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Do or Don't: Craftworld Eldar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2024
- Just as the title says: this video explains some reasons why you should play the Craftworld Eldar as well as why you shouldn't. Hope this informs some decisions and that you all have a Happy New Year!
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00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - Lore Overview
02:54 - Why You Should Play Craftworld Eldar
06:13 - Why You Shouldn't Play Craftworld Eldar
10:26 - Conclusion
Imagine being considered the secondary protagonist of the setting and yet still going without model updates for 20 years
I weep tears of blood for the injustice the Craftworlds suffer
@@pancreasnowork9939 I hope the newest rumor engine doesn't dissapoint.
It had done a lot of eldar teasing.
@@fernandorivera4719 if you think GW will give you more than a Named Character than you're deluding yourself.
@@robertcapestany6019 a couple weeks later and its an update of the guardians :)
@@KageRuffian Alright, yeah you got me. We're also getting plastic Dark Reapers, Rangers, an Autarch with multiple weapon options and a new biker unit. I'm honestly quite surprised.
1:30 take note that the elves were immortal, and were able to respawn infinitely therefore death or murder wasnt even a thing anymore
this destabalised the death realm and thus became the warp
but the death cults became a thing because death didnt exist anymore
this is also how slaneesh works, she just is the incarnation of this sexual death cult, but while it is no longer viable in the new universe, she still tries to realise this scenario in a world that can no longer sustain it
Hence why she is so weak, her whole design has become obsolite when she was created
"So weak" is a pretty massive oversimplification. While Slaanesh has less raw power when compared to the other chaos gods it does have the most insidious powers, able to corrupt far larger swathes of people. Slaanesh is also the most adept at turning the other chaos gods' acolytes into its own, which is why the other chaos gods spend a lot of their time bullying Slaanesh, their worried it would win in a war between chaos.
Slaanesh is also powerful how they pull power from the acts of all the followers to the other dark gods.
"This is due, in part, to the fact that all the Chaos Gods embody the excess for which Slaanesh is known: Khorne with his bloodlust, Tzeentch with his scheming, and Nurgle with his spreading of plague. Each is an obsession that Dark Prince can turn to his will with merely a whispered promise. Lurking deep within the psyche of each of his brothers is the suspicion that the influence of the Dark Prince is rapidly growing, and that Slaanesh will perhaps one day eclipse them all in strength. With this thought in mind, any alliance of convenience with Slaanesh is especially short-lived; while this could be attributed to simple distrust of one who changes sides at a whim, there is an argument that the Dark Prince’s rivals fear the secret power he holds over them."
Not really true. Slaanesh has the most potential out of the other chaos gods and is rapidly growing. It's what makes it truly dangerous.
Slanesh is having a post nut breather after obliterating the Souls of a Million Billion Eldar in a single instant
Well the thing with Slaanesh is... It is weak while everything is shit, the more there is war and people die, the weaker it is. That is why 40K is the era of Khorne and Tzeentch because it is one of eternal war and chaotic change. Yet if things would get better and peace would settle in, like it happened under the Eldar, than Slaanesh's and Nurgle's power would grow... There is no setting that weakens all chaos gods simulteanously...
If it was wiser it would actually stop taking part in black crusades and the like, but by its very nature Slaanesh craves for quick gains instead of long term victories, it isn't Tzeentch. In that way it is actually way closer to Khorne.
Most of the Eldar miniatures were around when I got into the hobby in 40Ks 3rd edition.They did hold up and still are fairly decent looking, but damn some of these models reach legal drinking age in the US...
2nd edition pair here. The models have reached drinking age.... but there are rumours of GW finally releasing new aspect warrior models.
you know, people are always really quick to fast forward past the entire eldar empire, which is at least implied to have lasted for 60 Million Years. Which is in my mind the greatest Feat in all of warhammer.
I’m pretty sure there’s an Eldar who said that more or less in universe. It was something along the lines of “you act like 10,000 years of weakness erases millions of years of strength.”
