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Played Dark Eldar for the first time. Kid had a small skimmer, and he said because his weapons were str x, he could fire both when he moved 12 as they counted as defensive...is this correct????

If it is a venom, yes he is, the venom can move, the troops inside cant.

The Dark Eldar codex has a rule in their codex special rules section concerning poisoned shooting weapons. In that rule, it specifies that all poisoned weapons in the codex count as defensive weapons.

It kind of balances the fact that they can't hurt vehicles, regardless of how high S they are.

Venoms can move 12 inches and fire both cannons.
Raiders can move 12 inches and fire its lance/disintegrator
Ravagers can go 12 inches and fire all 3.

Dark Eldar are a highly mobile army, their vehicles can go a fair distance and still shoot.. course we're made of paper to do it.

So are orks

At least you can shoot straight, and get poisoned dakka.

Only poisoned dakka Orks get is the risk of tetanus from rusty bullets

Dark Eldar are fun. Very very fast. Very very fragile..