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So I played a friendly 1500 point game against DE today. I play CSM. They appear to be my weakness because i am 0-2 vs. DE. What is the best way to combat that type of speed? I started to make progress at the end when I turned my HelDrakes against the skimmers to ignore there Jink. Other than that I have no clue how to handle them. Any Advice?

Probably should be moved to the tactics forum.

Fun Fact - I think that you are allowed to shoot flamers into open topped transports now and hit the contents. Your Helldrake should be able to kill alot of models inside vehicles.

The Main way to deal with Dark Eldar, is to deploy centralized, and to go after their Transports. When their Transports go down you can shoot their contents.

Dark Eldar just die to staying together and mass shooting. Dont let them pick off your army in pieces. If you group up their mobility is negated.

My god, an army of 6 drakes... reminds me of a story about that guy who was no fun to play.

Filch wrote:My god, an army of 6 drakes... reminds me of a story about that guy who was no fun to play.

6? I wish I only have 2 though. I am scared to put anymore together as the wings made my fingers hurt.

Smitty0305 wrote:Probably should be moved to the tactics forum.

Fun Fact - I think that you are allowed to shoot flamers into open topped transports now and hit the contents. Your Helldrake should be able to kill alot of models inside vehicles.

The Main way to deal with Dark Eldar, is to deploy centralized, and to go after their Transports. When their Transports go down you can shoot their contents.

Dark Eldar just die to staying together and mass shooting. Dont let them pick off your army in pieces. If you group up their mobility is negated.

Yeah they can and i was able to clear them out of most transports, but that still leaves a scoring vehicle if its dancing around more than Kevin Bacon.

Thanks for the help

Sure they get a jink, but they are still AV 10 open-topped. So any weapon with AP 2 gets a +3 on the penetration results table. a 4+ will explode the thing.

What are the shootist components to your list? Maybe up the number of missile launchers and use Krak Missiles to take them down. Noise Marines would work pretty well.

Or even massed bolter fire. These vehicles are very fragile and can be knocked down by basic anti-infantry weapons.

If they are sitting on objectives then you can move there and charge them.

Sicaran battle tanks. I hate this but does baledrakes help? Open top = bbq

 Icculus wrote:
Sure they get a jink, but they are still AV 10 open-topped. So any weapon with AP 2 gets a +3 on the penetration results table. a 4+ will explode the thing.

Thinking a 5+ for ap 2, 4+ for ap 1.