Dark Eldar/Drukari thread

>>54571335
As far as functional lists, all I have to say is mandrakes. Fucking mandrakes have given me more for my points than any other unit. Those and voidraven bombers have been the MvPs of my army.

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>>54571345
Damn son I need some of them I jumped the gun and bought incubi. Since I figured they would sell out and mandrakes would take forever to come back... they got listed the next day.

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Gonna drop some more art while the thread gets warmed up.

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Love my Hellions this edition 5 man squads have been disintegrated though. Do you just do ten man squads or split it and let the one that dosent get deleted for vengeance?

>>54571367
Deep strike, a ten man unit has 20 shots at s4 ap-1, -1 to hit when targeted in melee or ranged, 31 attacks in melee at s4. Unlike wracks or all your splinter weapons they wound most vehicles on a 5+ while doing mortal wounds on a 6 in ranged. Also don't forget the 8" move, 5+ invuln, and everything for power from pain.

>>54571594
Yeah that sounds pretty fucking nice. I'll have to get some as soon as I can. Also I like that it one of the few units that don't need a paper mache boat to ride in.

>>54571647
Exactly, sure you miss out on a dark lance but you spend about the same as you would on ten kabalites in a raider without special weapons and get a lot more on average. Also about the same as a voidraven with missiles, or a five-man unit of trueborn with four blasters in a venom with base weapons.

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>>54571700
I like it thanks for the analysis fellow Archon!

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my archon was trueborn from lelith and an archon she was in the employee of. when the child was born she left it with the archon as she had no need for a burden. 4 days latter the archon decided to torture and kill the baby in front of his kabal. Not long after lelith burst into his palace slaughtering the house and taking the baby away. he was raised with the wyches of the cult of strife, until he became of age (lots of ss went on I assure you). when the archon was old enough as all dark eldar do he desired power and in the wyche cults that's not a thing males can do. lelith set him up with asdrubael vect as one of his archons. my archon works for vect now with one of lilith's succubus's watching over the archon to watch for any treachery towards his mother. (or maybe she wikes himmm dawwww). however recently with lilith joining the ynnari in thier quest my archon feels upset with his cult of strife allies gone his forces are diminished and vectors kabal wich he is a part of want the ynnari dead. after this im unsure what he will do lore wise join up and betray the black heart or remain and hunt them down with vect.

>>54571335
Okay that thing looks 1:1 like Jabba's barge from Star Wars VI. They didn't even attempt to make it look different

>>54571926
Who dosent want a Janna barge!?

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>>54571842
Uhhhh

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>>54572093
what?

>>54572158
Good on you for trying to vanquish the Yannari! Traitorous witches they are.

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Rules for Kabalites in shadow war here!

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Something funny happened on the way to Konor.

>>54572290
>yep thats me. you might be wondering how I got into this mess~

>>54571772
Archons a shit, I also take nine wracks with a haemonculus in a raider as my warlord, it lets me move him where I want him and keep him safe until I find a nice unit to charge into.

Current preferred 2k point setup is a vanguard detachment with said Haemonculus/wracks setup, Three units of ten mandrakes, three units of blaster trueborn in venoms, two voidraven bombers with missiles, and a ravager. Alpha strike, bitch. Thin out infantry with bombs and venom guns, thin out tougher infantry with mandrake shooting, use the blasters where needed, ravager and voidraven using the actual weapons as tank busters, then charge in at the scattered remnants turn 2.

>>54571428
Why would they fight tyranids? They don't have souls to feast on do they?

>>54573596
They lock them up in fighting arenas for sport. Think they even breed more powerful ones for the lulz.Also Nids always have a chance of dropping in on a raid and fucking everything up.

>>54571335
Vinnie, go home.

>>54573705
Vinnie is a little bitch!

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Hello,fellow Commoraghians! I, a Dark Eldar member of a prominent Syren Cult, would like to better defend myself against futile (but valiant) human attacks. Let's say a xeno Inquisition squad (let by a dashing Inquisitor) will attack us in Armageddon during a raid. Which weaponry and equipment would such ugly (but brave) humans would need to have to utterly and completely decimate my Dark Eldar Wych squad? Firearms, melee weapons, armours, any information in how these gross (but great) humans can destroy us completely without us having a chance to fight back.

You know, just so we, Dark Eldars, can better defend ourselves against such hypothetical (but very real, very imminent) threat to our very existence.

>>54573735
Only when his precious deldar get smoked by Ravenwing.

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>>54573977
Wyches are susceptible to bouts of illness by the sight of naked humans wielding combat knives. Also the battle cry "Mandrakes a shit shiiiit." In dim lit areas strikes fear into their hearts.

Can I ask some lore questions?

1) how did decapitator get the Mandrake realm into Commoragh? Wikis are all unclear except he did it by collecting skulls

2) Any updates on Lady Malys since the gate cracked? Last I heard she was in an open turf war with Vect

Trying to figure out a color scheme for my kabal that hasn't been done. I'm tempted to give them the whole rainbow.

>>54574296
I think silver and metallic blue would work great

>>54574178
1. During a huge dysjunction caused by an asshole Archon Succubus another Archon. All influenced by different chaos gods the mandrakes made an incursion into Cammoragh because of the warp fuckery caused by the dysjunction. The skull taker got his last few skulls for his collection and burned a hole in reality where the shadow realm is now open all the time in the lower parts of the dark city.
2. Last I saw of her she was fighting a solitaire to a stalemate 1v1 style and was still cool with Vect.

>>54574365
Maybe. Their old color scheme was yellow, and while I still don't think any canon DEldar go for yellow, I'm not sure if it's a good fit for my dudes.

>>54574390
Thanks, that helps, although I still don't get how a complete skull collection manages to do that.
Malys and Harlequins again, Im really starting to buy into that Cegorach possession angle

>>54574461
All of them were arranged in a way where the souls inside of them stared at the same weak spot in reality until it finally came apart.

>>54574496
Somehow this gets funnier the more I learn

>>54571335
>What's up with your Kabal?
Not fully fleshed out yet, but basically it's the kabal Deldar join when they fail out of other kabals and want revenge.

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>>54575453
This conversion of him is pretty neat though!
>>54575484
Aww shit we Bregan D'aerthe now boys! I'm actually sort of mad I never though of that.

>>54572950
>Flak detonating next to Deldar vehicles
>Haven't exploded yet

Unrealistic as fuck.

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Dark Eldar have the best art.

>>54575579
Pfft we 10 wounds 5T now baby!

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I actually prefer Drukhari to the very bland 'dark eldar'

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Reavers or Hellions. Or both?

