The Drukhari Fleet! The Ships, Tactics And Strategies Of The Dark Eldar Navy
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- The dastardly Drukhari are a near constant blight upon the galaxy! But how do they make such a nuisance of themselves? After all there aren't that many Dark Eldar left and those who reside within the dark corners of commorragh do so only under the watchful gaze of Asdrubael Vect how are they even able to organize an effective fleet? well, they don't!
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Finally, the Drukhari Pimpfleet with built-in space jacuzzi, rave floor and SM club
Complete with cannons that shoot black holes!
More love and care was put into this single video about the Dark Eldar than the entirety of GW has put into the Dark Eldar faction, as a whole, in the last decade.
yeah... they really do neglect the Dark Eldar, unfortunately they seem to only care about space marines. as much as i like the Astartes, there are so many other interesting factions, even in the Imperium itself, that they seem to ignore or just throw some half assed junk at
Faction gets neglected -> Fewer people collect faction -> Faction gets even more neglect due to selling poorly because of previous neglect -> Rinse and Repeat.
Corection its more effort than gw has put into anything in the last 10 years
Man, the last time I was this early, the Drukhari fleets had already disappeared the entire population of an imperial planet.
Hopefully they send back those T'au exchange students soon, it's been decades.
Didn't they return as abominable haemonculi@@VioletDeathRei
Dang you see them on the burn out or something?
@@Asterion_Mol0c Aye some of them but they took a bunch more on their way out.
Also we both know they are likely still kicking even if they wish they weren't Drukhari never let good spoils go to waste.
I boiled a kettle for some coffee and they had fleeced an entire Tau world by the time I added milk, it's good to put it in context.
Honestly, a story about a Drukhari Fleet Admiral and their journey of raids, slave collecting, and battles against defense fleets and Imperial Navy fleets sent against them would be really amazing and give so much light to the Drukhari way of life outside of Commorragh itself and upon the seas of the void.
Imagine if the drukhari Crusade rules work like this.
"Grand theft Drukhari" would probably be a smash hit lol
Be the baddest Gangster ever to scourge the galaxy with notority points for your cabal. Complete with goth elf girlfriends/butlers! Enjoy PVP with the most badass melee weapons and firearms in the arena with leaderboards. Customize your ship!
Imagine a class in Schola Progenium watching "Imperium Vox documentary: The Trans-Void slave trade" as part of Critical Enemy Theory curriculum
@@Ozzystrayroo"Critical Enemy Theory" kek
Do you honestly think current BL/GW writers would do it justice?
Dark Eldar society fascinates me. I love the "might makes right" with a touch of anarchism their society primarily operates under.
Actually, the dark eldar strategy really makes sense when pitted against say necrons.
The imperium can be befuddled and comand lines cut.
But not the necrons. They really are a perfect counter the the eldar strategy.
Bear in mind that the Eldar wages war againts necron alongside the Krork, and if the ork/freebotaz tactic of current year can be trusted, the krork are the perfect distraction to eldari harassing tactic.
Tangent on the subject of boarding actions:
It always struck me as weird that 'overpenatration' of man-portable small arms is often presented as a concern in the context of a bording action or shipboard fighting in 40k. I can kind of see it on something like a small freighter or shuttle, but anything frigate sized or bigger is going to have external hulls that are many meters thick even at the weakest parts. I don't see how a stray shot from anything vaugely man-portable (even including stuff like melta weapons) is somehow going to acientally cause a hull breach.
There's even less of a concern the further you get inside the ship's interior. In fact, particularly from the boarder's perspective, you may well WANT something that can punch through interior walls and bulkheads if need be.
I can see how things like shotguns might be seen as advantageous just in light of the likelihood of fighting in cramped spaces (not that there aren't big wide open areas inside imperial ships too), but the concern about 'accidentally breaching the hull' never made sense to me.
I'd think the sensitive piping and electronics behind the walls would be an issue. Don't want to pop a coolant or fuel line mid firefight by accident.
@@nicholasrandall3507
Thatd be the big issue. Sure you have multiple hulls but all the stuff that makes your ship function is probably right up near the internal hull. REALLY dont want to capture a ship only to have to drive from in the engine room using tin cans and string as your internal communication system.
