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Bran Dawri wrote:

 Kovnik Obama wrote:
Their souls are promised to her because the sins they committed as a race was the birth of Slaanesh. Either they A) put their souls in soulstones when they die, and then go on to animate either the collective ''running'' the Craftworld, or maybe the walkers of their armies, or B) they get devoured by Slaanesh. Doesn't matter where they are, or who kills them.

Unless they're a Solitaire and Cegorach can trick Slaanesh out of his (or her) soul.

that would be the best thing about that

Thread Necromancy, nice...

In the spirit of thread necromancy:

My interested in the Eldar has experienced a sort of revival of its own lately. I've always had an interest in them, but they have caught my eye differently as of late.

To answer the OP's original question, I would say that they are not a good beginner's army because playing them effectively requires not only a strong knowledge of your own codex, but a healthy knowledge of all the other codices as well. I would personally say the SM are my preferred race, but I have no problem admitting that they are not particularly complex, and you can play competitively with nothing more than your codex and a handful of dice. This is not true of the Eldar.

This thread took a hard left about half way through and somehow got turned into a whole different discussion involving a few BL books, some bits of fluff, and a few references to some older editions. It's difficult to respond to all that at once so I will just say that I recommend not reading any of the BL novels or user submitted (wiki) fluff until you have read the Eldar Codex thoroughly.

The fluff in this particular game has a sort of tide to it. Its ebbs and flows from edition to edition, and all the codices play on one another in a sort of leapfrog of in game "historical accuracy". It's not a bad thing, and I for one like the ambiguity it lends to the hobby. But the unfortunate side effect of that is the fans (particularly some forum users) tend to possess strong biases for against the various factions. This is especially true in the BL novels, which are fun if you regard them as being simply other people's interpretations, but they can quickly damage the game's overall feel if you place to high a value on them.

Again, I suggest you thoroughly look over your codex (and the DE codex and Necons for a bit of addition perspective) and then and only then start thumbing through the BL stuff.

yeah i brought it back to life i made this thread when i was a noob but i understand now so thankss

Just reading through old posts and tbh I am extremely embarrassed at my posts. Like seriously

Was there a need to revive a year old thread?

WOW

No. I was just saying that I was extremely embarrased HAHAHA.

Harry, What?

Please don't revive ancient threads.