Back in the day the guns used by the Wraithguard had the delightful Distort rule, where if you hit on a 6 to wound it would cause Instant Death: unless you had a rule that specifically negates Instant Death or passed an Invulnerable Save (given by things like force fields or you being really good at dodging) you would just... well, die. There's not much you can do when most of your torso gets teleported into the Warp, no matter how badass you are. So when a bunch of these robots come stomping up to you and fire their D-Scythes, which are the above effect but in the attack cone of a flamethrower, your day is not going to end well. When the Wraithlords got updated back in the day to their new and sleek plastic models compared to the chunky hunks of tin built like they wore their pants like Steve Urkel (these are the ones that appear in Dawn of War), you were given the option between wheter you'd take their big guns or not, and whether you took a Ghostglaive instead of their bare fists. Upgrading all the way was rather expensive and not really worth it, and you could choose between one kitted for melee or a more ranged option at a much more resonable price. But since GW did away with paying points to make your units more powerful there is now no reason to not take the big sword and two big guns, kitted for battlefield effectiveness instead of price efficiency. This streamlining of list building comes at the cost of no longer putting big units on the table for relatively cheap, which is a bit of a loss. At least 30k still allows for this.
Also as a note, the weapons that wraith guards use, are way overpowered. To the point that firing the weapons Tweeks and warps the wraith guard frame. When they are done the spirit stone is taken out and they rework the construct.
I’m just being reminded of a story of a Wraithknight pilot that was completely horrified by the process but was forced into it under threat of never getting to see his sister again. Now he reluctantly does his job the entire time his dead sister (who does see this has a great honor) doesn’t understand why he’s so freaked out about their situation. Also of the cool fanart of a wounded Dreadnought and Wraithlord talking about how they feel nothing but cold in their tombs.
5:05 The aeldari carry their soul stone on them to make sure their soul get inside if they died. Of course there’s the risk that their enemies collect them as trophies thinking they are just trinkets. Those who do tend to end up on with a squad of angry eldars tracking them down with extreme prejudice. They will go to great lengths to collect the souls of their dead. They will however be grateful if you return them. One particular planetary governor got the «bright» idea to murder a group of Eldar diplomats so he could wear their spirit stone as jewelry. The elder send another emissary to demand the return of the stones and they even reluctantly told him their true purpose. The thought of wearing actual souls on him only increased his interest. The envoy warned him that there won’t be another warning and that the Eldar will bring fire and blood on his world if he do not return the stones. He order his men to shot the envoy and collect the stone. The eldar give good on their threat. The might of two craftworlds was unleashed and it was too late for the imperial navy to rescue that planet. As for the governor, the eldar were so pissed off that instead of killing him, they dump him into the dark eldar city. He’s still live many thousand years later. As a sentient piece of furniture but he still live. The lesson: just returned the damn stones.
12:00 Pancreas does a really bad job of explaining this. So the thing with the warp is that while it is the "Sea of Souls", that doesn't mean you can't physically shunt things into it. Otherwise warp travel wouldn't be a thing, obviously. So it doesn't kill by sucking a soul into the warp, it shunts a portion of the thing it hits into the warp. Flesh, metal, circuitry, and yes your soul potentially. So he's actually incorrect about the specifics of the weapon he's talking about. The Imperium actually has something somewhat similar in vortex grenades and vortex missiles, though they're FAR less precise. In fact after the initial activation of one, it opens up a tear into the warp that tends to drift around the battlefield, endangering both sides.
I heard that in the arsenal of the Death Watch Chapter, there is a shield decorated with a large number of soulstones with souls inside. Space Marines of the Death Watch sometimes use it when fighting against the Eldar. 😅 And in one of the episodes of the official animated series "Hammer & Bolter", the protagonist is an Eldar warlock. Accompanied by his friends, he returned to an unknown craftworld that was destroyed by the Imperium of Man, looking for his mother's soulstone, and then put the soulstone into a wraithguard, just to be able to talk to his mother again. 😢
You ask who is holding onto the soulstones for the living eldar, all eldar are responsible for their own soulstones: the biggest gem on an eldar's chest is the soulstone, you can inspect them on the models in DoW. As for when and how the eldar summon the avatar: they summon the avatar when the craft world mobilizes for war. What the craft world consider an expedition or special military operation and what is a real war isn't specified. The avatar is roused by the sacrifice of an exarch: an aspect warrior leader and teacher. Exarchs are 'lost' on the path of the warrior, they already can't take off their warface even if they wanted to, so uniting with the god of war in this way is a less extreme step for them than you might expect.
