Dark Eldar Scourge Question: Which weapon best vs SM infantry

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**darrekbaal**

Hello, I need some Dark Eldar helps.

I am building anti-infantry Dark Eldar Scourge to counter vs. Storm Shield Thunderwolves and Grey Knight strike squad, since I hate how he keep teleport strike+storm bolter my T3 infantries.

My options seem to be:

Sharbcarbine - 0 point cost, solid Assault 3 - wound on 4+ no matter what .

Shredder - random D3 - but has 6 strength meaning wound all SM infantry on 3+ include Thunderwolves, AND can re-roll wound roll.

Splinter Cannon - rapid fire 3 = 6 shots, like Sharbcarbine wound everything on 4+

Blaster - only 1 shot, but Str 8 -4 AP D3 damage, meaning wound Space Marine on 2+ no Sv, and still Wound StShie Thunderwolves on 3+ and D3 damage, despite no AP due to Storm Shield

vs. 3 Stormshield Thunderwolves and 10 Grey Knight SM.

**shortymcnostrill**

Thunderwolves need loads of dakka with little or no ap because of their storm shields (so poison or shredders), while regular marines are vulnerable to weapons with ap modifiers (so blasters). I'd say it depends on how your opponent usually deploys his strike squad; in cover y/n.

If you want to use scourges as a generalist answer to both these problems then I'd recommend shardcarbines. They're effective against both targets. Bring plenty though, you need 3 shardcarbine scourges to do a single wound on a 3+ save on average.

some numbers:

Spoiler:

TL;DR: Use carbine Scourges and use the saved points on more dakka. Blasters are nice to have in general, but don't work on thunderwolves.