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Dark Eldar

Postby thesignaller » Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:10 am

Just started building a Dark Eldar Army.

Picked this army as an ally to my Eldar and i liked the models.

Got the codex after buying a few figure!

With the 6th Ed we now have the 'Defensive' fire by those being charged as a snap shot, will this in effect stop some of the Dark Eldar close combat experts like Lelith Hesreax? I know she will be shot at needing 6 to hit as she runs in and has an invulnerable save of 4+ against shots, but if charging some rapid fire squads with 10+ figures. Some shots are odds on getting through?

Suggestions please?

Thanks

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Re: Dark Eldar

Postby Ogregut » Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:39 am

I haven't found it to be to much of a problem tbh. You might lose one or two if your unlucky but that is about it.

Dont send Lelith in on her own, have a couple of wyches in front of her to take the heat, dont forget you have stealth if the shots are coming from within 8" due to your assault grenades.

The key to dark eldar assaults in 6th is the same as in 5th, dont wipe out the enemy in the first turn as your in for a world of hurt from shooting. You want to wipe them out in the 2nd round so your free in your turn to go kill something else. In that way, defensive fire can actually help as losing 1-2 models from a full unit can tip the scales from wiping out a squad to holding them up for an extra combat round.
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Re: Dark Eldar

Postby killmaimburn » Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:01 am

10 guys shoot, 1.6 hits,lets be generous and pretend they are all str 5 rapid fire (pretty much best overwatch I can think of for generics).. 20 shots,3.3 hit wounding on 2+=2.75 wounds, 4+ save always= 1.3 wounds go unsaved (possible ignore 1/5th if powerthrough pain FNP). so even if you don't give her a bodyguard and leave her totally naked running into a wall of fire she's still going to have 2 wounds alot of the time to smashface.

As above take some meat shields.

Moral of this story.. your safe.. just don't do anything silly like charge 5 plasma gun units. Volume of high strength shots is the only really scary overwatch..e.g. chosen/mech vets with rapid fire str 7 etc..they're not everywhere (yet..my draft 6th ed chaos list :lol: :lol: )
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Re: Dark Eldar

Postby thesignaller » Mon Oct 08, 2012 2:08 pm

Thanks for the replies.

Think i will put her with my unit of wyches.

My usual opponents are Marines/Orks/Chaos Marines/Nids
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