>>54575629
Both reavers tie lead the charge then hellions can hit and run charge and shoot secondary targets.

>>54575655
Reavers charge in and tie them up***

>>54574452
We'll tell us about your dudes and we shall suss out a good color for them that ain't established yet!

>>54575748
The Kabal of the Naked Eye. They operate chiefly as information brokers, and are big on spying on the people of the materium (selling the locations of good raiding spots, enemy weaknesses, and other "exciting business opportunities"). I'm not sure how the 8th Edition shakeup might affect them, but I'm not going to worry about it right now.

Doodling their archon now. Might post that if this thread is up by the time I'm done.

>>54575880
Sounds pretty neat good to see someone making a nice bit of lore for their dudes! Anyone cornered the market on a midnight blue scheme with yellow or gold trim?

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I want my Deldar kabalites to have a sublte red tint to their armor. The armor is sprayed Chaos Black. Any tips/trick on how to make this work?

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How does one DE + Harlies?

Or should I just collect and play them separately?

>>54575985
Usually a first base coat of some sort of tan or brown over chaos black. It helps the lighter colors actually show up.

>>54576018
The official army would be Yannari. But they are traitors to their race. Dark eldar don't have psykers so shadowseers are nice Then Death jesters are cool for sniping and clearing up infantry . Troupes are kinda just better wyches.

>>54571335
>Kabal rules by successive clones of the original Archon.
>current clone prince" is Alirekh VIII, 428th successor
>due to a fault in the cloning process, Alirekh has a wasting disease in his blood
>he gets medicine from the Haemonculus commissioned to clone him, but in exchange must provide information about the Kabal
>over the years concocts a plot to depose the old Archon
>in the weeks approaching the hour of his rise, he discovers that the Haemonculus engineered him to have this blood disease on purpose
>decides this cannot stand
>takes his most "loyal" trueborn with him to a crone world in the eye of terror to get a spirit stone
>goes to the Haemonculus' lab, kills him and binds his soul to the stone before putting it in the hilt of a huskblade
>uses the same sword to kill the current Archon
>takes control of the Kabal, but now has to siphon twice as much soul energy to keep the Haemonculus soul from draining while also dealing with it whispering to him

Unsubtle and needs tweaking, but I'm purchasing some deldar from a friend and I wanted to make something at least.

The Black Omen Kabal. Their Archon has embraced a pseudo mysticism to play on pre fall superstitions and generally mess with his rivals and would be assassins. Makes a point of capturing and corrupting Craftworld eldar who account for about a third of the rank and file within the Kabal. They have little to do with the Haemonculus covens beyond the necessary regeneration pacts. Somewhat bemused by the fact that Wytch cults stopped carrying haywire grenades for some reason.

>>54575961
That's pretty close to the color scheme I'm using. It looks great, go for it anon!

>>54576441
Sounds pretty dope! What type of stuff will you be getting from him?

>>54576445
Hopefully the wyches read their new codex and decide to grab those grenades again senpai.

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>>54576479
He has two kabalite squads, a reaver and some hellions, but he thinks he might keep the hellions. I'm also looking into getting the Gangs of Commoragh game, do you know if it's any fun?

please tell me someone gets the reference

>>54576619
Yeah bruh Michal Moorcock smiles upon you. Yeah gangs is cool and nets you lots of fast attack along with a rule set for X-wing light. Godspeed newly minted Elric Archon!

Got a 75PL game tomorrow for a campaign against IG. The mission is a bunker assault. How does this list look?

>Battalion

>HQ
Archon w/Blast Pistol and Huskblade
Succubus /wBlast Pistol and Glaive

>Troop
Kabalites x5 w/Shredder and Phantom
Kabalites x5 w/Shredder and Phantom
Wyches x10 w/Hydra x3, Blast Pistol, and Power sword

>Elites
Trueborn x5 w/Blaster x2 and Lance x2
Trueborn x5 w/Blaster x2 and Lance x2

>Fast
Reavers x3 w/Blaster, Grav, and Agonizer
Hellions x10 w/Stunclaw

>Flier
Voidraven w/Missiles and Lances

>Dedicated Transport
Raider w/Lance and Prow
Raider w/Lance and Prow
Raider w/Lance and Prow
Venom w/Cannons

>>54576740

I also have this. Keep in mind its WYSIWYG, and in only have 4 blasters and 4 lances.

>Vanguard

>HQ
Archon w/Blast Pistol and Huskblade
Succubus /wBlast Pistol and Glaive

>Troop
Kabalites x10 w/Phantom and Cannon

>Elites
Trueborn x5 w/Blaster x2 and Lance x2
Trueborn x5 w/Blaster x2 and Lance x2
Bloodbrides x10 w/Hydra x3, Blast Pistol, and Power sword

>Fast
Reavers x3w/Blaster, Grav, and Agonizer
Hellions x10 w/Stunclaw

>Flier
Voidraven w/Missiles and Lances

>Dedicated Transport
Raider w/Lance and Prow
Raider w/Lance and Prow
Raider w/Lance and Prow
Venom w/Cannons

>>54576740
Ghaaaaat damn yeah I think that you may have him there. I'd love to hear how it turns out. The carnage if he dosent seize is gonna be glorious.

>>54576713
Thanks anon. I'm trying to decide what kind of culture his Kabal has in general. What if they're descendants of the Solar Cults that used to control Commorragh's suns?

Hello Arching! I'm planning on getting a tantalum and sculpting a throkne onto the back portion where the driver usually goes. Any of you fine specimens have any good inspiration pics? Deldar Throne doesn't get too great of results in google.

>>54576807
It's a set mission, and as the attacker I go first. No worry about a seize, thankfully. God to hear another opinion on it. I've never faced guard with my Deldar, so I'm worried about enough dakka for conscripts while not giving up AT power for Bunkers.

Which list do you like more?

>>54576965
Look up Dias of destruction breh!
>>54576876
Yeah that sounds pretty cool having a pre fall background is always nice. The silent storm novel released recently actually shows right after the fall!

>>54576965
>>54576619
You've made me want to do something similar with pic related.

>>54577054
I've never used them with shredders myself because of warnings against them. The second list with all the elites though add a whole lot of dakka. Shove those bloodbrides up their ass asap and have the true born skirt the fringes of combat picking them off.

Trying to name a character something foreign-sounding. What works with Dark Eldar? Greek?

