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SO this is a revision of the list originally found here

This plays on wounds through Ld reduction and a whole lot of deep striking! It just seems like a fun concept and is one that I'm eager to test out:

Dark Eldar Primary Faction

HQ

Archon
- Clone Field
- Huskblade
- PGL
- Soul Trap
- WWP
- Arch Angel of Pain

Haemonculus
- Armour of Misery
- Liquifier Gun

Elites

2 squads of Trueborn, both with:

4x blaster-born

Dracon
- PGL

Venom
- 1x splinter cannons

Troops

2 squads of Kabalite Warriors, both with

Sybarite
- PGL

9 warriors (1x splinter cannon + 1x shredder)

In a raider with Disi Cannon, Night Shield, Splinter Racks & TGL

Fast Attack

6x Reavers with 2x cluster caltrops

Extra Raider with no upgrades (as a spare ride should the Archon & his retinue need a pickup after deepstriking)

Heavy Support

2x Ravagers with Dark Lances

Eldar Allies

HQ

Farseer with Witch Blade

Troops

2 squads of 5 rangers

Harlequin Allies

Elites

Shadowseer
- ML1
- Mask of Secrets

Troops

Troupe
- Troupe Master with Crescendo & Kiss
- 2x Players with Embrace
- 1x Player with Kiss
- 1x Player with Caress

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So the idea is to create a bit of, what I think will be, a Deathstar.. The Archon, Haemy, Farseer & Harlequins (inc Seer) all lunk in together on foot. They deepstrike out of the WWP right in the face of as many targets as they possibly can (ie, in the centre of multiple units). The hope is that they're in close enough range for Arour of Misery (-2 Ld), Mask of Secrets (-2 Ld) to take automatic effect. The Archon opens the ArchAngel of Pain for wound causing Ld test at a further -2 Ld (currently at -6 Ld!) The Farseer & Shadow Seer cast their magic about, which would hopefully reduce the Ld further, if applicable, which it would be in subsequent rounds.

Transports have deep struck or manouvered to surround the enemy, causing fall back moves in to my units for rapid fire fange (warriors only of course). However, this is where the PGL and TGL's come in, which cause further wounds on failed Ld tests, which - hopefully - are still reduced by the effects of the equipment already mentioned.

Maybe not a tournament list, but a damn fun one nonetheless. Have I misread anything? Is the list legal?

How are you running the harlequins that way??? Its not any of the formations or the detachment as far as I remember

I wasn't aware they had to be taken in a certain way? Thought you could just run them as an ally consisting 1hq (seer) and 1 troop?

Seer is Elite not HQ you even have him listed as Elite.

As pointed out, you can't run Harlequins using the Allied Detachment since they lack the mandatory HQ in order to do so.

But they don't have an HQ slot? All they have is elites, troops, fast attack and heavy support? He's listed as elite as the slot he fills in battlescribe, though obviously he'd fill the HQ slot as far as the list is built? I know a troop master can be selected as the HQ too, though he's still listed in troop section, so how's that work?

 Ghaz wrote:
As pointed out, you can't run Harlequins using the Allied Detachment since they lack the mandatory HQ in order to do so.

Thats not true, you can still ally to a formation, in which case ignores the requirement of a regular allied attachments requirements. The downside, you must pay for the entire formation, none of which are very cheap to include.

Shadowseer
- ML1
- Mask of Secrets

Troops

Troupe
- Troupe Master with Crescendo & Kiss
- 2x Players with Embrace
- 1x Player with Kiss
- 1x Player with Caress

You can run this if you add a Deathjester because then you have the formation "Cast of players" the downside is they all have to be within a single unit. So you can't move the shadowseer from the troupe. Same for the jester.


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 kitch102 wrote:
But they don't have an HQ slot? All they have is elites, troops, fast attack and heavy support? He's listed as elite as the slot he fills in battlescribe, though obviously he'd fill the HQ slot as far as the list is built? I know a troop master can be selected as the HQ too, though he's still listed in troop section, so how's that work?

Troupe master can be selected as your warlord. There is no thing as a HQ in the book. Everything is formations which nul and void regular force organization requirement charts.

Simple swap then, lose 1 squad of rangers for the jester, problem solved right?!

Thats not true, you can still ally to a formation, in which case ignores the requirement of a regular allied attachments requirements. The downside, you must pay for the entire formation, none of which are very cheap to include.

The Allied Detachment is a specific detachment so he was no correct. You can of course ally with Harlequins using any other detachment (like the Formations or the Masque) but you can't use the Allied Detachment due to a lack of HQ option.

But they don't have an HQ slot? All they have is elites, troops, fast attack and heavy support? He's listed as elite as the slot he fills in battlescribe, though obviously he'd fill the HQ slot as far as the list is built? I know a troop master can be selected as the HQ too, though he's still listed in troop section, so how's that work?

Troupe master can be Warlord he can't be a HQ. Yes all they have are Elites, Troops, FA & HS, so they can't use any detachment that requires a HQ slot (so no CAD or Allied Detachment).


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 kitch102 wrote:
Simple swap then, lose 1 squad of rangers for the jester, problem solved right?!

Yes but then the Death Jester and Seer HAVE to join the Troupe and can't leave assuming you're using the Cast of Players formation.

 Sasa0mg wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:
As pointed out, you can't run Harlequins using the Allied Detachment since they lack the mandatory HQ in order to do so.

Thats not true, you can still ally to a formation, in which case ignores the requirement of a regular allied attachments requirements. The downside, you must pay for the entire formation, none of which are very cheap to include.

Notice I said 'the Allied Detachment' and not 'an allied detachment'. The Allied Detachment has a compulsory 1 HQ and 1 Troops, with an optional 1 Troops, 1 Elites, 1 Fast Attack and 1 Heavy Support. Harlequins have no HQ units, so can not meet the requirements of an Allied Detachment.

Not being able to split the seer / jester off from the unit doesn't really bother me tbh, is there a particular reason I'd want to? I can only really think of transport capacity and to buff another unit, though would rather keep my Ld debuffs in the one squad, really just for simplicity sake lol


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Actually the addition of a jester only makes the debuff even stronger due to the Death Is Not Enough rule, so win win!

So I just ran this list by my flgs manager, it's all legal and is "a right filthy trick", just like a true dark eldar should use.

Now to get buying, building and painting!