can spend one Pain Token to power up your Archon, Succubus and Haemonculus at the same time. While convenient, this requires you to have all three of them on the field at the same time, so the moment you lose one of them, this becomes useless.
Equipment & Weapons
Unit Analysis
Characters
- Archon:
- Beastmaster: Not in a Wych Coven this edition.
- Haemonculus:
- Succubus:
Epic Heroes
- Drazhar:
- Lelith Hesperax: Stats uncertain, but her weapons prove to be every bit as deadly, a barrage of attacks at S3 AP-2 with Anti-Infantry 2+ and Sustained Hits 2 so you can effectively drown enemies with some critical hits.
- Urien Rakarth:
Battleline
Kabal
- Kabalite Warriors: The backbone of the Dark Eldar's forces remain very mobile this edition. On top of being Anti-Infantry 3+ (meaning your shots will simply bounce off monsters, swarms, bikes, etc), their Splinter Pistols and Splinter Rifles also get Assault so they can fire while moving as fast as they can. Sadistic Raiders makes doubly sure of this as any objective they cap (whether on their own or when embarked in a transport) will remain capped as they continue rushing forward.
- Average A*BS*D of your weapon choices:
- Splinter Rifle: 1.33 at S2 AP0, assault and anti-infantry 3+
- Shredder: 3.5 at S6 AP0, assault; automatically hits, so can't be buffed by Empowered Through Pain
- Blaster: 3 at S8 AP-4, assault
- Splinter Cannon: 4 at S3 AP-1, anti-infantry 3+; 5 if you sit still for heavy
- Dark Lance: 2.25 at S12 AP-3; 3.67 if you sit still for heavy
- Average A*BS*D of your weapon choices:
Wych Cult
- Wyches:
Haemonculus Coven
- Wracks:
Other
- Corsair Voidreavers:
Infantry
Kabal
- Court of the Archon:
Wych Cult
Haemonculus Coven
- Grotesques:
Other
- Incubi:
- Scourges:
Mounted
- Hellions:
- Reavers:
Monsters
- Cronos:
- Talos:
Vehicles
- Ravager:
Dedicated Transports
- Raider:
- Venom: This nimble menace has gotten a lot from the edition change. While it still can only carry 6 models (no Fly units or Grotesques allowed), all 6 of those guys can still shoot while embarked thanks to Firing Deck 6 and it can pick them up during the Fight phase if the Venom's within 6". It's still a paper boat, but now it's one that can offload a world of hurt.
- The differences between the Splinter Cannon and Twin Splinter Rifle a a bit subtle. Though both get Anti Infantry 3+, the Splinter Cannon has Sustained Hits 1 as well as more firepower from being AP-1 D2 while the Twin Splinter Rifle is far more mobile with Assault, Rapid Fire 1 and has Twin-Linked to ensure that the hits it makes stick.
Aircraft
- Razorwing Jetfighter:
- Voidraven Bomber:
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