I still am not sure if i want to buy wyches for my Elites. I would like them in my elite choic of course but i do not think their statistics are that good. Even though they are awsome at close combat, they will get shot down before they reawch them.
They have a 6+ save and that really worries me when taking them into the battlefield. If you put them in a raider, and they get shot down, then they will all probably die.(waste of points) If you take them in a web portal, and they come out, they will have to travel by foot and most of the time, they will get shot down. If you put them in cover, then what the hell does that do? THey have their splinter pistols that shoot 12 inches.
What have you guys done in the past that has made your wyches successfull?
At first when i started warhammer, I thought to myself, hey look at the mandrakes, they are pretty cool units. Well once i got the dark eldar codex, everything changed.
Mandrakes seem good at first with their shadow skin and their infiltrator ability when they are actually not that good compared to other units in the warhammer 40k games. (scouts)
lets talk about teh infiltrator ability. The ability itself is a good one when equpped to the right units. With SM scouts, they are in better use because they could hide all the way in the corner of the board and shoot at all the units they want. This happens because the scouts have a variety of weapons(sniper rifles) that can reach halfway across the board. they also have a 4+ armour save that helps them if they get attacked. While the dark eldar mandrake also have that ability, it does not do as much because they have their stupid splinter pistols that shoot 12 inches. You can infiltrate them behind the enemy and assault them but guess what, they have s3 t3 and will get murdered. they are a waste.
Now, the warpbeasts are also the same. They are only good in cc with their 3 attacks but they will get shot down before getting into cc with their 6+ save.
Grotesques are somtimes helpful but they are too slow for me so i dont use them.
Dont you think that games workshop could have made the DE elites a little bettter?