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https://gavthorpe.co.uk/2017/05/16/interview-with-the-mighty-jes-goodwin/

Good read...

Totally forgot how old the Phoenix Lords minis are

Jes Goodwin wrote:Btw, I had been allocated to the space elf range because I was ‘new boy’ and nobody thought they would sell as well as space soldiers or space dwarves. As the resident elf nut I jumped at the chance to prove we could do something cool with them.

So they give one of the big races to the new guy... and... poor Squats

Oh god, Jes Godwin killed the squats! GET HIM BOYS!

Can't blame him, really.

NONE of the writers at GW knew what to do with them - since they didn't really do anything different than guard or marines already did.

Jes came up with a design that has endured. That the PLs are 23 years old, and apart from a "little" scale creep for the rest of the game, still look pretty damned good.

And yes, the Harlequins and whole laughing god (as one of the not dead ones) did predate WD127. I believe they were around WD95/96.

Great read. It's cool to see how much thought and research actually went into creating the Eldar.

Now, get this man producing new Phoenix Lord minis ASAP!

Nice article.

I particularly enjoyed the grav tank footnote at the bottom!

Lord Kragan wrote:
Oh god, Jes Godwin killed the squats! GET HIM BOYS!

How? By designign eldars?

At least I read that so that he got space elves because he was new and they weren't thought to be as selling as space soldiers and space dwarves both which were given to somebody else as they were deemed as more important than the space elves.

Jes Goodwin and 2nd ed. are why I ever batted an eye at 40K. Seriously. Wonderful minis - nice to see him address the nit-picks that a lot of folks have with a few of the Phoenix Lords.

That was a neat little interview I must say, the Eldar background is the reason I got into 40k and the reason I'm still here. It's honestly a feat of imagination, and utterly full of nuance. The deeper you look at it, the more and more stuff you find as you start to connect seemingly unrelated dots.

Really brilliant stuff

If you look at the solo module for D&D, O2: Blade of Vengeance, you can see a lot of the groundwork for what would become HE/Eldar for GW.

to wit

When was that published? IIRC, Warhammer High Elves were using that Persian Immortal look back in 3rd edition, too.