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So I am looking into dark eldar and normally I would go with warriors but seeing as tanks and armor are making a come back in 40k I wonder if wyches are worth taking. Thanks to hull points 5 haywire wyches can glance almost any vehicle. A few groups of 5 should also be able to take down a knight before it gets a chance to hurt them. I was thinking, if you have a big beast master pack in the front, would wyches stand a chance to make it into the back field?

So do you think they are worth it? How would you equip them?

My preferred would be Sliscus as HQ

Wyches with haywire, in venoms.

Drop them in/zoom them over, and then pile out and go grenade happy.

You WILL lose them when the knights go up though. They have this nasty tendency to explode, and wyches have no armour.

 Ascalam wrote:
My preferred would be Sliscus as HQ

Wyches with haywire, in venoms.

Drop them in/zoom them over, and then pile out and go grenade happy.

You WILL lose them when the knights go up though. They have this nasty tendency to explode, and wyches have no armour.

Trading 1/2 small units of wyches for a knight is a fine deal by me.

Duke Sliscus
4 bloodbrides in venom, splintercannon, NS = 135
4x 5 wyches, haywire, venom, splintercannon, NS = 540
7 reavers, 2 blasters = 184
Ravager w/ night shields, FF = 125
Total = 999

All your infantry will have combat drugs, so rolling twice will be nice. Venom spam for anti-infantry and wyches and ravager for anti-tank.

You can also look to swap the ravager or the reavers for razorwing.

Your 5 Wyches are knocking 2.08333 hull points off in CC, plus about a 50% chance of knocking one off throwing a haywire. With enough units it should work, but aren't Dark Eldar known for their lances and manoeuvrability?

Farseer Anath'lan wrote:
Your 5 Wyches are knocking 2.08333 hull points off in CC, plus about a 50% chance of knocking one off throwing a haywire. With enough units it should work, but aren't Dark Eldar known for their lances and manoeuvrability?

Lances aren't great at AV12 given their cost, and with all the cover shenangins going around of which DE have no way to remove it, sometimes CC is the best route.

You will need a full squad on the charge to confidently take out a knight and you will have none left. I have done this several times now and each time barely takes out the beast and that's having already taken a hullpoint from something else shooting at it. Its the only reason I bring Wyches in the current meta.