@@theatagamer90 The trade off would be maintenance access. Having multiple hull layers on the inside makes it that much harder to access your systems. Makes more sense to pad your external layers and keep a thinner internal one.
Keep in mind the trade off of adding weight. Heavier ships require more power to change speed and direction, and would be more likely to tear themselves apart with high speed maneuvers.
Plasma, melta, high explosives wouldn't be great next to windows and thin exterior hulls but your logic is correct 40k ships are grand in such a way that they can take a pounding
There is some boarding action in Void Stalker where Nightlords are fighting loyalists and nobody seems to worry about hulls while all guns are blazing
While Drukhari raiding fleets are frightening, what is far more dangerous is the secret Drukhari tunnels which have been dug beneath Imperial hives.
Would make for a good storyline, various Dark Eldar characters in realspace raids and how they might have trouble with certain factions sometimes. A good example would be an easy cargo vessel that’s stuffed full of genestealer cult members.
They would find it amusing, Dark Eldar have captured nids on several occasions. At times with disastrous results.
@mikewaterfield3599
Very true but purestrain genestealers in very tight confines are nasty.
@@Fulgrim2 there are good reasons old hat nerds like me remember them with a bit of fear from the space hulk days. In the open at least artillery and ranged combat are possible, however considering how much dark eldar like their death games and knife play.......... Bear in mind like all good emo's dark eldar do have continuous $uicidal ideation. "Bleed just to know your alive" sort of mindset.
That would be just a bonus dude, imagine the betting and excitement genestealers and the hybrids would cause in the arenas, I mean Drukari capture hive tyrants for the death pits ......gene stealers are badass but not tyrant level badassery
@@mikewaterfield3599 didn’t the Dark Elder capture a entire planet of nids and held it above Commorragh as a joke
Ah, the Dark Eldar.
Continuing to justify the Imperium's "kill the xenos" policy.
One thing that confuses me is how they make their ships. Based on how they look I in Battlefleet Gothic games I assume they are made of the same material of Craftworld Eldar, the pyskery bone stuff. But…the Dark Eldar cannot use their psyker powers for fear of drawing the attention of Slaanesh.
Even assuming they just take their ships from the craftworlders, they would then apparently need to reshape it into the forms the Dark Eldar use
Dark eldar tech is probably the MOST advanced shit in the setting but has zero logical explanation. It blows up shit and runs ridiculously fast that Orks would re-consider "red goes fast" to "spiky go fast" but NOTHING is explained how.
Honestly in BFG Dark Elder were introduced pretty late in the games cycle and felt pretty much as an after thought (as they so often are) right through to the ship design which was Elder ships with spikey bits, at a guess given given that BFG was one of Andy Chambers babies I'd guess balance was prioritised over narrative consistancy and since he Elder fleet already existed and it was late in development the Dark Elder were a copy paste job
I'd say gene-modification by their homunculi
They cant do psychic bone singing. All their technology is for the most part crafted conventionally out of raw materials in factories. They have an extremely advanced level of science and technology probably only second to the Necrons so their machines are almost akin to magic by our standards. As someone else said I always assumed their ships resemblence to Craftworld ships is just because they copy and pasted the designs with blades attached and called it a day, but you could explain it in lore as a result of shared cultural aesthetics that predate the fall.
I dont think Dark Eldar vehicles are made of wraith bone, they are made in more conventional ways, but Dark Eldar tech is so advanced as most of it is from the height of their empire that it performs on a level only rivaled by Necron tech.
We need a video game where you play as Kabal or Dark Eldar raider captain. With politics and base building back in Commoragh and naval and ground combat missions in real space.
You could pick to either start off in a low postion in a kabal and "move" you up or set off and make your own in the lower tiers.
The benefits of one would be you have more resources from the start but have less freedom and have to follow orders or the other you have more freedom but no resources
I'm surprised GW didn't make Black Craftworlds, basically Dark Elf Black Arks IN SPACE, with a part of Commorah in connection.
Speaking of other ships Impaler should be an Escort ship.
Also there is a difference between Kablite ship, a Wych ship, and a Homunculus ships.
Mmmm, well the Craftworlds are more like the High Elf provinces or whatever they're called in Fantasy on the High Elf island continent thing. So, black arks would probably be more like a mobile Kabal fortress in real space and would be far smaller than a Craftworld to fit the comparison.
