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Also, if you read the Craftworld Eldar fluff, they are fairly reasonable towards reasonable neighbours. They aren't wholly isolationistic and it is noted in Path of the Warrior that humans make quite decent neighbours if it weren't for the fact that they are so easily corrupted by chaos and ideals.

It's odd how the Dark Eldar are better chums with the rest of the universe than Craftworld Eldar are.

 Mahtamori wrote:
Also, if you read the Craftworld Eldar fluff, they are fairly reasonable towards reasonable neighbours. They aren't wholly isolationistic and it is noted in Path of the Warrior that humans make quite decent neighbours if it weren't for the fact that they are so easily corrupted by chaos and ideals.

It's odd how the Dark Eldar are better chums with the rest of the universe than Craftworld Eldar are.

The DE should be BB with CWE and any further eldar codex/supplement/FW army and desprete allies with just about anyone else (save necrons, nids, chaos daemons)

CWE should be BB with DE, perhaps Tau, and they AoC with IG, some SM, and desprete allies with Orks(maybe). CtA with necrons, CSM, CD, nids, necrons

obviouisly there are some SM chapters that wont ally with either, because of their Xenofobic ways(BT) that that really has nothing to do with eldar.

I say that Crons and BA are battle brothers due to the brofisting event that occured with tyranids

 A GumyBear wrote:
I say that Crons and BA are battle brothers due to the brofisting event that occured with tyranids

This was clearly a desperate alliance - they fought each other until nids appear.

Agreed the GW Authors seem to have got very confused with the fluff - if they indeed read it. It may just been a marketing memo of which alliances should be allied.

Astartes and Xenos should only ever be at best Allies of Conveience - otherwise the entire ethos of the Space Marines, how they operate and what they believe is being ignored so more Tau can be sold - which of coruse was one of the first 6th Ed Codex releases.

 Mr Morden wrote:
Agreed the GW Authors seem to have got very confused with the fluff - if they indeed read it. It may just been a marketing memo of which alliances should be allied.

Astartes and Xenos should only ever be at best Allies of Conveience - otherwise the entire ethos of the Space Marines, how they operate and what they believe is being ignored so more Tau can be sold - which of coruse was one of the first 6th Ed Codex releases.

And given the rumors, Space Marines and Tau will be an utterly horrific alliance. Just as how a complementary Eldar and Tau list can be.

Sisters and Chaos Marines as allies? Doesn't really work from a fluff standpoint. The Sisters are the soldiers of the Ecclesiarchy, and as devout as they come. Heretics are one of their greatest hates, probably the greatest hate. To add to that, they're also the chamber militant of the Ordo Hereticus, an organisation wholly dedicated to killing heretics.

I understand you said you put them in there because you liked the Chaos SoB armies people had made, but from a fluff standpoint there's no precedent for it. There are no Chaos SoB armies or forces. On that front, all there is is Miriael and a few Sisters who were unwillingly dragged into it before being killed. But if you're saying "fluff be damned", then surely this excercise is a bit pointless?

Also I'm not sure that the Tyranids should really be friendly with anybody. 'Nids don't really have the capacity negotiate at all.

Edited for misreading.

The point is more that though slim there is evidence that they are not incorruptable, the same reason I was convinced that CSM warbands with Wolf Puppies could be a thing. I think AOC is good enough to keep the possibility of chaos sisters open without going full on BB and making it something that happens a bunch.

Nope the fluff says they have not fallen - if you are going to make Sisters AOC with Chaos - have to do Grey Knights as well.........

SOB should be Come the Appoc with any form of Chaos - that allows for abherent allies to exisit but not in normal games.

NickOnwezen wrote:
The point is more that though slim there is evidence that they are not incorruptable, the same reason I was convinced that CSM warbands with Wolf Puppies could be a thing. I think AOC is good enough to keep the possibility of chaos sisters open without going full on BB and making it something that happens a bunch.

And there's evidence that the Grey Knights aren't incorruptible too (them having to use blood magic to protect against the Bloodtide's effects which suggests they were vulnerable to it, and the Changling putting doubt into one GK). By this logic, might as well make Grey Knights able to ally with Chaos too.