Aspect Warriors - Pointy-Eared Power Rangers

[@pancreasnowork9939]

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[@tatepalmer1997]

Did you remove one of your warhammer videos I believe one is missing?

[@Craigerfried1128]

You finally did it, you crazy son of a bitch, you did it

[@honorablespartan]

Pancreas, first of all thanks for the good content. In case you weren't aware 1d4chan is back in action in the form of 1d6chan, hosted on miraheze.

[@Nicolas3000ful]

you know, with the compression of space in my pc, your name became pancreas now ork, just letting this be know because i found it intensely funny

[@Craigerfried1128]

@@Nicolas3000ful now he can pretend that his pancreas works

[@sirunklydunk8861]

Let's see how Pancreas will complain about the mismanagement of Eldar lore today!

[@DetectiveLance]

Didn't do it quite in the first five minutes, so our boy is making progress!

[@cyclone8974]

Better than Bricky

[@VarangianGuard13]

He do be right, tho.

[@SamueL-td7fb]

The only plentiful Eldar content

[@roboGansta]

God out of context that could be anyone who isnt a 'nid

[@art-games6230]

“Unfortunately in the 41st millennium Things aren’t going too well for them” That’s just 40K in general

[@ingloriuspumpkinpie9367]

Orcs are probably having a lot of fun

[@michelmanno8244]

@@ingloriuspumpkinpie9367 well a huge number of them got eaten by tyranids recently but other then that i'd agree

[@TheUSgoverment]

​@@michelmanno8244they were fighting the bugs, dying in battle is winning with orcs cuz you fought and had fun. The orcs are still doing great

[@djcuevas1057]

The tyranids food is getting a bit spicy but that’s all that’s really going wrong for them.

[@DwarfElvishDiplomacy]

Tyranids are having a great snackie

[@elijahhughes1774]

His pancreas might not work but thank the emperor his voice box does

[@sergentharker7182]

Can you imagine being so lost in the sauce on botany you can't do anything other than grow plants?

[@TemplarWarden]

A very different version of the movie The Martian.

[@MrDarthtelos]

They’re just weed dealers.

[@combatwombat2134]

​@@TemplarWarden "Mark Whatney, we're coming to pick you up! You're saved!" "The fuck you are, the fuck I am. The only thing that needs saving are my petunias in this goddamn climate!"

[@Hadthese]

Your neighbor just got eaten, but my cabbages are over here…so…

[@natalie6811]

Ok so hear me out Those guys Nurgle turned into trees

[@bobbobinson6209]

I like to think path of grief make their living doing unskilled labor. I just imagine someone handing a package to their Eldar-Express driver who just breaks down into tears "we've lost so much, but we won't lose this package."

[@The_Bird_Bird_Harder]

Perfect.

[@EidolonKaos]

There is irl historical precedent for mourning as a career path (there have been cultures who paid people to loudly mourn a dead person as a status symbol) but with the Eldar being so few in number they probably do have to do menial labor.

[@DetectiveLance]

Go go Aspect Warriors! *guitar riff*

[@Never_heart]

What I would do for a full cover of this

[@87mc12]

What's this from?

[@frogblasttheventcore69]

@@87mc12 power rangers

[@frogblasttheventcore69]

@@Never_heart Craftworld Eldar Aspect Warriors, Craftworld Eldar Aspect Warriors, Craftworld Eldar Aspect Warriors, Heroes of the god Khaine! Knife-Ear Power!

[@garysuarez9614]

*_per Team America theme song_* Aspect warriors, eff yeah! Making stars weep blood as we remember glory days, yeah!

[@pancreasnowork9939]

Boy I really cocked up the Striking Scorpions’ rules here, that is my bad. Throw them at anything infantry and pray you roll some 6s, technically the advice still applies as long as you ignore the fact I said to target VEHICLES and MONSTERS. I fell off.

