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So I am thinking about running a Truck load of wyches loaded out with haywire grenades, I figure it would be nice for any style army as long as I load them up in raiders, but my question is, how do they do against high toughness monster creatures? Anyone run a Dark Eldar list like this and have some feedback?

Haywire grenades do nothing against MC's at all, only things with an armour value. If you are going MC hunting you're best giving them shardnets and a hekatrix with an agoniser. Either way, a Raider is a good option.

I know that, maybe I worded it work, I view a Wych army as something that work well against everything except maybe MC is what I was asking. I wonder if someone has view a Monster mash list with a wych list and how did it do.

Click the link in my signature for my wych cult.

Depending on the form that the MC comes in, you have plenty of tools at your disposal in any DE list, from Dark Lances to Blasters to agonizers in your wych unit to run of the mill poisoned weapons.

If you get a sec Dash, look over my army list that Ketara helped me with. Let me know your thoughts. It isn't a wyche list, but it is what I currently have in my collection.

To really answer that question, we would need to know what else you had in the army.

The bane of mc is poisoned weapons, which DE don't have issues fielding, "in guns". You shouldn't bother a mc w/ wyches. Just shoot it.

For instance, say you're running your wych army, but have trueborn in venoms for your elites. Venoms don't have issues w/ mc b/c they can have 2 spl. cannons. 12 shots that wound on 4+ regardless of T. Bring 3 of those and spam spl. cannon shots at mc.

Wyches by themselve wouldn't do well against mc as far as killing it, but they to tarpit them well enough. You would need an agonizer to make the wyches themselves more effective against mc, but they still won't smash face unless you mob a mc with multiple squads carrying agonizers. Seriously though, shoot mc w/ spl. cannons.

I had a bloodbride squad with an archon with huskblade kill a swarmlord in a game, even though it was the wyches that killed it not the archon. Got lucky and rolled the drug for reroll wounds then made 7 wounds the first turn failed 2 of them lost 2 girls from its attack back then next turn finished it off with an agonizer from the syren.

a good thing to remember about wyches is that they are actually armed with splinter pistols. They dont have to Fleet every turn.
If you have a decent size squad you should get a wound off before you charge and then the hextrix alone should get another one with her agonzier. If points are scares, venom blades will do about the same against MC.

Thats 2 wounds on something before any of the regular squad strike on something that probably only has 4-5 wounds



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Daemon Eater wrote:I had a bloodbride squad with an archon with huskblade kill a swarmlord in a game, even though it was the wyches that killed it not the archon. Got lucky and rolled the drug for reroll wounds then made 7 wounds the first turn failed 2 of them lost 2 girls from its attack back then next turn finished it off with an agonizer from the syren.

that is why your archon should ALWAYS have combat drugs. If he cant pull off one wound(needing a 6 with rerolls) in 2 rounds of combat he deserves to be thrown out.