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## When complete, 69 (nice) will be here.

"*Death is my meat, terror my wine*"

- Dark Eldar Archon

## **Race Overview**

Pirates, slavers, sadists and hedonists, the Dark Eldar literally feeds of the pain and agony of others. They strike out from the dark city of Commorragh using the ancient eldar webways in search of fresh victims, both out of necessity and for pleasure. Since the Fall 10k yo ago Slaanesh continually feeds on their souls, and without replenishing it with the succuluent souls of tormented victims they wither and die. The more hedonistic and the greater the age, the faster the Drukhari withers.

The faction focuses on speed, mobility and high damage output at the detriment of low staying power, expensive units and small squad sizes.

The Dark Eldar has a unique mechanic in Dawn of War Soulstorm: the soul powers. Which include the eponymous "Soulstorm" ability.

### Powers of the Soul Harvest

The Dark Eldar can harvest soul essence  from the recently deceased to fuel powers called "Soulpowers". This soul essence can be collected by tortured slaves and Talos pain engines, the latter being more efficient than the former. Soulessence manifests on the map as small chunks of meat with a pink glow. Slave chambers with the Torture Pit add-on will continuously produce a dead slave every 17s which can be harvested for soulessence.

### Self-constructing buildings.

The buildings of the Dark Eldar are not constructed by the builder unit (the Tortured Slave), instead the builder merely touches the construction site and the buidling will teleport in (self-construct). The slave does not need to remain by the building for this process to finish.

### Increasing Population

**Pop Cap Increase**
 **Support (Vehicle Cap)**
Tortured Slave

### ***Tier 1***

Tortured Slave (Builder)

Reaver Jetbike (Ranged)

### ***Tier 2***

Raider (Ranged)

Venom (NEW in Unification) (Ranged)

Talos (Ranged/Melee)

### ***Tier 3***

Raven (Ranged, flier)

Razorwing (NEW in Unification) (Ranged, flier)

Ravager (Ranged)

Dais of Destruction (Ranged)

***Tier 4***

#### Vehicle Units

Voidraven Bomber NEW in Unification (Ranged, flier, titan)

Reaper

Soon:tm:

Grotesques

Lelith Hesperax

Medusae

Rampage

Void Dragon Phoenix

## **Buildings**

### *Tier 1*

#### Core Buildings

Kabal Fortress (HQ)

* Can get the Planetary Raid add-on.
* Can get the Planetary Strike add-on.

Plasma Generator (Power resource)

Tower of Loathing (Requisition resource)

Slave Chambers (Increases max infantry and vehicle cap)

* Can be upgraded with a torture pit add-on.
* Can be upgraded with a Gruesome display add-on.

#### Vehicle Production Buildings

Dark Foundry (Vehicle Production)

Research Buildings

Haemonculus Laboratory (Upgrades)

## Interested in reading about the Dark Kin?

For those Interested in reading about the Dark Kin beyond codices, supplements, white dwarf articles and so on, below follows a list of Drukhari centered Black Library literature:

Braden Campbell - "Mistress Baeda's Gift"

Braden Campbell - "Tantalus"

Ben Counter - "Rise"

Andy Chambers - "Masque of Vyle" (harlequins and DE story)

Andy Chambers - "Path of the Renegade", "Path of the Incubus", "Path of the Archon"
(trilogy)

Andy Chambers - "Treasures of Biel Tanigh", "Midnight on the Street of Knives", "Bellathonis and the Shadow King"
(trio of short stories directly tied to the trilogy)

J.C Stearns - "Turn of the Adder"