Editing Warhammer 40,000/9th 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 this army gain a 6" aura that deals -1 Ld to enemies and -1 to combat attrition checks. In addition, anytime your units attack an enemy unit that has a Ld score lower than their own, you add +1 to hit.
*'''Warlord Trait - Fear Incarnate''': At the end of the Movement phase, roll 3d6 for each unit within 9" of the Warlord. If the result is higher than that unit's highest LD, that unit can no longer perform actions and loses ObSec. Not quite as useful as before, but it will be painful when objectives become the bigger deal.
*'''Relics - Spirit Sting''': A 3 shot stinger pistol, AP-3 that negates all invulns. It's a literal tube of FUCK YOU towards things like storm shields.
*'''Stratagem - An Esoteric Kill, Delivered From Afar (2/3 CP)''': Allows a {{W40Kkeyword|Dark Creed Core/Character}} 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 Talos with Heat Lances to snipe a character. Try not to miss. 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. Ironic, given the "From Afar" part of the stratagem's name if used on a 12" pistol. Increased to 3CP if used on a Talos.

'''Tactics'''
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