[@sorenputnam4295]

theres a whole book about them😭

[@TemplarWarden]

Oh? I was most interested in learning about them 😞

[@pancreasnowork9939]

@@sorenputnam4295 to be fair their small lore blurb I didn’t quite mess up. Just there rules. You know, just the thing that matters for the game. My b.

[@sorenputnam4295]

@@pancreasnowork9939 nah i get it just as a ride or die eldar fan we take what we can get and over analyse it ngl

[@PlasmaPea04]

Yeah fun little design quirk about that, because of how is worded, striking scorpions also deal mandiblaster devastating wounds against fortifications like hammerhead bunkers and webway gates. 2nd fun fact due to the funky wording, this also means its completely within the realms of possibility for a single striking scorpion exarch with a biting blade to be able to oneshot celestine and her bodyguards in one round of combat?

[@KaiserAfini]

"Hey Khaine, why are you simultaneously a dimension teleporting spider, a fire happy dragon, a jousting speed fiend and a shooty bird man" "DO NOT QUESTION MY WAYS MORTAL ! I SHOULD HAVE EATEN YOU ALL WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE !" "Sure, sure, Asuryani forbid we make you so mad that you go "mine" and make whatever annoyed you into one of your aspects, AGAIN." What a weird deity.

[@hypermaeonyx4969]

I mean, to be fair, our world's deities aren't so different. Zeus once f*cked a human as a swan!

[@Elftechie]

Fun Fact: Maugan Ra is also the only one to defeat a hive fleet Single Handedly. In the Tyranids codex, Maugan Ra defeated Hive Fleet Leviathan on the planet of Stormvald.

[@jdcrosier2682]

What? It’s one dude. Just, eat arround him.

[@TheCityofTownsville]

You're Maugan Ra. He's what Noise Marines wished they looked like.

[@marrvynswillames4975]

Recent codex changed it, so now he only killed everyone in a hive ship, which is still a massive feat

[@Pyre]

​@@marrvynswillames4975 "Aeldari Samus Aran" Take my damn money.

[@blake3631]

@@marrvynswillames4975wake me up when they change 6 custodes killing a hive fleet

[@matthewpletsch7523]

Dude, the "would" with banshees had me laughing till my side hurt.

[@themonolougist]

Same, the timing and the cut was soo great

[@Dozarman]

I heard "wood"

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

@@Dozarman Is it reasonable to assume english isn't your first language?

[@Dozarman]

@@Ezekiel_Allium correct and wrong at the same time. My native is russian, but I've been studying English since childhood and now basically think in English, and yet I still have hearing issues

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

@@Dozarman Yeah that makes sense. The would/wood thing isn't really a hearing issue thing, it's just a part of spoken english that those words sound identical most of the time. To the point I personally can't wrap my head around how you would enunciate the l in "would" lol

[@WolfeSpeider]

Aspect Warriors be like: “It’s Assing Time!”

[@dukedevlan5457]

And then the aspect warriors Assed all over the place

[@kenny187ful]

"Oh yea, it's Assing time" -Asserman, the Hand of Assuryan

[@Arantonak]

32:45 Or that he was so foundational to how the eldar think of the concept that his name became the word for fighter pilot.

[@Zwijger]

Which is actually a completely legit way for something to be named, happens in our own world often.

[@templarw20]

I'm surprised that you didn't reference Bruce Lee. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Seems appropriate.

[@YrittaisitEdes]

Ah yes Warp Spiders, model so good it hasn't seen update since 2nd edition.

[@harbl99]

"We are the Eldar. We have sculpts older than your entire faction."

[@Oi1Suzy]

​@@harbl99 I have an Eldrad model that's older than 90% of the player base at this point

[@goldjaw]

Can’t improve on perfection

[@bigbadgerboogie9132]

​@@Oi1Suzy my metal Warp Spider Exarch turns 27 this year!

[@jaxonhumphreys671]

Guess what…

[@goldjaw]

13:00 Note: Morai Heg is considered Khaine’s consort. Isha is considered Morai Heg’s daughter. The backstory just got a whole lot darker

[@joshuasepeda3289]

Yes, much darker. It's also much more interesting.