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>>54571335
>>54572093
The Authors of Agony! A Kabal devoted to crafting perfect tragedies from life with the precious mortals as characters in their tales of bloodshed! Planning on painting them with a scheme exactly like this actually - the idea being that "Authors" would wear armor white as an empty page, with various patterns in inky black.
>>54575599
I dig that - a Kabal which knows enough to cause some damage but that stays its hand just to sell the info for a profit - killer, very nice.
>>54575880
Tis a thing of beauty.

Why do you love those as magnificently black-hearted and cruel as the Deldar?

>>54577120
That's what I'm thinking, too. Brides really have the potential to do a shitload of damage either to Bunkers (any 6+ on the bunker is a mortal wound in melee with a +1 wound strat making it 5+), or just to actual guardsmen with +1S drugs, which I think will outperform +1A

>>54577751

So doing the math on Brides rerolling 1s, +1A and +1S are actually identical against guardsmen causing 9.63 wounds, which goes up to 11.48 on both with PfP +1 hit. Interesting.

>>54577394
Try flipping through path of the dark eldar and figuring out common naming conventions.

>>54578339
Nevermind, I came up with a pun instead

>>54579129
Brilliant now share your pun with the class Anon.

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>romantic bump

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>>54579352
Some spelling variation of Aye Kande
>>54575880
>>54575961
Classy lady archon, spymaster with a fetish for monkeigh weapons and technology. Has her own pet servo skulls made from her victims, constantly recording things for her use and/or entertainment. Delights in calling herself a "Keeper of Secrets" to no one else's amusement.

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>>54580150

>>54580180
>Aye Kande
I don't get it

>>54580180
This may be heretical even by dark eldar standards... Seems your having fun though Anon! Nice art too.

>>54580543
Eye candy.

>>54580551
Thanks

>>54580608
Had any matches yet homie?

>>54580634
Not since the shop near me closed down.

>>54580651
Well that fuckin sucks! Guess you can always build lore and share your stuff here champ!

>>54571335
>You collecting imperial or chaos scalps?
Chaos scalps, if imperials win more cattle for the dark city, chaos is no fun that wants to stop our rave party

What do you think will happen to Vect in the 8th edition codex? Last I heard he was trying to contact Yvraine.

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>tfw your Phantasm launcher kills a space Marine after 24 splinter shots did nothing

>>54575985
Tamiya or valejo clear red over black?

Got an army waiting to be painted thinking of going with a mythril or bronze color scheme but I'm thinking it'll be too much on the vehicles.

Anyone with a metallic army got any tips on how to handle them?

>>54575985
Highlight the black with red

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>>54582380

I've played sisters since 4th with metallic armor. Pic related. The biggest thing to remember is Less is more because I see too many people with thick metallic paint, and metallics don't free you from highlights and shades just because it's shiny. Take the thigh for example. That's based with the darker silver, hit with Nuln just on the edges, and then I put a layer of a brighter silver on top (runefang? I forget the names). Think like an oval shape for the other layer.

>>54582507
Thanks for the tip anon I really appreciate it!

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>>54582507
You are swell sisters Anon. You get culled last!

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Early morning question. How many transports is too many transports?

>>54583380

We're dark eldar. We don't take units. We take transports with meat tax.

>>54571345
How are the finecast mandrake models?

>>54583718
They are elusive but the ones I've seen have looked alright. None of them have been painted for some reason... not one.

>>54584169
Well I might go for those then, rather than spend the 100 for the old metal ones. Why GW why you make failcast

>>54575622
Dear God that image is literally perfect for one of my Rogue Trader Characters. The Huskblade in one hand, the Bike, the Kabalite armour, and the insistence of ramming people to fight.

>>54584283
How's playing a dark eldar in rogue trader Anon?

>>54584400
I think there was a expansion set in commoragh? Forgot the name.

>>54584400
Looked it up, 'The Soul Reaver' added a Dark Eldar Kabalite career path and the ' The Dark Kin' added a wych career path

>>54577394
They have canon names like Sebulon, Uergax, and Khirateq. Try literally anything from the ancient world.

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>declare charge with Raider on Librarian and tac squad
>move wyches into totally different squad
>opponent is visibly confused
>start combat
>get wyches done to avoid CP steal
>start Raider
>roll to hit, noting shock prow die
>declare all in on Libby
>roll pair of 5s and a 4
>opponent gets ready to roll moral
>oh no friend, I inform him they hit
>confusion intensifies
>wound with one bladevane
>fails save because lol -1
>wound with Prow
>fails save
>dies because D3 damage
>gets shanked by point bit
>his face when

I love raiders

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>>54571335
>What's up with your Kabal?
When the Dark Eldar codex was finally updated after over like 10 years, I fell in love with how the new Reaver jetbikes looked, and remembered something I had read in Doom of Mymeara.

About how when Eldar who become Corsairs 'go too far', and get too into into being raiders and pirates living a semi-hedonistic existence, that they can fall afoul of the same temptations that the Dark Eldar have, and after enough time become indistinguishable. I envisioned my Kabal being one of them, originally a clan hailing from the Craftworld of Saim-Hann and still behaving very much like one but adjusted for the Dark Eldar mindset, and consisting heavily of bikers. I didn't put too much thought into it beyond that, aside from assuming they'd have a general disdain for the arena bikers, with most of their own being Trueborn and other warriors who've earned the right to 'ride with the nobles'.

I did some little modifications to make some of them stand out, but nothing special, so it doesn't matter that my camera is broken. Just swapping a couple parts here and there. Giving one rider a Blaster Pistol (since his bike had the Disintegrator, it didn't matter). Mostly I took the hooks on chains (not my models but pic related: front row, far left corner), and put them on the Arena Champions so it looked like they were trailing behind the rider, ready to snag some unfortunate.

>>54571335
Still working on it but I'll share it.

The Kabal of the Vainglorious Violation, a fairly large Kabal that's the current head honcho of a sub-realm Pleasure City. Known for being excellent slavers and aquiring/producing high quality slaves. Very militarized too because they hire out their services to other Kabals that are after very rare and difficult to get slave stock in exchange for a cut of the profits.
Looking for a Xeno species that you can only get from that hard to find place? Trying to get your hands on some mutant Astartes for your upcoming gladiator fights? Wanna get your hands on one of those Tau Ethereals? You trying to hunt for a Farseer? That's forbidden you know, so it's gonna cost you extra. Now go talk to so and so at the Vainglorious Violation Kabal cause they know how to find it, catch it, ship it, and train it to suit all your debased needs.
They're quirk is that almost every single member, associate, and affiliates are all female. Right down from the Incubi, Scourges, to the Wracks, and even the Mandrakes. Helps that they own a cloning facility to produce cheep lowborn to fill their ranks and sell off.
This quirk is primarily due to the Kabal's Archon, the only male and one that likes to surround himself with beauty. Fancies himself a collector of a sorts and hunts down the most appealing of females of any humanoid race to add to his "collection". He's a weird one too, always smiling and at ease like nothing bothers him, but is very anal about protecting his "pets". He won't even torture them and this sick affection creeps his Kabal the hell out. He's also known for "preserving" his pets that near death by having them encased or turned into statues, which he uses to decorate the Kabal's fortress.

