Warrior Squad
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Race | Dark Eldar | ||||||||||||||||
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Version | Soulstorm v1.2 | ||||||||||||||||
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Unit Stats | |||||||||||||||||
Hitpoints | 250/1 | ||||||||||||||||
Armour | Infantry High | ||||||||||||||||
Morale | 300/8/40 | ||||||||||||||||
Death Penalty | -20 | ||||||||||||||||
Unit Mass | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
Move Speed | 20 | ||||||||||||||||
Sight Radius | 25 (cannot detect) | ||||||||||||||||
Reinforcement | |||||||||||||||||
Reinforce Cost | 50 0 | ||||||||||||||||
Reinforce Time | 10 s | ||||||||||||||||
Weapons | |||||||||||||||||
Ranged | Splinter Rifle | ||||||||||||||||
Melee | Monomolecular Blade |
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Warrior Squad
"Ah! Where is our quarry? I long for the hunt!"
The Warrior Squads are the primary infantry unit of the Dark Eldar. These forces are trained to move quickly and strike in lightning hit-and-run raids. A Warrior Sybarite, who provides leadership and tactical expertise to their campaigns, can reinforce them.
Tactics
Dark Eldar Warriors are a great early game unit with very high damage for cost and very poor health. Use them to disrupt enemies capping and possibly to kill the builders and scout units of an unaware opponent. Since they move very fast, they are quite good at dancing. Since they are quite poor at melee, you will need to dance them.
Other fact: Warriors are very poor against troops with good health. For example, Warriors against Necron Warriors take heavy casualties, even if they have two full squads and Necrons have three free squads.
Very short range of fire is second weak point. Two Warrior squads (overall cost 600 req) can be killed by two squads of Shootas (without leaders and big shootas, overall cost 560).
Once you have the Haemonculus' Laboratory up, Soulseeker Ammunition gives their weapons a considerable boost, which tips the advantage in their favour against the early ranged units of most other races. The squad leader is also an invaluable investment for his Terrorfex Grenades- if you have 2 or 3 of them, you will be able to break the morale of a lot of infantry.
In Tier 2, Warriors tend to start getting destroyed by long ranged high damage weapons like Heavy Bolters and upgraded Pulse Rifles. Their armour upgrade helps, but they remain quite the glass cannons; you will need to support them with fast moving melee units to stop your Warriors from taking fire. They can also be mounted in a Raider, from which they can still fire without taking damage.
Squad Leaders
Maximum Squad Leaders Allowed: 1
Warrior Sybarite
Warrior Sybarite | Hotkey: L | |||
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Cost | 70 15 | Build Time | 10 s | |
Requirements | Haemonculus' Laboratory | |||
Effects | Provides the Terrorfex Grenade ability. |
Weapons
Splinter Rifle
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Cost | Default Weapon | Range | 22 | Setup Time | 0 s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Build Time | Default Weapon | Accuracy | 60% (78% with Soulseeker Ammunition) | Refire Rate | 0.4 s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Area of Effect | 0 | Requires | Nothing |
Monomolecular Blade
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Cost | Default Weapon | Range | Melee | Setup Time | 0 s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Build Time | Default Weapon | Accuracy | 100% | Refire Rate | 1 s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Area of Effect | 0 | Requires | Nothing |
Weapon Upgrades
Poisoned Blade
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Cost | See Poisoned Blades Research | Range | Melee | Setup Time | 0 s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Build Time | See Poisoned Blades Research | Accuracy | 100% | Refire Rate | 1 s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Area of Effect | 0 | Requires | Poisoned Blades Research | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Researchable Upgrades
Wraithbone Woven Battlesuits
Wraithbone Woven Battlesuits | Hotkey: E | |||
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Cost | 100 50 | Research Time | 30 s | |
Researched From | Haemonculus' Laboratory | |||
Requires | Planetary Raid | |||
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Poisoned Blades Research
Poisoned Blades Research | Hotkey: B | |||
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Cost | 50 50 | Research Time | 30 s | |
Researched From | Haemonculus' Laboratory | |||
Requires | Nothing | |||
Effects | Equips the Poisoned Blade weapon on Mandrake Squads, Warrior Squads, Warrior Sybarites, Hellion Squads, Hellion Succubi, Scourge Squads, Scourge Sybarites, Wych Squads, Wych Succubi, Beastmasters, the Archon, Incubi, and the Haemonculus. |
Soulseeker Ammunition Research
Soulseeker Ammunition Research | Hotkey: U | |||
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Cost | 100 40 | Research Time | 40 s | |
Researched From | Haemonculus' Laboratory | |||
Requires | Nothing | |||
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