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Any Dark Eldar Players out there, I have a question. What's so great about Wyches? I know they have combat drugs, but besides that they have stats relative to Warriors, right?

Wyche weapons and combat drugs really.

The 4++ in combat also helps.

Initiative 6 as well. Only eldar characters and harlequins are as fast.

A friend of mine plays a wych-cult army. He hardly ever wins a game but he gets to make gorgeous conversions of semi-naked people with pointy things. That is a very valuable point with wyches :-)

Also, wych weapons seriously reduce the number of attacks that other CC specialist units (and CSM units) have, plus most high-WS units and characters still hit them on 4s.

So even though they really don't put out that much CC damage, they can win combats pretty handily through simply being a very tough CC unit, especially for the very low points cost that you lay out for them.

The trick is to know what Wytches are good against. If you look at their equipment and abilities you see they have high Init, a 4+ invulnerable save in CC, the ability to remove extra attacks from a second weapon, and the ability to lower their opponent's weapon score during their opponent's attack.

What all that means is that Wytches are average if you charge them against a normal squad (say Tactical Marines or some IG meat walls). To be perfectly honest in those situations the Wytches will be slightly wasted and will only perform marginally better then a regular squad of Warriors.

Where Wytches *excel* is in eating up elite assault units your opponent has paid too much for and/or tarpitting the hell out of them.

Ah, your opponent has brought his awesome assault squad with all power weapons to ignore your armor saves (Wytches don't care, they're invulnerable) oh, and they have two weapons for more attacks (not anymore, now they roll half the dice) And get this, he tricked out his unit with WS 6 so they hit almost everything on 3s (sorry, against the wytches they'll need 4s...oh yeah, and barring something like Eldar your Wytches get to swing first every time)

For the rank and file troopers the DE have *more* then enough to eat them, from the base Warrior squads to Warp Beasts to your Archon/Drachon options. But when you're looking at an 'ard as nails assault squad or something packing a passel of power weapons you'll find out that the Wytches really shine.

Regards,
Thor.

Wyches are absolutely great.
Take 10 Wyches with wych weapons, 2 blaster and upgrade one to a Succubus with agonizer, trophy rack.
Consider 3 of these squads, stick them into Raiders, and approach the enemy as soon as possible.
They are very resilient in cc thanks to their invulnerable save and combat drugs.