@@pancreasnowork9939 thousand years of strength didn't help Constantinople.
@@vnerd3026 Not if they didn't have cannons first
Ooooof I get that, and I do believe if the Eldar had like 500 years of breathing room they could regroup. But damn, its literally like if the eldar were a city that lasted 60 million years and then it got hit with 50 nukes. Whatever's left, it ain't really a city no more uWU. Eldar imo, need to forget and adapt.
@@Beowulf54Mc sounds like a good way to get fucked up by slaanesh
Don't mess with us Thousand Sons!
We'll plan your demise for 999 years, effortlessly destroy the entire opposing force and then get absolutely fucked at the last second because either
A: our leader was too arrogant to see this one obvious flaw in the plan
Or
B: Tzeentch thought it'd be funny
hilarious
Accurate
Honestly, being a follower of Tzeentch is the worst. At least when the other Chaos gods trip on their own flaws, they don't do it on purpose.
C. You sold your souls and turn 90% of your Legion into dust automatons, and yet keep making the same mistakes as your Primarch. Also, the Space Wolves yet live. X/
the Eldar players Experience:
1/4: you are so fast but over-motivated that you put your entire army into very vulnerable positions in turn 1 and get field whiped in turn 2.
2/4: you are too scared to loose your elite units so you stay too far back, giving the opponent time to prepare or get in melee and then you get field whiped in turn 3-4
3/4: you misplaced your highly specialised units/ got outmanouvered /dont know the enemys models so now you are 0% effective and you get field whiped.
4/4 you place everything just right, your units are at the exact spot they are supposed to be and everything falls together like an evil kenivil mastermind plan and you have 110% control of the board. you feel like you own the Warhammer. the feeling of empowerment you get from this is like a drug and Slanesh is laughing in extasy every time an eldar player has this experience.
But now your opponent looses interest in playing you so in the end you have earned the victory for the price of probably never playing the guy again. hooray
Loving these videos. Keep em coming. If I ever stray from the glory of Gork and Mork itll be to Eldar.
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I would genuinely play Eldar if it wasn't for how old their models are.
They really make you _feel_ the ancient dying race, though.
Also they're getting a range refresh.
@@malloc7108 ya im pretty hyped
Well, don't play Tyranids either then ;)
Now is your chance. New models
@@alexanderfolger7344 expensive though!
Ok. “They live in a society” for me to laugh for 2 minutes straight. Didn’t expect it, loved it.
I love Eldar. They brought me out of a bad hobby rut. For a good while I struggled to get back to assembling and painting my Death Guard and CSMs after a terrible bout of depression, but eventually I decided to go get something totally different. And that ended up being a SC: Craftworlds box, Wave Serpent, and a Guardians kit. They were so different from what I was used to painting and I slammed out a good chunk of what I bought and had it ready quick for an upcoming 500pt patrol tournament. Went for Ulthwe initially because Dawn of War 2, but lately I've been thinking about repainting them into the custom paint scheme I use for a lot of my stuff so I can comfortably run them as any Craftworld.
In a really twisted way, not getting updated for 20 years is quite meta, remember their socks are older than most planet formations, so it makes sense their models would also be the eldest of all updates
Building my first army with Crafworld Eldar cause I like their lore and feel. Sad to see their models are outdated.
Yeah, honestly I think it’s the worst thing about playing them. Everything else is a fun weakness or flavor thing to work around, the models just look ancient. Like I’m sure one day in the future I’ll look at the models and go “man that look was so nostalgic and cool” but for now they need to update that shit ASAP.
I just found your Channel, i have to say i love this style of Video. You got my sub.
Appreciate it! Video game and more Warhammer stuff to come!
Craftworld Aeldari for life! As many a childs who got into 40k from Dawn of War. I was caught between Space Marines and Eldar for my favorite race. As a goody-two-shoes I wanted to go for the "Good Guys" and the Craftworlds were the closest thing. When Dark Crusade came I fell in love with the earnest optimism of the Tau. But I went back to our Elf lads and lasses(I think cause I simped and donated my Tau army to a girl) and never looked back since.
