DE: Huge leaks, new army list

New book details have been previewed!

Alright boys, we're in business.  Just watch the entire video here.  If you don't want to be bothered watching the vid and point costs being talked about, you can read most of it from The Dark City forums.

Let's just put it this way, I've already formed a bucket with new costs.  Here's what I'm building with:

• Archon, Venom Blade = 72
• Succubus, Blast Pistol = 60
• 9x Wyches, Agonizer/BP/PGL = 89
• 5x Warriors, Blaster = 47
• Venom = 65
• 10x Warriors, 2x Blaster, Dark Lance = 114
• Raider, Splinter Racks, Dark Lance = 95
• Razorwing, 2x Dark Lances = 145
• Voidraven, Missiles = 160
• Ravager, 3x Dark Lances = 140

As you can see, this is pretty much what I use to build most of my Space Elves armies.  However, for the purposes of this post, we will only focus on Dark Eldar and the improvements that they got instead of posting the rest of my Aledari soup.  You guys can find more Cult and Coven stuff, as well as ALL the Relics, Strategems and other goodies on the forum link that I sent.  Since I'm more of a Kabal player anyway, I just wanted to post this and show off what we can do with the new cost savings.

Here are the big ones that stand out for me:

• Archons went up in price but their default Huskblade and their ability is better.  They have a 6" bubble of re-roll 1s to Hit.
• Succubus went down by a lot of points so they're 50 base.
• Wyches also went down in price but not by a lot.
• Warriors are now 6 points but Blasters went up to 17 points, still not a big deal considering how they do D6 damage now.
• Venoms went down in price to a net of 15, Splinter Cannons in general are now 10 points.
• Warriors can take special weapons per 5 AND a heavy weapon per 10.
• Raiders went down 30 points so that's absolutely huge.  Splinter Racks makes that price go up by 10 points.
• Razorwing went down in price as well, 10 solid net savings.
• Disintegrators are still the awesome S5 AP-3 2D Assault weapons and their cost is now halved at 15!
• That means a Ravager with Dissies clocks in at 125 whereas the Dark Lance variant sits pretty at 140.
• Voidraven might be decent now depending on the missiles since they now cost 34 points less, clocking in at 160 for the damn thing.

Next, let's take a look at this list:

1962 - 7 CP

Flayed Skull Battalion - 6 CP

HQ:

Archon, Venom Blade = 72

Archon, Venom Blade = 72

TROOP:

5x Warriors, Blaster = 47

Venom = 65

112

5x Warriors, Blaster = 47

Venom = 65

112

5x Warriors, Blaster = 47

Venom = 65

112

10x Warriors, 2x Blaster, Dark Lance = 114
Raider, Splinter Racks, Dark Lance = 95
209

10x Warriors, 2x Blaster, Dark Lance = 114
Raider, Splinter Racks, Dark Lance = 95
209

10x Warriors, 2x Blaster, Dark Lance = 114
Raider, Splinter Racks, Dark Lance = 95
209

HEAVY:

Ravager, 3x Dark Lances = 140

Ravager, 3x Dark Lances = 140

Ravager, 3x Dark Lances = 140

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Flayed Skull Air-Wing - 1 CP

FLYER:

Razorwing, 2x Dark Lances = 145

Razorwing, 2x Dark Lances = 145

Razorwing, 2x Dark Lances = 145

The question now is just how stupid these Archons have to be to be cheerleaders for the rest of the army.  Let's see, I can probably just figure out something to get them a stupid Venom to ride around in.  Let's be real though:  Not having a 6th slot on the Venom absolutely sucks because this means Archons cannot ride around in full man Raiders while simultaneously not being able to ride in a Venom.  They literally have to get out and stand around the units in order for them to get the bubble.  Since don't have bikes or Hellion boards, they're stuck out in the open like a bitch of idiots.

The big question on my mind right now is that now that we've lost Trueborn and Bloodbrides in the book, can we still take them via the Index and just give them the new D6 Blasters?  If so, we can easily add 123 point 5x Trueborn w/ 4x Blasters back into the mix.  Likewise, our Archons lost the ability to take Blasters.. does that mean we can still take them because it existed in the previous Index?  Just seems like there are some weird decisions being made here.

A lot to digest for sure.. but I'm curious on what you guys think so far?  I have mixed feelings.  I'm inclined to like the new changes, but very curious on whether or not this can be a standalone army vs. Aeldari soup.