>>719751524
Eldar should be the de facto strongest mother fuckers in the setting; they ruled the galaxy for sixty million years, they made the Necrons and Orks hide away in fear, their Gods kept the Chaos Gods at bay, Humanity at its absolute height was little more than an annoyance to them, and the only thing that managed to finally cause their collapse was that they literally won so hard for so long that it got BORING to them
Even gimped as they are now, Eldar should still be a terrifying thing to go up against because of their psychic abilites, hyper-advanced weapons, and extensive combat training
Instead, Eldar are treated as a joke faction that is incapable of winning battles on their own without heinous losses. They're an 'endangered' race that will frequently lose on an abhorrent scale just to make other factions seem cooler. Literally every other faction has a confirmed casual kill of a Craftworld; continent sized ships that shoyld be virtually unsassailable without a gigantic force brought to bear against them.
Even in most of their own books Eldar are treated as losers and jobbers, to the point that the climax of their 'main trilogy', the Path Of The Eldar series, has the main character literally beg a Space Marine Captain to please stop murdering his Craftworld.
Every other faction gets cool stories where they get to win big huge battles and awesome stuff happens. Eldar get the Ynnari, which is the narrative equivalent of being kicked in the face several times, having both legs broken, and then being dumped into a roadside ditch. The Ynnari plot was so abhorrently awful that the series flat out got cancelled, but because Eldar aren't Marines or an obviously evil enemy for Marines to stomp on, GW has utterly abandoned Eldar lore in general.
