Night fighting ideas

How should GW handle Night Fighting in the new codex?

Here is my idea:

Night raid (3 CP): use at the start of the game. All non Dark Eldar are at -1 to hit with shooting attacks against targets more than 12" away, and are at -1 leadership. At the end of each game turn, spend 1 CP to maintain this strategem. The effects end when the DE player fails to pay the upkeep.

In the lore there is supposed to be some kind of Darkness Device. Would be baller if we got that as a fortification. Making it Night Fighting until it's destroyed. But dreams aside, sounds like a neat thing. If we don't get a -1 to hit outside 12" I feel like it could be cheaper. Like 2 first then 1 per turn. If we get that Kabal Rule it sounds nice!
Vemons at -3 to hir outside 12" might be a bit too much when I come to thinking of it. But I mean, I still want it.

@Von Snabel wrote:

In the lore there is supposed to be some kind of Darkness Device. Would be baller if we got that as a fortification. Making it Night Fighting until it's destroyed.  But dreams aside, sounds like a neat thing. If we don't get a -1 to hit outside 12" I feel like it could be cheaper. Like 2 first then 1 per turn. If we get that Kabal Rule it sounds nice!
Vemons at -3 to hir outside 12" might be a bit too much when I come to thinking of it. But I mean, I still want it.

I kinda wanted this to be instead of a -1 to hit Kabal. After all, ANY kabal can raid at night. Or Coven. Or Cult.

Yeah, now that you say it that way it that make alot more sence than a Kabal specific rule. I forfeit all my objections then.
EDIT: Still think that fortification would be swell

@Von Snabel wrote:

Yeah, now that you say it that way it that make alot more sence than a Kabal specific rule. I forfeit all my objections then.
EDIT: Still think that fortification would be swell

Either a fortification or a cabal specific strategem:

Steal Sun: 6 CP. can only be activated during the morale phase on a turn where Night Raid is not active, at least turn 3. All enemy units must immediately make a leadership check at -4. For the remainder of the game the Night raid rules are in effect with no upkeep and a leadership penalty of -2 instead of -1.

Yeah, it's the Kabal of the Dying Sun that should have that BTW. Being too much into sunsets.

I do like it, but that feels much more like a Narrative Gimmicky Strategem. Could fit in a Campain Book if we're ever featured in one. Either that or Steal Sun and another more general strat. 6 Cp is probably >50% of what we have, and DS 2 units and you're most likely not gonna have any more.

Since they're splitting us up in 3 factions. How will that work with specific Kabal/coven/Cult strategems ? Will we allways get 3 specific Strats aslong as we have 1 Kabal, 1 Cult and and Coven unit ?

Here would be how i'd do it :

Night fighting (3) : This stratagem may be activated in the deployment phase, or at the beginning of a Dark Eldar turn that follows a turn affected by Night Fighting. This effect lasts a full turn (2 player turns). Every non Dark Eldar unit on the board is affected. Every range is halved during a Night fighting turn. This affects Auras abilities, weapons ranges, psychic powers. It does not affect movements.


More expensive (you pay 3 per turn, so it would be hard to maintain it for long, and thus hard to abuse), but it could guarantee a safe first turn, and it would have an impact on synergy armies, because it would be harder to keep everyone within range of Auras.
Also, it would be a good counter to smite spam.

I'm 105% sure that we get one Night vision Stratagem for 2cp for the one mission with night fighting just to screw with us

A "Perpetual Shroud" fortification would actually be such a cool addition to the army. Have it be a shackled webway portal that allows non deepstrike units to go in reserve but they can only come through that portal (like the Monolith/Night Scythe for Necrons) and it provides a field wide buff until it's destroyed.

But in reality it's going to be some stupid strat like "Night Raid: 3cp pick a <Kabal> unit, that unit is -1 to hit until the end of phase." just to add insult to injury.

I like the half range idea, but that seems a bit too powerful since half range across the board is huge. Maybe something like a 25% range reduction would be more balanced.