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Anonymous No.96445118 >>96445180 >>96445769 >>96445773 >>96446644 >>96453181 >>96453335 >>96453776 >>96462097 >>96467736 >>96468817 >>96469137 >>96470751 >>96470807 >>96470829 >>96471948 >>96472220 >>96472253 >>96479572 >>96484663
The most irrelevant faction in 40K.
Anonymous No.96445126 >>96467870 >>96477955
This did not need to be it's own thread. This is literally the kind of thing you make a post in the general.
Anonymous No.96445137 >>96445180 >>96445785 >>96445868 >>96453851
>so irrelevant, people dont even think about them
step aside, knife-ear.
Anonymous No.96445180
>>96445118 (OP)
>>96445137
>'Darkeldared' will become the new 'squatted' in your lifetime
Anonymous No.96445769 >>96445850 >>96470946
>>96445118 (OP)
Not after Rogue Trader
Anonymous No.96445773
>>96445118 (OP)
And that's a good thing!
Anonymous No.96445785 >>96467583 >>96470949 >>96471765
>>96445137
I like how they tried to hamfist votrans having a rivalry with eldar but no one cares or thinks about votrans in any manner, both in and out of setting
Anonymous No.96445850
>>96445769
They're get along great with adeptus mechanicus
They both love body modifications
Anonymous No.96445868 >>96445875 >>96445882 >>96453151 >>96471777 >>96472171 >>96484900
>>96445137
Why the hell does GW keep insisting on making dwarfs and not giving them beards? Same thing with those stupid steampunk dwarfs, they're all clean shaven or have a small cropped beard.
Anonymous No.96445875 >>96445880 >>96445882
>>96445868
I’m pretty sure the steampunk dwarves all actually have beards. If they don’t they’re probably women.
Anonymous No.96445880 >>96445882
>>96445875
Their helmets are modeled as if they had beards, but under the helmet they have what votann have, which any real dwarf would call a pathetic stubble. Still a better direction than votann. And half of the models being beardless to represent women is also lame. I just don't know who looks at dwarfs and says "they'd look better without the beard".
Anonymous No.96445882 >>96446121
>>96445868
>>96445875
>>96445880
This guy alone beardmogs the entire rest of gw's dwarf ranges
Anonymous No.96446121 >>96446139 >>96470931
>>96445882
Seriously? Looks like some balding shortarse who overcompensates by getting involved in a beard oil MLM scam.
Anonymous No.96446139
>>96446121
you're describing a dwarf to the v
Anonymous No.96446644
>>96445118 (OP)
I would say the Tau, I love them, but they only exist cause the other much larger factions are preoccupied with killing each other.
Anonymous No.96446863 >>96447206 >>96453860
What people don’t get, is that the dark elves are the commercial bait faction. All those dark elf fantasy reps are.

But this is the new age where the force is female and the male gaze is bad. Now they are just evil elves whos theme over laps with chaos, no identity.

They are out.
Anonymous No.96447206
>>96446863
Man I love a proper edgelord without any of the irony. Its too bad most people can't actually play one well.
Anonymous No.96453151 >>96470810
>>96445868
They did the same thing for AOS Chorfs, very uncanny looking
Anonymous No.96453181 >>96453204
>>96445118 (OP)
I actually liked them a LOT more with their original 3rd edition sculpts. Those has sovl. The current stuff sucks.
Anonymous No.96453204 >>96453285 >>96453294 >>96468650 >>96470833 >>96470952 >>96471013
>>96453181
What exactly do you prefer about them? I always thought Jes Goodwin did an excellent redesigning them in 5th
Anonymous No.96453285
>>96453204
They were kind of the beginning of GW's trend of over-detailing models. It doesn't look good imo.
Anonymous No.96453294
>>96453204
I like that sword design, even if the armor is a bit too detailed. Still, gotta love being spiky cunt with a cleaver that it's blade has a pointy bit just at the end of it, but behind the blade.
Anonymous No.96453335
>>96445118 (OP)
Wouldn't that be the Lovecraftian Horrors that dwell in The Ghoul Stars? They never do anything.
Anonymous No.96453776 >>96453825 >>96453832
>>96445118 (OP)

I would hesitate to call the Dark Eldar/Drukari “irrelevant,” since that would suggest that they do not have any sort of connection to the greater lore of 40k and, thus, no place within it, other than simply selling more model kits and paints.

