Warrior Squad

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Warrior Squad
Race	Dark Eldar
Version	Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey W	Build Cost 150 0  2 Build Time 21 s Built From Hall of Blood Squad Size 3/6 Requires Nothing Limit None
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	250/1
Armour	Infantry High
Morale	300/8/40
Death Penalty	-20
Unit Mass	10
Move Speed	20
Sight Radius	25 (cannot detect)
Reinforcement
Reinforce Cost	50 0
Reinforce Time	10 s
Weapons
Ranged	Splinter Rifle
Melee	Monomolecular Blade

Contents 1 Warrior Squad 2 Tactics 3 Squad Leaders 3.1 Warrior Sybarite 4 Weapons 4.1 Splinter Rifle 4.2 Monomolecular Blade 5 Weapon Upgrades 5.1 Poisoned Blade 6 Researchable Upgrades 6.1 Wraithbone Woven Battlesuits 6.2 Poisoned Blades Research 6.3 Soulseeker Ammunition Research 7 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Warrior Squad

"Ah! Where is our quarry? I long for the hunt!"

The Warrior Squads are the primary infantry unit of the Dark Eldar. These forces are trained to move quickly and strike in lightning hit-and-run raids. A Warrior Sybarite, who provides leadership and tactical expertise to their campaigns, can reinforce them.

Tactics

Dark Eldar Warriors are a great early game unit with very high damage for cost and very poor health. Use them to disrupt enemies capping and possibly to kill the builders and scout units of an unaware opponent. Since they move very fast, they are quite good at dancing. Since they are quite poor at melee, you will need to dance them.

Other fact: Warriors are very poor against troops with good health. For example, Warriors against Necron Warriors take heavy casualties, even if they have two full squads and Necrons have three free squads.

Very short range of fire is second weak point. Two Warrior squads (overall cost 600 req) can be killed by two squads of Shootas (without leaders and big shootas, overall cost 560).

Once you have the Haemonculus' Laboratory up, Soulseeker Ammunition gives their weapons a considerable boost, which tips the advantage in their favour against the early ranged units of most other races. The squad leader is also an invaluable investment for his Terrorfex Grenades- if you have 2 or 3 of them, you will be able to break the morale of a lot of infantry.

In Tier 2, Warriors tend to start getting destroyed by long ranged high damage weapons like Heavy Bolters and upgraded Pulse Rifles. Their armour upgrade helps, but they remain quite the glass cannons; you will need to support them with fast moving melee units to stop your Warriors from taking fire. They can also be mounted in a Raider, from which they can still fire without taking damage.

Squad Leaders

Maximum Squad Leaders Allowed: 1

Warrior Sybarite

	Warrior Sybarite			Hotkey: L
	Cost	70 15	Build Time	10 s
	Requirements	Haemonculus' Laboratory
	Effects	Provides the Terrorfex Grenade ability.

Weapons

Splinter Rifle

	Splinter Rifle
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: 16.1 16.1 16.1 13.2 8.8 8.8 2.9 1.5 0.9 2.9 7.3 2.9 1.5 5.9 2.9 0.8 1 17 22 0.5 With Soulseeker Ammunition: 20.9 20.9 20.9 17.1 11.4 11.4 3.8 1.9 1.1 3.8 9.5 3.8 1.9 7.6 3.8 1.0 1 17 22 0.5
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

Monomolecular Blade

	Monomolecular Blade
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: 8.0 8.0 8.0 6.5 4.4 4.4 1.5 0.7 0.4 1.0 3.6 1.5 0.7 2.9 1.5 1.5 3 13 16 1
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	Melee	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	100%	Refire Rate	1 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Weapon Upgrades

Poisoned Blade

	Poisoned Blade
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: 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
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
Notes	The Poisoned Blade, when researched, is an addition to and not a replacement for the default melee weapon. Causes health degeneration of 2 for 5 seconds. Effects of multiple hits do not stack. This weapon can only attack Infantry, Heavy Infantry, Commanders, and Daemons.

Researchable Upgrades

Wraithbone Woven Battlesuits

	Wraithbone Woven Battlesuits			Hotkey: E
	Cost	100 50	Research Time	30 s
	Researched From	Haemonculus' Laboratory
	Requires	Planetary Raid
Effects	Increases Warrior Squad health by 125 from 250 to 375 Increases Warrior Sybarite health by 125 from 320 to 445

Poisoned Blades Research

	Poisoned Blades Research			Hotkey: B
	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
	Cost	100 40	Research Time	40 s
	Researched From	Haemonculus' Laboratory
	Requires	Nothing
Effects	Increases the accuracy of all ranged weapons of the Warrior Squad, Warrior Sybarite, Hellion Squad, Hellion Succubus, Scourge Squad, Scourge Sybarite, Wych Squad, Wych Succubus, Beastmaster, Archon, Incubus, and Haemonculus, with the exception of Scourge Squad and Scourge Sybarite Dark Lances, by 30%. Increases the accuracy of all of the Raider's Unit-Activated Weapons by 30%. All increases also apply to accuracy when firing on the move if the weapons can do so.

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