General Poll of Opinionated ideas for the next Dark Eldar codex

Im doing a poll to see what you guys think would be a cool little addition to the codex itself.

30 points splinter cannon. Just cause.

There's no option for 'A WWP based army that works in any way at all'

While I'm still pretty green at DE, my main hope for the new DE codex would be giving us Battle Focus like Craftworld received.

I can't really see another MC even though it would be easy to add in the back story ("oh look, another MC found in the dark corners of the webway"). A walker may be cool but I'd be afraid that GW would make it AV10 just because.

Jet Pack infantry would be good while Jump Pack would be odd to truly fit given how we have Scourge and Hellions already.

Of all of the armies, DE is the one that has the most split troops I've seen - every slot (sans heavy support) has either a Melee or Shooting option. How that would work in a new unit is unknown to me.

I'm with Thor on this, giving us the WWP and then emasculating it is very frustrating.

Apart from fixing that I'm afraid that none of the proposed options would excite me terribly - sorry to be a killjoy!

drugs for all, models all have those tubes over the shoulder like camel bags, so, drugs for all, that's it!
and a WWP, becuase it is a Web Way Portal, and DE use the Web Way to raid realspace.

I think they should either allow for charges out of the WWP or allow vehicles to exit it (like in the Apoc formation).

Obyiscus wrote:

I think they should either allow for charges out of the WWP or allow vehicles to exit it (like in the Apoc formation).

Yeah, you used to be able to do both of those things in the old Codex and it *still* wasn't our most powerful list, I have no idea why it was nerfbat-ed.

I would like some waynto mitigate vehicle explosions for our troops. It is a Big killer for us in 6th. Also please make wyches good in assault again GW. I am pretty sure the intention for them was not to be 5 man haywire squads somehow

I'm with some of the others as I'm not too interested in what is offered as choices in the poll. WWPs for me for sure. I'd also like to see some area effects such as -1 ld, armor save, or fear. Anything to play off of the whole "boogie man" creepy stuff. Maybe give our Mandrakes a short ranged bale blast up front and allow them to appear and disappear in and around terrain to get off a shooting attack.

I want mandrakes to be competitive

A battle focus that works with assault instead of shooting, allowing our units to run and assault
Make wyches awzome again
Give us back horrorfex launchers, or other good pining weapons.
Fix the broken wwp, all those sad wwp armies out there...
Moving one of the flyers to fast attack
And assaultgrenades to our t3 assault units (incubus)

I know it's not on your list but grenades that ignore over watch and something that takes away black sun filters when playing against Tau. I'm mean really, the one advantage we get and all gone, just gone.

And also what everyone else is pointing out.

We need proper professional Rangers and an ASSASSIN

Not Glycol drunk mandrakes.

I voted MC, but only because the other options were worse.

I want a reason to take mandrakes. I'd like to have some way to be effective against a Tau army; between their overwatch and ignores cover crap we have serious issues.

I'd like to be able to field vect in a 1500 point list. I want to use a WWP. Warriors should have access to drugs.. No idea why they can't.

I'd like the bomber and fighter to be revamped to be able to perform the roles they were meant for. Using a fighter as an infantry killer and a bomber as a helldrake/storm raven hunter is a bit backwards.

If we are masters of the webway, then our reserves should all be able to outflank and show up exactly where we want them.

I'd like someone to figure out why wyches ( you know those supposedly awesome close combat chicks ) are ONLY good for killing a tank then dying.

Honestly the single best thing they could do is synchronize the fluff with actual game mechanics.

Thor665 wrote:

Yeah, you used to be able to do both of those things in the old Codex and it *still* wasn't our most powerful list, I have no idea why it was nerfbat-ed.

I don't think they meant to, it was just collateral damage (like so many other things).

So yeah, like everyone has said: changes to WWPs, wyches, mandrakes, transports that don't kill you, aeroplanes that aren't so 2010, and so on, little tweaks here and there.

But you mean a new unit, rather than updating the current ones? I dunno. We don't really need any more jump pack infantry, and jet packers are basically the same thing. I can't really see a walker fitting in either. I'm happy with the monstruous creatures that we have (though they could use a tweak as well).

I guess I choose MC, but only if it's Cthulhu.

Ya i truly believe that they should be a WWP based army cause it makes sense fluff wise and gameplay wise. I should of put this is one of the options. I mean why would our raiders just be sitting still turn one anyways thanks for the comments guys next time ill put more options on the next poll.