bibotot wrote:Can anyone tell me why there is the Aeldari key word that applies to all Eldar factions including Harlequins,
CWE and
DE? There is no Human keyword that allows you to have Guillimen bro-fisting with Magnus because it is against the lore, then why Drukhari have the Aeldari keyword that allows them to ally with Ynnari even though Vect orders to kill anyone who deals with them seeing them as a direct threat to his dominance?
If people are worried about Imperial soup, then this soup should also be eliminated. Worst, it's completely lore-breaking to have Yvraine and anyone loyal to Vect on the same team (not that Vect has any model yet).
Assuming this isn't a troll post...
CWE and
DE are awkward around the dinner table on holidays, but they do show up for the holidays. They despise each others' cultures and behaviors, but the shared aspects of cultures and experiences give them a surprising amount of common ground as well as an "us versus them" mentality. Sure, the craftworlders might be stifled prudes, and sure the denizens of the dark city are reckless hedonists and torturers, but they both know what it's like to have Slaanesh drooling at their souls. They both know what it's like to be part of a civilization whose greatest achievements are being destroyed by time and by aliens. They both have to deal with the xenophobia of other species and the assorted nightmares of the 41st millenium. I tend to think of their relationship as being akin to a prop-cooperation cold war era movie. The two sides have a lot to squabble about, but they'll go back-to-back when the aliens who lay eggs in your eyes show up to start turning humanity into incubators.
As for the ynnari and Vect's disapproval... The ynnari have plenty of dark eldar recruits. They always have. From the wyches initially loyal to Yvraine and the Visarch's incubi to Lelith's forces to any drukhari that kind of likes the idea of not being eternally damned by Slaanesh at some point. There are plenty of reasons to want to join the ynnari. The fact that Vect doesn't like it means that you're less likely to join up if he has his eye on you. But Comorragh is huge. Vect is a busy guy who was also "dead" for a little while. It's easy to slip away. Also, not a lot of dark eldar are "loyal" to Vect. The closest thing to that would be those who have been brainwashed into pure "loyalty" by his haemonculi and those who recognize that working for the Black Heart has good pay and benefits. But most archons just go along with what he says because he has enough power to throw his weight around. I assure you that, whatever she might say in Vect's court, Malys does not have Vect's best interests at heart.
Which is all, of course, fluff discussion surrounding a mechanical rule. The
DA and the
SW don't much care for each other, but they get a stratagem to reward them for hanging out together.
Mechanically, the main advantages of combining craftworlders and drukhari are...
* Cheap batallions from the
DE
* Doom from the CW
* Agents of Vect from the
DE
* Ravagers from the
DE I guess
The first is more indicative of the problematic way in which
CP are generated at the moment. Xenomancer's proposal for starting with a
CP budget and then spending it to unlock new detachments is my current favorite fix for that.
The second is more a problem with doom than with allying pointy ears. Doom could probably stand to be Asuryani-only or to be limited to only benefitting a single unit at a time.
Agents of Vect... I'm personally not of the opinion that there's actually a problem with this one, but it gets a lot of complaints from others. You could tweak this lots of ways. Like doom, this is more of a problem with one specific ability than with the concept of CW and
DE teaming up.
Ravagers (specifically disintegrators) just need a bit of a price increase.
So unless you have a mechanical grievance with CW+
DE allying that wasn't covered by that, I'm not sure what mechanical reason there would be for breaking the fluff by not allowing them to team up. I'll point you to Valedor and the Iyanden VS Tyranids battle for examples of them doing just that in the past.
