Just How Powerful is a Harlequin Solitaire Really? | Warhammer 40k Lore
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The Eldar are often used as the Imperium's punching bag... but not the Solitaire - these god tier warriors can cut through anything... maybe even a Primarch
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There's nothing as sweet as unnamed Eldar ripping Space Marines limb from limb like it's nothing
Eldar for lyf
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the innari lore only makes sense if you understand that cegorach is an ancient tzeench/unfallen gabriel. that the things that are unfolding are not logical, they are daemonic powers at their maximum/ancestral level. ynead is a daemon, blue, birth from commoragh that behave like ancient eldar. get it? ynead and slaanesh are tzeench/emperor ploy.
Sister Model When?
Do a video the mandrakes. Despite being a lesser known eldar faction they have a decent amount of solid lore, and their spooky powers as well as the realm they inhabit have nothing to do with the warp.
Your next piece of merchandise should be BJJ GI
As powerful as the plot needs it to be
tbh their powers as described are so revolves around fate that they literally are as powerful as the plot needs
@@web_082 dayum bro are you on drugs or something? “to be fair, their powers are dependent on fate, so they are literally as powerful as the plot demands” is what i think you were trying to say but im honestly not certain
@@ZerglingLoverHoly shit I didn’t even realise as my mind just autocorrected his message.
@@ZerglingLover yeah that’s what i meant lol
To be fair that's also the custodes and even regular space marines when they take off their helmet
in defense of the solitaire Trazyn owns, Trazyn also owns a Krork a primarch and several custodes.
He DID have a whole hive fleet for a while but Tyranids are surprisingly hard for him to contain
We all just hear "Gotta catch 'em All!" in Skeletor's voice when thinking about Trazyn now, right?
@@Pyre I like to think that Trazyn never went to sleep and decided to watch a bunch of cartoons from different species
Doesn't he also have a war in heaven eldar that doesn't have the slaanesh nerf?
annnnnnndddd Titans
Literal Titans
Majorkill. Single handedly pushing the Eldar from meme punching bag to badass faction.
What about PancreasNoWork?
@@scar6822more of a simp to be honest
Honnestly you should listen to some of the eldar videos by baldermort.
I don't think they were meme punching bag. At least not as much as Tau (Who also deserve to get some respectful lore)
@@WAAAAAGH1984 he still has great videos on them.
The Eldar rarely get written well.
I remember in one of the Dawn of War novelizations, the Eldar kamikaze one of their ships into the final battle, spilling thousands of Spirit Stones and killing their entire crew in order to...lose harder.
Hey, that is supposed to be the Imperium’s thing.
Eldrad: *facepalm*
It really is an epidemic.
As 4chan eloquently put it (regarding their "official" author): "Gav Thorpe seems to be rather sad that he could not write a third book about a supposedly hyper-intelligent psychic species making bizarrely stupid choices that get hundreds of them killed..."
That said I think the DOW novels were written by C.S. Goto, who has a MASSIVE fetish for Eldar dying.
Well makes sense everyone that i have ever seen talk about the dawn of war books says it's complete dogshit because of one of the worst writers that GW contracted, at least Matt made necrons interesting
Those books don’t exist. They were written by a certain black Irish midget and so no one considers them canon.
When a Solitaire can do that much damage, you know the Harlequins are not clowning around with making them.
Cirque Du Slay.😂
A surprising number of ppl forget that the Laughing God is also the Eldar's Guerilla Warfare God, & has been getting only stronger with his continued activity for the 10 millennia since Slaanesh sent his less cerebral senior flying in tiny splinters of consciousness into every furthest corner of the cosmos.
Harlies remind them.🥰
The harlequins are always clowning around
Harrlequins most powerful ability is their ability to make a primarch die from making selfdeprecating jokes
Well it is Hilarious and there is no Denying that XD
*BAZINGA*
Nice one. It’s pronounced as troops, as in a troupe of actors.
Love the work. It’s a constant lift to the day and I always give them a thumbs up.
