FIVE FACTS ABOUT THE AELDARI

Ever since second edition I have loved the eldar, or now known as the aeldari. Their bright colours, cool vehicles, and that avatar. They always seem cool. No matter what army I start in each new edition, I will always make a aeldari force as well. Sometimes adding on to previous editions army or starting from scratch or taking on a brand new strategy With my current force now standing at 2000 points. With that all in mind I am going to dedicate December to the Aeldari.

The spider-man easter egg.

We all know warhammer 40,000 has been inspired by a lot of classic science fiction. Dune, starship troopers and many others. Yet in C.S goto's book the eldar prophecy, it almost verbatim takes a scene from Sam Raimi's classic Spider-man. A dire avenger and a warp spider, are at an impasse, the warp spider says "I don't want to fight you" and of course the dire avenger replies with the same line as flash from spider-man "I wouldn't want to fight me either." Yep as if it couldn't be anymore on the nose with the warp spider saying peter parker's line as well. Don't read the book it is bad.

Slaanesh used to open reality

Back in second edition, wraithguard were good suicide units. First they were a pain in the ass to shift. With their toughness being an armour value, I quickly explain armour vlues. Back in the way back, vehicles had armour values dependant on where you shot them. To beat the armour you rolled a d6 and added that to your weapon strength. If it was higher the shot penetrated, equal it glanced. You then rolled on the penetrating or glancing hit table to see the damage done. Now if you destroyed the wraithguard slaanesh would open reality and take the soul from the broken spiritstone. If this happened in close combat, all units in 2" had to make a roll on a 6 they died. Instant death. There you go slaanesh would open reality to eat the yummy aeldari soul from the wraithguard and anyone else close to it.

Eldrad knew about the tyranids

The farseer of Ulthwe, knew about the coming of the great devourer before anyone else. Inlcuding kryptmann, in fact The farseer knew about the creepy and gubby ones before they even entered the milky way galaxy. He warned Iyanden about them. Why din't he warn the imperium? That is pretty simple really, the imperium, up to the emperor ignored him when he said horus was going to betray the emperor. Bonus fact Edrad warned the emperor about Horus and the emperor did nothing and probably promoted horus out of spite.

Two dead named charcters

Ok not dead but never seen again from the third edtion codex. Third edition codices are really weird. They were super thin, the eldar one being only 50 pages. That is not even the lore section of modern codices. They also had build your own named character, named characters that had no model. With the Eldar it was Iyanna Arielnal a Iyanden spirit seer, that always wounded in close combat on a 2+ and her ranged weapon was a strength 9. Making her an absolute beast. The other was Nuadhu 'fireheart' of saim hann, he rode a custom vyper jetbike, that in close combat negated armour saves, and ingored crew stunned and shaken. Both bad asses and need models.

They think the imperium are tools.

Before the emperor called the primarch guilliman a tool, the eldar already was calling the entire imperium one giant tool. They believe they can use the imperium to protect their own asses. We have seen this too, Eldrad had armeggedon attacked by ghazkhul so a craftworld would live. It is a lot longr than that, a warboss got offed so ghaskhul could take his place, thus leading to ghazkhul going ham on Armegeddon. There has been many other times too. They also believe the imperium incompetant too, so that kind of tool as well.