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Hey Dakka,

Just a quick question while I'm revisiting my Dark Eldar lists, I'm unsure of how to outfit my Archon. Right now, I will be running him with 4 Incubi in a Venom - him with Shadow Field for sure.

My question is concerning his CCW - I'm debating Between a Husk Blade or Agoniser and Soul-Trap.

The Husk Blade looks appealing because I can use it ti ID some multi-wound characters in a challenge while my Incubi take on the rest of the squad. However, when I think "Challenges", I immediately want to take the Soul-Trap. But ID means that I will only be getting +1 S every time from these multi-wound characters. Which is where the Agoniser makes sense, but its wounding on a 4+ all the time anyways, so increased strength doesn't matter!

Am I missing something or are none of these really viable options?

Thanks for the input,
Jpog

If you ID a character with 3 wounds left, you get +3 strength because you have dealt 3 wounds.

Agoniser and Soul Trap.

Agoniser is now Poisoned, so you're wounding on 4+ minimum.

 Frozocrone wrote:
Agoniser is now Poisoned, so you're wounding on 4+ minimum.

It's a user strength poison weapon too, so say your Archon is S5, it's 4+ with rerolls to wound Space Marines and other T4 dudes.

Yes, your missing something. Poisoned Weapons don't always wound on the poisoned value, if you'd normally wound on something less then you'd roll on that instead, and in addition you even get re-rolls to wound! An Agonisor with + 2 Strength would be wounding on 3's with re-rolls to wound.

Agonisor + Soultrap is better then Huskblade, because most CC HQ's would demolish you by virtue on having a 2+ save, be to hard to wound, or have invulnerable save/Eternal Warrior, or in the case of Chapter Master Smashface, all 4 at once. At least with the Agonisor you will send him into things he can beat, for example mulching MEQ's, instead of deluding yourself he can beat an Overlord.

Unless you have weighted dice, Agonisor every time.