Teachers pet 🤪
@@jc7997aj deserved…
Mon'keigh are just not intelligent enough to understand lol , leave them be, those cute little apes they are
Mispronouncing words is a hallmark of the channel...
He also said "a blade of hurricanes" instead of a hurricane of blades, but sure I got the gist
Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to being in Guillimans current situation would be pretty cool first , getting to see Magnus' imperium or dorns beautiful fortress galaxy would be epic
keeps grinding
I have a theory, that Majorkill is another secret chaos god and Australia is just an extension of the warp.
Australia IS the warp
@@Magnustopheles na its the most fucked up part of the warp
Tear in the O-Zone
Explains its wildlife.
And, just like Chaos, Australia doesn't really exist.
Majorkill is the kind of guy that could convert Slaanesh into the Imperial cult by explaining 40k lore to it while naked
I mean, he looks fabulous too. And I'm not even into guys!
Oddly specific but right nontheless
@@LordNecron well i am and you are 100% right
What's his insta?
Ay yo bro, what? 🤨📸
I really hate how underplayed the harlequins are, they are maybe the single best fighting force in the galaxy and nobody really ever uses them or talks about them much.
Especially hurts because it was this same space clowns that actually got me interested in Warhammer to start with.
Actually, Eversor assassin going blow for blow with Solitaire in that story kind of makes sense. There is no way he was sent to duel Solitaire, and there is no way governor just had an imperial assassin in his bodyguard, definitely not Eversor assassin. Eversor was probably on the same mission and Solitaire found it humorous and fought through dozens of bodyguards and retinue members as that's exactly how Eversor would have gone about his mission, letting him complete it by exploding in death. I don't think Solitaire was fighting to kill, he wanted to guide him into the same room as governor.
Wow this is epic
In addition, killing the Eversor and detonating it's nuke probably had less collateral damage than letting the Eversor kill the governor and go on a post mission rampage.
@@supersaiyandiclonius3056 Yup.
Eversors are... messy.
Blow for blow? Doubtful. But dealing with that Eversor wouldn't have been a walk in the park persay. I'd rate that fight as an "ah so you're the Belmont" moment.
@@ManyMiniMinnas ye i woulden't ever imagine them equal but a solitaire would get a hell of a exercise from a eversor
My experience with Harlequinsand Solitaire:
Cool units that easily gets mowed down by a half-sized imperial guards unit.
Yup, the one downside of holo-fields - no good against massed fire and explosive barrages. Never bring assassins to an actual war.
Basically no elite armies perform on the tabletop the way they do in the lore
Admittedly this is years ago, but I've also seen a pack of banshees decide the tank they were in was too slow, sprint ahead of it into an Astartes line, and imitate a lawnnmower themselves.
Did the Harlequins just not go first, maybe?
@@Pyre Banshees were one of those units that occasionally got screwed over by edition updates as i recall. One edition removed their power weapons or messed up the number of attacks they got to the point where they were basically worse than average eldar units against anything in armor. Cant remember the details but they were excellent marine killers and turned into wet sponges - not sure if thats still the case.
@@NicholasVernem-GroovyNickyLeepretty sure even Lelith Hesperax isn't immune to a Vulcan Mega Bolter.
take note of the fact that the imperium can have 30 videos talking about its different aspects and lore, whereas the other xenos races can be distilled into 3 for each race. Hoping and wishing we get some new eldar, tau, ork, tyranid and necron books. with there own love and attention.
GW should really crack down and start focusing on their xenos. Especially now with their new race coming to 40k being the squ-I mean the kin.
finally someone gets it.
Unfortunately focusing on xenos is bad marketing strategy, cause humans are always more popular. For example, in Total War Warhammer, the most popular Lord is boring Karl Franz.
@@xenonchikmaxxx i am a boring space marine fan but the setting needs to have respectable/scary/capable/fleshed out xenos for me to actually enjoy being a spehs mahreen fan.
For example a Space Marine chapter destroying an entire CRAFTWORLD is bullshit.