I will admit my playstyle would still more defensive, but I will stand by the Know-It-Alls! I actually was so bad when I was younger that the first time I won a game. I got a discount from the Store Manager xP
But if I get a Space Lizardmen army I probably will convert. Best wishes!
Ironically, possibly the closest thing to Space Lizardmen is Exodite Eldar. Would be interesting to see what they'd do if they did port the Lizardmen concept into 40K to avoid just making them Exodites where the guys riding the dinosaurs are also...archosaurs. Not dinosaurs. Fantasy specified that Saurus Warriors were actually made from the crocodilian side of the family. But still pretty close to dinosaurs.
(Interesting evolutionary quirk: The psuedosuchian (crocodiles and extinct relatives) branch in the Triassic were actually starting to diversify in a similar manner to how dinosaurs would, until conditions changed in favour of dinosaurs instead. So if you want a Lizardmen army to be more scientifically accurate, you could reason that in the Warhammer world it was pseudosuchians that became the large predators and herbivores in Lustria, and dinosaurs were confined mainly to smaller species that would eventually become birds.)
I just started playing eldar and I pray we get new models. I started playing them because I started out with guard and just bought a start collecting but then after a while of painting them and getting more into the lore. I really wanted a more unique army and I think eldar really fit that. I know they are elves and elves are common in fantasy but they look way more unique than most other factions. Hopefully they get new models so more people will play them and hopefully GW will pay attention to them.
The main problem with this range of models is that it's over 20 years old!!!!
as somebody who is new to the W40K universe, I am glad I found your channel. You have won my subscription.
Please do this for orks next. Really liking your style of video so far.
I may be seven months late but your wish has been fulfilled
I too like Iyanden. I just bought the Apocalypse vanguard detachment for Aeldari craftworlds (which is mostly just wraithhost units) just to make a Iyanden army. That and to try to overcome the challence to paint yellow.
I was not ready for how hard painting yellow was, though I saw that using Cassandora Yellow and white scar is almost as good as all the layered paints for the final product. An easier way to power through some guardians or wraithguard if you want it done quick.
@@pancreasnowork9939 I found that using two watered down coat of Iyanden Yellow contrast on wraitbone white with a Layer/Dry brushing of Yriel Yellow and a edge of Flashgitz Yellow can give a good result.
I'll have to try that, thanks chief.
Eldari: thousands of years can’t even rebuild back their empire.
Protoss: are able to rebuild back their empire after StarCraft 2.
I just realized how similar these two races are. They even have a dark god that wants to eat their souls.
I think that's a combination of the Protoss not actually having been hit as hard comparatively as the Eldar, and the conditions being better for them to rebuild. Protoss ended Starcraft 2 in a loose alliance with the other major powers in the region, mostly united apart from the Taldarim, retaining pretty much all of their technology, and there's no reason to think they can't rebuild their population. The Eldar are splintered into factions, some of which are actively hostile to one another, they've lost a lot of knowledge, and the Thirst seems to have messed up their reproduction (likely in the form of a sharply reduced availability of new souls for baby Eldar) such that it's questionable whether their population would be stable even in peacetime. (The Dark Eldar have their cloning process, but there's also a possibly justified belief that naturally-born Dark Eldar are better, and similar to the Idoneth in AoS it wouldn't surprise me if the cloning primarily works because they're harvesting soul energy from other races.)
Protoss: Fight tyranids lite, dealing with a weakass god that relies on geneticly engineer armies because he can not warp reality and was dead until heart of the swarm.
Eldar: Has a god hunting there souls with such devotion entire star sectors will be slaughter by its followers just to match the value of a single eldar soul.
Is serounded by religious crazy, overgrown weeds that you just can not stomp out, Old robots who want them dead, a tyranid army as big as the galaxy(everyone has to deal with them) after 90% of there population got wiped and 9% of there survivors just hide in the web way and continue murder fucking.
