Dark Eldar, Any chance?

[Guvenoren]

Any chance we will be able to see Dark Eldar?
What would you guys think they would be like? What would make them different from the regular Eldar? Let's be creative!

EDIT:

I made an example of what the drukhari faction could hypothetically look like. This is just for idea purposes of course and I have made no artwork here, just a simple google search.

https://i.imgur.com/st8RN07.png

[Red Bat]

I think Sisters of Battle would be easier to make as they could have unique mechanics around their Living Saints.

I actually don't know much about Dark Eldar, but I imagine they wouldn't have the same settlement issues the Eldar has since they don't even have the ability to make the same structures, but I imagine they would still have reduced pop growth and likely a slavery mechanic tied to loyalty.

[Guvenoren]

Slavery. How would that work? Perhaps every time you kill a unit, you add a certain type of currency based on the enemy units health as a resource? Would Dark Eldar be able to settle on other planes rather than Webways? Any kind of flavour effects? hmm

sisters could be neat too

[Red Bat]

Originally posted by Guvenoren:

Slavery. How would that work? Perhaps every time you kill a unit, you add a certain type of currency based on the enemy units health as a resource? Would Dark Eldar be able to settle on other planes rather than Webways? Any kind of flavour effects? hmm

sisters could be neat too

IDK, maybe they either split the population mechanic into regular pops and slaves, or they capture a portion of their kills. The problem is if it only works on infantry then it won't achieve much in the current game's "tankspam" meta, and it wouldn't make any sense vs Tyranids or Psykers (who they just kill outright because they don't want to be noticed by the Warp).

The Dark Eldar can't use wraithbone. They can use webways but constructing huge settlements off them seems a stretch, especially since they kind of only have one massive city in the lore. I don't really know how settlements would work for them.

[Guvenoren]

Maybe they should be a single settlement faction? Maybe they could build slaver ports or something. A faction to actually use the waters for something. I don't want them to become another Astartes.

[Smiling Jack]

I'd kinda like to see them go full pirate, completely without bases, with an economy built around raiding and plundering. And some sort of "suffering" mechanic tied into morale.

Or just say eff it and make a Harlequin faction

[Stardustfire]

god no @smiling, it was already a stupid idea of "Greedy Wonkers" to split Harlequins away from the eldar main faction, i dont need this useless mini subfaction in Gladius.

[Guvenoren]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

god no @smiling, it was already a stupid idea of "Greedy Wonkers" to split Harlequins away from the eldar main faction, i dont need this useless mini subfaction in Gladius.

wait, harlequins are a subfaction like the mechanicus? god that sounds terrible.

[Guvenoren]

So I thought of making a template of what the Dark Eldar could be like on the front page screen. Let's try it!

[Guvenoren]

I made a template of what the Drukhari faction could look like:
https://i.imgur.com/st8RN07.png

[Stardustfire]

@guv till 3 rulebooks ago, harlquins are one elite troop with one psiker upgrade for the eldars, than they got the grand idea to make them there own faction with there own codex and remove them from eldar codex. it ended up with around 3 unit types, 3 hero types and 2 or 3 vehicles, wohoo....

[Smiling Jack]

Lmao yeah Harlequins on the tabletop is a dumpster fire. Eldar in general are like 6 factions now... Eldar without Harlequins seems incomplete tho if there's Eldar they should be included somewhere....The Dawn of War Harlequin mod fleshed them out as a separate faction real well.

Then there's the Ynnari, ain't even gonna go there

[Smiling Jack]

@Guvenoren
Awesome job on that Dark Eldar tab, we need this to happen!
And Leleth Hesperax as a hero is mandatory

[Brother Severus]

I am all for the Dark Eldars to be added as a new DLC faction,finger crossed.

[Guvenoren]

Originally posted by Smiling Jack:

@Guvenoren
Awesome job on that Dark Eldar tab, we need this to happen!
And Leleth Hesperax as a hero is mandatory :reusgreed:

Cheers my man :D So, I forgot to mention something
The slave resource is a resource that can be used to issue special abilities, like a mighty soulstorm, and it also simultaneously works as a percentage increase for all resource gathering. Functions like loyalty's bonus percentage increase. Only that here since our dark eldar template here cannot found cities, they have no use for Loyalty.

[Stardustfire]

why do a DoW1 remake of DE in Gladius instead of transfer them from the rulebook (where they never get something like a "slave resource") ?
and as long they dont get it together and bring the Eldar in line with the tabletop stats the DE can only get a big mess (somehow with each new race there transition from TT to gladius stats goes more into the dumpster)