Rather, I would insist they instead be called “underutilized,” seeing as how there are no pieces of media (save for the Owlcat Rogue Trader game) that have actually taken the time to explore their nature outside of the utterly two dimensional (and worrying bio-essentialist) characterization of “sadomasochistic goth space elves who are pathologically evil” (granted, Owlcat’s Rogue Trader falls into this trap as well, but at least they actually TRIED to make it interesting).
Anonymous No.96453825 >>96453832 >>96468790 >>96480041 >>96484908
>>96453776
Have you read the Path of the Dark Eldar trilogy?
Anonymous No.96453832 >>96458897 >>96468719 >>96484911
>>96453825

>>96453776 here. Haven’t even heard of it until you mentioned it. Is it worth the read?
Anonymous No.96453851
>>96445137
At least they have the excuse of not existing for 99% of the franchise's history.
Anonymous No.96453860
>>96446863
That image describes 99% of modern feminist characters.
Anonymous No.96458897
>>96453832
>The Path of the Dark Eldar trilogy is pretty widely regarded as one of the best sets of Xenos books in the whole setting.

>Yeah the Path of the Dark Eldar is a very tight and good read. All of the characters are pretty interesting despite all being Drukhari, and it really gives you a good look at the differences within the culture. Fun concepts like Ailendrach where Mandrakes live, the large amount of pocket dimensions very close to Comorragh proper, Incubi shit. I liked it a lot. The Archon was pretty cool too and I was rooting for him, but Vect is inevitable.

>Path of the Dark Eldar is fucking god tier, bar none the best xenos trilogy BL will ever put out and it's such a shame it rots in obscurity. I cannot recommend it enough.

> Have you even read Path of the Dark Eldar? Honestly they're probably the best written and most fleshed out Xenos faction in the game if you actually bother to read their trilogy. It's absolutely ridiculous how Craftworlders get absolutely shit on by GW yet Deldar get a god tier trilogy that no one read.

> Seconding Path of the Dark Eldar. It's better than any of the Craftworld books.

>I don't know what the fuck a drukhari is but the path of the dark eldar novels by Andy Chambers shit all over anything mike brooks has ever written.

>Literally the only good 40k novels I ever read were the path of the dark eldar trilogy ones.

>Path of the dark Eldar omnibus is really good. I wish more non dark Eldar collectors read it so it got more recognition.

>The Path of the Dark Eldar novels are very good and interesting, especially for a world building side of the universe you don't see a lot about.

>You should read Path of the Dark Eldar if you haven't, yet. It's fun. It pretty much single handedly turned me into a deldar fan.