1% of your entire population which where pretty much the crew of cargoships survived and are surounded on all sides by bloodthirsty sharks.
Protoss had it easy.
i am at video 44 in the playlist now. I must say the quility really has gotten alot better over the years. Keep it up!
Watching this as a long time eldar fan seeing new eldar releases around the corner
You managed to manifest a new avatar of Khaine model into existence, 2022 might be the year I start an eldar craftworlds army
I just got into Warhammer and I'm loving your content. Can't wait to see this channel grow.
One of the things I tend to raise an eyebrow at regarding the "Tau are the closest things to good guys in the setting" line that is often stated is... most of what characterises the Craftworld Eldar as a threat to humans is, surprisingly enough, coming from the viewpoint of the Imperium. It's generally portrayed as "Eldar are jerks because they will sacrifice billions of humans to save a few Eldar" - and putting aside the fact that billions of humans probably represent a smaller portion of the overall human population than a few thousand Eldar, the fact remains that Imperial doctrine considers the craftworlders to be filthy xenos which might be lower on the priority order than others and therefore occasionally suitable for a temporary alliance when something worse is knocking, are nevertheless in line to be wiped out once the Imperium no longer has bigger fish to fry. When the Eldar do something like, say, redirecting an Orc Waaaagh to hit an Imperial hive world instead of going after a craftworld, they're not just sacrificing human lives to save Eldar lives now, they're also preventing the Imperium from growing strong enough to decide it can afford to start wiping out craftworlds. At the bottom line, the Craftworlders fight for their own survival, and to protect certain objects that they consider to be part of their legacy (such as the Maiden Worlds), but unlike the Imperium, they're not going to attack you unless you represent a real danger to them or their interests now or in the future.
That "in the future" part is the element that makes them a race that could still be the villains in a more idealistic setting: wiping out a species because their descendants are prophesised to be a problem for the Eldar is an action that in most settings would raise questions like "are you genociding them just for something that their descendants MIGHT do" and "couldn't you, like, just steer their development in a way that means they don't do that?". In 40K, though, the Eldar kind of have a point - they don't necessarily see the future in enough detail to know for sure how to prevent a bad outcome beyond "make the species that did it no longer exist before they grow strong enough", and the survival of the galaxy as a whole is on such a knife edge, and the Eldar are so important to that, that they can't really afford to take any risks. If they fail, the whole galaxy gets consumed by Chaos, or the Tyranids, or... okay, the Necrons are one of the few races that had the grimdark toned down rather than up, but the impression I get is that Necron rule still isn't great for anyone else.
In short, the Craftworld Eldar arrange things so that bad things happen to humans because it was the Imperium that decided that they would be enemies (or at least frenemies that not-so-secretly want to wipe each other out). But they're not interested in xenocide as an ideology (they do it, but as a means to an end, not an end in itself) or aggressive expansion (the worlds their ancestors terraformed are theirs and theirs alone, but that's probably fair enough, they wouldn't be habitable otherwise, and they usually give interlopers a warning to evacuate). If you're some peaceful alien race that just wants to mind its own business, maybe colonise the local region, the Craftworld Eldar are probably the best playable race to come into contact with.
I don't like the eldar because they always have to be so cryptic all the damn then have the gall to call you a filthy mon'keigh or whatever when you can't comprehend their cryptic sh*t and just ask them to explain themselves every once in a while
Legitimately the only eldar I genuinely like are the ones in the gothic armada. Specifically the pirate prince's forces
@@floricel_112 "Never ask the Eldar a question for they will give you three answers, each of which is true and horrifying to know".