[@gudboah4688]

Maybe Khaine has a lot more in common with Slaanesh than he wants to admit.

[@aphato2770]

wait so that means ynnead cucks khaine?

[@SeanCrosser]

Greek pantheon scoffs at this.

[@MrRawrCEO]

supposedly in 40k Khaine and Asuryan were brothers and they shared a wife. Similar to the setup Grimnir and Grungni had with Valaya.

[@Pyre]

Very fond memories of watching a friend run Biel-Tan versus Black Templars. And, after sending another friend a picture of the board state at game start, and then turn 3, in response to his "what happened?!", "So the Banshees were in a tank, then they jumped out of the tank, ran faster than the tank they got out of, got into melee range with the Space Marines, and it turns out power weapons do not give a FUCK about ceramite." Good times.

[@Warmaster2001]

So Biel-Tani girls win?

[@Bona_Tempora]

Going with the power rangers comparison I could totally see an Aspect Warrior do a bunch of unnecessary fancy moves to take down an enemy then facing the other way while said foe suddenly explodes

[@robberyproductions1363]

If it were the Drukhari the target would still be alive after the Explosion And if it were a Harlequin the Explosion is followed by Party blowers and Confetti

[@jonathanathor117]

I'm more of a cybertronian guy but I can appreciate a good space elf

[@tomasmichaels642]

All hail lord Megatron

[@darthbob88]

32:50 It bears noting that Corvus Corax isn't just "bird bird", it's the scientific name for the common raven. According to Wikipedia, it comes from both the Latin and Greek for "raven".

[@atomicbuttocks]

You think crow crows favorite fish is sword sword?

[@chrisbingley]

The 3.5e Biel-tan codex taught me to hate Dark Reapers. "Hey, we made this Heavy Support unit a Troop choice. Deal with it."

[@harbl99]

Wuh? Heavy Supp- The Dark Reapers' designated role was fire magnet.

[@DasRatStories]

Words cannot describe how much I appreciate you using a picture of Zoro for the "getting lost on the path" segment. :D

[@krankarvolund7771]

"They're elites Eldar units which means they die in lore" I've just finished Fulgrim, where Fulgrim soloed an Avatar of Khaine AND a Phantom Lord, while a handful of Space Marines Captains killed a full squad of banshees and resisted the army of Ulthwe for a while while their boss was doing its show. The only kills the Eldars got were the unnamed bodyguards of Fulgrim XD

[@SeanCrosser]

In the elder trilogy books, an entire Craftworld was basically spared annihilation because the chapter master was convinced to spare it. This was a named craftworld, and they were ambushed by imperial navy fleet and boarded by guardsmen and ONE CHAPTER of Astartes.

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@SeanCrosser In Hammer and Bolter, it seems that an entire Craftworld was decimated by some Ultramarines, who were probably not all there XD

[@berilsevvalbekret772]

GW REALLY despises Eldar 😢😭

[@mistamomo]

Well let's see, the Space Marines are just as fast, substantially stronger, far tougher and probably more intelligent. GW kinda wrote themselves into a corner with Marines. They have written them to be so cracked and OP. It's kind of silly to think that a Space Marine just doesn't hard counter any infantry unit aside from...I dunno, a warboss?

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@mistamomo Eldars are quicker than Space Marines, their weapons can easily pierce Ceramite and they can literally see the future. Even if they don't win on a one to one basis, they should at least win if they're on a three to one contest ^^' And a lot of "infantry" as you said killed marines, and even defeated them in other books, it's just Eldars that rarely get the win against marines XD In Leviathan gaunts can kill marines, but an Eldar Banshee cannot? XD

[@mali5698]

17:10 I'm sure it's been said to you before, but that rule reads as "WITHOUT the Monster and Vehicle keywords", so Scorpions only get [Devastating Wounds] against things like Infantry and Mounted units, for example

[@SamueL-td7fb]

Another day of thanking every God for not making me wanna collect (Craftworld) Eldar

[@pancreasnowork9939]

It was in fact said before and I have fucked up. In my slight defense, VEHICLES and MONSTER are in bold and I assumed if they were being mentioned those types of units were affected. Of course, I still need to learn to fucking read.

