Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Dark Eldar (section)

==={{W40Kkeyword|Dark Creed}}===
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This coven likes to court its pain and bring you the wagyu of suffering rather than the McDonalds buffet that the Prophets of Flesh provide.  They massage their prey's fear, let it graze wild, and harvest it at its most nourishing.<br>
These guys are fun and fluffy but don't quite make the competitive cut.  As part of an Aeldari list they can set up great leadership bombs.  The relic can help turn your haemonculi into a mortal wound dealing monster.  Unfortunately they suffer from a lack of synergy and the unreliability of morale bombs.  You don't have shooty enough units for the stratagem to be worth it (it's funny on a Tantalus or a Reaper, but so are most things) and the units most likely to fail from a morale bomb will either be valuable enough to auto-pass or cheap enough that they were supposed to die anyways.  Save the elaborate maneuvers for your wyches, let your coven just slap things around.<br>

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'''Special Rules'''
*'''Obsession - Distillers of Fear''': Models in enemy units must subtract one from their leadership for each unit with this obsession that is within 6" to a max of -3. Phantasm Grenade Launchers can push the penalty further, and if you bring in an allied Eldar detachment with Hemlock Wraithfighters on top of that you can bring almost any unit to the Ld of a mere Conscript.
'''Warlord Trait'''
*'''Fear Incarnate''': At the start of the Fight phase, roll 2d6 for each unit within 3" of the Warlord. If the result is higher than that unit's highest LD, the unit takes a mortal wound. Does synergise with your obsession, but the failure to deal more mortal wounds the larger the gap makes it end up decidedly underwhelming compared to Master Nemesine, particularly on a Haemonculus with an Ichor Injector.
'''Relics '''
*'''Spirit Sting''': A 3 shot stinger pistol, Ap -4. Adds +2 to wound against non-vehicles, and ignores invulnerable saves. Unlike most pistol relics, this one has pretty good synergy: this, a Flesh Gauntlet and the Master Nemesine warlord trait gives you a Haemy that doesn't care about no stinkin' Storm Shield.
'''Stratagems'''
*'''An Esoteric Kill, Delivered From Afar (2 CP)''': Allows a Dark Creed unit to shoot at enemy character even if they are not the closest. Coven units are not exactly known for their shooting, but this stratagem can allow a dark lance equipped raider or a Talos with Heat Lances to snipe a character. Try not to miss. Speaking of which, Tantalus is a perfectly viable unit choice to employ this stratagem, so you might vaporise the enemy character with 12 Pulse Disintegrator shots instead. Also has good synergy with the Dark Creed relic pistol, 3 shots hitting on 2s, wounding on 2s, ignoring almost any save is pretty menacing and gets really dangerous to even tough characters as the game goes on and they start losing wounds (less powerful than the tantalus but still).

'''Tactical Objectives'''
'''Tactics'''
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