Twilight Flickers: The New 1-DP Aeldari Harlequin Evasion Detachment (11th Edition)

Friendly Harlequins units gain Stealth — their holofields blur them through cover, so ranged attacks are -1 to Hit against them. For an army as fragile as Harlequins, army-wide Stealth is a real durability layer that lets your Troupes and characters live long enough to do their job. The detachment carries the ACROBATIC tag.

A compact three-stratagem suite:

• Captivating Performance (end of Movement) — secure an objective a Troupe controls, so it stays yours after the unit moves off. The core objective-flip play.
• Presaged Rehearsal (Fight) — a Troupe's melee weapons gain Lance (+1 to Wound on a charge), to punch above their weight.
• Phantasmal Mirage (Shooting) — a Harlequins Vehicle makes a D6" move after shooting, for shoot-and-scoot.

• Prelude Performer — the bearer's unit gains Scouts 6", so a Troupe Master can move a Troupe up before turn one.
• Shadowfall Masks (Troupe) — the bearer's unit gains Fights First, so your evasive Troupes strike before the enemy in a contested combat.

• Troupes — the core scoring and skirmish body; they benefit from Stealth, Presaged Rehearsal's Lance, Captivating Performance's objective-securing and Shadowfall Masks' Fights First.
• Troupe Master — the ideal Prelude Performer (Scouts 6") or Shadowfall Masks carrier.
• Shadowseer — layers psychic buffs and defense on top of the army-wide Stealth for a very hard-to-hit screen.
• Skyweavers (jetbikes) — fast objective-grabbers and harassers that gain Stealth for evasive play.
• Starweaver — ferries Troupes onto objectives; as a Harlequins Vehicle it can use Phantasmal Mirage.

Take it as a cheap 1-DP evasive objective package — Troupes in Starweavers plus a Troupe Master — bolted onto a wider Aeldari list when you want a hit-and-hold element rather than the melee-alpha of Fateful Performance. Mind the ACROBATIC tag: this detachment can't be taken with another ACROBATIC detachment, and the Munitorum Field Manual applies the tag to all four Harlequin detachments, so Fateful Performance, Ghosts of the Webway and Serpent's Brood are all off the table. Path of the Outcast has no tag and pairs freely. Choose between the two 1-DP Harlequin detachments by the job you need: hit-and-hold (Twilight Flickers) versus close-combat killing (Fateful Performance).

Sample gameplan: use army-wide Stealth plus Prelude Performer (Scouts 6") and Starweaver mobility to push Troupes up while staying hard to hit. Drive onto contested objectives, then use Captivating Performance at end of Movement to secure one and reposition off it, denying scoring while keeping models safe. In combat, spend Presaged Rehearsal for Lance on a charging Troupe, and after vehicle shooting use Phantasmal Mirage to fall back out of retaliation. Trade space and objectives on your terms.