Thing is, from what's said about their language and psychology, this makes sense. The Eldar language and thought process tends to contain layers upon layers of context and multiple meanings and additional information such that if you did comprehend everything they said, they've told you in a minute what would take a human ten minutes to say. What a human would consider "explaining themselves" is essentially baby talk to them. Which could be a skill worth learning, but due to Imperial xenophobia, being a diplomat to humans tends to be a high-risk job. In practice, most of the communication is often done by Farseers, which have the advantage of sometimes being able to see when it is safe to do so, but which is often probably the equivalent to a theoretical physicist with little experience communicating to anyone who doesn't have at least a science degree talking to a ten-year-old.
Of course, this is a bit of an "all there in the manual" thing because, unless there's something we really don't know about, Games Workshop and Black Library writers are human, actually writing that is easier said than done and tends to come across as being cryptic for the sake of being cryptic.
You're the reason I've gotten into Aeldari thanks for the inspiration!
Just discovered this channel. I love this style of talking.
I’m so glad they’re finally updating the models this year.
Honestly loving the whole age of mythology soundtrack you have going on great videos btw!
I’d love to play an elder army but I’m not spending money on such dated models. I have many elder models from the mid 90’s and they still use those same sculpts today which is a joke.
I’m sure they’ll get an update within a year or so otherwise nobody is going to want to spend money on them.
You’re right; it sucks because all the models that they have updated like the Howling Banshees or the Autarchs look fantastic, but then almost all the Phoenix Lords are older than me and it’s a bit ridiculous
My friend sent me this video despite the fact that I already collect craftworlders, still loved this video tho it was hilarious xD
The Eldar player has good taste, naturally of course
@@pancreasnowork9939 based and khaine pilled
@@Nonameisback999 I'll be borrowing that phrase. For the survival of the Craftworlds, you understand.
@@pancreasnowork9939 yes smh for the craftworlds brother
I chose eldar because of the awesome ranger (s) and crimson hunter exarchs... only to nerf them to hell. Thanks 9th edition.
The models being flat is just something that all fine cast stuff has the old board game Hero Scape has that problem where a lot of the human or humanoid models are pretty flat
You play IG because you're on screen at 2:17
I play IG because they're 40K Skaven. We're not the same.
An acceptable reason
I would have said that's the Orks because of their random bullshit rules and endless numbers, but sure.
@@andrewmcnally5013 another close comparisons. Though the Imperial Guard in my mind is closer lore-wise because the IG hides all their massive weaponry behind disposable nobodies like the Skaven, and if a few million people die to win the battle then that’s no problem. The Orks usually don’t actively seek to teamkill during a battle as part of strategy - if it happens then oh well but you got to see da big gun go off so they’re still happy.
so one of the critisisms for the models is that they are ancient and they don't produce nearly enough, just like the eldar themselves.
I wish I could play these games, but I don't even know where to start. It is a bit intimidating. So I just stick to watching lore videos and such to appease my boredom.
I will always enjoy Age of Mythology music.
damn, you won me over, and i don´t even like Elves! Great Video!
Selfish request; any chance you can do Custodes next?
I would love to do custodes; only issue is I’ve yet to actually play a game against them. I don’t want to make a video on them if I don’t really know what the hell im on about but the moment I play against the emperor’s finest there will be a video on them
You make awesome videos keep it up !!
Personaly I favour Mymearan Shadow Specters. Craftworld alone has a beautiful color shaft, and their anti-vechicle doctrine, paired with great stealth and mobility speaks volumes to me.
I had heard eldar are a very gimmicky army.
As you said:"if you are winning, you win hard, but if you are loosing, you are loosing bad", but as much as i would love to just paint them like the elves of Mirkwood, being a sadistic fuck love to simply field tau and make my enemy suffer trough my shooting phase and then during my overwatch phase.
Except for 1 flyer. I own every unit of the Eldar. and except for characters. I got all full units in triplets. With their current state i was happy i collected everything Aeldari (yeeh drukhari codex ^^). But until their new codex i at least have enough to do until the end of my days if the 9th edition is going to be totally shit for them.
I hope to one day see do or don'ts with all the chaos factions.
