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hi folks
i picked up dark eldar quite a while (some 5 years ago) and i am now picking thgem up again. i started repainting the old models
color scheme: -scorpion green for the armour
- boltgun metal for some parts of the armor ( because i don't want to look all the same)
-thrakka green to wash the scorpion green
- for the rifles i still need a colour so tell me what color is best

and the i have another question: Mandrakes and helions are they worth it?

+does anyone heard a rumor about when the new codex is coming out?

(sorry no pics yet )

Woot! dark eldar thread.

Never thought I'd see one of these.

any suggestions?

Wow im also shocked to see Dark Eldar on here!!
Get some models posted quick these things need to be done!

Steve

Dark eldar seem to work well with purples or maybe you could go with yellow as a weird and highly dangerous colour contrast?

for the rifles i still need a colour so tell me what color is best

With your color scheme I would do Bone or grey weapons

and the i have another question: Mandrakes and helions are they worth it?

No they are terrible, use your elite spots for wyches, and don't use fast attack unless you have filled all of the other slots on the FoC.

+does anyone heard a rumor about when the new codex is coming out?

There have been rumors for 10 years of a codex coming out... don't hold your breath... That being said, 4 months ago they pulled all DE off shelfs and made it GW mail order only. That could be a good sign or a really bad one.

If you don't like DE as they stand, don't play them, because it is likely you'll have them for a while as is and their personality will hopefully stay the same.

As for colours: are you washing onto the boltgun too? If not, consider trying it on a model. Metal stained with that can look good and it will blend the parts together. I'm not sure about bone or yellow for the guns because they might look too guardian/striking scorpion like. Yellow for the splinter ammo bulb on the rifle could work. Considering it's a bright green you may want a dull blue to set it off without looking garish (leave that to our craftworld cousins). Maybe try shadow grey, I use it on mine if you want to see how it works on splinter weapons. Otherwise you might want to give a deep red tone a try.

Hurray for dark eldar!!!

I used dwarf bronze for the majority of the gun, mechariate red as the barrel do a wash of badab black and then did a laborius grey to white for the blades. But I'm not sure the colors would look that good with a green tone. Some pics when you get a chacne would be pretty useful for providing advice

to dumplingman: yeah i saw that before and it looks good for me , i think i'll try the dwarf bronze for the gun and for the ammo i will try purple or a blue color

To morgrim i do like de i just dropped them for a while to have more time for my other armies + i will cetainly try to wash the botgun metal too

to clthomps thanks for the advice!

to abhorsen: i will

to ravenor: looks good but i have seen that too much

next question : poisoned blades are they worth it?

Next question will you ever post a pic in one of your blogs? I am sorry to point this out, but I don't think I have ever seen one.

i have posted pics on my other blog, check out my ig and traitor ig blogs

I WILL post pics on this blog i just need to take pictures of models that are worth that, i first need to paint my 1st models up (haven't got that much time, school and all that *****)

alright I resend and apologize.

no need to apologize

yey! I played my 1st 3 games with dark eldar: I played against a space marine army with around 700 -750 points

batrep time

battle 1: a normal game with killpoints. i win with 5 points and sm got 4, all i got left were the reavers

battle 2 a planet strike game. killed almost everything he had. all i had lost were the reavers (who killed 5 terminators) the raider and a few warriors + i destroyed his bastion. my warriors took out his chaplain and my archon took out an impressing 11 space marines.

battle 3 : another normal planetstrike game ( used a bit more points so he could use his landraider - i took 5 mandrakes and 5 scourges with 4 dark lances) firestorm: only got 2, but i mananged to destroy his bastion with it! then mandrakes killed all his scouts and scourges destroyed his landraider. The rest was killed by my warriors and lord. another victory.

in total: i captured 14 slaves!

i know, i know, i should post pics but not a single model is painted! :( but i can work a bit because we dont have a lot of homework this week.

I had some back in the day, done in a pastel base of green purple red mixed with GW chainmail. The metallic paint was pretty sweet, they were a fun little display in college.

ooooooooh, do you have pictures of them?



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Oh and i also painted a few miniatures. taking pictures now

Revers in that low of a game? You should post your list in the army list forums, and all three of us DE players will help you stream line so you wont have a close game in anything under 1500 points

Clthomps wrote:Revers in that low of a game? You should post your list in the army list forums, and all three of us DE players will help you stream line so you wont have a close game in anything under 1500 points

Four! there are four of us!