[@mali5698]

@pancreasnowork9939 All good, anyone who claims they haven't misinterpreted Warhammer rules in one fashion or another is a damn liar xD Lord knows I've occasionally needed a second voice to help me get a rule right

[@johnpo2]

I love how pancreas's channel summons the entire world's eldar player base.

[@RageDuck0]

Dude makes the only positive elf content and has the ability to actually make fun of the sheer hypocrisy of some imperium players. He's great.

[@altechelghanforever9906]

​@@RageDuck0Eldar deserve better than 40k, not gonna lie.

[@LexYeen]

​@@altechelghanforever9906so does everyone else in 40k, it's kind of a theme

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@LexYeen The Tyranids deserve worse, the Necrons did it to themselves and the Orcs are having the time of their lives thank you very much!

[@MustardGaseous2099]

All five of them

[@BossEvasion]

"Slaanesh has escaped, assemble five eldar with attitude!" - Farseer Eldrad to a Sicarian Infiltrator. The Sicarian doesn't understand the reference, but it makes Eldrad chuckle to himself before overheating the Sicarian's CPU with a Psybolt.

[@ericfrancisco6615]

Now I can't unsee an Eldar with Ramsey's face and screaming "THIS MON'KEIGH IS RAW! RAWWWWW!!"

[@Never_heart]

Be me, someone newer to 40k. Hears Pancreas throw some shade at CS Goto with little context. Look it up... Completely understands the shade and agrees wholeheartedly, like wow that is the kind of bad writing that even xenos haters would have mixed feelings about.

[@realKenM]

Please understand. He was busy enjoying his Multi-lasers.

[@MrRawrCEO]

Goto is considered one of the worst writers from everything I understand. He's just so bad he's forgettable...Whereas Matt Ward gets more crap due to messing up in some particularly visible and un-ignorable areas.

[@DylanGosseye]

Not giving more lore about Fuegan is like talking about the world eaters and leaving out Kharn. You leave out the coolest part !!

[@SeanCrosser]

He could make an entire episode for (some of) the Phoenix Lords

[@jamesmcdonald1108]

I imagine the path of grief is something close to a therapist, like if an Eldar winds up overwhelmed who do you think they would go to other than one dedicated to dealing with emotion?

[@thefullmetalmaskedduo6083]

I love that the Shining Spears have Tandem Crest plumes now. (Tandem means mounted in a longertudinal configuration, which is a good that GW chose this configuration because if it was mounted in a transverse configuration the helmet plume would cause a lot of aerodynamic drag.

[@joedredd1168]

I'm a Farsight Enclave man, but I do love the Eldar.

[@LexYeen]

Same. Could definitely see the two fighting side by side against a common threat and it not devolving like it does with the Imperium.

[@SeanCrosser]

I'm still holding on to hope that the Dawn Blade Farsight has is an Eldar Cronesword, and two of my favourite Xenos factions wearing red and white can join up. Because the Ynnari and Farsight are both just kinda around right now, with no big plot.

[@joedredd1168]

@@SeanCrosser Ah! That would be awesome! Hey maybe then we can get decent 40K Xenos books that actually advance the overall plot.

[@MrNobody0816]

"Go go Aspect Rangers" caught me off guard and made me chuckle.

[@ithiusdomino]

I sometimes forget that you're a very, very young person. As an old(38), but not ancient(yet) person who was playing this game...fucking hell maybe before you were born(august 2001) it boggles my fucking mind that Warp Spiders haven't gotten a new model since well before I had started playing. Love your videos, your cadence for presentation is great. I only found you within the last couple weeks but I am very impressed with your work, thank you for what you do.

[@Pyre]

He's got that "teacher who understands how to stay engaging" cadence.