I would argue there is another graceful faction in 40k,....slaanesh themselves
Daemonettes and keeper of secrets definitely move and fight with elegance. Even fiends in total warhammer have a grace as alien as their appearance, which is fitting given they're freaks
Rome 1 music got me feeling nostalgic.
I usually dislike elf’s but I love the Eldar.
Yeah I'm either living in a society or being spikey
Tbh i was allways told eldar screwed up the galaxy and basically assigned blame to other factions, turns out i was wrong, now i might start a eldar army
nice video man please keep it up
Waiting for the Aldari to make their epic comeback.
So are you gonna make a comment on them when new Eldar models drop?
Yessir
Bro make more of these
Subbed after code geass reference
I make sure the garbage I create contains only the finest quality references
1:24 goddamnit...
Iyanden is truly the thinking man's choice.
Gotta love the Rome Total war soundtrack in the beginning
I still don't understand how a society can last for tens of millions of years. Even the Imperium stretches my suspension of disbelief.
I see they follow the tradtion of the high elves (being the punching bag for most faction trailers)
To be fair to the High Elves they actually kick ass in most of the lore. In the Total War trailers yeah they get their shit ROCKED but in lore it usually goes something along the lines of “…and then the High Elves murdered everyone involved and went back home.”
The Eldar meanwhile…well, Fantasy didn’t have space Marines to shill.
Getting their shit rocked in the Total War trailers was essentially an admission that they were the secondary protagonists of the setting and the main protagonists of Game 2. In Game 1 it was the Empire getting their shot rocked in trailers.
puts guardmen with my eldar
why.... my seeker went on a date with space marine and decided to use space magic to try and bring back a primarch
Commenting for the algorithm cause you deserve more views
Avatar of Khain is all the motivation I need!
i honestly love the Eldar as a faction
what I can't stand is their fans. or the fandom in general.
I can’t stand the fact that there’s only 5 of us in existence
"The Eldar murder-f*cked Slaanesh into existence" - some legend. 🤣
I think this is it for me, as soon as we get new models. or are there good 3rd party ones?
Rome TW music, Sunless Sea music, AoE music.
Man, where have you been all my life
Can someone please tell me the music at 2:30
They are my favorite race I'm just waiting for them to get new models which it looks like they are now.
My biggest problem with eldar is that as a faction you can either be smug or you can murder-orgy the god of rape into existence, ripping an enormous hole in space-time in the process. You cannot be both. The eldar are both and it makes them completely unlikable. Heck, even in-universe they are so smug that it hinders the eldar from achieving their own goals.
Take the ending of DoW1 as an example. What Macha should say is "if you smash the Maledictum you'll release the daemon inside", instead she says some vagueness about ruin and not knowing what they're doing, followed by gunfire. As a result shit goes sideways.
I think a large part of this is that the Eldar have a justified distrust of the Imperium. If they speak straight, as likely as not it'll turn out that one of the Imperials there actually wants the outcome that they're trying to prevent, or the Imperials will decide that the Eldar are just trying to manipulate them and gunfire ensues. We have (or at least, I have - maybe there's a Tau-Asuryani interaction in the lore somewhere I haven't seen) very little material on how the Craftworld Eldar behave with races that wouldn't cheerfully render them extinct if given the opportunity. (Remember that until Guilliman, Imperial policy regarding all Eldar was "the time for their extermination will come", and even now I think it's still formally the policy, Guilliman has just been bending it.)
It's worth pointing out that the aeldari are the ones who weren't into the whole 'murder-orgy' thing and left when it became clear that telling the others to tone it down wasn't doing much good. Hence the smugness - sure, their empire collapsed in the worst fashin, but the craftworld eldars still need a few thousand years of saying 'I told you so' to anyone that would listen before they get it out of their system. Hence the smugness.
As for the drukhari, they chose the 'let's double down on everything and refuse to be repetant about anything ever' route, so the smugness is probably the only thing allowing them to live in their own little world where they did nothing wrong.
