Nonstandard Weaponry (Dark Eldar)

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The Dark Eldar employ a variety of weapon systems that are as unique as they are deadly. The primary source of these devices would be the Haemonculi sect, as they are constantly devising new and terrible methods with which to cause excruciating pain to their victims.

Weapons used only by Haemonculi Covens are marked with *.

Disintegrator Cannon

Disintegrator

Disintegrator Cannon can fire burst of particles of unstable matter from a stolen sun. It is similar to Imperial plasma weapons but more sophisticated and does not suffer from over-heating problems. It remains cool even in the fiercest battles despite the ravening energies housed within.^2-p56

Haywire Blaster

Haywire Blaster

Haywire Blasters are mainly used by Scourges. These are long-barrelled weapons so lightweight that can be fired even when moving. It uses as ammunition crippling electromagnetic energy drawn from the highest aeries of Commorragh which is later released in horrifying burst. A well-aimed haywire blast can destroy enemy tanks control system in a single shot. Even the mighty Land Raider can be destroyed by these weapons.^2-p58

Heat Lance

Heat Lance

Reaver Jetbikers and Scourges are the only Dark Eldar vehicles known to use the Heat Lance. It is great technological breakthrough as commorrites have managed to combine power of melta and high-yield las technology in one weapon. As with every melta weapon, heat lance also has short range but is extremely devastating.^2-p58

Hexrifle*

Hexrifle uses crystal cylinders that contain a tiny amount of the glass plague virus. The virus spreads incredibly fast on contact with flesh and turning the victim into a glass statue.^2-p61

Liquifier Gun*

Liquifier gun sprays huge amount of potent acid that melt through body and armo alike. Minions of feared Haemonculi usually have build-in liquifier guns from what they can fire their own acid-like blood onto the enemies.

Phantasm Grenade Launcher

The Phantasm Grenade Launcher is a deadly weapon utilized by wealthier Dark Eldar. Consisting of a specially modified backpack that can hurl disc-shaped grenades from twin tubes, the ammunition of the Phantasm Grenade Launcher are canisters which contain a powerful nerve gas, capable of plunging the victim into a fit of horrific nightmares and delusions.^2-p58

A Shredder

Shredder

The Shredder is a weapon used primarily by Wyches and Kabalite Warriors, although Incubi are also occasionally seen leaving behind their Punishers in favor of a Shredder. This small, lightweight gun has a chamber within which is kept a metallic monomolecular polymer. When the gun is fired at its target, a pair of magnetic web generators housed at the front of the gun quickly weave a net of sharp, barbed wire which is then launched at the victims at high speed, digging into their flesh more and more with each movement.

Stinger*

Stinger

The Stinger makes up the final of the three primary weapons used by Haemonculi in combat. This weapon resembles a smaller, more rounded Splinter Pistol, although the similarities end there. The Stinger, instead, fires small hypodermic needles at the target, the cavity of which contain an incredibly exotic bacteria. This bacteria, once introduced to the target's bloodstream, multiplies quickly, and shortly afterwards causes the victim to literally explode, sending fragments of bone and armor flying in all directions. In the event that the victim's comrades are close enough or unlucky enough to have one of these fragments lodged in their bodies, the bacteria will travel from the lodged debris into the comrade's bloodstream, multiplying and ultimately causing them to explode. ¹

Sources

• ¹:Codex: Dark Eldar (3rd Edition)
• ²:Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition)