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Can't eldar just use transports for their stuff? They have serpents and falcons. Plus their infantry units, are rather cheap, so it is not like they can't cut a flyer or two to take transports for the army.

 Crimson wrote:
^ Agreed, except normal cats should still be range 18. 12 is a pistol range, it is pathetic. Avengers don't need longer range than the normal ones, they can get an extra shot instead. It is silly that the citizen militia needs to get closer to the enemy than the dedicated professional warriors led by a sword-wielding Exarch.

Isn't that like the definition of what a militia is, something that is less efficient and worse, if at all, trained? Volksturm for example used anti tank from point blank range. Why normal wehrmacht units, were trained and supplied with longer range weapons.

Militias are only used in two situations. A threat is a minimal, so it doesn't require regular army. Or the threat is so huge, then every man, woman and child is needed to do something for the war effort.
So if eldar militia is being used, then we are either in the first situation, which means it shouldn't matter what they face, as it would be weak. Or if it is the secon situation, they would be fed to the meat grinder, because the situation is so dire, that it probably threatens the very existance of local eldar population.

Are eldar even known for being sexualy dymorphic like humans? Because armour or not, if they aren't, then the difference would be impossible to spot. But if it is, then the looks of the armour wouldn't matter, if one sex was a head smaller on avarge.

 Shadenuat wrote:

Karol wrote:
Are eldar even known for being sexualy dymorphic like humans?

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I don't know. Maybe?

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The maybe is what makes me wonder though. I read that male banshees wore female armour, so faceless art doesn't explain everything. Yvrena is of course female, but her bodyguard may as well be captin Phasma for all we know. As Dark Eldar goes, with them looks mean nothing. For all we know an angry homonculus could flash shape a dog to look like your trueborn child for all we know.

Goddamn I love mark gibbons' work.

I don't know why, but that art looks alive, in a way paintings look alive. A lot of GW art looks as if someone was taking a picture of actual GW models and then re doing them in photoshop. Nothing against such style of art, but it makes stuff look like toys or cartoons.

But xenophobia is good, and it is impossible to have an ancient empire and not have just as old grudges and taboos.

 Mmmpi wrote:

Karol wrote:
Are eldar even known for being sexualy dymorphic like humans? Because armour or not, if they aren't, then the difference would be impossible to spot. But if it is, then the looks of the armour wouldn't matter, if one sex was a head smaller on avarge.

Yes, their physiology in general is similar to human genders, in things like limbs, reproductive organs, and secondary characteristics.

That I expected, but I was more thinking about grown male/female differences. Till 14-15y old you may have trouble to see who is who, when wearing protective gear. With upper class people that is never the case. Men and female are just different size and shapes, when they are older. although it would be funny to have 9 striking scorpions the size of space marines, and one that is a head and a half smaller.

 Shadenuat wrote:
Oh yes absolutely.

feth mon keigh.

I think it is true for all races. Remember when the non xenophobic tau decided it would be a great idea to invite some Dark Eldar for cultural exchange? that didn't end well. w40k race was is clear as Pepsi Zero, inter species stuff is like trying to a friend with a herd of boars.

 Galef wrote:
But long hair being feminine is 100% a human thing. Most pheromones produced by women come out of their head, thus longer hair "traps" more pheromones and thus makes said female appear more attractive to the senses.
As mammals, were get a lot of cues from scent.

Fun fact side note: most male pheromones come form our arm pits. Curiously, since males are generally taller than females that puts both gender's pheromones about "nose" height.

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Every day I learn something new. kind of a makes sense while male boars have more hair too. Females hide with boarlings, and don't want to be smelled by predators, so have short hair. Males boars fight other boars, and animals, so they want to smell as strong as possible.

Would be cool, if GW wrote some paragraphs about how different races work, like they did for space marines. So people wouldn't get confused or draw the wrong conclusions. Or be suprised if GW suddenly says that somehting was X all along.

, greeks all sported longish hair usualy tied in some sort of braid/knot.

that is not true. long hair was a specific adult spartan thing, that only they were known of. And they wore that because it was a marks of kings and demi gods, to which they claim the right by being the scions of Hercules. In persia or other countries it was the same, long hair on a man either marked him as a king or ruler, or part of nobility. It was so specific a mark of being someone important, that humans invented a wig industry as far as 2k BC.

Even in adult hood it's hard to tell, assuming the armor isn't sculpted.

I go to a sports school. I was thinking in the line of protective sports gear. You see a 12 or 13 years old in a judo suit and the difference is hard to notice.

. To the eldar all other lifeforms in the galaxy are basically animals, and not even cute sort of animals.

not even the orcs? aren't they both multi helix species created by the old ones at the same time?

GW did indeed pick an underplayed unit. Yet you only have to look at the Demiklaive profile to see that GW has absolutely no idea why Incubi are underplayed (and will in all likelihood continue to be underplayed).

maybe they get a serious point cost drop. If they droped like 4-5 pts, they would see more play, at least at a non event level people would try them out then.

I think most stats GW gives to stuff that already existed is based on copy past, and not actual rethinking of rules.


Also isn't the scorpion armour the heavies eldar produce, so only the physicaly strongest eldar can use it?

I wonder if the new eldar are going to be taller. SoB makes classic marines look small, and the eldar special character are much bigger then the other eldar models. Plus banshees seem to be mounted on scenic bases, this could make other models standing next to them look like children.