I sure wish eldar had tabletop rules that made them feel like the hyper competent warriors they're supposed to be. I've heard 9th did that pretty well but unfortunately I stopped before the 9th codex and I'm only just getting back in to the hobby now as 10th releases
Another great video!
5 seconds in and I couldn't help but notice the Rome 1 Egypt soundtrack playing
You can't bring me over to the elven side
I'm already there mon' kheig
What don't i get is how eldar have been around for 60 million years and not master of every atom in universe? I mean what were you doing all this time? It took humanity few thousand of years to become civilized and capture the milky way whilst you twiddle your thumbs and let it happen?
8:40
Kinda ironic they have collora of Sweden
Go-pa, intenaifies
The hardest part about collecting eldar, 20 years ago was telling your parents your gay.
Arabic summer was a nice touch
I collect thousand sons and necrons... but gosh are them space elves appealing was it not for the awfully outdated models. First gotta catch up with all my unpainted models hahahaha
I honestly have no idea how Eldar isn't more popular, for me they're the coolest looking faction in the setting, next to Tau. Their lore is interesting and are the secondary protagonists.
I genuinely don't know why people love the Emperium so much. Big space men are lame.
Ah yea the space elves lol. Seriously I always wanted some eldar, but there’s hardly any models
I'd do them, of course i'd do them. We're talking about the same kind of "do" right?
How the hell were Krorks too primitive, yet Orks can beat eldar. What is going on in the lore of this game
Whats the name of the music, and can you add the in the description.
youtube actually making good recomendations. wilde
we live in a webway
There is oly one true areason as to why a faction as advanced as the eldar aren't the main protagonists !
They ain't human !
That's the main reason, they ain't relatable for most people so most don't care, even tough characters like Cegorach have a damn powerful influence on the setting.
It's not really all that common for a setting to have some race that aren't the main protagonists, but probably would have been in a prequel set sufficiently far back in the past, and which now exist as an older race and secondary protagonist race that provides guidance to the current protagonists (largely through having much greater knowledge of the history of the setting due to having been around for more of it)... basically filling the same role as elves normally do in a traditional fantasy setting. Games Workshop was just more direct about it by making them ACTUAL space elves rather than 'totally original alien race that fulfils the same narrative role'.
@@Draxynnic "Games Workshop was just more direct about it by making them ACTUAL space elves rather than 'totally original alien race that fulfils the same narrative role'."- They aren't even true space elves.
They are very different to humans and can't even breed with them, while the elves and dwarves of Tolkien are of the same species, as even Tolkien mentioned when he said they can breed with each other.
@@eu29lex16 They're very overtly Warhammer Fantasy elves IN SPACE. Warhammer Fantasy elves are a different species, have the same gods that the 40K Eldar had before the Fall, broadly similar aesthetics and approaches to war (as much as you can have going from a fantasy setting to a science fiction one), and in 8th edition they even backported the Thirst into Fantasy despite the Fall not having happened in Fantasy. The Craftworlds, Dark Eldar, and Exodites even map pretty well to High, Dark, and Wood Elves respectively. So unless you're going to claim that Warhammer Fantasy elves and dwarfs aren't elves and dwarfs because they aren't direct copies of Tolkein's elves and dwarves, Eldar are pretty clearly space elves. (And I'd remind you that Tolkein didn't invent either.)
@@Draxynnic "They're very overtly Warhammer Fantasy elves IN SPACE. Warhammer Fantasy elves are a different species- No, they can't breed with humans !
Elves are inspired from elves but now are mostly different and even their eyes are different.
Elves and humans are the same species because their genes are similar enough to breed.
But eldar and humans are too different so it never happens without trying to do it in a lab. So yeah, their differences are not just visual/phenotypes .
Eldar are ALIENS inspired from elves but they are not ELVES, so spare me your oversimplfication.