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Is Asdrubael Vect a tits or an ass man?

>>54586429
Tits defined tits.

>>54587474
What?

>>54584767
Fuck yeah full on hedonistic Pirates DE keep up the awesome work. Dig the paint job too!

I'm not much of a fan of wyches, how screwed am I if I don't take them?

Out of curiosity, what types of armies have good synergy with deldar?

>>54586429
Ass men are simply correct, thus Vect is an ass man.

>>54588597
Craft worlds and harlies.

>>54584680
I love stories like this just for the fact that as soon as I saw the model for a raider i knew I had to run over someone.

>>54584680
You should actually model a librarian speared on that raider's prow

>>54589945
Maybe he should kitbash that skeletal marine objective and a librarian to make a trophy.

>>54589609
They used to be ICBMs last edition with the shock prow. This edition, then and Venoms are surprisingly decent in close combat.

>>54589945
>>54590700
I totally will after I get it all painted up. It's very barebones atm because it's not painted. Once it's done, I can start adding the effects, like the dudes hanging off the side, and a Marine on the prow

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What do you fellow Archons think of these quick counts-as hydra gauntlets?

>>54591049
Looks cool are those old mandrake model arms recast?

>>54591527
Nope. The right arm actually comes in the wych kit as is. They're the punchy thing. The other is actually a Shardnet arm with net cut off and the punchy bits glued on.

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>>54591969
Huh very nice then! I only have 5 wyches I bought pre-made but unpainted because they were cheap as fuck on a swap night.

What would happen to an Ork boy captured by the Drukari?

>>54592520
Arena fights a long happy career of arena fights.

Trying to sum up my guys.
>obsessed with cold, like locking people into freezers and using poison splinters that coagulate your blood
>raiding all over seemingly randomly, but with the intention to amass as many captives as possible
>using these captives to pay off heamonculi and other factions to gather enough power so that current archon can take vengeance on Vect for killing her father and disgracing the kabal

And no, I don't imagine she'll ever manage to actually do anything against Vect as the lore stands. Her end game can only be her ending up outplayed and dead.

>>54592674
Well apparently GW had kind of a problem with the everyone under Vect deal so he could croak. I mean he is actively hunting the Yannari and they are the new hotness.

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>>54596396

Anyone here ever foot slogged incubi? Or is it sacralige to not put them in a raider? Also could the Archon tag along in said raider?

>>54596396
Anyone prefer the old metal talos engines?

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>>54598129
Can someone use the Visarch as an archon?

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>>54598159

>>54598159
id allow it i love that model and hate the Yannari,

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>>54598175

>>54598159
No reason not to.

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>>54598178
>>54598336
I've heard that the bases are different sizes.

>>54576795

Update here. I took the vanguard list and got annihilated. Fuck conscripts.

>>54600294
Give us the full rundown my man.

>>54600186
Bases don't matter so much anymore right? Or is it fuck huge in comparison?

>>54600604

Again, 75PL bunker assault. Off the top of my head, he had:
>Mission Fortress
>Vulture
>Vendetta
>Manticore
>Yarrik
>2x3 Lascannon teams garrisoned
>2x50 conscripts

I hit and wounded the vulture with 7 lances and rolled so low for damage that I didn't kill it. I killed a total of 6 conscriots with shooting, then failed 3 charges at 7" or less. Hit turn, he just began annihilating everything I had. I lost both trueborn, the Reavers, the hellions, and the wyches. He wasn't even done shooting and we just called it because I literally didn't have enough to recover because it was a KP game plus 6VP for the fortress that I could no longer kill.

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>>54598159
Small modifications make for a solid archon model.

>>54602394
Nice!

>>54584400
Its damn fun. You can either start wych or Kabalite. If you play wych, you are the be-all end-all of dodge combat. When you get hit, you will die very fast. I was in a combat heavy, 12 session campaign (short form on purpose). I was hit once, and that one time I was hit, I lost a leg. However, your starting gear is better than anyone else can access, your grenades and toxins are near gamebreaking when you use them early. If you get more Dark Eldar gear, you are a god of combat. I managed to get a Husk Blade, which forces a toughness test on every successful hit, and reduces toughness by 2d10 every time they fail. The Rules for the Reaver Bike is amazing as well, as well as a ton of options to be specialists. Im currently playing a "Fleshcrafter Apostle" as an exiled Wrack, who is pretending to be a horribly scarred ex Imp-Guard Medic. The party don't know about the drug injectors that the Arch Militant has implanted on him.

>>54584400
Oh and the huskblade insta gibs anyone it crits.

>>54571335
Just about to get into dark eldar now after getting a pretty good deal from someone unhappy with 8th. Still trying to figure out a scheme, but here's my first 1k point battalion list.

>x2 Succubus with archite glaives and blast pistols
>x2 7 wyches with a grenade launcher and hydra gauntlets
>x2 Raiders with dark lances as dedicated transports

>10 wyches with a grenade launcher, 3 hydra gauntlets and hypex as footsloggers

>x2 3 man reaver squads with a blaster and grav talon

>1 reaper

>>54604813
If I ever got into a RT game, I'd probably go down the route of a Incubus Initiate, but Incubi are my favorite part about dark eldar. I'd probably start out as a wych who slowly stops caring about the theatrics behind murder to just caring about the purity of the act itself.

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Here's my WIP archon. I like the 7E pose a lot because of how regal it looks. And I'd give my whole kabal (and corsairs for that matter) bubble helmets.

>>54605369
Yeah my first Dark Eldar was going reaper route, and was going to go into Incubus but we never reached that Xp level. Only way to get decent armour as Dark Eldar. Grabbing a clonefield will make you nigh on unkillable though, due to the extra dodge.

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>>5460538
>>54602394
Reaver helmets are best helmets for Archons!

>>54588506
You'll be fine wyches are shit

What exactly are husk blades?

>>54607349
I think they suck the souls out of your enemies ala Elric. And they are made outta bones.

>>54607349
Swords of unknown origin or (maybe made) that dessicate everything it touches, turning it to dust.
>>54607534
Nah, those are Soul Traps, the little pyramid doohickey that the 5e Archon model carried.

