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Never read any of their fluff, but I'm curious as based on the new FW one a DE one would be awesome.

I've always liked to think they have some kind of giant Talos that looks like this:- http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Chaos/DAEMONS_AND__BEASTS/BRASS-SCORPION.html

Nope, they're an all-speed army. It's strange enough the Craftworlders have Titans imo.

I'm willing to bet they have some form of titan, or super heavy. The craftworlder's titans are all fast too, dont forget.

Id say some kind of heavy talos would make sense, as a mass-bodysnatcher to get the slaves collected faster.

Nevertheless there is no fluff even suggesting anything large and landbased for them. They do however have spaceships so they certainly would have the means to build something that big and complex.

90% of all DE attacks are small in scale and rely on terror and striking from the shadows.


this doesn't support titans.


the Craftworlds are the only eldar that actually wage war on the scale that would mandate Titans. they have some cool new stuff coming out from Forge World lately too.

1.) Nothing in current fluff even suggest the existence of a DE Titan.
2.) As Grey Templar said: A Titan wouldn't help in a raid, as it is about taking slaves and inflicting pain, not crushing fortresses and super heavies.
3.) If they get anything like that, we will get it with IA12 or IA13 which deals with DE. The first light super-heavy was shown on FW Open Day.

That said, a Titan charging out of a webway portal would be fun: "VEEEEECT!"

If the potential slaves are all hidden behind walls you'd think a titan would be quite useful...

I was thinking something like that slave grabber in terminator salvation where it's the robot ontop of the aircraft.

Basically an evil Phantom torso and arms ontop of a giant talos.

the DE would just open up Webway portals behind said walls and slaughter the defenders from inside.

...Or they just wouldn't attack it. They would probably ignore the humans in the walls and go get the ones still outside.

Probably no titans. Super heavy possibly though (of a bizarrely quick and minimally armored sort).

If I recall correctly, in one of the video interviews they put out before the DE release Phil Kelly mentioned that fluff-wise there would likely be larger slave barges, sort of super sized radiers, that hovered above/behind the raiding parties, taking in all the captives so the warriors could get back to raping and pillaging as quickly as possible. Something like that could happen as a Forge World kit I suppose.

Dark Eldar do engage in large scale wars if the need suits their purposes, even taking over and slaving hive cities and planets, but even then, there is no mention of any Titans at all in the DE codex.

Dark Eldar seem like they would field the most Titan killers, but even that is just speculation.

Titans really don't fit with the DE, with the only possible exception being an oversized Talos/Chronos.
Super-Heavy Flyers would fit right in though.
And I'm glad that IA is getting to the DE. Hopefully they will update the crappy Raven entry, since it's now useless, even in Apocalypse games. And give us DE players some forge world toys. I think only the Necrons have gotten less stuff than us as far as forge world & apocalypse models/rules go.
OTOH, Phil Kelly did an outstanding job with the new codex, and the new models are just sick-good looking. So I'm a happy Archon.

I would think that it would be an unimaginative giant Talos or something along the lines of a giant Grotesque.

Woot, 400 posts

Large scale Raiders/Ravagers possibly or massive Slave carriers, I don't think the Dark Eldar would really need to use Titans in raids because it would be difficult to remain at the speed they want to use in a raid. Eldar Titans may be fast but are still large targets and could be easy targets if the defenders possessed the weapons.

blood reaper wrote: Eldar Titans may be fast but are still large targets and could be easy targets if the defenders possessed the weapons.

Good god! they can possess weapons now?! daemons just got worse