Dozens of guard regiments supported by imperial navy + admech assets assaulting the craftworld while several space marine chapters hit key targets in advance while suffering heavy casualties would be at the very least believable. Fighting aspect warriors isn't going to be your regular bolterporn action for tactical marine Chadicus Tacticus.
Same concept applies to most other Xeno conflicts imo. A Tyranid HIVE FLEET isn't something Chadicus Maximus and his honour guard can one shot. Etc etc rant over thanks for reading.
@@OljeiKhan true, the Emperor's scalpels are being used like kitchen knives to body targets that they should have no right to beat so easily
They have the power to look at their doom and laugh. That frees the Eldar to die fantastic thing that they would otherwise struggle to do. They are in trance in a dance of doom and death at the hands of Slaanesh.
Since helmetless characters tend to be powerhouses, I just imagine Solitaire running around naked destroying everything.
I'm surprised 1 or more of them hasn't taken on Lucius. Epic fight, and if one of them manages to take down Lucius, bows & applauses followed by snuffing themselves (and hopefully Lucius too) out with a bandolier of psyk-out grenades.
I’d imagine he’d come back via the guy who made the grenade lmao.
@@cinder1667 Maybe instead of killing Lucius it'd be best to just capture him and trade him to Trazyn. She Who Thirsts probably wouldn't be too happy about the hax she gave to Lucius being circumvented this way, and might do something about it, but also might not if he decides Lucius has failed her by being captured.
if the Solitare wanted to kill Luscious Lucius, he'd probably beat him over and over again without killing him and without giving him a good fight. only when Slaanesh has grown tired and forsaken Lucius would the Solitaire set up some banal finisher.
If the Tyranids want to be more successful in 40k...then more Tyranids should start writing books! LOGIC!
Tyranid Warrior with tiny little glasses and a pen.
_And thus Hivefleet bookworm descends on the Galaxy, sewing terror throughout the Galaxy via it's entertaining yet informative young adult novels. This lead to the corruption of various races youths and open minded, leading to mass culling that left a million million worlds vulnerable to an assault of acidic ink clouds, paper cut claws, and audio bedtime sonic shrieks!_
no, what the nids need are named charactes
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 tyranids are using bad YA smut fiction to corrupt the youth of the imperium
VicToRee Uf ThA TyrAnIDs:
We eAt eVERytiNg.
~ bY zOrBO gOrbO
But ironically with its high invuln but low wound total the things solitaires fear most on the tabletop is psykers.
So their kind of like the Avatar of Khaine, but thanks to Cegorach being alive and the Slaanesh boost they are stronger. However you want AOK for open warfare while they are better for duels, and skirmish.
Considering the randomness of them it makes me believe more that Tzeentch played a role in saving Cegorach.
my headcanon is that Tzeentch views Cegorach as a fellow player in the Great Game, and wants his opponents to play as long as possible
No that would be stupid and would downplay Cegorach's wits. He is after all a sane version of tzeench. He got away using his wits not from help from a deranged god.
Chegorach was the god that ended the War in Heaven, convincing the C’tans to fight and devour each others. He is extremely smart and I don’t think that Tzeentch had something to do with saving him. The birth of Slaneesh was already prophetized during the war in heaven by the aeldari goddesses Lileath. Cegorach probably saw the writing on the walls and hid in the webway before the eye of terror opened.
@@licensed_beheader Tzeentch thinks Cegorach is a fun player
@@Astronometric Canonically Cegorach hid behind Khaine and gtfo'd once he realized Khaine was gonna lose.
12:09 “a blade of hurricanes” id laugh, but I have no talk to room.
I agree with the take here on the Solitaire power level. Their name seems to imply that they always operate alone (as in separate from other Solitaires) which is good news to everyone else they might decide to fight. Pretty terrifying when one of, if not the fastest beings in existence just needs to land one hit and you are instantly dead. There is 0 margin for error if you fight one, regardless of who you are, which I think adds some much needed power to the Eldar as a whole.
