Dark Eldar WIP

Here is a quick video update. I'm working on my Dark Eldar army and finally got around to cleaning up the shelves for my Eldar. Once my final jetbike shipment is in I'll do a run through of my Eldar army.

Army Consists of:

• Archon
• Urien Rakarth
• 20 warriors
• 3 raiders
• 1 ravager
• 5 wych
• 3 warp beast and master
• 3 bikes (one on the way with blaster)

Guardians heroes of the Craftworld

Within the Eldar community there is a love hate relationship with guardians. Many love using them others won’t even buy the models. Personally I love the little guys, they way I picture them is having the same armor and weaponry as everyone else except they’re just not as skilled at using them.

It’s like the scene in 300 where the Spartans meet up with their allies from the surrounding provinces. The Spartans allies were farmers, bakers, and candle stick makers, where as the Spartans were bread for war. Both groups had swords, armor and shields but one group knew how to use the weapons better then the other. So that’s how one could account for this idea that Craftworlds give their citizens crappy armor and weapons, it’s really not that, they’re just not as skilled as the aspect warriors. A guardian may not duck, dodge or dive at the right moment as a howling banshee might and a guardian may not know proper breathing techniques as a dire avenger would when shooting long range.

Now some people may mention well they have thousands of years to train and should be better skilled with defense and use of their weapons, true but they are just artisans. My argument would be that they’ve live for so long but what we consider as basic training done in a few weeks an Eldar could take years to complete something they would regard as basic training. Of course these are just thoughts I have and my attempts to explain how I see the guardians.

Why Ulthwe Eldar?

Well I've never been asked this very often but I would like to make mention of it as I start this little blog. Why did I choose the Ulthwe craftworld. I would have to say for three reasons, Guardians, Farseers/Warlocks and the fluff.

First off why so I like Guardians? Well to put it simply they are just your typical civilian fighting for their home. Something I think I can relate to more then a six foot Space Marine.

Why do I like Farseer and Warlocks? I think it has to do with the fact that they are like wizards. When I used to play D&D back in the day that’s one of the only classes I would play. If I can stay on D&D for a moment I also used to play elves exclusively, so I guess that may be another reason for the soft spot I have for these space elves.

So on to the fluff, Ulthwe is by no means a safe place like most of the other craftworlds save perhaps a few. It’s not just a small population that threatens these Eldar but the very fact that they are on the edge of what’s called the Eye of Terror. Most of the back story mentions that the reason for Ulthwe having so many great psykers is because of the close proximity to this warp space rupture.

So in a nutshell that’s basically why I like Ulthwe, the colours and Egyptian eye are also reason I enjoy this army but I could really go on for a long while about why I like this specific group of Eldar. Mind you recently I am developing a real love for speedy units so maybe a change towards Saim-Hann could be in the future, but who really knows.

So in closing remember “Their firepower is matched only by their arrogance.”