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Grotesquerie
Haemonculus, Flesh Gauntlet, Nightmare Doll
3 Grotesques
Raider, Enhanced Aethersails, Nightshield, Dark Lance
3 Grotesques

Corpsethief Claw
5 Talos, TL Haywire Blaster, Chain Flails

Dark Artisan
Haemonculus, Mindphase Gauntlet, Webway Portal
Cronos, Spirit Probe
Talos, TL Haywire Blaster, Chain Flails

Scalpel Squadron
5 Wracks, 1 oseccator
Venom, splinter cannoon
5 Wracks, 1 oseccator
Venom, splinter cannoon


Culexus Assassin

What do people think, semi competitive?

I've never played with a full Coven list, but the corspethief claw and the grotesquerie are super good, the dark artisan is nice but not excellent and the scalpel squadron is extreme but sometimes rewarding.

I think you need more bodies, more expendable units to screen your superstars, some venoms and reavers for example.

I see only one raider in the grotesquerie, am I right? Make sure that both units have a raider, on foot 3 grots are dead turn 1. The aberration plus scissor hands is also extremely useful, better than taking sails and dark lances on transports.

Talos are better with no special weapons and equipped with ichor injectors but since you totally lack anti tank maybe you should keep the haywire blasters or the heat lances.

Honestly I don't think it's competitive at all, you need a detachment with dark eldar stuff, in order to add more units and some decent firepower. But you can give it a try.

I could drop the dark artisan and scalpel squadron for the more generic covenite coterie detachment and get abunch of squads of wracks/grots in transports?

I don't know, wracks are a terrible unit. The scalpel squadron is nice if you go for a null deployment in turn one, but with the grotesquerie and the corpsethief claw it's not possible.

If you go full coven you can keep the grotesquerie, the dark artisan and the corpsethiefclaw and add a covenite coterie detachment as you proposed but I don't know if is going to work. Reavers, kabalites in venoms, scourges... are way better.

A dark eldar detachment with some formations from the supplement can be a nice list, a full coven list is hard to be semi-competitive.