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Eldar titans did exist, and fought in the occasional Heresy battle

"Occasional" is the operative word. The Aeldari weren't at the height of their power and barely got involved in the Crusade compared to the likes of the Orks or Hrud, who even then took a backseat to the hundreds of human empires that the Imperium conquered.
There weren't legions of Aeldari warriors backed by masses of Titans because they were little more than refugees reeling from the psychic death scream of over 90% of their race.

Yup.

The timing of the Crusade was near perfect. The Eldar had all but removed themselves as a concern, and had, presumably, been keeping Orky numbers down during the same period, with The Emperor solving that problem in the middle term on Ullanor.

Chaos wasn’t yet a thing, Necrons still mostly asleep, Nids waaaay off, and Tau not even a twinkle in the Milkman’s Eye.

 Gert wrote:
The Craftworlds were still picking up the pieces of The Fall. The Imperium didn't pick fights with them even at its height because destroying a Craftworld took far too much effort for a zero-sum result.
No new territory, no new subjects, no reclaimed technology.

Imperial policy regarding the Craftworlds has always been "try not to poke the nest because the nest tends to poke back".

There certainly weren't any Aeldari hosts with masses of Titans. They hadn't even established the Path system yet.

I guess I'm messing up the old Epic stuff. Thanks for the poke in the right direction.

When did we start poking the Eldar? During the Scouring?

Well, the DARK Eldar could certainly still be pirating souls during the Great Crusade...

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The timing of the Crusade was near perfect.

I mean, the Fall and subsequent birth of Slaanesh is what cleared the warp storms and allowed the Crusade to happen, right?

Yup. And left little, if any, organised on a galactic scale foe to put up a solid resistance.

So even where a given Crusade Fleet might’ve run into stiff resistance (ref Rangdan Genocide), dealing comprehensively with those didn’t leave anything else over exposed.

And it’s all down to timing. The Emperor could sense something was about to clear the Warpstorms (how much he knew I’m not sure is clear), and so Now Was The Time for unification and pacification of the Sol System.


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 Shakalooloo wrote:
Well, the DARK Eldar could certainly still be pirating souls during the Great Crusade...

They weren’t particularly unified then, and wouldn’t be until Vect took over in M35. Yes Commoragh itself existed, but Dark Eldar society as we know it now, raiding for souls and healing through observing the pain of others, came very much after The Fall.

BorderCountess wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

Though I'd still prefer a "Great Crusade" setting book or two...

Feels like that would be a very different game, since it would pre-date the Heresy and all the in-fighting. You might as well make it old-school 40k, but exclude the T'au and Tyranids and Chaos, and probably the Squats and the Necrons... So, just add Eldar and Orks?

The Squats would be there, they split off from the rest of humanity in the early parts of the Dark Ages of Technology.

Heresy Thursday – Keep the Human Rabble in Line With a Traitor Legion Overseer

Traitor Overseer this week. And lets be honest, he gaks all over the Loyalist version.

I like that a lot!

That’s the first HH model in a long time that really makes me go: “oooooh I want that!” 🤩

The daemon mask looks really cool on that.

Looks cool but I thought it was a 40K Chaos Marine, mostly due to the helmet.

"Move it you dogs!"

I really like everything about this model except the helmet/mask. IMO Heresy models are best when they don’t go all- out on corny Chaos features like this.

I really like that model. It's just enough chaos-y to make it instantly obvious without taking to extreme parody levels like so many 40k chaos marine figs do.

It was exactly what I was hoping it would be and I love that it's based on the art from Book 6: Retribution.

What a great model. Some of the HH models can be hit or miss, but this guy killed it

 Snrub wrote:
Traitor Overseer this week. And lets be honest, he gaks all over the Loyalist version.

If you're going to be honest, why lie with that statement, Snrub?

I think that's kinda a good, neat in-between of the clean loyalist look and 40k Chaos that makes sense as an evolutionary midpoint.

But like the loyalist one, he does feel a bit unnecessary.

Nevermind.

like the loyalist one, an entirely reasonable model. always a fan of chaos having weird helmets, plus the pose is fun, and the whip is cool too.

More of him, please! And while they're at it, 40k Chaos Marines would benefit from this toned-down aesthetic.

 BorderCountess wrote:
More of him, please! And while they're at it, 40k Chaos Marines would benefit from this toned-down aesthetic.

Wait, I thought you liked your Marines extra spikey?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 BorderCountess wrote:
More of him, please! And while they're at it, 40k Chaos Marines would benefit from this toned-down aesthetic.

Wait, I thought you liked your Marines extra spikey?

Personally, the 3rd edition CSM asthetic was my personal favorite for the faction. I liked the Dark Vengence more mutated ones as well for a specifically more mutated variant but that extremely mutated look became the standard/baseline from that point unfortunately with HH being the refuge of classical CSM instead.

I can see that guy leading some wretched militia but he would look out of place in a Solar Auxilia squad.

Well, hello there!

I think I just found a perfect torso for my MKVI Death Company marine. Such a shame there wont be more of these in alt poses..

For anyone who fancies this aesthetic for their CSM - wouldnt this be doable by kitbashing existing Black Templars with CSM bits?
Ohh silly me, BT didnt exist until after HH I suppose..

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 BorderCountess wrote:
More of him, please! And while they're at it, 40k Chaos Marines would benefit from this toned-down aesthetic.

Wait, I thought you liked your Marines extra spikey?

I have eclectic taste. I like my Marines Regular, Spiky, and Extra Crispy.

Makes sense. It's Chaos, isnt it supposed to be all over the place in terms of how it looks? As in, oozing with khaotik individuality and mutation.. Cant think of anything less chaosy than all spikes, all the time