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So I must admit: Warhammer 40,000 is nothing to me, without it's fluff. It makes my game so much more immersive to add a narrative and reason behind each match, even if my opponent rolls his eyes at me like I'm insane. So with every army I roll, I always have to sit down, and really think about them. In this case, my Eldar force is what I've been working on lately.


I always liked space games. Whenever I watched Star Wars, I thought being on Han Solo's ship was the coolest part- No lie. He was a clever pilot. So when I come onto Warhammer 40,000. Yeah, sure, ground battles are common and cool, but combat on space hulk, in Hangar Bays, in .. Large Ships. Kill Team battles in the Corridor of large vacant vessels as two opposing crews battle for dominance to loot the place. That's what really makes me interested.

Story is what drives me in 40k, and while Tournament play isn't really geared towards this, I find casual play to be all about it. But I'm suffering from some writer's block here, and I could use a hand hammering out the details of my army.

Background Idea:

Craftworld Kagoth, we'll call it (I don't /think/ that's a current craftworld.) is in a state of civil war. Outcasts who once called the Craftworld home, began to find the way of life too restrictive, and began a movement to liberate themselves from the Craftworld.

The Farseer Council, forseeing great tragedy tried to quell the rebellion only to escalate the Civil War to the point of the destruction of the Craftworld.

Having destroyed their home, several of the leaders who took the side of the rebellion took to a few vessels and set off, the Defense Fleet, despite their home being destroyed, several vessels turned and joined the Corsairs as they set to the stars.

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Now I just need to think of a solid name: I've considered "Korlandra's Lament", Korlandra being perhaps a lover of the Autarch that lead the military campaign to liberate his kindred from the oppressive craftworld, or perhaps Korlandra is the name of the.. Craftworld. Yes. Craftworld Korlandra. I love it.

Korlandra's Lament, would make sense for a flagship in the fleet.


Tabletop-wise, I run them as standard Eldar, as the Corsairs in IA:11, I think it was, just weren't as good once the new codex came out.

ALTHOUGH.. Deep striking Wraithguard? Nasty as all crap.

I love it.

Also, unlike my Corsairs (if I ever put together that list), yours might actually *have* a unit of Wraithnouns fluff-wise (all Eldar, even during the civil war, would stop at nothing to save them).

Might even make some sense to "ally in" some CW:Eldar in, to build out on your fluff...

(I know this is an old thread, but it sounds like a great piece of Corsair fluff!)

Corsairs are generally better than eldar when in a small points list. 200-500 points makes them quite effective. They can mix AT and anti-inf quite effectively. The corsair prince can make a unit quite tough, and the 24" range weapons with jump jets can make the unit hard to hit and catch. Once you get over 500 points, the saturation of low strength fire becomes too much to keep them alive if they get caught out of cover.