>>54591049
snip snip imma cut dat dick

So my.inner edgelord is calling to me and I'm thinking of starting a Kabal for 8th. Where do I start for say a 1500 point force? I'm no WAAC fag but I don't want to be BTFO the table.

>>54609324
I'm just a flufffag so I don't know much about the actual game, but mandrakes are supposed to be really good this edition.

Anyone else have Kabals to share?

>>54609324
Most people will recommend two start collecting boxes and scourges. I myself got start collecting and gangs of commaragh first. If you like zoom zoom that's a pretty fly start.

>>54610571
>Scourges
I love the scourge models. What are they like in 8th edition?

>>54610571
Actually what I was thinking of getting anyway but wasn't sure if it would be balls on the table.

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swiggity swooty coming for dat booty

>>54610353
No Kabal, but I've got a coven. Picked up the book during 7th, and cried when Talos lost a point of toughhness in 8th.

The Coven of the Final Rebirth are a group of Haemonculi specialising in Pain Engines and Grotesques, particularly ones made from other Dark Eldar. Secretly followers of the Phoenix Ideology, they are often seen in the company of the Masque of the Forgotten Pursuer (My Harlequins), another group of adherents to this near-heretical belief. They currently hold the Ynnari as the anti-thesis of their philosophy, due to their preaching of rebirth and consumption of souls by a shard of Ynnead. Their name comes from their practice of faithfully regrowing all who continue tributing to them in rare toxins, creatures and minerals, but upon a failiure to pay, the defaulter will find themselves hunted down with Hexrifles, their legs turned to glass, then transformed into Talos Pain Engines, with their own crushed legs melted into a black collar placed around their neck. If the hunters miss and hit the arms, then all limbs are shot, and a Cronos is built. Those who are captured by the Covens allies are turned into Grotesques, since their legs are still operational.

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Does anyone know anything about pic related? I just saw the model and I'm thinking of converting him into an archon. What bits would work best?

>>54610609
Still great, just with different weapons. In 7th it was all about the haywire, now it's just regular blasters that are their main gun.

>>54614138
Wych hands to replace the axe with a pistol. Then your blade of choice on the sword. Get rid of the pegleg if you want, swap for any Dark Eldar leg. Wracks have some good separate armour pieces, but you might need to find some bigger stuff.

>>54614214
>not using a power pegleg

>>54614239
>not dual-wielding power peglegs

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>>54614138
Dark elf kitbashes are the best.

>>54614832
What's that one made from?

>>54614856
Black arc corsairs. The upper body, arms, cape and head are from that kit.

>>54597371

Me. I loved those models so much I almost started DE when they came out. I was a poorfag so I didn't get started until more recently, but I still intend to get one.

Any tips on using Taloi, or on load outs?

>>54576965
Try looking here: http://eyeoferror.blogspot.nl/2013/01/vects-dais-of-destruction-forge-world.html?m=1

>>54609324
Check out the dark city. Net. They're pretty welcoming dudes there.

Is there any reason why hellions don't have Lightning Reflexes and Dodge?

Bump for the dark muses.

>>54584219
Damn GW sold out of mandrakes again. Just as I was going to order 2 boxes from my LGS.

how do you use scourges in this edition?

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>Lelith Hesperax now uses combat drugs

is this one of those things that only exist as a game rule or has she recently started doing drugs like the rest of her kin? i kinda liked her whole straightedge angle, specially given that she's a fucking dark eldar.

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My Kabal is the Red Suns and their allied Cult, the Dead Stars. They're obsessive racers who's raids are most likely to be laps in their obscure competions.
Not sure how to paint them, maybe black with white racing stripes?

Their theme: https://youtu.be/atuFSv2bLa8

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>>54622495

>>54622495
>3 Oc kabals of people i know (including mine) are [color] suns or the kabal of the [color] sun

guess edgelords form some sort of hivemind

>>54571335
Man, I stopped collecting/playing a while back, maybe almost a decade now - but I ran the Kabal of the Bloodied Torso, whose armour was black with red chestpieces. I guess since I stopped playing them they probably got mostly wiped out in the ever-shifting gang warfare of Commorragh.

>>54624649
There are something like 4 competing canon clans with the same sun thing going on. It's more a dark eldar thing than an edgelord thing, although the two are pretty much one and the same.

>>54622388
It's just a crunch thing. Regular succubi being able to take drugs just made them better than lelith point for point.

>>54624649


>>54605389 here
Dark Star kabal. In our games at uni, I noticed that games where my archon died, I won. And if he lived, I lost. So it became my kabal's story that my Archon is actually hilariously incompetent, but his underlings don't overthrow him and keep reviving him because he's some weird good luck charm for the kabal as a whole. Of course, the archon is such a megalomaniac he thinks his underlings do it out of adoration for him.

They're a fleet based kabal who spends most of their time in the Halo Stars, so they see all sorts of spooky shit, hence the name. Also because Dark Star is one of my favorite movies.

>>54626158
What's the difference between a fleet based kabal and eldar corsairs?

>>54628215
I figure a fleet based Kabal is one that is for whatever reason one that has been forced out of the Commorragh

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>>54622495
>Red Suns
Might as well change the cult to Speed Stars

Do blasters and dark lances need reloading?

>>54628215
Dark eldar are going to rape you. Corsairs flip a coin.

>>54629076
I want Initial D, only with Raiders.

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>>54605034
Probably want to get another Raider for the 10 woman squad of wyches and more anti tank. Sadly the only thing wyches can do with tanks is tie them up and keep them from shooting. We need the haywire grenades.

I've not been a big fan of my reavers so far this edition but I haven't used as many. Try them out and see how they go.

>>54629566
Yeah I really do want to put full units in the raiders, but the capacity of 10 leaves the succubi with no room, it's killing me man. I wish raiders had a rule much like the AoS kharadron overlords do where you can overload their ships at a movement penalty.

I don't expect to be facing much in the way of vehicles, so hopefully the blasters can deal with a few rhinos & trukks.
Although I may switch out the reavers for hellions to deal with the primaris marines a couple of my friends have been buying up - feels like they were built to blend through them.

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>>54630786
I think its reasonable to have 9 woman squads in raiders with a succubus, even as you miss out on two wych weapons. The archite glave, blast pistol and rerolls would probably make up for it.

Could also consider taking a full 10 woman squad of blood brides. People say they do a lot of killing though looking at the point to attacks increase I remain unconvinced. I've heard they do well.

Hellions wouldn't be a bad idea for that!

