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I've already done some research on the topic, but not alot of it has been too helpful, so this is why I'm starting a new post.

I am here to ask anyone and everyone who has ever played as or against Dark Eldar for advise. Things like army list building tips, things to watch out for on the battlefield, things to make sure to do, etc. I've only played CSM and I don't wanna make too many noob mistakes, I understand that they have a very steep learning curve too.

As for one last question, what is the standard or "best" weapon loadout on the lords?

I've played against them plenty. And let me tell you, a lot of raiders with a lot of dark lances can be devastating.

It's a simple build, but it's fast and it's hard-hitting. Add Ravagers and you'll have a formidible force. A friend of mine runs 17 dark lances in his 2K army. I am not familiar enough with them to give any advice on how to build a Dark Eldar list, but you must play to their strengths, which are speed and cheap points cost.

I have never played against them and you rarely see them either.

one adbantage you ahve is that the majority of people you play agaisnt will have no idea how to counter you.

Form what i have been told, as stated above, you need to play to their strngths of speed and low cost. I am told that if you can get the charge they are devastating, but they are crappy counter-punchers. So hit hard and move on, dont let yourself get swamped.

The dish out ungodly amounts of firepower and have some decent close combat units for dirt cheap.

Their transports can be stopped easily though. You just need to keep a level head and shoot them to death. An infantry based gunline will wreck any dark eldar players day. I used to run marines with gobs of lascannons and would just laugh off lance spam lists. Guy I played against once had 2 raiders contesting on objective. Wave serpent with lances flies over, drops off 5 avengers, avengers wreck one raider and the serpent kills the other. Thats right, 10 bolter shots and 1 S8 shot killed 2 transports.

They are like mech craftworld eldar, minus the synergy and with more spam in my mind.

It depends really, I played mine a long time ago and I always had the Punisher, Shadow Field, Combat Drugs and Tormentor Helmet on my Archon. I used Incubi but I don't think that would be a good idea anymore now that you can't consolidate into enemy units.

I also played the webway gate build. It was really efficient because everything was a viable option as you could make up for slow units by just planting a gate.

A huge advantage of DE is the massive amounts of lances you can bring to the table. Everything has one, so the only tank that is a problem is the Monolith, other than that everything drops fast.

billie_joe in the articles section there is a very good tactica by Thor_666 about dark eldar. that is probably yoru best place to start.

like was already stated dark-lance spam is good wytches are amazing other than that build towards assault and you should be fine