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so as the title implies I have tried to compose a list primarily of de units that most have deemed to be ineffective. please feel free to comment!

HQ

baron

archon- huskblade, shadow field, combat drugs, soul-trap, pgl, and hwg's w/ 1 lhamaean, 2 mendusae, 2 sslyth, and 4 ur-ghuls in raider
w/ TGL

Troops

10 kabals w/ sc

5 wyches w/ hwg's in venom w/ 2 sc's

2×10 hellions

Elites

10 mandrakes w/ nightfiend

Fast attack

2×5 scourges w/ 2 DL's

my original plan was to have the scourges behind an ADL for some anti-flyer support, but I couldnt quite fit it in let me know what you think

I like the archon, although the haywire grenades are probably overkill. Sslyth are also by far your best option in a court, so taking three is pretty much required. The ur-ghul are the weakest, so drop one of these to make room.
If they have the TGL on the raider, might want to also consider a shock prow and enhanced aethersails to get close to the enemy ASAP and do some damage on the way in.

Consider getting a raider for the kabbies, but they are just fine without one.

Throw the hellions into one huge group of 20, and get a helliarch with a cool weapon of your choice.

Mandrakes are just awful, so no help there!

The scourges should have mobile weapons as mobility is their best trait. Blasters are your best bet, but heat lances or haywire blasters are okay as well.

Overall, you will struggle against heavy or massed armor, but against a horde you might actually well.


For anit flier/armor a razorwing/voidraven would be best. Dark eldar are too squishy to put behind an ADL and survive

 Dr. Serling wrote:
I like the archon, although the haywire grenades are probably overkill. Sslyth are also by far your best option in a court, so taking three is pretty much required. The ur-ghul are the weakest, so drop one of these to make room.
If they have the TGL on the raider, might want to also consider a shock prow and enhanced aethersails to get close to the enemy ASAP and do some damage on the way in.

Consider getting a raider for the kabbies, but they are just fine without one.

Throw the hellions into one huge group of 20, and get a helliarch with a cool weapon of your choice.

Mandrakes are just awful, so no help there!

The scourges should have mobile weapons as mobility is their best trait. Blasters are your best bet, but heat lances or haywire blasters are okay as well.

Overall, you will struggle against heavy or massed armor, but against a horde you might actually well.


For anit flier/armor a razorwing/voidraven would be best. Dark eldar are too squishy to put behind an ADL and survive

thanks for the help! I was originally just gonna camp my scourges in the back, but using blasters might actually put the shardcarbines to good use so I'll probably go with you on that one. I actually disagree that ur-ghuls are the weekest, they have S4, 3 attacks base and start out with fc and fnp, but overall dropping one wont really make that much of a difference.

If only mandrakes could start out with a pain token or have a dedicated transport, they would be infinately better

uh, they could start with a haemy and not infiltrate...I guess...that's the only use I can see them ever having.