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Due to the upcoming release of wracks, i've been interested in starting my coven, and would appreciate some help with rules that I'm probably just too tired to understand, but I would appreciate the help.
-On Vect, if the Dais is by and by a raider, can the Dais take a flickerfield?
With Harlequins, It says the Shadowseer arms them with plasma grenades, and tells me to look in the BGB for what those do, but I can't find it.
-Again with the shadowseer, Does veil of tears affect an embarked transport?
-Haemonculi, The Entree is a bit foggy- It says "Replace close combat weapon and/or splinter pistol with: [XYZ]" implieing per each haemy, but then goes on to say "Take up to two of the following pieces of arcane wargear" does that apply to each haemy or 2 pieces per hq choice?
-Is the archon an attached ic to his court, or is he a member of the unit until they die?
-Reavers- With the bladevanes, do you roll a s3 per reavers or 1 for the whole group?
- Does a Talos with a second CCW roll 2d6 attacks or just d6+1a for 2 ccw?

Thanks.

The dais cannot take upgrades, more's the pity.

Plasma grenades are assault grenades. Pg 36 Main Rulebook
Functionally they're prettier Frag grenades

Veil does not affect the transport, nor reach beyond it's hull IIRC.

Haemonculi can replace either or both the splinter pistol and cc weapon with the other choices, and each haemonculus can take up to two arcane wargears, subject to max number per army etc. Leastwise that's how it reads to me

The archon's court is a retinue, i think. If so he can't leave it.

Bladevanes-The unit deals the damage, not each bike, from the wording.

Talos deals d6+1 for extra cc weapon.

Hope this helps

Hallowed_Da'Credo wrote:Due to the upcoming release of wracks, i've been interested in starting my coven, and would appreciate some help with rules that I'm probably just too tired to understand, but I would appreciate the help.
-On Vect, if the Dais is by and by a raider, can the Dais take a flickerfield?
With Harlequins, It says the Shadowseer arms them with plasma grenades, and tells me to look in the BGB for what those do, but I can't find it.
-Again with the shadowseer, Does veil of tears affect an embarked transport?
-Haemonculi, The Entree is a bit foggy- It says "Replace close combat weapon and/or splinter pistol with: [XYZ]" implieing per each haemy, but then goes on to say "Take up to two of the following pieces of arcane wargear" does that apply to each haemy or 2 pieces per hq choice?
-Is the archon an attached ic to his court, or is he a member of the unit until they die?
-Reavers- With the bladevanes, do you roll a s3 per reavers or 1 for the whole group?
- Does a Talos with a second CCW roll 2d6 attacks or just d6+1a for 2 ccw?

Thanks.

Page 3 of the GW Dark Eldar FAQ says that the Dais gets no upgrades

Plasma Grenades are assault grenades like Frag Grenades (p. 36 of the rule book, also specifically noted on Page 1 of the GW FAQ for Dark Eldar)

I'll leave the rest of your questions for the DE experts.

Thanks, that was a great help!

Does anyone argue that Each Haemmy hq choice is only allowed 2 pieces? Cuz a guy at my flgs was trying to say i couldnt take 6 haemies with hexrifles. (spectator when i was fighting a mc heavy nid list)

Only people who don't understand that Hames are always units of 1 model. You in fact purchase 1 model 6 times, entitling you to take upgrades on each of thoes units.

You can certainly have 6 haemies with 6 hex rifles, or 6 liquifiers. The only restrictions apply to certain arcane wargear which limits it to 1 per army. ie crucible of malediction or casket of flensing.

Nowhere does it say, "for every three models in the unit you can take one..."

and in composition it says 1 Haemonculous or Haemonculous Ancient

Haemy sniper teams are awesome

It would be nice if you could give them a venom without having to attach a unit though

Ascalam wrote:Haemy sniper teams are awesome

It would be nice if you could give them a venom without having to attach a unit though

3 wracks (1 being an acothist with a hex rifle) and 2 haemies with hexrifles, in a venom dual splinter cannons. thats 3 hexrifles and 2 splinter cannons all hurting from 36"

Its a sure waste of pain tokens though.

Hallowed_Da'Credo wrote:Due to the upcoming release of wracks, i've been interested in starting my coven, and would appreciate some help with rules that I'm probably just too tired to understand, but I would appreciate the help.
-Reavers- With the bladevanes, do you roll a s3 per reavers or 1 for the whole group?
Thanks.

Ascalam wrote:Bladevanes-The unit deals the damage, not each bike, from the wording.

Ascalam had everything right except this.
As per DE codex, the unit inflicts D3 hits per Reaver.
So if you have a unit of 6 reavers you would roll D3 6 times. That's how many hits the unit would inflict.

My bad

I never use them, and i guess i missed the 'per reaver' in the rule

Ascalam wrote:The archon's court is a retinue, i think. If so he can't leave it.

The Court is not a retinue, as there are no rules that require the Archon to join and none that prohibit the Archon from leaving once joined.

Homer

Fair do's. I wasn't sure about that one, so i qualified it.

I run a haemonculus list, so the doings of the pretty goth Kabalites are a mystery to me