[@SeanCrosser]

I'm just 32, and it feels sad to know that the exaggerated "lie, cheat, condescend, fail" stereotype memes are so widespread that lesser knowledgeable just think that that's all Eldar lore is.

[@berilsevvalbekret772]

​@@SeanCrosserto be fair GW seem to be leaning into that meme for a while. No respect for the eldar.

[@trob1731]

Been a 40k fan since '89. Can confirm. Warp Spiders still the same since introduction.

[@marcusaustralius2416]

Hey Pancreas, with aspect warriors all having their own unit heraldry, that makes them the Bretonnians of 40k

[@Draxynnic]

Not really. See, the thing is that the Bretonnians each have their own heraldry, with MAYBE sharing colours as a concession to unit cohesion. For Aspect Warriors, however, each Aspect has its own heraldry. A closer analogue would be, unsurprisingly, the elite units of the various elven subraces, some of which have similar mythological-animal-inspired heraldry (Dragon Princes, Phoenix Guard, White Lions, Raven Heralds before they sided with Malekith and became Dark Riders) while others could be viewed as embodying aspects of Elven warfare (Swordmasters could be viewed as the fantasy equivalent of Dire Avengers, Executioners as Dark Reapers, etc). I'm not sure which actually came first, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the High Elf units that are themed around creatures they're associated with inspired the Aspect Warrior concept or vice versa.

[@fjLKA]

(Cadia falls) Abaddon: AH! After ten thousand years I'm free. It's time to conquer Earth!

[@letendreelliott8778]

He was free for all those 10k years tho?

[@Pyre]

​@@letendreelliott8778Not if you count "inevitable failure" as a prison. Also in this analogy Zordon's like, Eldrad or something.

[@StuartLegomanLittle]

@@Pyre It probably be more accurate to say that the Emperor could be Zordon because both are basically dead and are maybe manipulative.

[@ordo_draigo_assault_ham]

“WHO STOLE MY ARMS?!”

[@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247]

"ALPHA! SLAANESH HAS ESCAPED! RECRUIT A TEAM OF SPACE-ELVES WITH ATTITUDE!"

[@dacenmarus1618]

I'm imagining Alpha 5 made of wraithbone. Ay yi yi!

[@maddlarkin]

I can't believe Warp Spiders are still using the same models, I remember them releasing in the 90's, the early 90's...

[@sorenputnam4295]

you also musnt forget that they represent one part of the war mask, one of the emotions that the eldar hate, dire avenger represents asureman rage and want for revenge. striking scorpions represent pure rath and gore the want to rip to shreds, the fire dragons is pure and utter rage, the swooping hawks represent the grace in killing, the banshees represent the grief that is caused by war.

[@Ghastly1]

15:03 Lore-wise Eldar chainswords are relatively quite when activated, which is presumably done psychically like most of their tech.

[@Vanq22114]

Could be that Amon Harak was such a good fighter pilot they named the entire concept of flying a plane after him

[@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx439]

Details of striking scorpion chainblades are covered in 'path of the warrior'. IIRC they literally just 'will it' to activate when striking.

[@SeanCrosser]

Yeah they're whisper-quiet, unlike the other races' chain weapons.

[@kalashnikovdevil]

Alternative option: The leader of the fighter pilot aspect warriors was such a bad ass that his name BECAME the Eldar word for 'fighter pilot'.

[@SeanCrosser]

Dark Reapers signify Khaine's looming destruction, the fact that you're not safe from him even if you're 48" away and in cover. Fire Dragons is when he's in screaming distance.

[@Sleipmon]

With the fighter pilots it could be that their Phoenix lords name came to mean fighter pilot. Which probably left the Crimson Hunter's Phoenix lord a little salty.

[@rylanorancientofrites5610]

I've watched so many pancreasnowork vids this weekend i can now see a brilliant sponsorship before it comes without looking.

[@wollyram6248]

My introduction to WH40K was "Rites of War", I remember being fascinated by the description for the Harlequins kiss weapon and the VA for mission briefing being excellent.

[@MarinaInChains]

30:48 for when you don't have the firepower, but you do have the mass

[@Xahnel]

Say the line Pancreas! "GW sucks at running xenos." Yay!

[@EmonWBKstudios]

The elves are power rangers, T'au are gundum, Tyranids are kaiju. GW, I have an idea for the greatest warhammer show of all time, ever. Have you heard of a little thing called "tokusatsu?"

[@bottasheimfe5750]

I really wanna know what exactly Aspect Warriors who aren't Exarchs do when they aren't in battle. like does that Dire Avenger have a spouse who's on the Path of the Botanist and when he's at home he's helping her with her farming to feed the Craftworld? does that Swooping Hawk take a jetpack and race his squad mates for the entertainment of others? Is that Howling Banshee a loving mother who is always happy to see her young child whenever she returns from the battlefield and is often worried that she might not come back to them? I want some looks into the life of the Asuryani like this.

[@JacoDeltaco]

Ah yes the I train for 10 thousand years to die to a group of guards that collectively have a 100 year

[@UGNAvalon]

War masks: When the Space Elves take “show me your War Face!” a bit too seriously.

[@DarkApostleNoek]

Them being the focus of an Eldar RPG would be great. You are a young Eldar (young by Eldar Standards) who has just finished showing great skill as a Guardian and are encourage to try to go be an Aurtarch. You have 2 stories the game on of you needing to find and destroy some threat trying to destroy your Craftworld and your Warrior Path stories of you following a story dedicated to one of the Warrior Paths. The non-warrior paths are there for a crafting mechanic, but wouldn't get to much focus. As you travel down a Warrior path and reach a fifth of its story you have the choice of dedicating to that path and becoming an Exarch or leaving it incomplete to travel a different one to continue the Aurtarch/Warrior story.

[@Draxynnic]

They'd also be good in a party setup, with each having a very distinct speciality that essentially acts as a class. Could even include a warlock, since warlocks are essentially warrior-seers: while it is technically the Path of the Seer rather than the Warrior, it wouldn't be a serious break to include one. Thing is, nobody's been willing to make an Eldar-focused game since Rites of War.

[@Anonie324]

SPACE ELF SENTAI SQUAD

[@Archon3960]

Teamup episode with the Farseight Enclaves when? x)

[@OlrikMeister]

I love that pancreas is a eldar lover. It has to be the faction that i know least about. Knew half of these aspect warriors but i do like the lot of em.

[@michaelobrien9053]

I think you misread the striking scorpion rule. It specifically says that it gets devastating wounds with units without Monster or Vehicle

[@RedAction333]

Love the subtle addition of a rimworld screenshot

[@MixerTheNovir]

and rimworld soundtrack

[@davidpa9266]

17:17 Scorpions, my fav, only get that when they target things WITHOUT monster or vehicle. (Says so in your screenshot)

[@JustBearly]

I swear this did video did not exist yesterday, I've scoured this channel every week for unwatched videos, and I never come across this.

[@Grishnag85]

Warp spiders are my favourite aspect warriors, now if only they get better sculpts. Also Karrandras really needs a new model

[@definitelyhooman7939]

Praise the Omnissiah, a 40 minutes Pancreas video to fall asleep to! (and then rewatch to actually catch everything.)This channel has been my go to for the past couple weeks and I have been slowly but surely running out videos, so this is a welcome surprise :)

[@berilsevvalbekret772]

You and me of one mind mate 😂

[@definitelyhooman7939]

@@berilsevvalbekret772 the same braincell, it's clocking in overtime

[@venkelos6996]

Eldar are, far and away, my favorite xenos army, and they might even get above Guard, or Grey Knights, if they weren't such a more skill-required force than many, but I do really like them, and Aspect Warriors are a lot of the reason why. I've always liked Warp Spiders and Dark Reapers, and was personally really excited when Shadow Spectres were first revealed, but I'm going to be really sad when, after being a surprise diamond, for the majority of 10th, they send the Spectres off to Legends, and just remake Swooping Hawks, which I've never really liked. The Aspects are a lot of fun, once you figure out how to best use their individual shticks, and I like their separate paint schemes, to those of each Craftworld. I do really hope, though, that when they get their codex, Autarchs can join Aspect squads, bur we'll have to wait and see.