Of all the warhammer lore channels, Arch's contents are the best, because he understands the lore and not reading off a brochure.
Well, if you’re doing fleet discussions now Arch, you know what you’ve gotta do next. We need Necron fleet tactics from you
FLEET LOGISTICS
Necron fleet tactics: Show up, destroy everything without effort, leave, give no explanation.
Whenever Arch talks about the Drukhari, I feel like playing a Cabal Economic Simulator 🤣
Honestly the way they organize the fleets kinda reminds me of the Somali pirates where people buy shares of the raid just with even more back stabbing
The video shows very well, how the drukhari operate at a technological, tactical and strategic advantage, but still are held back by their own twisted darkness. Their whole lifestyle and the confines of the webway make them terrifying in a raid of their choosing, and utterly unable to engage in a straight up fight.
Would very much like to see a scenario where the dark eldar are forced to engage a chaos invasion in a slugging match. Nasty tricks vs nasty tricks, and a galaxy better for every death.
yeah if the Drukhari were more..... reasonable, their level of technology could be devastating to almost everything else out in the galaxy. The imperium should be glad that the dark Eldars selfishness and corrupted minds make it basically impossible for a real unified fighting force to be created.
Drukhari and Deathcorps of Krieg, my favourite factions.
"Foolish mon-keigh Arch, you only know as far as the imperium rumors, cogitators and mad squabble allows you to..." -- Lelith Hesparax
Hi Lelith. Do you think you and I could get to know each other better? I think you're hot.
Started mentioning the possibilities of the mimic drive, and now I'm imagining the deldar starting a Waaagh to give them new hunting grounds
That would be a pretty cool idea.
The fact that the Drukhari antimatter lances are only twice as powerfull as Imperial lances makes me appreciate Imperial lances more. Even after 10K years of technological devolution the Imperium can still pull off 50% of absolute efficiency in entropy creation in a projected particle weaponry. We could probably pull off 2% with fission lances.
Honestly, considering how Imperial lances are. Having double that firepower on such a small vessel is comically absurd.
It's like having an ICBM strapped on a pirate motorboat.
To be fair drukhari use the weapons at weaker level as they dont want to destroy there opponents but leave them crippled so they can collect the crew
I thought the dark elven "space navy" where individual houses, cohorts, guilds, cabals, e.t.c. doing their own thing.
Pretty much, they are kinda similar to the brethren court of pirates of carribean movie, and the pirate king is asdrubael Vect
Nothing better than a Drukharii lore video.
Please keep them coming, the Hellrazer Space Elves are one of my favourite factions ever.
Dam it’s good you are making Drukhari lore again. I know their is not a lot to go off of but it’s always fun hearing about my only Zenos army
Happy to see more eldar stuff on this channel
Dude, thanks for all the entertainment over all these years.
An Craftworld Fleet next would be cool
I love ship lore, pls do more of these videos. I'd love to learn more about tyranid fleets
They're basically loosely allied with each other, understanding that the primary enemy are those that aren't them.
3:00 - Ah yes, the D**k-in-Chief himself.
Yeah, it's clearly an unwritten rule in the Dark City, don't make more enemies than you can afford.
13:05 - The Raven Guard used Reflex Shields to do this in the Great Crusade, although it also reduced the Battle Barge's top speed and sensor capabilities.
This channel has more love for the alien and minor factions the GW has ever had. Let's make 5 more space marine models.
Devastating and terrifying ships right up until the moment they come into contact with a blunt instrument with the approximate dimensions of a standard Imperial entrenching tool.
Me space dark elves... good. I like much.
All praise our Lord Arch.
Rogue trader taught me to hate Drukhari ships.
Lol when arch says things like I did a video on this like 5 years ago it makes me realize how long I've been listening to arch
Rogue trader has me really thinking about making a Drukhari army for the table.
Imagine the drukhari getting their hands on a masochist
We eating good tonight bois
@@MrTdub16 they would be eatin’ good
I hope one day Arch can do a video on why red ones go faster!
I believe he already has. The title is "the ork cult of speed" or something. Hope it's what you wanted.
Can your next Beasts of the Old World make a turn to the New World and be about the Dread Saurian?
Love these videos. Even if you've done them before, having an 'updated' one always a welcome watch.
Yay! Finally more navy stuff!
the spam bots are adopting new tactics I see.