Majorkill: Solitaires are basically invulnerable to mortals.
Me playing Inquisitor Martyr: "I am the God-Emperor's chosen buckeroo!"
Next video topic:
If one of the Chaos Gods decides to somehow join forces with the Imperium against the other Chaos Gods, who would it be, why and how would it affect the current setting?
too easy, make it into a short because we all know it would be tzeentch doing a little trolling just for the sake of it. Hell I bet you could find examples of it depending on how you define "joining forces", the couple of thousand sons sorcerers letting themselves be blow to smithereens just to piss Fulgrim off come to mind, albeit indirectly assisting the Imperium.
Bad video topic because it wouldn't happen and it's so random
Tzeench because he doesn't ever let Magnus take W
Khorne.
So many angry bois already. And both hate psykers.
tzeentch doing a little trolling
As old school Warhammer player/fan from the 90's I love when the Eldar and Orks get some love. Yes, I think the Nids are cool the inclusion of the Necron is a great move but I it seems like the Eldar and the Orks take it on the chin and give up space to make room for the new guys. So any content, and more importantly GW story lines/arcs, that give importance to the Eldar or Orks I approve.
I know it's probably an error, but "Blade of Hurricanes" is something that *should* exist in the lore.
Majorkill out here doing his goddamnedest to make me finally join this hobby properly and spend a fortune on Ynnari models.
I know very little about the Eldar. But these video essays make me want to dive into their lore.
these models were the first thing i saw in warhammer 40k that made me fall in love with games workshop they looked so cool as a kid.
Great video as always majorkill. I feel like it always boils down to how competent the writers are.
Also what about a video going over names? Like where all the races, factions, soldier types got their names from?
The Solitaire in Trazyn’s Pokémon collection is 100% there for the memes
Even though it’s speculated Motley from the Path of the Drukhari series is a solitaire. In one of the books he legit runs through an open field of artillery fire and dodges ever round then proceeds to run up a hill of sand without a grain moving, dudes nuts. I could be wrong but I think they mentioned his strides being 5-6 metres.
That's not how artillery works.
@@JohnDobak You can replace "artillery" with any other word or words and be right about all of 40k canon (bonking into sharp rocks ruining a Salamander helmet where bolters couldn't comes to mind).
There's a reason "it's all propaganda" is GW's go-to about the novels.
@@JohnDobak well he was the only person on the battlefield and they were aiming at him directly, they stated in the book that he was able to see the rounds when they came closer into sight and was able to pivot and run/dodge into a different direction. So not sure what you mean by that’s not how artillery works, pretty sure it’s self explanatory.
@@thejetty_ Dodging the shell does you 0 good if you can't also clear the massive area of affect that will be filled with shrapnel traveling at the speed of a bullet.
@@JohnDobak Well, OBVIOUSLY the funny purple alien guy who can dodge bullets and who comes from space and was powered by a scary bdsm god would suffer from the fact that artillery has blasts, I never knew how 40k was so fake!
These Warhammer powerscaling videos go hard
Id love to see IF you can even do this type video for a Phoenix Lord
i love the consistent uploads your killing it majorkill!
Always enjoy the videos best 40k content creator out there
Custodes when facing Harlequins: "Help! The clowns jump and move weird!"
I Think out of ever video in my subscriptions I am always super comfortable clicking on your videos. Always get exactly what I ask for from the handsome lad with a rocking voice, thanks man!
i love it when Cegorach said its Cegorachin time and Cegoarathed all over slaanesh (she liked it)
It’s cego time !!!
A blade of hurricanes... now that's an absolutely terrifying concept!
I'm pretty sure one can get those all night long on Bourbon Street. Just hold your nose. That place has smelled like piss & puke for nearly 400 years.
"They whirled so fast they became a hurricane of blades..."
"No... no... they became a blade of hurricanes. That's more grimdark"
Some of the descriptions for Solitaire feats remind me of the old 90s X-Men cartoon, with how Apocalypse would start boasting with lines like
"Many have attempted to destroy me, and you are no closer today than were the Babylonians with their swords and fire arrows!"