But yeah DE got a bit hosed in terms of our unit comp and fitting HQS into transports. Can't even fit trueborn or incubi into a venom and take a Archon...

Is this too much for a 750 patrol (as in the mission).

Archon w/Blaster and Agonizer

Kabalite Warriors x10 w/Blaster, Splinter Cannon, and Phantasm Launcher

Trueborn x5 w/Blaster x2, Dark Lance x2, and Phantasm Launcher

Hellions x11

Raider w/Disintegrator and Prow
Raider w/Disintegrator and Prow

I'm up against space Marines, who will also have an extra 30pts (780), which is why I'm going with a disintegrator.

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>>54571335
I don't have much background on my kabal since it's just exists in the backstory of my homebrew space marine chapter.

The kabal I haven't made a name for yet is led by a female scourge who also doesn't have a name. She had her wings torn off by my craftworld's head autarch when he had his forces turn on the dark eldar during a joint engagment. She managed to make her way back to the undercity. After making her way to be the head of a hellion gang, she horded enough riches to get a new pair of wings and then killed her ex-gang. She found one of the kabals that had been turned on by the craftworld eldar and involved herself with its archon personally, a rather lazy and self indulgent pudge. Once she had some influence over him she convinced him to reveal the craftworld's location to the homebrew space marine chapter, who took revenge on the eldar by slaughtering its population and burning it. During the campaign she killed the archon and took over the kabal, exacting her personal revenge on the head autarch by getting the chapter master to kill him and the entire farseer council while she kidnapped his daughter with the help of a baron of the Knight House that's connected to the chapter. With her revenge sated and now leading the kabal that's where I left off the writing.

Except for the part where she kidnapped the knight from before, titan and all, to fight in the arenas for a couple years. She messes about with the knight house from time from time, but isn't willing to incur the wrath of a chapter that burned a craftworld and its population. Actually I like the thought of her keeping slight relations with the house, just in case she needs a backup force she can manipulate.

if I do make that Ynnari army I'll actually do some models from the kabal.

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>>54630944
More I look at it the more I think you're right, if I were to get first turn the footslogging wyches would likely do alright if deployed as close as possible with 10+d6" movement, but if I don't they'll be first blood bait. Looks like I'll be buying more barges!

I would definitely go for some bloodbrides but after filling out 3 troop slots for the battalion with wyches I don't think even more are necessary, especially when their only new trick is extra attacks. If they were more like wychy trueborn I'd be more into it.

I'm coming from orks so having to deal with limited transport capacity sucks, if a trukk can carry 12 big meatheads then surely a raider could manage a couple extra lanky elves. I'm just looking over venoms now, upping the minimum unit size of incubi has completely screwed them over as an archon's retinue, damn shame.

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>>54634223
Ah I came from orks too. It helps when I think of how much better dark eldar transports though, fast, flying, accurate anti tank and hits on 4's in close combat? For around the same price? Its crazy. Oh and a invun? oomph.

All that being said, not being able to fit the HQ in with a 10 man squad feels like a oversight. Starweavers can fit 6 clowns, so that's a troupe and a troupe master. Works perfectly.

I've been playing around with having a Succubus on moment drugs foot-slog it as she is a bit safer due to being a character. She could keep up without it maybe? However you might want to give hypex to your reavers or hellions.

Question to everyone. I know our armies are designed around speed and transports. Let's say however that this aspect is taken away. How would you Lord Archon build our infantry centric kabal?

>>54634793

Kabalites are 7ppm and can go up to 20 models with BS 3+ and wound non-vehicles on a 4+ while eventually getting army wide fearless. Archons make them Ld9 (possibly 10 with warlord trait). They die like guardsman, but have a 6+ FnP to back them up and also have a 7" move. We could honestly run them in blobs of 20 and do alright.

It's a stupid idea anyway. Take away speed and Transports, and you're left with nothing of note. You'd just have Covens everywhere instead.

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Haven't figured out much of a name for my Coven yet, but it's led by a comparatively younger haemonculus, recently raised to the status of "Ancient," who attained central power the "old-fashioned way" (i.e. centuries of bowing and scraping in public and merciless backstabbing behind the scenes) and damn it all to nine hells if he'll sit idly by while these Ynnari bastards blunder in with their newfangled fuckery and subvert all the power structures he spent so long mastering---or worse, remove the need for his services altogether.

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So how are we feeling about reavers at the moment. I'm thinking they don't have enough shots for their cost. Anybody played with them more?

>>54638889
Nice Heinrich. Anyways, I feel reavers are a bit better as screeners for your gunlines than as actual killers. That title goes to the hellions. Find a dangerous gunner unit in the enemy's zone, and lock them down in combat to prevent them from acting. I use Hypex for their drug to facilitate getting there faster.

>>54638955
In a screening role how many reavers would you want?

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So Sslyth. The GW model does look nice, but if I want to run more than one I'd rather they look different. What conversions or proxies could be done?

>>54638975
Depending on who you're fighting. I take a squad of 6 because I generally face Marines, so statistically their Devastator and Havoc squads won't be able to kill all of them in close combat fast enough to escape the fighting. They can fall back though, so watch out for that. Ideally, you should catch them in a position where falling back would actually take them out of shooting range with their bigger guns, so they'd be faced with a lose-lose situation.

I have a single squad of 10 mandrakes I use as the hammer to my reavers' anvil. When I get the chance to lock down an HQ unit or other toughs, I deep strike them from the other side of my reavers to wipe out the enemy in a rain of 50 S4 strikes.

Is there a pdf of the dark eldar rules? It's easier to look at when on my phone

>>54638988
Get some Age of Sigmar skinks, chop off the frill, arms and legs, and green stuff new arms using the spare wych arms with melee weapons from that kit. You may need to green stuff a coiled tail to fit them onto a base. But it's worth noting that all this takes like $60.

>>54639081
The 40K gen should have you covered. If for whatever reason it's not there, you can always use the leaked photos.

http://www.3plusplus.net/2017/05/dark-eldar-drukhari-8th-edition-leaks/

Are Dark Eldar the 40k equivalent to Vampire Counts as well as Dark Elves?

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Is there any chance the Dark Eldar got any of their technobullshit from the necrontyr?

>>54641532

Nah

>>54644926
Who are then?

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>>54644584
Nope. More likely they just retained more pre-fall tech than the Craftworld Eldar as they were protected by the Webway. They were a hub of trade after all so a good amount of it could also have come from xenos that are no longer around because Chaos/Crusading Imperials

>>54646124

If you mean the 'death' faction then it's Necrons.

