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Can someone come up with a reason why dark eldar could fight alongside space marines (i prefer dw over regular marines).

Do they have to be sellswords?

Could they gang up to fight a common enemy?

I believe they are listed as "Come the Apocalypse" levels of allies, which is to say it requires the absolute worst of circumstances to work together. Maybe if Tyranids were consuming a world that both of them were stuck on, or daemonic incursion. But even then, the truce might not last the battle.

Best case scenario, an Eldar Farseer has gone mad and started summoning daemons of slannesh, and are preventing with magic the Dark Eldar and Space Marines from escaping. The Dark Eldar come to warn the Space Marines that unless they work together, both sides will be destroyed. Maybe it was brokered by a truce between a Space Marine and a Wych that fought for days in mortal combat yet could not beat each other.

Isnt there a campaign about this running right now ; )

 oldzoggy wrote:
Isnt there a campaign about this running right now ; )

sorry i haven't read the gatering storm campaign.

 Yarium wrote:
I believe they are listed as "Come the Apocalypse" levels of allies, which is to say it requires the absolute worst of circumstances to work together. Maybe if Tyranids were consuming a world that both of them were stuck on, or daemonic incursion. But even then, the truce might not last the battle.

Best case scenario, an Eldar Farseer has gone mad and started summoning daemons of slannesh, and are preventing with magic the Dark Eldar and Space Marines from escaping. The Dark Eldar come to warn the Space Marines that unless they work together, both sides will be destroyed. Maybe it was brokered by a truce between a Space Marine and a Wych that fought for days in mortal combat yet could not beat each other.

You know, the Tau once made a deal with the Dark Eldar...

Great deal the best ever made. Lots of tau got buffed.

 oldzoggy wrote:
Great deal the best ever made. Lots of tau got buffed.

I like to think of CTA as being them big showing up in the same place.

 eddesb wrote:
Can someone come up with a reason why dark eldar could fight alongside space marines (i prefer dw over regular marines).

Do they have to be sellswords?

Could they gang up to fight a common enemy?

This is heresy of the worst sort. The Administratum WILL be informed of your heresy.