And
"I am as far beyond mutant as mutant is beyond human!"
You should make a sharrowkyn video, man succeeded in a suicide mission to save the primarchs original genomes from falling into the traitors hands
Loved him. Need more Raven Guard badasses as they seem like the most level headed of all the legions and don't get much love. Also Alpha Legion - real Alpha Legion not those "we don't even have the Genesee and are just chaos space marine maniacs". Ones who aren't under the influence of Chaos but also undermine the Imperium. Rebels basically.
Not to mention absolutly embarrassed Lucius the Eternal so badly that he took zero pride in it.
Or putting a bullet in Fulgrims head
Many descriptions of Warhammer 40K fights sound like over the top anime battles. I would like to see that animated as described.
Watch "Gurren Lagann" 'nuff said. The power creep was so ludicrous, they were using entire spiral galaxies as shurikens before the end.
This was such a good video! I really enjoyed this
12:09 “they became a blade of hurricanes” -majorkill 2023
BAZINGA
Now I want a solo video for Eversor assassins they sound awesome
Never would’ve expected that we were lucky enough for a fight between an eversor assassin and a solitaire. Awesome!
Oh hell yeah, finally
Troupe, its pronounced like troop, not trope, its a french word 'a group of dancers, actors, or other entertainers who tour to different venues'
I came here just for this
GW just can’t right with any consistent quality. It’s one of the most infuriating things about the 40k universe to me, great ideas that collapse with a wet thud halfway into their execution.
@@arcahmwinters70 that kind of bias, even if unintentional, can REALLY damage world building.
Like, I get it GW writers, you have massive throbbing boners for buff guys in armor, who doesn’t? But give the other races a LITTLE bit of love, or hire at least ONE writer that likes the Eldar or Tau.
I don’t think I’m asking for much here.
12:06. “Blade of Hurricanes”?
That doesn’t sound quite right. MajorKill, are you secretly a Solitaire pulling a prank on us?😂
Just an idea for the future of your minis for more Tyranid ideas you should totally do arachnids from Starship Troopers
Yasss queen
"A blade of hurricanes"
I love it. I do this too often
god its such a treat whenever we get harlequin stuff. the apple of my eye
solitaires are probably my favorite lore cheat code in any medium. the reasoning for why they're so insane makes sense, and the actual implantation is absurd.
And I had just prepared a meal, Majorkill always comes in clutch
Part two of Erda, never gonna stop.
It's the Harlequins Kiss that's insanely powerful, anything that can punch through any armour and turn the insides into soup in a fraction of a second has to be feared. . Just a single hit being enough to delete a vehicles crew or kill anything organic smaller than a hive ship 😅
Ahh, so *that* is how to deal with the 'Nids;
Borrow that tech from the Eldar, and make fuck-huge artillery shells with it, and then proceed to make hive-fleets into minced meat. :P
@The_Keeper a giant monomolecular filament injecting needle missile actually sounds like a great idea. 👍
See, this is an issue I have: can fully understand the Harlequins Kiss being deadly against heavily armoured infantry, but let's say it punches through a tank and the crew/troops inside are Marines in normal power armour...... Is the HKs filament mechanism powerful enough to shred them to bits as well? 🤔
@horuslupercal2385 well technically mono filament wire is actually physically impossible but if it was then you wouldn't need the kiss part to inject the wire as the filament whip woild separate the bonds of anything it passed through. . If we take the term as just being a name and it being an incredibly thin wire then it would kill unarmoured or lightly armoured crew but power armour would be enough to protect you. . . Still not as much fun as opening a portal inside the vehicle with an Ork shock attack gun and filling it with rabid snotlings though 🤣
Majorkill, dunno if you know this death but…
In Ahriman: Eternal, a solitare is dropped by surprise attack from a demon. A singular demon.
An Underdog Story . . . Nice one MajorKill!
