Warp Beast Pack

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Warp Beast Pack
Race	Dark Eldar
Version	Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey B	Build Cost 210 90  3 Build Time 33 s Built From Hall of Blood Squad Size 3/6 Requires Planetary Strike Limit 2
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	1000/2
Armour	Infantry Heavy High
Morale	500/5/40
Death Penalty	-20
Unit Mass	30
Move Speed	28
Sight Radius	30 (cannot detect)
Reinforcement
Reinforce Cost	70 40
Reinforce Time	16 s
Weapons
Ranged	None
Melee	Warp Beast Melee Attack

Contents 1 Warp Beast Pack 2 Tactics 3 Squad Leaders 3.1 Beastmaster 4 Abilities 4.1 Special Morale Broken Effects 5 Weapons 5.1 Warp Beast Melee Attack 6 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Warp Beast Pack

Spawned from the bloody nightmares of mortals, Warp Beasts are death and pain embodied. Mindless and brutal, the Warp Beasts are "organized" and driven against enemy forces by their Beastmasters. Their brutality knows no loyalty and while viciously effective, a loss of unit morale will cause them to turn on their handlers with vindictive fury.

Tactics

Warp Beasts, the Dark Eldar Tier 3 elite, are quite ferocious fighters. They are durable, yet fast enough to outpace almost any infantry and many vehicles. They do great damage to a variety of armor types. However, they suffer a unique drawback - when broken, the squad will turn on its master and begin attacking allied units. Thus more so than other units, the Warp Beast Pack relies on various abilities to keep its morale full. With the Beastmaster, the squad has a rallying effect built right in, but this can only be used once every three minutes. In heavy combat this just won't cut it. One option is the accompaniment of Warp Beasts with Wych Squads. Using their Combat Drugs will make the Warp Beasts temporarily morale-immune, and will additionally improve their combat effectiveness with increased speed and damage output - truly a force to be reckoned with. If the need is dire, you can use Rekindle Rage to recharge the ability used to tame Warp Beasts, though there are generally better uses for it.

If you keep a sharp eye on the Warp Beast's morale throughout a battle, it is possible to issue them a move order back to your base right before their morale breaks. While they will not be able to receive additional orders until their morale is restored, the move order issued right before they break will stick. If their destination is far enough, you will usually be able to regain control of them while they are still on the move. However, unless you have a Wych Squad with available Combat Drugs, it's generally wiser to let them regain their morale fully before putting them into combat again.

Be careful when letting your Warp Beasts into the battle, with their broken morale effect, enemies aren't gonna let you off easily. Each faction has specifically a unit that excels at destroying enemy morale so be warned. One of the greatest pains are from the Eldar and the Sisters of Battle. The Space Marines don't have that much of morale damage to speak of and can be taken cared of by forcing them into melee (just be cautious whenever a Librarian or a Chaplain is nearby. Fear the Necrons' Restored Monolith, the Necron Lord's Nightmare Shroud,Flayed Ones and the Deceiver. The Imperial Guard have the Basilisk, the Assassin and their Psykers but thankfully they can be destroyed by one hit of the Dais' ability, while a Scourge Squad will spell the doom for the Basilisk. The only thing to fear about the Orks are their damage-soaking Fightin' Juice, while the extreme range of Fighta-Bomma's Grot missile will most likely demoralize Warp Beasts with 2-3 strikes. Chaos' Commanders and their higher Tier units are quite good in dealing morale(Beware the mark of khorne....kill the berserkers early to minimize problems) damage but they would fall instantly to the Dark Skythe. The Tau have decent demoralizing capabilities but you really have to watch and eye for spamming Drone Harbingers and the Ethereal's Air Caste Bombardment. Dark Eldar opposition can be easily sent into confusion with Screams of the Damned but be careful when the enemy does the same which would most likely result in stalemate. However, it is Sisters of Battle and Eldar that most likely to cause you problems. Almost all Sisters of Battle units are capable of instantly demoralizing Warp Beasts and keep them that way without the aid of a Wych Squad but the Living Saint's Flame of the Ardent Blade will most likely skip demoralizing and go straight into killing. Be cautious as well when attacking Adepta Sororitas bases with Warp Beasts as their buildings will most likely use Laud Hailers to keep the Warp Beasts demoralized (Laud Hailers have a very short cooldown, to add). The Eldarin Farseer's Eldritch Storm makes an Dark Eldar's life a hassle. Most players would harass with Eldritch Storm (drains morale the fastest among other Commander abilities), escape and make the Warp Beasts do the dirty work for her. This is because even if the Warp Beasts themselves are demoralized, they still deal fairly enough damage to make a dent to your unit's survivability. Both Eldarin and Adepta Sororitas players, when attacking as an army, have a tendency to demoralize Warp Beasts and ignore them completely but keeping them demoralized while they lay the rest of your forces to waste.

Squad Leaders

Maximum Squad Leaders Allowed: 1

Beastmaster

	Beastmaster			Hotkey: L
	Cost	100 35	Build Time	20 s
	Requirements	Haemonculus' Laboratory
	Effects	Provides the Tame Warp Beasts ability.

Abilities

Special Morale Broken Effects

	Special Morale Broken Effects
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Self
	Range	0
	Area of effect	None	Cooldown time	Passive ability
Effects	While this squad is broken, the player loses control of it until it regains morale. During this time the squad will attack itself and then allied units. The squad may not be reinforced or issued orders, with the exception of activating the Beastmaster's rallying ability.

Weapons

Warp Beast Melee Attack

	Warp Beast Melee Attack
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 82.7 82.7 82.7 82.7 66.2 49.6 66.2 49.6 33.1 3.8 41.3 16.5 8.3 74.4 57.9 7.7 20 205 225 5
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	Melee	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	100%	Refire Rate	0.7 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

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