I have a question to pose to the community that is somewhere in between a rules, modeling, and tactics question so I'm goin to pose it here. Specifically, how can/should I arm my new Dark Eldar Archon?
Strict reading of the unit entry shows that he has a CC weapon and pistol and may replace his CC weapon with a Huskblade and his pistol with a Blaster or Blast pistol, he may also chose from the Melee Weapons list which replace his Melee weapon and this is where it gets murky. Strictly speaking if he takes a Huskblade he would have to replace it (the only available melee weapon) in order to take, say, an Agoniser, he can never have both. However, according to the entry in Force Requisition on the tablet codex he can take both. This might appear to be shaky ground at best given the wording of the rules but strictly speaking the Succubus official model with Aconite Glaive and Agoniser is illegal due to the exact same issues in her unit entry, and yet the model itself pretty clearly indicates what the intent was.
Having said all of this, my desire is to equip my Archon with both Agoniser and Huskblade, mostly because it would look cool with the crossed arms pose of the new model, replacing the model's pistol with the doubled over Agoniser from the Wych kit. The issue is a) is this legal? And b) is there any viable reason to do it? The menace of instant death from the Huskblade is frightening to almost anything short of Space Marine commanders (losing ap2 sucks), while the flat wound on a 4+ (or re-roll against t3) is a great utility ability against everything else. Given that I'm equipping him a Phantasm Grenade Launcher he won't be completely losing all ranged attacks (and how scary are pistols or a single blaster anyway?). My thought is that he could run around bullying infantry squads with Phantasm Launchers and challenging squad leaders to rack up Soul Trap strength.
So my question is threefold:
1) can an Archon take both a Huskblade and an Agoniser?
2) aesthetically, how would the pose come across?
3) would it be effective at its intended purpose?