Seriously, they’re everywhere in here.
Yes youtube, this is definitely the game Stellaris. Good job.
omg how did i miss that :|... by accidet found it scrolling back in my notificaton timeline.. i love dark eldar and eldar lore .
you should do a video on how dark eldar kabals function, rise and fall, something like your chaos or genestealer cult videos
Ha! I will never get over the guy in the background looking at you like, "Who are you talking to brother?"
5 years old... I frequently re-watch the ones that are 8 years old now 🥰
How do you get hundreds of dark eldar to work together to operate a vessel for a deployment? Sounds like they would start turning the halls of the vessel into the latest installment of hunger games instead of cooperating.
They generally leave (most) of the skullduggery and customary backstabbing for when they get home. The only predilection more powerful to a Dark Eldar than their own malignant narcissism is their utter hatred of everything that isn't them, so when given a "lesser being" to torment they generally leave each other be, atleast until they run out of victims.
There is a loose etiquette to the realspace raid and an unsuccessful one could hurt the standing of the kabals participating, especially since Vect tends to insist on his tribute anyway.
@@doxasticdraco9990 Exactly, yeah. Just because they have zero moral or ethical compunctions doesn't mean they're stupid.
@@PrimarchLorgar I have wondered whether a society as feral as Commoragh could sustain itself, but I suspend disbelief and go with it.
@@doxasticdraco9990 I mean, when you have a stockpile of pre-fall Eldari technology, none of the losses incurred by having a society as anarchic and dysfunctional as the Dark Eldar are meaningful. If humans in 40K suddenly found that 100% of the species developed malignant narcissism, the Imperium would collapse. Infighting would lead to critical resource shortages, constant rebellions would lead to dwindling imperial tithes, the military would divide into independent juntas and descend upon itself, etc. The whole apparatus of the state would collapse. This simply doesn't matter to the Dark Eldar, they have the technology to produce everything they need, even death is a mere inconvenience to them.
The only resource they can't produce is their psychic shield against She who Thirsts, generated by inflicting pain upon unwilling sapient victims. Their own ancient, withered souls far too faded to make any acceptable offering of pain. So long as the raiding fleets carry innumerable souls from realspace to the bustling ports of the Dark City, Commoragh and her children will prosper.
A fine video as usual good sir! Will you consider a similar review of the fleets of Warhammer fantasy? Also some logistics in that glorious setting. Skaven logistics? Yes yes?
Playing gothic armada, my answer to eldar is to
1. Look at their facing
2. Fire torpedoes after their speed burst using a HET to line up the shot
3. Watch woth glee as 2-8 torpedoes turn the glass cannons into scrap.
I read the title as "Drunkhari," not seeing any orks in the thumbnail probably should've tipped me off.
I wished Arch would do his Videos like at the beginning. More calm and without exaggerate emphasise. With the soundtrack "Anamalie"
Somebody will have a whole lot of negative things to say about the dark eldar fleet when he will reach a certain act in rogue trader ...
I think I'm going to try and do a story about Drukhari being magnificent bastards.
Raids are incredibly easy in 40k. How many times have you read where a sneak attack, infiltration, raid, or even just straight up assault doesnt automatically surprise or deactivate or get around the initial defenses. I mean the Dark Angels just wandered around the Imperial Palace outwitting and maneuvering Custodes.
Aerodynamics in space crack me up as much as explosion sounds in space do.
Your videos put me to sleep. I mean that in a good way. I like my bed time stories long and lots of juicy details. I queue up your videos, turn the volume down low, and pass out.
Nightlord captain "Mates, I watched an inspiring holovid by Arch and came up with a brilliant slogan for recruiting crewmen." "With all due respect, I doubt a new slogan gonna make a difference if you still treat them like cattle and toys and talk to that skeleton in the helm unless you are blackouting for weeks having mad dreams. But what would that slogan be?" "Nightlords. It could be worse"
My nephew recently started a Drukhari army on the tabletop. I have been on the receiving end of many dark lances -.-
Ahhh Dark lance spam. The dream.
Well that's one way to pass Imperial fenced by the sneaky space dark elves.
Is the thumbnail Darth Vader if he was Drukhari lord 😂
That's a ship, mate
@@grzegorzcembruch2834 ah arch has changed it. it was earlier the 8:42 picture
Nice to see an Arch video early on.
