Wych Squad
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Race | Dark Eldar | ||||||||||||||||
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Version | Soulstorm v1.2 | ||||||||||||||||
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Unit Stats | |||||||||||||||||
Hitpoints | 600/1 | ||||||||||||||||
Armour | Infantry Heavy Medium | ||||||||||||||||
Morale | 600/8/40 | ||||||||||||||||
Death Penalty | -20 | ||||||||||||||||
Unit Mass | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
Move Speed | 20 | ||||||||||||||||
Sight Radius | 30 (detection 30) | ||||||||||||||||
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Reinforce Cost | 60 15 | ||||||||||||||||
Reinforce Time | 14 s | ||||||||||||||||
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Ranged | Splinter Pistol | ||||||||||||||||
Melee | Impaler |
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Wych Squad
"It recalls my days in the arena."
Wyches spend their entire lives perfecting the skills of gladiatorial combat. They battle each other, Warp Beasts, and captured soldiers - and few survive their first fight. Those that do quickly become expert melee combatants, and are hired into service as heavy infantry units that use crippling attacks that slow units and sap morale. In addition, their keen eyes and dark sorceries allow them to detect infiltrated units.
Tactics
On top of the Wych Squad's significant combat prowess, particularly with an upgraded Wych Succubus, the Combat Drugs ability allows them to increase their speed and damage as well as for all the other units around them. Using Combat Drugs to beef up Tier 1 melee units such as the Mandrake Squad and Archon can be especially vicious when coupled with the Archon's Animus Vitae to root enemies in place.
Although by the time you reach Tier 3, it might seem that replacing Wych Squads with the more powerful Warp Beast Packs as soon as possible would be an obvious choice, the Wych Squad has two important advantages. First, they are one of only two mobile detectors available to the Dark Eldar, and without them a Dark Eldar player will need to make much greater use of Piercing Vision to track infiltrated foes. Second, they can act as an alternate means of restoring the fragile morale of Warp Beast Packs by using Combat Drugs near the pack if the Beastmaster's Tame Warp Beasts ability has already been used. This can be doubly potent if the Dark Eldar player uses Rekindle Rage immediately after for a second use.
Squad Leaders
Maximum Squad Leaders Allowed: 1
Wych Succubus
Wych Succubus | Hotkey: L | |||
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Cost | 80 20 | Build Time | 18 s | |
Requirements | Haemonculus' Laboratory | |||
Effects | None |
Abilities
Combat Drugs
Combat Drugs | Hotkey: D | |||
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Requires | None | |||
Target Types | All friendly and allied Infantry, Heavy Infantry, Commanders, and Daemon Medium | |||
Range | 0 | |||
Area of effect | 15 | Cooldown time | 90 s | |
Effects | For 15 s, the Wych Squad and all other squads within the area of affect become morale-immune, attack 30% faster (a 42.6% increase to DPS), and move 40% faster. | |||
Weapons
Splinter Pistol
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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 |
Impaler
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Cost | Default Weapon | Range | Melee | Setup Time | 0 s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Build Time | Default Weapon | Accuracy | 100% | Refire Rate | 1 s (0.7 s with Combat Drugs) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Area of Effect | 0 | Requires | Nothing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | Causes 34% speed reduction and 33% weapon reload time increase for 3 seconds. Effects of multiple hits do not stack. |
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
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 | |||
Effects |
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