You should do a video of times where factions have come to the aid/rescue of a different one. Like Eldar saving humans, necrons saving tau, etc.!
cool vid majorkill
Makes me wonder who the biggest trickster is between a solitaire and changeling. Would be a funny duel I’d say
Nice minis. Glad to see you on Etsy.
Cool, nice one. Literally wrote a comment a few days ago about how the Eldar need a Primarch tier troop and this came out.
They already have the Avatar of Khaine (which, despite bad writing and plot armour, can seriously go toe to toe with a Primarch) and now the Yncarne. Solitaires are not on the level of a Primarch, although they are pretty awesome. Also, not everyone needs Primarchs, they are supposed to be special for a reason.
"I don't think a Primarch would let themselves get stabbed"
Horus: 🥶
12:08 "they became a blade of hurricanes"
MK is slipping, lol
Hahaha, this comment deserves enough likes to make it to the top.
i imagine normal harlequins do the goofy dodge to spite and make fun of their enemies, but solitaire dov it with a passions
Not sure why but yoiur voice is both relaxing and invigorating XD love your content man!
Majorkill: Solitaire are almost as powerful as a Primarch!!!!
Sigusmund: hold my bear
Logan: leave one for me!!!
Watching this again, i genuinely do believe that Solitaires would outclass a Custodes one-on-one. Could probably go on toe-to-toe with the Primarchs who aren't known for their martial prowess too.
Lorgar, we're looking at you.
"Blade of Hurricanes" LOL - just busting your balls. Good stuff MK
Wonder if we’ll ever get a Hyperion model 😅
Now we need how strong are the Elite Necron troops are or commanders/Pharaohs I wouldn’t be against it or a tyrnids video but they get beat down like crazy like Kane
In one of the Ahimen novels, a solitaire had an actual phase suit and used to phase rip a chunk of Csm's brain out with just their hand.
I can't wait for your arks of omen review when it's done.
Thanks for doing the solitaires justice in this video.
Two words to explain the imperial incompetence resulting in victory. Plot armor.
Showing my age here, had an entire metal harlequin army circa 1988. Gave it all away, wish I hadn't
How dare you inspire me enough to buy a Space Elf Jester from you.
For real, I didn't really get how badass the solitaires are. Your fig looks skitz, I can't wait to paint it.
8:52 one fought skulltaker?? Holy hell that must've been a sword fight no one could keep up with! That is if those watching didn't get cut up by being near by
Lore on Imperial Navy, High Lords, and Ecclesiarchy please
the laughing god as a solitaire should become a emporer tier warrior that occasionally shows up
Personal head canon the solotair in trazins museum is either the laughing god chilling, or it's elaborate prank that's part of a long con by the laughing god.
Real talk, Maugan Ra and his squad of Reapers taking on a an entire swarm of Tyranid's was one of the sickest 40K reads.
Love the "Dodge Ball" analogy....Dodge Dip Duck Dive and Dodge lol
Majorkill can you make a video on the different harelquin masks?
Artefacts/treasures of Vulkan update and speculation on what they could be would be pretty cool ngl.
12:07: became a blade of hurricanes. New Warhammer 40k weapon
I don't believe GW looked at the Exodites and thought nah, nobody would want to collect space elves riding dinosaurs into battle.
Can believe I get to watch on this soon. Yeessss!!!!!
"Dodge Duck Dip Dive and Dogde" love that movie!
the xeno nids look badass. might have to treat my self!
idk how i feel about eversors supposedly able to fight harlequins on somewhat even ground, considering how harlequins are like custodes of the eldar, meanwhile eversors are mass produced assassins
i think it would be cool if a solitaire did so much pranking tzeentch made him a daemon prince just to mess with slanesh
Imagine having a Custodes and a Solataire as bodyguards
Those xeno nid combo mini have got me thinking about building a nid army 👀
Hello Majorkill,
Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.
Please do a video on how the imperium first encountered the necrons and what were their reactions, did they mistake them for men of iron?