@@eu29lex16 Pretty sure that Games Workshop has specifically said that Warhammer elves can't breed with humans in Fantasy. You might be able to find some pre-4E references to half-elves, but they'd be about as relevant to more modern canon as half-orcs (yes, Fantasy orcs are fungus just as 40K orks are).
Eldar are Warhammer elves IN SPACE. Simple as that. They had the same gods, same general attitude towards warfare albeit at a different technology level, same physical features, and the same psychological strengths and weaknesses. Most of the differences can be chalked up to their different histories.
They're not Tolkein elves, but, again, Tolkein didn't invent elves.
So, my general approach to war games is the slow unkillable march typically focusing on ranged attacks with a front line of melee capable troops to keep them off my back line. So, yeah I typically mix some good old blue boys with a fully ranged army like the Tau, or I praise papa Nurgle then drink a glass of milk to ruin everyone's day as my rear end becomes linked to Nurgles Garden.
@ArkBlanc true, eldar gear is on par with necrons and better then ig in reality, while the fire prism is better then the hammerhead on the lore. Can blast a monolith in a few hits and its range is huge, can shoot you as soon as you are seen on the horizon. That's powerful and any tau would be jealous of it. Plus the scorpion, warp spider, reapers who individually have better armor the kaskrins and other human elites.Actually, in the first dow game, a eldar tank had more hp then a lemme rudd or hammerhead, even more then a predator cuz wraithbone is that good.
(Uses Rome Total War music) I see you too are a man of culture.
Great video!
3:06 space klan
I'm starting a Bel-taine army and calling its leader Macha and ya can't stop me!
I always wondered.
If the Eldar murder-fucked Slaanesh into existence because they were bored and apparently that's the only way you can have fun if you are bored, then why do they even care if their souls go to Slaanesh. It's just more of the same. 🤷♂️
For the Dark Eldar, because they want to be alive and doing the murder-fucking themselves, rather than their soul energy being shredded apart and maybe reformed into a daemon sometime.
The other branches of the race are the minority who looked at the murder-fucking and went "stop that, no seriously, stop that, you're bringing our entire civilisation down around our pointy ears, if you don't stop that we're leaving. Oh, you're not stopping it? That's it, we're out of here."
In the case of the Craftworld / Exodites, it's because they weren't into the whole murder-fuck the rest of their species was having.
In the case of the Dark Eldars, it's because you can't murder-fuck anymore once Slaanesh is done eating your soul.
In the case of the Harlequins, they live in a society.
I want the sauce for the image at 2:17. D:
I believe I just looked up “imperial fanboy” on google. I’d you mean the comic, I’m not entirely sure where it’s from. I’m fairly sure I pulled it from 1d4chan, but I delete any files I have from videos once there up to save space. I’m sorry, wish I could be of more help.
@@pancreasnowork9939 Oh don't worry about it. Thanks for at least letting me know! ^^
Rome Total War music in the backgrounder is banging
The ancient Eldar models don't indicate a lack of love on the part of GW, they are an allegory to the decay and stagnation that comes from decadence, hubris, and complacency that destroyed the Eldar empire... or GW just hates Elves... one or the other.
Mmmm. Now what about the Deldar
The aesthetic of the eldar is what turns me off to them, but at the same time their race and general lore is cool.
Ooh yeah, I know about finecast (now).
Got an eldrad cause I was like "Ulthwe' poster boy for ten aussiebucks? Hell yeah," Then that shit took me hours to even prepare to paint, even then it actively bent from light painting. Still looks decent, but holy shit the effort ain't worth it.
Played against craftworld with Orkz went badly. Did it with grey knights my fucking HQ soloed a heavy unit and a guardian squad and a farseer (at that point we ended the game because the farseer could only do so much and I had a ton of deny.).
So ninth did give the eldar one giant codex which had all the factions so you didn’t need to purchase a harlequin book. (As I understood it it seemed they had separate books before ninth).
They sometimes had a separate book - usually not a very big one. I think them getting their own section in the Craftworld Codex was actually an improvement.