GW constantly "updating" to new rules every few years, even if all the factions haven't had an update yet, is the main reason I dropped out of the tabletop game. I would pay good money to support a fan project that just made a gestalt of all the good editions into something where you could play anything and it's competitive
10:00 avatar of khaine summoning: sacrifice the soul and body of a chosen exarch in a ritual. that soul is obliterated. otherwise an assembly of phoenix kings can substitute for that with souls out of their collections. the avatar of khaine rests in the deepest cavern of the craftworld until it is woken. 28:25 wraithbone contructs can be controlled by dead eldar spirits. theyre basically the neural system of the eldar vehicles. wraithbone is just a material that "resonates psychically", so it functions better with more ghost entities flowing into it. maybe.
Not all wraithbone vehicles contain spirits, only the walkers and the ships do. The more traditional vehicles are piloted exclusively by living Eldar, that's why Wraithguard and Wraithlords are seen as exceptional and only awoken in times of desperation
Regarding the "Lethal Hits" issue, that's honestly only an issue if you're doing official tournaments. Most players would likely just homerule that because everyone understands what it was meant to do.
@@TheLegitWeebs The story of the custodes remobilising is actually told in the novel "Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion", 2 thirds of which is about the custodes and the sisters of silence but the mist entertaining part imo was the 3rd of the book about an imperial politician trying to rescind the Edict of Restraint and let the custodes leave the palace but has to deal with the cumebrsome politics of the high lords during the opening of the great rift and the return of Guilliman. The custodes and sister of silence got official miniatures, unfortunately the politician (Chancellor of the Senatorum Imperialis: Alexei Lev Tieron) wasn't so lucky, but he was promoted to Guilliman's personal Remembrancer.
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The Eldar players have actually got a win lately with model updates, and I THINK rule updates, but don't hold me to that.
Good to know that they haven't been completely abandoned at least.
New codex in january! and a new phoenix lord for the warpspiders too!
Back in the day the guns used by the Wraithguard had the delightful Distort rule, where if you hit on a 6 to wound it would cause Instant Death: unless you had a rule that specifically negates Instant Death or passed an Invulnerable Save (given by things like force fields or you being really good at dodging) you would just... well, die. There's not much you can do when most of your torso gets teleported into the Warp, no matter how badass you are. So when a bunch of these robots come stomping up to you and fire their D-Scythes, which are the above effect but in the attack cone of a flamethrower, your day is not going to end well.
When the Wraithlords got updated back in the day to their new and sleek plastic models compared to the chunky hunks of tin built like they wore their pants like Steve Urkel (these are the ones that appear in Dawn of War), you were given the option between wheter you'd take their big guns or not, and whether you took a Ghostglaive instead of their bare fists. Upgrading all the way was rather expensive and not really worth it, and you could choose between one kitted for melee or a more ranged option at a much more resonable price. But since GW did away with paying points to make your units more powerful there is now no reason to not take the big sword and two big guns, kitted for battlefield effectiveness instead of price efficiency. This streamlining of list building comes at the cost of no longer putting big units on the table for relatively cheap, which is a bit of a loss. At least 30k still allows for this.
Also as a note, the weapons that wraith guards use, are way overpowered. To the point that firing the weapons Tweeks and warps the wraith guard frame. When they are done the spirit stone is taken out and they rework the construct.
I’m just being reminded of a story of a Wraithknight pilot that was completely horrified by the process but was forced into it under threat of never getting to see his sister again. Now he reluctantly does his job the entire time his dead sister (who does see this has a great honor) doesn’t understand why he’s so freaked out about their situation.
Also of the cool fanart of a wounded Dreadnought and Wraithlord talking about how they feel nothing but cold in their tombs.
5:05 The aeldari carry their soul stone on them to make sure their soul get inside if they died. Of course there’s the risk that their enemies collect them as trophies thinking they are just trinkets. Those who do tend to end up on with a squad of angry eldars tracking them down with extreme prejudice. They will go to great lengths to collect the souls of their dead. They will however be grateful if you return them. One particular planetary governor got the «bright» idea to murder a group of Eldar diplomats so he could wear their spirit stone as jewelry. The elder send another emissary to demand the return of the stones and they even reluctantly told him their true purpose. The thought of wearing actual souls on him only increased his interest. The envoy warned him that there won’t be another warning and that the Eldar will bring fire and blood on his world if he do not return the stones. He order his men to shot the envoy and collect the stone. The eldar give good on their threat. The might of two craftworlds was unleashed and it was too late for the imperial navy to rescue that planet. As for the governor, the eldar were so pissed off that instead of killing him, they dump him into the dark eldar city. He’s still live many thousand years later. As a sentient piece of furniture but he still live. The lesson: just returned the damn stones.
