womprat49 wrote:Have no fear brother. Eldar have a few weaknesses that you must capitalize on. He can only win by coming to assault you. They have weak Toughness and Strength and most have a 5+ or 6+ save. So your rapid firing grey hunters can massacre them easily. They rely on those flimsy AV10 skimmers, easy prey to Long Fangs and standard Pred TL Autocannons, those TL assault cannons on the Dreads are not to shabby taking the skimmers down either. So you don't really need that many powerweapons to kill them. Use a few more sprinklings of Mark of the Wulfen in the squads and make sure you have those free flamers in your wolf packs to burn those wyches. HB, HF, AC and ML are your best shooting tools. Your taking the Wolf Standards of course.

And your HQ rune priest has many powers well suited to tackling Dark Eldar. Besides from anti-pshyker powers, I don't need to tell you how well Tempest's Wrath works against said opponent. The over-looked Thunderclap power can wreak havoc on those weakling Eldar Elites and Troop mobs quite well. You can possibily wipe out an entire unit of Wyches with the large pie plate. Murderous Hurricane is great too. You should bring 2 Rune Priests to take advantage of this edge.

The best thing you can do tactically even before you take out their turbo boosting skimmers is to use the "Alamo" tactic. Make sure you deploy in cover- duh I know. But your Rhinos and Razorbacks need dozer blades to get all your disembarked Grey Hunters into difficult terrain. This sets up the Dark Eldar player to make difficult terrain tests, plus not all of his infantry have assualt grenades. This is vital because if he does not have them and assaults you in cover his INIT 1. Adding your Wolf Standard effects during his assault makes you out to be a sure victor.

Exergy wrote:DE, and particularly Venom/Razowing toting DE hate vehicle spam. Take a ton of razorbacks with heavy bolters and watch his skimmers drop from the sky.

Venoms and Razorwings(the things you say he has) shred infantry. They dont care if you have a 2+ save or 30 friends, if you have a toughness value you better be inside a transport or you are going to have trouble.

Dont take landraiders, they are AV12 to just about all DE weapons.


If he is using wyches and incubi, he wants to get into CC with you. Incubi kill marines hard, very hard. Wyches cannot be killed by marines in CC, or atleast not quickly. Combined you have lots of problems. Prioritize shooting the incubi down. Wyches are good tarpits but hopefully you can gun them down or at least wittle them down a bit before they get there. If they get into cc jsut kill the rest of the army first. They arnt that killy.