Some of the SM characters/chapters have Vampiric and Blood themes.

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Would it be a good idea to convert Witch Elves to Bloodbrides if I wanted stripperific Eldar?

>>54576018
They're both <AELDARI> aren't they?

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>>54647913
I think its a great idea. Only thing stopping me from doing it right now is that Witch Elves are 20 dollers more than wyches.

In my experience, the razorwing jetfighter has been fantastic.I'm just sad that my harlequin allies have been overpriced to the point where wyches are just plain better.

>>54575985
Glaze the armor with red. Thin the red paint until it's about the consistency of a wash, then apply it to the surfaces of the model, and take care not to get it in the crevices

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Here's my current kabalite color scheme. The skin needs work, and the armor could use brighter highlights, but overall I'm happy with them.

>>54648557
Nice. Do they have any fluff?

>>54648557
Not that Anon but I vote they be called the purple murder gang. Short sweet to the point.

>>54648557
Nice paint job by the way!

List of models needed for a new plastic box in the DE line

-beast packs
-court of the archon

Other choices that would be awesome

-grotesques (the conversions possible are easy and look great)
Mandrakes (fuck finecast and maybe add a mandrake HQ with codex)

>>54644584
Haemonculi have no taboos on experimentation, it's entirely conceivable some crackpot has been toying with necrodermis over tens of thousands of years.

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So I keep hearing through more and more reliable sources that certain units will be made Ynnari exclusive in the coming codexes. Specifically things like Wraithguard and Lelith Hesparex. For me personally I really dislike the Ynnari lore, I think it was poorly done and I don't like the characters. But my Lelith model was the first HQ I ever painted and she was given to me by a dear friend a long time ago when I first got into the hobby. I use her whenever I have occasion and she's by far my favorite canon Dark Eldar character. It's bad enough they ruined her fluff by giving her combat drugs but I'd be heartbroken if I had to run her in her own detachment just to bring her with my normal Dark Eldar army. Same goes for my Iyanden Wraithguard.

Anyone here heard anything like this? Are existing Eldar factions going to be pillaged of units for the Ynnari to steal?

>>54653167
>>54653167
I've heard some salty players complain about DE losing more characters. But I have not seen any trustworthy rumors. Seems bizzare to me that things like wraithguard or wyches would be Ynari only.

>>54653285
Well I know it was talked about in the Gathering Storm II that Lelith and Iyanna would be with Yvraine as some super important Ynnari trinity or something. I would expect Iyanna to get a model with the release of the codex and that Lelith would be made Ynnari exclusive. Also it was mentioned in the book that all the Iyanden Wraithguard up and left with the Yvraine, and that GW was working on a new Wraithguard model that would be built specifically for the Ynnari faction, probably to replace the current one.

>>54653304
Well Lyanden is only one craftworld. I guess Ynari getting their own special wraithguard would make sense. I doubt Lelith would be moved away, Like, Eldrad follows the Ynari as well and I do not foresee him being made faction exclusive. Mostly because of the way Faction keywords work now, it'd really be a no brainer to have Faction Keywords "Ulthe, Ynari..."

>>54653349
The big issue is, if you have a Ynnari in your detachment, the ENTIRE DETACHMENT must be Ynnari thanks to the FAQ. That means everyone loses PFP and I can't take Covens units in it.

>>54653366
Unless it changes when the codex comes out that could give Lelith the ynari keyword. Could even be two different kinds of Lelith's that prevent you from taking the other in a army. Its honestly something I wouldn't worry about until the book comes out.

>>54653393
You say it doesn't matter but it does from a hobby perspective. For instance, a year ago I began a Biel-Tan army. Had I listened to rumors, I would have never picked that craftworld. But I didn't, and so when Biel-Tan got blown up I was up to my elbows in half-painted models with a narrative I'd written up for them that was obliterated by the new fluff. I haven't touched my new Wych Cult models because I'm afraid Lelith won't be there to lead them.

>>54653167

I've heard this but, it's fucking incredibly stupid and unsubstantiated

>>54653419
Doesn't biel-tan still exist though as a flotilla of ships? Like, it doesn't seem like a huge deal in a fluff prospective.

>>54653440

Yup.

>>54650865
Nothing so far, aside from a kind of joke about the archon being a pimp. I've got some wyches because every pimp needs his hoes
>>54650950
That's not a bad name. I could use a stylized PMG as their kabal's symbol
>>54650964
Thanks anon

>>54653474
I'm glad I'm not the only one who jokes about thier archons pimpmobile

>>54653440
I deeply invest myself in the fluff of my armies. I had an Autarch who commanded an armored division of Biel-Tan. He had the personality of an old WWI general. No wraith units were used because "the dead deserved their dignified rest". I would ask my opponent if they wanted to "discuss terms" after a particularly nasty round of shooting on my part. He had a unit of Howling Banshees that accompanied him and would issue challenges of personal combat, where he and my opponent's warlord would march towards each other in the middle of the battle and swing at one another. His dead were enshrined at the Infinity Circuit of Biel-Tan, and he would lead the United Swordwind Academy Men's Chorus at the funeral. He was very fun to play with, kind of the old, jovial, war-is-a-sport general.

When Biel-Tan got destroyed none of that made sense anymore. He couldn't return the dead to the infinity circuit if there was no infinity circuit anymore. It's kind of hard to have a proud, sportsmanlike noble Autarch when his home was just annihilated by the Ynnari and half his army was stolen into the webway. His character just didn't make sense anymore, so he hasn't left the shelf since February.

>>54653419
Lelith is trash, though. She's not worth the points over a normal Succ

>>54653528
That's true, but when I run her I don't do it to powergame, I do it for the narrative. If I was running optimized lists it'd be hemlocks and ynnari wraithguard until cows moo.

>>54653518

Sucks you can't think of any new or continued fluff for him.

>>54653552
Well I mean I could, but that would involve altering the character's personality to such a degree it wouldn't be worth playing him anymore. At that point I might as well make something new entirely.

>>54653536

I just run my own succubus, my own Archon, bloodbrides, kabalites, Reavers, hellions, and a void raven, which all fits my fluff.

>>54653574

So something CWE shattering wouldn't affect his personality at all is what you are saying.

He could have joined his fleet to another CW while retaining his CWE colours while being in some sort of self imposed exile and hate Yvraine for the ruin.

>>54653640
That's what I mean though. I run him as a superior and gentlemanly Autarch. If I wanted a vengeful space elf hobo I have my Spelljammer character for that. I want him for what and how he was, because that's what I made up, because it was fun for me.

