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I've recently started using some Harlequins to go with my Dark Angels, and tonight i tried out the little formation with the solitaire, death jester, and shadowseer to support my Dark Angels army
due to my bad placement of them, the deathjester died turn 1, and then my shadowseer died to overwatch the next turn, which was sad. However, the solitaire, in combination with the Seed of Fear Interomancy power, turned out to be an incredibly awesome unit that ate an entire Immortals squad in one turn. (yay Int 10)
It seems that he can combo really well with just about everything my Dark Angels have, with interromancy being great when used against units he is attacking. Ravenwing is as mobile as him, so he can have some high speed help that is fairly durable and shooty, or assaulty in the case of black knights. I'm now also toying with the idea of some drop pod interomancy librarians to go with a few solitaire's when i finally get enough harlequins to run their detachment.
So my question is, what are some various uses for this awesome guy with my space monks?

Hmmm, I'm not really seeing why this combination is particular to the Solitaire rather than any other melee unit.

You also can't have "a few" Solitaires I'm afraid, as they are Unique.

Wait, I'm confused. Why use the solitaire rather than an Assassin? Are Eldar and imperium Allies of Convenience?

Seems like the Eversor, or maybe Callidus would be better here?

Check a detailed write up of using solitaires and leadership based attacks. Note this is written to combine with Deldar, but does go into some synergies with Interomancy, and more specifically covers lots of good uses for Solitaires with leadership debuffs

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/645774.page

the_scotsman wrote:
Wait, I'm confused. Why use the solitaire rather than an Assassin? Are Eldar and imperium Allies of Convenience?

Seems like the Eversor, or maybe Callidus would be better here?

The Solitaire is faster, moving 12'' per turn with a once per game Blitz and is able to totally ignore terrain. The Solitaire is arguably more survivable in this formation, benefiting from both Stealth and Shrouded and a 3++ Save as well as Eternal Warrior (Do Assassins have Eternal Warrior?). The only thing the Eversor and Callidus do better is assured combot potential as the Solitaire needs 6's to reliably do damage. But considering the rest of the upgrades for a small increase in price, whenever you consider taking a melee assassin for melee purposes (Callidus reserve manipulations are very useful) a Solitaire is better in most cases.

As for tactics on using the formation the Mask of Sorrows sounds like it would have perfect synergy with Interomancy. A 12'' bubble of -2 Ld, followed by Mind Mind worm followed by Psychic Shriek sounds like it would easily destroy any Riptide, the trouble is utilizing the 12'' range without getting her killed. It'll take practice, and if all else fails, keep her in 18 just to Shriek.

ryuken87 wrote:
Hmmm, I'm not really seeing why this combination is particular to the Solitaire rather than any other melee unit.

You also can't have "a few" Solitaires I'm afraid, as they are Unique.

The solitaire is really mobile and can throw out a ton of attacks, along with fear. He is also a lot easier to hide behind terrain than any multi-model units.

First things first, solitaires are "unique" can can only have 1 per army,

2 Mask of secrets is a Shadow seer item, and cannot be purchased by anyone else

And 3 Eldar and Imperium are allies of convenience, psychic powers front m the DA would not affect the solitaire

 DJ Illuminati wrote:
First things first, solitaires are "unique" can can only have 1 per army,

2 Mask of secrets is a Shadow seer item, and cannot be purchased by anyone else

And 3 Eldar and Imperium are allies of convenience, psychic powers front m the DA would not affect the solitaire

Correct, but many of the abilities and powers used by these models do not benefit one another, they affect enemy models.