>There are exactly 4 Black Library books that I believe are tolerable. The first Sons of Aenarion book and the three Path of the Dark Eldar books.
Anonymous No.96462097 >>96484930
>>96445118 (OP)
GW just needs to give Vect some justification for waging a proper war in realspace, something to tie them back together with everybody else in 40k, they definitely feel overly self contained to their own dimension as is
Anonymous No.96467583
>>96445785
>they have a rivalry with the faction that hasn’t done anything in 10 years
Anonymous No.96467736 >>96467904
>>96445118 (OP)
I feel like it works for them, though. It plays into the pirate aspect of the Dark Eldar. They're secretive and opportunistic just like IRL pirates, they're not going to sit still and trade artillery barrages with the Guard or throw millions of schmucks into open conflict with the 'Nids.
Anonymous No.96467870
>>96445126
500+ replies max image limit ss this.
Anonymous No.96467904
>>96467736
also, this plays into the whole Your Dudes thing
you can say your faction is doing whatever, and there's no bad GW writing telling you otherwise
Anonymous No.96468650
>>96453204
He did, and the plastics were so good. I started DE just because of it, I already had an old box of kabalite warriors tho
Anonymous No.96468719
>>96453832
It's really, really good. BL accidentally got someone competent to write a Xenos trilogy for once, and he does a fantastic job of nailing down precisely the spirit of the Dark Eldar to a T. While it mostly focuses on villainous bastards betraying each other and accidentally throwing Commorragh into havoc, it's anything but one-note. Book two is a particular highlight, in that it focuses on an Incubus and a Harlequin going on jolly cooperation adventures together and showing what it looks like when Craftworlders turn evil without realizing they've gone rotten due to their arrogance. Book three is absolute fucking kino that ties up all the narrative threads of the trilogy in the most satisfying way and finally gives a glimpse at who Vect really is, beneath his egomaniacal persona.
Anonymous No.96468790 >>96468879
>>96453825
NTA but I have the first book, never got around to reading it. Maybe I should.
Anonymous No.96468817 >>96484382
>>96445118 (OP)
Relevant to what? The "plot"? The "story"? Both are fucking garbage. The only thing of relevancy in 40k is if they are a unique army that can fight other armies on the table top.
Anonymous No.96468879 >>96470726
>>96468790
The first book starts a little slow as the characters and their schemes are established, but is pretty decent once the action picks up. The full payoff mainly comes in the next two books though which take the individual plot threads and characters introduced in book 1 and run with them in fun new directions
Anonymous No.96469137 >>96469200 >>96470728
>>96445118 (OP)
The fact that their machines are powered by rape is kind of a hard thing to work around in a narrative context.
Anonymous No.96469200
>>96469137
only if you're a coward like GW currently is staffed by
Anonymous No.96470726
>>96468879
I gotta get the other two books as well then, cheers
Anonymous No.96470728 >>96479173
>>96469137
Nah how have you missed the grooming gang rapes in Britain that is constantly being ignored by their government?
Anonymous No.96470751
>>96445118 (OP)
All factions except the imperium are irrelevant whan you think about it. There's nothing wrong with that, though. Dark Eldars are cool. They're dark elves in space. That's all they need to be.
Anonymous No.96470807
>>96445118 (OP)
orks
Anonymous No.96470810
>>96453151
only the female head doesnt have it, theyre also gonna have multiple hea options in sprue
Anonymous No.96470829
>>96445118 (OP)
Easy and low effort shit post bait thread for an army that needs (not really most of the models hold up) and is due for range refresh?
Stealth marketing thread
Anonymous No.96470833
>>96453204
He did and that anon is just a whiny contrarian fag
Anonymous No.96470868 >>96474009 >>96479189 >>96479572
This is what Dark Eldar are missing.
A character like this would be a linchpin holding their history together.
Their claims, their sins and newfound dark majesty expressed, with a tragic, grand backstory and a dark, ominous, grandiose, overwhelming present presence.
Anonymous No.96470931
>>96446121
....that's every dwarf, retard
Anonymous No.96470946
>>96445769
Marazhai is a top tier lad.
Anonymous No.96470949 >>96478047
>>96445785
Eldar and Votan having some sort of rivalry doesn't even make any sense within 40k, to the Eldar the leagues would be just another upstart offshoot of mankind, not some ancient rival.
Anonymous No.96470952
>>96453204
My only issue with the new incubi has always been the horned helmet. Looks too chaos like to me. A helmet like this would have been cooler imo.
Anonymous No.96471013
>>96453204
Those swords have always looked awful.
Anonymous No.96471765
>>96445785
no one cares about eldar either
Anonymous No.96471777 >>96472383
>>96445868
>we want squats!
>>ok here are votroons
>dont care, we want squats!
i dont know why they dont just give us what we want.
Anonymous No.96471948 >>96472106 >>96472204
>>96445118 (OP)
But they are the hottest.
Anonymous No.96472106
>>96471948
mid + generic
Anonymous No.96472171
>>96445868
God forbid they actually try anything other than copy pasting Ghimli for the billionth time. Just say you have no imagination and fear change like vampires fear the sun.
Anonymous No.96472204 >>96472326
>>96471948
Anonymous No.96472220
>>96445118 (OP)
The only relevant factions of 40k are SM, CSM, eldars, necrons, tau, orks, tyrannids and IG. The rest could be squatted and nobody would care
Anonymous No.96472253
>>96445118 (OP)
Cause havent they already kind of won?
>In a nice little pocket dimension, away from the drama (unless they want to be in it) and no real way for others forces to enter suddenly
>Found a way to hold of Slannesh via eating souls of slaves
>Society built on solid grounds of torture, blackmail, and backstabbing
>Strong leader for untold millennia
>Have a possible out of all of this with the Ynnari, if they so wish
Dudes have no reason to quarrel. They're chilling.
Anonymous No.96472326 >>96479188
>>96472204
>the brapvent
Anonymous No.96472383 >>96472554 >>96478031
>>96471777
Because the og squats were fucking retarded and nobody besides ancient neckbeard grogs want them back. The gay biker midgets from mars look was always shit.
Anonymous No.96472554 >>96477433
>>96472383
gay fantasy dwarves with guns is better than votroons
unless of course... you like troons anon?
Anonymous No.96474009 >>96476239 >>96477145 >>96477377
>>96470868
Vect is literally that, but he's not allowed to be important now that Mike Brooks has faggotized the Drukhari. Now only Lelith matters.
Anonymous No.96476239 >>96484933 >>96484959
>>96474009
But Vect never was that. From the start he was simply the biggest and oldest Archon. He's not even laying claim to be some sort of divine king for all dark elves, much less all elves.
He wasn't even there to witness the collapse of Eldar society, unlike Rakarth.
Anonymous No.96477145 >>96479208
>>96474009
I've heard a lot of kvetching are Mike Brooks but I haven't read any of his stuff yet. Can anyone give me a run down on why he's so disliked other than his mohawk looks cringe on him?
Anonymous No.96477377
>>96474009
Disregard cringe nu-lore, simple as
Anonymous No.96477433
>>96472554
fill me in: what is troonish about the Votaan?
Anonymous No.96477955
>>96445126
Cram it, poofter!
Anonymous No.96478031
>>96472383
Only guilders were bikers, brotherhood squats were a combination of IG and dwarf warriors.
Anonymous No.96478047
>>96470949
Silly votan, the eldar already have the necrons as their ancient rival.
Anonymous No.96479173
>>96470728
It is only just, and they did it to maintain real estate appreciation.
Anonymous No.96479188
>>96472326
Fart Slave vs the Thot Squad
Anonymous No.96479189
>>96470868
>This is what Dark Eldar are missing.
Armless failure with pointy ears?
Anonymous No.96479208 >>96484962
>>96477145
>Suddenly aspect warriors are now recieving HRT to fit into their aspects
>Aspect warriors masks (which supposed to turn their mentality into ruthless cold blooded killers) now means jackshit, Autarchs starts crying because his GF was killed
>Suddenly Dark Eldar are no different from K-Pop fans and ready to rebel against Rakarth and Vect, just because they are simping to Lelith really really hard
>Akshually Dark Eldar society isn't cruel, sadistic, absolutely selfish etc, only Vect and Rakarth are the problem
>Lelith Hesperax are now straight lesbo
Anonymous No.96479572
>>96445118 (OP)
>>96470868
Brutally mogged
Anonymous No.96480041 >>96484349
>>96453825
I have it was great and its on my shelf right now, There are not enough good Eldar books, The books made me really really like the haemonculus covens

