PAGES OF PAIN - Strategies & Tactics

Pages of Pain

What is this?

The purpose of this topic will be to provide a series of bookmarks to useful, meaningful discussion about certain army types, units, wargear, and other strategic debates. Hopefully everyone will learn something new from these articles.

How do I get in?

Well, basically I'll simple be adding discussions that I think contain meaningful debate and interesting ideas. In short - anything I feel like adding will be added. Feel free to write up some tacticas, mini-tacticas, or articles of your own. If you'd like to see your own work included. Drop me a line to the finished piece and we'll see about including it.

Tacticas

Plastikente's Dark Eldar Unit Guide - A comprehensive guide to the Dark Eldar.

Specific Unit Tactics

HQs
Sliscus Tactica

Elites

Troops

Fast Attack

Heavy Support

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Wargear and Upgrades Discussion

How many dark lances do I need, and what counts as a dark lance?
Triple Heat Lance/Blaster/Dark Lance Probabilities - Probabilities that take Hull Points into account.

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Army Theme Tactics

6th edition and WWP - A discussion on getting the most out of portals in 6th.

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Overarching Strategy Discussion

Anit-Air Options - A discussion on how to deal with flyers.
Dealing with Deepstrikers - How to counter deepstrike based armies.
Fleet and Charging in 6th Edition - Every thing you need to know about fleet probabilities.
Mathammer - All HQ options vs. MEQ and GEQ off charge - ever wonder on a point by point basis which HQ kills the most in assault? Wonder no more!
Succubus, Wyches, Raiders and Explosions! - How vehicle explosions affect these choices.
Threat Bubbles - Understanding that range and mobility are connected - title pretty much says it all.
Unit Size - MSU and Full Size Squads for DE - explanations of how to decide the number of models to take in any given unit.
Warlord Traits - A discussion on which warlord table to use.

5th Edition Archive

Hashmal Takes on the Universe: A Compendium for the Aspiring Archon to Destroy Every Army in the Game - Name says it all (unfinished).
The Bear's Dark Eldar Tactica - An overall Tactica for the Dark Kin.
Wractica - learn some ideas on how to best use Wracks in your army.
Best weapon for Scourges - discusses merits of all weapons, heat lance/haywire blaster debate, and how it changes with WWP or Deep Strike options.
Hellions, Hellions Hellions - Kenny3760 Explains how to make a competitive Hellion Deathstar work.
How are you setting up Razorwing and why? - title pretty much says it all.
Is the Agoniser Still King? Should you take an Agoniser or not? A debate about what it can and cannot do for its value.
Deep Strike Tactica - Making DE a serious threat via Deep Strike.
Shadowfield vs Clonefield - which will serve your Archon better?
Venom Spam Tactica - A discussion about how to win/play as a Venom Spam list.
WWP, can it be done? - discussion about what does (and doesn't) work in a WWP army.
Board Control and the Dark Kin (unfinished) - A loose discussion of general strategy and how it applies to DE in specific.

Added a Wargear and Upgrades section - because that thread with the Agoniser debate is really good and should be discussed. Not to mention, duh, there will invariably be good discussions of wargear and equipment that are not unit specific - so it really ought to have a section.

Fresh update of threads, lots of good stuff out there, We include everything from Scourge and Razorwing loadouts to some of the best discussion about WWPs I've seen which discusses it's viability issues honestly, and debates what will or won't make it work.

Fresh updates - moved Bear's Tactica and Hashimel's stuff into Pages to clean up the top of thread and keep actively posting in stuff closer to the top while still leaving them as easy to access.

Also - no one has been submitting any suggestions for updates - feel free to nom anything you think is worthwhile (it'll make my job easier ) You can PM me or just post it here and request it be added, I'm an easy going guy like that.

Just reading through this thread (which is very useful, by the way) and I would like to suggest a Coven style tactica, if that would be alright?

Cheers.

Should some of these be re-categorized or archived now if they haven't been updated to 6th edition? Discussions on how good the Agonizer is for example seems... ill fitting considering how poor it is compared to some of the other options now!

Pages of pain are in the process of being updated and tidied up.

Hey Thor,

I can contribute to this thread, but most of my articles are located on my blog:
http://lkhero.blogspot.com/search/label/dark%20eldar

There's tons of great stuff there and I implore you to check 'em out.

Let me know if you want to transfer any of them to here.

-Larry

HERO wrote:

Hey Thor,

Sorry for the late reply. I'm afraid Thor isn't here right now, he is currently on vacation of a rather permanent nature. MWHAHAHAHA!

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There's tons of great stuff there and I implore you to check 'em out.

I have to say your blog has always been a fantastic source of DE information and one of the reasons I got back into DE at the beginning of 6th.

HERO wrote:

Let me know if you want to transfer any of them to here.

Having just looked through your 6th ed articles(again), I think this one would make a great addition. If you would be interested in transferring it.

Thanks,

-Mush

Awesome stuff guys. I've posted (more or less) the same message on this, the massive tactica and Mushkilla's battle reports but its a great resource to come across for someone newly getting to grips with Dark Eldar. Cheers to all of you for your efforts.