Pancreas has a video about Khaine if you want to know about him
12:00 Pancreas does a really bad job of explaining this. So the thing with the warp is that while it is the "Sea of Souls", that doesn't mean you can't physically shunt things into it. Otherwise warp travel wouldn't be a thing, obviously. So it doesn't kill by sucking a soul into the warp, it shunts a portion of the thing it hits into the warp. Flesh, metal, circuitry, and yes your soul potentially. So he's actually incorrect about the specifics of the weapon he's talking about.
The Imperium actually has something somewhat similar in vortex grenades and vortex missiles, though they're FAR less precise. In fact after the initial activation of one, it opens up a tear into the warp that tends to drift around the battlefield, endangering both sides.
I heard that in the arsenal of the Death Watch Chapter, there is a shield decorated with a large number of soulstones with souls inside.
Space Marines of the Death Watch sometimes use it when fighting against the Eldar. 😅
And in one of the episodes of the official animated series "Hammer & Bolter", the protagonist is an Eldar warlock.
Accompanied by his friends, he returned to an unknown craftworld that was destroyed by the Imperium of Man, looking for his mother's soulstone, and then put the soulstone into a wraithguard, just to be able to talk to his mother again. 😢
You ask who is holding onto the soulstones for the living eldar, all eldar are responsible for their own soulstones: the biggest gem on an eldar's chest is the soulstone, you can inspect them on the models in DoW.
As for when and how the eldar summon the avatar: they summon the avatar when the craft world mobilizes for war. What the craft world consider an expedition or special military operation and what is a real war isn't specified. The avatar is roused by the sacrifice of an exarch: an aspect warrior leader and teacher. Exarchs are 'lost' on the path of the warrior, they already can't take off their warface even if they wanted to, so uniting with the god of war in this way is a less extreme step for them than you might expect.
GW constantly "updating" to new rules every few years, even if all the factions haven't had an update yet, is the main reason I dropped out of the tabletop game.
I would pay good money to support a fan project that just made a gestalt of all the good editions into something where you could play anything and it's competitive
Have you tried One Page Rules?
Wraith guard are not a must, but they are great, you can build totally without them.
@19:16 funny you say that Eldar actually very recently got updated models and they're really good.
Eldar soulstones are typically built into the armor.
10:00 avatar of khaine summoning: sacrifice the soul and body of a chosen exarch in a ritual. that soul is obliterated. otherwise an assembly of phoenix kings can substitute for that with souls out of their collections. the avatar of khaine rests in the deepest cavern of the craftworld until it is woken.
28:25 wraithbone contructs can be controlled by dead eldar spirits. theyre basically the neural system of the eldar vehicles. wraithbone is just a material that "resonates psychically", so it functions better with more ghost entities flowing into it. maybe.
Not all wraithbone vehicles contain spirits, only the walkers and the ships do. The more traditional vehicles are piloted exclusively by living Eldar, that's why Wraithguard and Wraithlords are seen as exceptional and only awoken in times of desperation
Regarding the "Lethal Hits" issue, that's honestly only an issue if you're doing official tournaments. Most players would likely just homerule that because everyone understands what it was meant to do.
Wraithguards must smell much better than a dreadnaught considering you just insert a spirit stone inside instead of a entire corpse.
Whole corpse? It's usually just a head and torso if that. Lil nigga
Dot dot.
Oh hell yeah you're checking out Eldar lore vids!
The Custodes have actually begun to venture out from Terra and do some actual fighting now that Guilliman has returned.
Thank goodness. They are literal game changers on any battlefield
@@TheLegitWeebs The story of the custodes remobilising is actually told in the novel "Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion", 2 thirds of which is about the custodes and the sisters of silence but the mist entertaining part imo was the 3rd of the book about an imperial politician trying to rescind the Edict of Restraint and let the custodes leave the palace but has to deal with the cumebrsome politics of the high lords during the opening of the great rift and the return of Guilliman.
The custodes and sister of silence got official miniatures, unfortunately the politician (Chancellor of the Senatorum Imperialis: Alexei Lev Tieron) wasn't so lucky, but he was promoted to Guilliman's personal Remembrancer.
Wraithbone can in steohry by seen as the equivalent to necrodermis the living metal of the necrons
Wraithbone is litterally the warp made manifest with bonesingers shaping it
I recommend Eldar propaganda by pancreas. It gives a lot of info about them that is rarely covered by most people.
I was wondering you got lot of experience from total war already so why not another meme compilation from Tariff he got some good memes lately.
Tariff's a busy guy and I don't want to bother him by sending him another request. Likely won't be another Tariff reaction unfortunately.
Don't get new models...? Did he not see the brand new range
No. A typical game is 2000 points.