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 Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:02 pm
Lt. Brookman From what I've heard and seen DE are quite a fierce and competitive army under 5th edition. You might be better off asking it to a rule lawyer or win at all cost guy like Oryn or the likes. It was an open question. whee
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:57 pm
The new rules on Blasts always hitting -something- have made Blast-spam Dark Eldar (All squads equipped with Shredders, Ravagers packing a full set of Disintegrators) a fierce contender. All of their base troops have Aspect Eldar stats, but only a 5+ save. They also have the single cheapest transport in the game, with some interesting rules. The only problem is that they suffer from age in a serious way. Rules made at the beginning of 3rd Ed aren't holding so well.
Also, infiltrating 9 mandrake tokens on someone just to watch them try and figure out what the hell is going on is quite a bit of fun.
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:09 pm
Caleidah
The new rules on Blasts always hitting -something- have made Blast-spam Dark Eldar (All squads equipped with Shredders, Ravagers packing a full set of Disintegrators) a fierce contender. All of their base troops have Aspect Eldar stats, but only a 5+ save. They also have the single cheapest transport in the game, with some interesting rules. The only problem is that they suffer from age in a serious way. Rules made at the beginning of 3rd Ed aren't holding so well.
Also, infiltrating 9 mandrake tokens on someone just to watch them try and figure out what the hell is going on is quite a bit of fun.Mandrake infiltration is one of those interesting rules that's simply missing from newer codices. sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:15 pm
Absolutely. It's one of those quirky little things that still manages to surprise people, because it's something that just doesn't exist by any parallel anywhere else.
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:16 pm
Caleidah
Absolutely. It's one of those quirky little things that still manages to surprise people, because it's something that just doesn't exist by any parallel anywhere else.I think that's what bugs me more about the new codexes than anything else, just the 'dumbing down' of the whole thing, taking out half the special rules.
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:00 am
It's called speeding things up. Same with the removal of the separate spore mine phase from the previous Nid codex, as it slowed the game down to a crawl if too many mine clusters were in play.
While some changes are awful, most are much welcomed and needed. While some people might think of the game as a way of acting all high brow and haughty for remembering each and every rule, I'd rather have a game that flows with some modicum of speed and that doesn't grind to a halt every time a convoluted rule needs to be enacted.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:29 am
The thing is, Mandrake infiltration isn't all that convoluted. I can see how the Spore Mine phase would make a mess of things, but Mandrake Infiltration was a normal part of the movement phase.
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:18 am
webway portal deployment + DE speed can make IG/tau gunlines collapse faster than you can say "close combat"
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:47 pm
Van Evok webway portal deployment + DE speed can make IG/tau gunlines collapse faster than you can say "close combat" Only problem is that Dark Eldar are notorious Glass Cannons. The best use of webway portals that I've seen is when using Talos and only bring them and maybe a squad of Warriors through. To keep more off for Webway deployment is just too risky.
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:16 am
a bunch of sadists with nothing better to do than kill and torture... oh wait isn't they're an army that already does that? *cough* chaos *cough*
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:31 pm
Chaos does it in a very hamfisted way, by smashing and choking everything into submission and THEN having their way. Dark Eldar have a wonderful sort of finesse that goes into it.
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:51 am
It's still rape and pillage but slightly more artistic.
Albatross!
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:46 am
HEY! Dont talk about my Dark Space Elfs like they can't hear you! Or so help me Emperor, I will Webportal through your house with my raider party and choke the s**t outta you with our fancy dance like movement!
I kid I kid.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:31 am
Dragonzealot HEY! Dont talk about my Dark Space Elfs like they can't hear you! Or so help me Emperor, I will Webportal through your house with my raider party and choke the s**t outta you with our fancy dance like movement! I kid I kid. Sweet son of a b***h, where did you come from?
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:56 pm
I come and go like any good homicidal maniac does.
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