Looks like Rouge Trader provided some content ideas ehhh Arch?
Arch LIVES *STOMP STOMP*
Haven't watched yet, but there seems to be spelling error in the title - should obviously be "Drukhari Feet". That's why we are all here for, after all.
Strange I haven't noticed any real change in Arch his early content compared to the new stuff. Might just be him obsessing about details only he notices.
the devil is always in the detail afterall
The Dark Eldar the original Goth elf waifu..
Let's appreciate this video, now arch is attracting nicer bots, not those that only Spout FSM all day.
Damn dark elf pride flag space camo making my ship in rogue trader miss its shots
Cool dark elf ship lore
Maybe this year we will get some Votann material
Another hit of Arch lore!
I have a feeling it’s the equivalent of several oligarchs having their own personal mercenary naval
That's precisely what it is. In fact, the entirety of Dark Eldar civilization ie effectively a merchant Republic.
Countless guilds, cabals, mercenary companies, humonculi covens, aristocrats and all manner of powerful entities/organisations act independently of one another in order to accrue more wealth, power and influence. Interactions between these powerful factions is almost always transactional in nature, bartering amongst themselves for valuable resources or information.
Their "king" Absrubael Vect is their "leader" only insofar as he has single most individual power, wealth and influence, which grants him a limited degree of executive power which other individuals cannot match. His word is not universal, and he is in no position to command or order around any of the powerful organisations of Comorragh.
Oh yeah baby! Thank you archie!
YEY i just noticed arch doing WH stuff again
REJOICE!
Arch , buddy , when you gonna start the Siege of Terra series brother? Been waiting with baited breath since your Horus Heresy series . Love your videos of course , but bro....SIEGE OF TERRA, SIEGE OF TERRA, SIEGE OF TERRA (Waving arms trying to get a siege of terra chant going)😂😂
As a human in 40K and not a Astartes or Custodes the Drukari are the worst fear on average for those who know of them.
I Like My Drukhari Dark
Hold The Souls
Dark eldar are fun
I guess i have to admit that it kind of takes guts for them to leave Commoragh. Whenever they leave the webway, they're way more susceptible to being snacked on by slaanesh
Emperor protects!
Arch, your old vids do sound a bit off and you dont show off your silver tounge but they are still great! Wouldnt mind more skaven lore though.
I understand Drukhari needing slaves to survive. But what do Aeldari pirates need raid for? All their materials are wraith bone, food is accessible at any craftworld or exodite port, and it’s a poor excuse to just raid for adventure or finery when death risks an eternity in the warp with Slannesh.
I doubt all their material is wraithbone
The aeldari exiles crave the experiences.
The corsairs raid for fun essentially.
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It's all fun and games for the Drukhari until the Black Templars show up.
Hi Arch. what happened to the movies with Dog of war regiments of renown?
As much as Arch's accent throws me off sometimes, this may actually be an appropriate place for a "Voreship." Or the Tyranids.
The fleet that takes "loot the booty" to its extreme
Yar har filldely de, a pirates live for me
ITS THE BEST EDGY FACTION YOOOOOO
Also the faction that requires the most skill on the boardgame too.
Ramjet... in space
LORE FOR THE LORE GODDDD!!!!
"...And speaking of Raids, let us take time to introduce this episode's sponsor: RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!"
Goddamn the bot comments are funny AF XD
But, as always, fantastic work on this one Arch! Perfect to sit back with a cup of hot coco and listen to casually! Or paint minis to preferably lol
Happy new year, for anyone not featured in this video
About how big is a typical attack fleet? I have heard some say hundreds of ships but nothing more specific. I have also heard one crusade fleet is larger than the entirety of Starfleet in Star Trek, but no one can say where or why that is said. Could you help out please?
Bring the Lore!
One thing I still don't understand about the drukhari, if slaves are brought to comoroah and than sold what are they being bought with in the first place, a barter system would male no sense as even if you have to lower value slaves you would still get an equal amount of suffering, weapons is also out of the question as everyone is already armed to the teeth plus they would give a skaven a run for his money on how duplicitous they are and base metals like gold? Can you honestly see an archon hoarding gold like scrooge mcduck because I cant.
Rogue trader inspired perhaps?
This video needs more LESLIE JONES!