So what has Kheradruakh actually done? I heard he placed his last skull.

>>54571335
DEldar related question. Fearing Chaos as they do, do they know that they venerate the minor Chaos gods Ans'l, Mo'rcck and Phraz-Etar with all those spikes on their armor?

>>54655354
Comorragh was inundated with Chaos daemons, so the Decapitator, who coincidentally found his final skull, opened a rift to some shadow dimension to summon shadow daemons, which somehow saved the city. The aftermath said Comorragh's lowest levels are now infested with mandrakes and their new shadow friends...and that's it, because it's still a developing story.

>>54655424
Pretty cool guy. Kind of makes me wish there were more background information about the mandrakes, but half the point of them is that they're unknowable so. Hopefully the codex fleshes out what is going on in Commrragh.

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>>54644584
That Elric fanart looks suspiciously like this Anomander Rake art

>>54655389

Well they don't care about indirectly feeding Chaos gods since they continue to feed Slaannesh by doing what they do everyday.

Is the torture of a papercut too subtle for a Dark Eldar Haemonculi understand?

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>>54647913
I'd love to model/use Sisters of Slaughter as Incubi for a all Wych Cult themed army.

Lack of drugs would be annoying though.

What kind of terms are dark elder and elder on fluff wise?, they were battle brothers in 7th edition weren't they?

>>54657616

Mutual dislike/distrust but not above giving/receiving aid from one another when it is in their interest to do so. Even though the Craftworlders see the Dark Kin as abominations they are still above a mon'keigh or other species in value. As in everything in 40K there are extreme examples like craftworlds or kabals who specialise in hating/fighting/raiding each other. It really depends on the circumstances.

What's the population of Commorragh?

>>54661627
>>54664308
There are tons of questions and conversations going on, dont bump with no content or not adding to discussion
Being said,
>>54659995
There's a lot of room for discussion on that, I imagine its basically an endless megalopolis sort of like a grungy coruscant

Things I'd like to see:
>An Aladdin parody set in Commorragh
>Fear and Loathing in Commorragh
>Hotline Commoragh

>>54664914
>aladdin parody

In what way do you mean?

>>54665263
Not a comedic parody, but one that rips off its plot wholesale. Not sure why.

>>54665278
Ok, drawing now, see you soon

>>54665326
Cool

>>54665263
I pictured "One Jump Ahead" as performed by Trueborn.

>>54665971
It'd be a vat-born street rat.

boomp

Why would anyone run a HQ that isn't a Haemonculus?
They are pretty much better in every way than anything else

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So I just bought my first list save for the scourges:

-Venom 65
>2 splinter cannons 30
(95)

-Raider 95
>dark lance 20
>shock prow 1
(116)

-3 Reavers (+1T drug) 90
>agoniser 4
>blaster 15
>grav talon 5
(114)

-5 Scourges 70
>4 dark lances 80
>blast pistol 10
>venom blade 5
(164)

-5 Kabalite trueborn 55
>4 blasters 60
>agoniser 4
>phantasm grenade launcher 3
>blast pistol 10
(132)

-9 Kabalite warriors 63
>agoniser 4
>phantasm grenade launcher 3
>blast pistol 10
>blaster 15
(95)

-Archon 54
>phantasm grenade launcher 3
>huskblade 10
>blaster 15
(82)


TOTAL: 799

Most of it was ordered online but I do have the venom. The website and store were out of scourges :(. Only thing is that I'm worried that kabals are inferior to wych cults (ugly troops/elites) and haemunculus covens (I don't get how to start this).

I'm not sure whether I like haemunculi or archons (both awesome), but everyone I talk to runs a wych list.

>>54665971
I'd kill to see the guards from that as kabalites and our hero our aspiring street rat

>>54669186
Who would the genie be?

>>54670238
A farseer and his tortured soulstone?

>>54670258
Could you trap daemon in a soulstone?

>>54670586
maybe not a soulstone, but a common theme for demons is trapping them in objects

>>54670238
This thread will probably die before im done drawing this whole thing, but I made Genie a Talos Pain Engine (because fuck you thats why)

>>54664914

>Grand theft auto style game set in Commorragh.
>Rags to riches gangster movie set in Commorragh.
>Beat em up game set in Wych arena.

>>54668027

Archon's are cheaper if you just want a throwaway HQ because you have to take one.

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Putting together my Dark Eldar now that I'm done painting marines, this is the tentatively named Archon Edmundus of the Kabal of the Black Adder

>>54655389
Old school, man.

Hey guys so I am going to make my first Warhammer army ever for Kill Team and I've decided I want to play Dark Eldar.

I really want a bunch of Hellions with maybe one or two Reavers and some Incubi. What would be the best way to do this?

What color scheme should I give them? I kind of want to make them sort of rag tag without a unified scheme, but maybe thats not a good idea?

Any tips and advice are appreciated.

>>54671167
You sir are a genius if the thread does just start a new one with the picture as the OP image! (Might still be here though this is a tenacious little thread)

>>54672479
Mah nigga Edmundas! I've really enjoyed watching all these new Kabals coming to fruition best of luck to ya m8!

>>54673647
That's pretty much my collection in a nut shell really wanna find some mandrakes though. But Kabals absorbing other Kabals is common place some might not get their uniforms changed out of pride or no time to conform to force norms. Depending on what kill team rules you using hellion/incubi can be nasty as fuck together in small point games.

Is there a discord for the true kin? Should one be made?

>>54674363
I don't think so never used discord myself. How'd ya go about doing that?

>>54672479

He must have an Ur-Ghul courtier named Baldrich.

>>54674363
Its pretty easy to set up a server. I just did, may as well see what happens. https://discord.gg/EG5Rvc

>>54571406
>>54571428
Why would the deldar ever fuck with the orks or Tyranids? Seems like the type of warfare the two wage would just never bring them into contact with deldar.

>>54674601
Dark eldar have tyranids as arena beasts the most recent example being the gathering storm. They pretty much went all aliens v predator and bred the most dangerous ones possible for the arena.

>>54674450
Good call

>>54674601

There is literally a story in with that work of art in one of the codexes which describes a DE raid on Orks. Some Archon needed slaves to work in a polluted part of Commoragh and only Orks could survive the poisonous gasses.

As for Tyranids, the Haemonculus have an interest in experimenting on them, and they are prized in the Wych fighting arenas even enhancing them to make them even more dangerous.

>>54577678
>that guardsman
>KABALED.COM

>>54671167
POST IT

>>54675521

more like

>COVENED.COM

>>54671167
please finish soon, anon.