Primarily i am a space marine player and i bought my Dark eldar so i could experience the extreme opposite of the spectrum. With the space marines being walking talking machines of death that spit win and excrete p0wn and the Dark Eldar being the lithe, agile cunning, dirty sons of bitches.
Gotta say good going on the first three games! I've only played 2 with my DE so far and ive lost out to both Orks and CSM armies. Though they were close calls.
To address the painting i do mine mechrite red at first, then thin coat of red gore followed by a wash of leviathan purple then a highlight of blood red followed by the standard silver helmets!
As for my weaponry i am very lazy since i generally just lightly drybrush them boltgun metal. Looks ok but I struggle with the original DE models for some reason. Probably why i started kit bashing them with the Dark Elf Black Ark Corsairs.
The earlier suggestion of bione or grey weapons really does sound like it would work very well with your colour scheme though so perhaps trying that out would be a viable option for you!

Nice to see another DE player.
None conformist! lol..

If you are primarily a SM player you are not one of us

I think we have to have a meeting (with puch and pie! EVIL punch and pie!!!) to see if Dash of pepper can join our elite club of awesome! (... to bad I have seen him playing orks recently )

Wow, I hae never seen DE. This is gonna be great!

Ohh green dark eldar, you should check out my plog, glad to hear you did well in the game, I cant wait to see pics. Yay more for the kabal of evil awesome almost ret-conned armies!

Scrazza wrote:

and the i have another question: Mandrakes and helions are they worth it?

+does anyone heard a rumor about when the new codex is coming out?

Starting with Part 2, the rumor is Dark Eldar are coming in Next Week*

*Make sure to re-read this line at the beginning of each and every calander week.


As for Mandrakes and Hellions. Hellions = No. They just arent worth it unless you are DESPERATE for SPENDING more points (but if you are, start going crazy with Syberite wargear before taking these Hobgoblins)

Mandrakes = Situational. I've noticed mandrakes can be VERY hit or miss, if you are playing ANYTHING mechinized, don't take them, even tho your lances should be cracking open those transports, its simply too much of a risk. Now, say your guard player doesnt take a mech list (or tau) then something REALLY fun (but insanly beardy) is taking two squads of these bad boys and "Meshing" them. Yes it takes the tac advantage of their special deployment in half but it also gives them 2+ coversaves against most forms of shooting, which means they will not only rip open whomever is next to them, but most likely the other two nearest squads as well.

My standard loadout does not include Mandrakes, but when I am taking them I normally field them in a list like this;

Elites:
Wyches - Full with Succubus with all the trimmings

Mandrakes x2

Grotesques (as a retinue for Urien, this lets me take 4 effective elites).

I'd be happy to post up some standard lists I run (from 500-2500 pt lists, my 3k pt list is almost taking everything I have) if that would help, and I would love to see some of the stuff you bring to the board!

Starting with Part 2, the rumor is Dark Eldar are coming in Next Week*

*Make sure to re-read this line at the beginning of each and every calander week.

yeah thats what i heard. it could be a couple of years before the new codex comes out.


@deamon archon ren thanks for the advice

@frodo : i will

@clthomps : yeah and the reavers are pretty effective, too!

behold! finished work and wip!

What do you think?

Q: Where did all of these Dark Eldar players come from?
A: The Webway!

HURRR HURRR DURRR!

haha

Woo pics, loving the Archon nice and stabby! The apparent lack of Dark ELdar players is just a front we are all hiding in the webway waiting to come out and steal all the Ultra Smurfs for experiments... Can't wait to see more!

Stay Tuned! More will come. Enslave all ultra smurfs!!!


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to Frodo: Well it's not as good as your models but hey! They ARE Dark Eldar!

Good luck and nice to see dark eldar here. I have a buttload of Tyranids and guard to do. Maybe end of summer/winter Ill get round to doing another dark eldar army. Had one when I first played but sold it years ago. If I was doing dark eldar I'd go for Tin bits and mithril silver myself with a badab black wash. For a burnished coppery look to the armor. Maybe a bright green in details on weapons/helmet eyes.