I also recommend all Eldar/Deldar fans to read the Fabius Bile Books, there is Harlequin shenanigans and in the third book more Commorragh stuff as well
Anonymous No.96484349 >>96485418
>>96480041
Lukas the Trickster is excellent if you want to read about Sliscus shenanigans in realspace, because the POV is split it’s basically half a Deldar book. It’s too bad Black Library sucked so much that the author ended up leaving before he wrote anymore.
Anonymous No.96484382 >>96484419
>>96468817
>if they are a unique army
failed step one
deldar are somewhere between knockoff eldar and knockoff slaanesh, nothing unique to show for it
Anonymous No.96484419
>>96484382
They are more different from Craftworld Eldar than any Space Marine army, loyal or chaos, are from each other. Also, there is no real Slaanesh connection in terms of gameplay other than the fact that both are fast. Not that this matters, as the only Slaaneshi factions in the game are Daemons (lul) and EC (lul).
Anonymous No.96484663
>>96445118 (OP)
Ok and? Does something need to happen?
Anonymous No.96484900
>>96445868
The teens doing all the CAD design at GW nowadays associate beards with hipsters from the 2010s. It's all about purple hair trans and non binary characters today.
Anonymous No.96484908
>>96453825
That's the face of a tournament autist when you suggest they play a narrative based game.
Anonymous No.96484911
>>96453832
It's pretty good, a fun read, other than the mandrake kings being nurgle worshippers.
Anonymous No.96484930
>>96462097
>give Vect some justification for waging a proper war in realspace

The War of "I need more big titty women for my flying music boat"
Anonymous No.96484933 >>96484949
>>96476239
What? That's not right, vect was a slave before the fall, dude's old as shit.
Anonymous No.96484949
>>96484933
Well the other account is about him born exactly during the birth of Slaanesh as Eye of Terror fucks shit up.
Anonymous No.96484959
>>96476239
>Their claims, their sins and newfound dark majesty expressed, with a tragic, grand backstory and a dark, ominous, grandiose, overwhelming present presence.
This is Vect.
>claims
Pretty much all of the Eldar's ancient Webway cities, he's still adding new ones to his domain. If the Craftworlds weren't in Realspace, he'd claim them too. Too dangerous for his kind to operate out there for extended durations though.
>sins
He's done the whole list at this point. Probably invented new ones, too.
>newfound dark majesty
Vect is the one who coined the term eladrith ynneas (Dark Eldar) and established who and what they are, both in terms of visual flair and culture.
>with a tragic, grand backstory
Grew up a Halfborn slave, abused and mistreated by the noble houses that were responsible for the downfall of the old Empire, rose to overthrow them and install a new, stronger social order in Commorragh with himself at the helm. Five thousand years later, he is now very tired and jaded.
>a dark, ominous, grandiose, overwhelming present presence.
Vect is styling himself as the Living Muse, a demigod of mythical status to further entrench his power and set himself apart from the Ynnari's attempts to bring their religion into his city.
Anonymous No.96484962
>>96479208
>Akshually Dark Eldar society isn't cruel, sadistic, absolutely selfish etc, only Vect and Rakarth are the problem
This is the thing that is the most ridiculous and unforgivable. Mike Brooks wants the Drukhari to be heroic counterculture punks because that's what he personally identifies as. He also wants them all to be trannies because of his disgusting fetishes, but that's a separate issue.
Anonymous No.96485418
>>96484349
I thought Josh left because of Fantasy bullshit?