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I'm interested in getting into Dark Eldar, and playing using the following:

Talos, Cronos, Grotesque and Homonculus models. I think they are very much what I am looking to play -- big, ugly, abominations! I'm not really into the whole look and feel of "Eldar"/ elves, so I'm trying to find a way to best make a list around 1000 points or so where I can use as many big ugly things, and as few "elf-looking" gribblies...

That being said, These formations really look nice, but I'm not quite sure the best ways to make them work:

1) Corpsethief Claw - one giant unit of Talos... sounds awesome. I suppose I could join the squad with a separate Homonculus and maybe use the webway portal to deep strike them up the field? How have people found success with this formation? Include the ranged weapons, etc/ seems pretty good...

2) Grotesquerie - This caught my eye because I could put 2 of them, an abberation and a homonculus in a raider (with enhanced aether sails?) to rocket them up the board)

The big issue I'm finding is that I really would like to get 1-2 extra Homonculus models in there (maybe with the Corpsethief Claw and with the second unit of Grotesques in the raider?) but don't wanna be stuck with the troops from a CAD because they don't seem that great... Any thoughts on this stuff? There's also the Cronos, maybe following up behind the Talos formation and boosting their FnP? (So maybe the Scarlet Epicureans formation to get some of this stuff?)

Any and all help is appreciated! Not looking to be super competitive, but I'd like it to all work and fit and NOT be unbound... Thanks in advance!


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I'm starting out thinking something like this?

Corpsethief Claw
Talos x5 - (upgrades?)


Grotesquerie
Grotesques (3) - aberration w/ scissorhand, raider w/sails
Grotesques (3) - aberration w/ scissorhand, raider w/sails
Homonculus - sindriq's stump


Scarlet Epicureans
Homonculus - crucible // joins the other Grotesque unit
Cronos // just follows the corpsethief claw around boosting their fnp?
Wracks unit x2 (how to recommend making these good?)

Might I just suggest taking the CAD and trying out two units of Kabalites in Venoms? They are super fast objective secured units that happen to also dump out 13 poison shots at 24" or 18 at 12. They will get more done in their worst game than Wracks ever will. And the FAQ just solidified that jinking doesn't cause the passengers to snap fire...so they are pretty good again until at least summer when GW destroys us with 8E.

The CAD will get you whatever other incidental DE stuff you may want...such as those Haemonculi. Just remember that a Haemy can't actually join the CTC as they are MCs. On that note, you may want to skip the Raiders (especially if you take the Venoms) and just put a Haemy with WWP in each Grotesquerie squad and max them out. Scatterless deep strikes are very nice when your opponent is deciding whether to shoot at the 5 MCs, the ObSec Venoms zipping to objectives, or the truly monstrous squads of T5 W3 heroes of the beach that just appeared out of nowhere.

As for keeping this at 1000 pts...I mean the CTC itself is 600+...so might be better to aim higher. 1500 is competitive and should let you include all the stuff you want.

EDIT: Oh, and Talos should definitely take some upgrades...ichor injectors are sick. Splinter cannons are probably fine, but haywire and heat lances can be good if you go up against a lot of armor.