Serpent's Brood: The New Aeldari Harlequin Transport Detachment (11th Edition)

Two parts. Boons of the Brood: weapons on your Harlequins Mounted and Vehicle models gain Sustained Hits 1, and any Harlequins unit that disembarks from a Transport also gains Sustained Hits 1 until end of turn. Travelling Players: Troupes become Battleline with Objective Control 2, you can take up to three each of Troupe Master, Shadowseer and Death Jester, and, new in version 1.3 of the pack, you can select a Harlequins Character model as your Warlord. It's a transport-heavy detachment that rewards mounted firepower and delivered assaults — and fixes the classic Harlequin scoring weakness.

• Fangs of the Brood (Fight) — a Troupe's Dance of Death gains three abilities instead of one. A huge melee spike on your committed unit.
• Venomous Wrath (Shooting) — a Harlequins Vehicle shoots then makes a 6" move. Shoot-and-scoot for Voidweavers.
• Striking Stride (Charge) — a unit can charge in a turn it Advanced.
• Weavers' Coils (end of Fight) — a Mounted unit repositions or Falls Back 6".
• Weaving Stride (reactive) — an Infantry unit makes a 6" reactive move.
• Skyward Lunge — pull a Vehicle or Mounted unit into Strategic Reserves to redeploy.

• Weavers' Wail (Troupe Master) — +3 Strength and +1 Attack in melee; a serious character beatstick.
• Shedskin Raiment (Shadowseer) — after deployment, redeploy up to three Harlequins units (into Reserves if you like).
• Key of Ghosts — the bearer's unit gains Scouts 6" for an aggressive first turn.
• Fanged Leer (Death Jester) — the bearer's shrieker cannon picks two abilities instead of one.

• Starweaver — the core delivery transport; disembarking Troupes trigger Sustained Hits 1 and arrive in position.
• Voidweaver — primary firepower, with army-wide Sustained Hits 1 and Venomous Wrath shoot-and-move.
• Skyweaver — fast mounted damage that loves Sustained Hits 1 and Weavers' Coils.
• Troupe — Battleline OC 2 scoring bodies, ferried in and spiked by Fangs of the Brood.
• Troupe Master / Shadowseer / Death Jester — up to three each; carry Weavers' Wail, Shedskin Raiment and Fanged Leer.

Take it for a fast, mechanized Harlequin army leaning on Starweavers, Skyweavers and Voidweavers. The army-wide Sustained Hits 1 rewards a transport-heavy build, while Troupes becoming Battleline OC 2 fixes Harlequins' scoring weakness. Choose it over the older Ghosts of the Webway when you want durable board control plus a big melee spike from Fangs of the Brood. At 2 DP it leaves 1 DP for a support. Take a non-Harlequin one: this detachment carries the ACROBATIC tag in the Munitorum Field Manual, so a second Harlequin detachment is not legal alongside it.

Sample gameplan: build around 2-3 Starweavers carrying Troupes (with a Troupe Master and Weavers' Wail), backed by Voidweavers and Skyweavers. Use Key of Ghosts or Shedskin Raiment for an aggressive first turn. Early, use Voidweaver firepower with Venomous Wrath to shoot then relocate; push Starweavers up and disembark Troupes (gaining Sustained Hits 1) onto objectives their OC 2 lets them hold. In the Fight phase, spike a combat with Fangs of the Brood, and keep mounted units mobile with Weavers' Coils, Skyward Lunge and Weaving Stride.