[@DreadBirate]

13:28 “and either way, would” “Woah he’s bisexual I didn’t know that!”

[@TheBenjiNebby]

You didn't know that this man was into karl Franz?

[@SamueL-td7fb]

He's elf-sexual, it's probably different

[@ildiran]

You know, with the Warp Spiders being my favourite aspect warriors, I had no idea the lykhosidae guy was a C.S. Goto creation. I fully regret my years of wishing he was confirmed as the Phoneix Lord. But now I'm just sad that they still don't have a Phoenix Lord now, because honestly I think they really deserve one!

[@NDGRT-hv6yp]

Tbh as much as im a tau fan, eldar have been growing on me, the aspects and wraights really make them cool at times

[@altechelghanforever9906]

T'au Fans, represent!

[@bthsr7113]

I find it interesting examining how the Striking Scorpions managed to survive losing the connection to their first Phoenix Lord while the Shadow Specters didn't. Admittedly, the Scorpions still had the Phoenix Lord armor, but one could argue that having your founder go rogue could be seen as a bigger wound than your founder going missing. It would be neat to see them examine this in an Eldar novel if that was the kind of thing had the creativity and interest to do. And I see 3 ways to do it. 1 Autarchs can walk multiple warrior paths, so one who has struck without warning with both chainsword and composite beam cannon can have learned the lore of both and think on it from a single perspective. 2 "rank and file" aspect warriors in the field to break up action scenes and flesh out characters. 3 2 Exarchs to bring the depths of understanding of their aspects' histories and entrenched mindsets. The most alien to the reader and highlighting how distinct the aspects are, even ones that share stealth as a focus.

[@Warmaker01]

I started playing WH40k during Rogue Trader, but stopped around the mid-1990s when 2nd Edition was still pretty new. I still recall when the Aspect Warriors were introduced in the early 1990s, it helped spice up the Eldar lineup. Before them, for infantry you basically just had regular Shuriken Catapult slinging infantry and maybe someone lucky to find the Harlequin figure set. They gave the Eldar some needed variety and made it more complicated to deal with them, that's for sure. I never played Eldar but I appreciated the style and look, colors they brought to the table top. GW also added more stylish flavor with the Eldar in new vehicles with the mid-late 1990s and beyond.

[@Beriorn]

Bro was this written on low blood sugar, because there's some weird stuff in the segments with the Banshees, Scorpions and the Hawks. But in all seriousness, the Aspect Warrior formula is so good Cawl copied it for his Primaris Marines.

[@Sauron708]

Actually, you can kinda take a "warp spider" in kill team! Corsairs have a Shade Runner operative that's equipped with a warp spider warp jump pack. It thankfully does not have any rules for randomly disappearing into the warp though Their description for reference: "Shade Runners are experts at the surprise attack. Utilising their blink packs - which function in a similar manner to the warp jump generators used by Warp Spiders of the Asuryani - they flank their enemies, striking with the swift, savage blows of their Hekatarii blades."

[@fatghostproduction7190]

Everytime you post an Eldar video i get giggly with excitement and am also reminded what a filthy elf-lover you are

[@kainv.9221]

Love the mix of the tabletop rules and the lore

[@TheEarlofManwhich]

I really enjoyed this one. More comprehensive unit overviews please. Of course we’ve had prior faction overviews but it’s been a while for 40k and I liked learning about the granular strengths and weaknesses and war gear choices

[@The_Murder_Party]

Anyone else notice these are elvish knightly houses? Complete with unique heraldry and a wide range of colours?

[@Katazo98]

They changed the Howling Banshees again, they are now an all Woman Aspects along with the Incubi being an All Male Aspect-Source Da Big Dakka Dark Eldar MC explaining why the Grand Succubus had male blood brides and had to genecraft a Female body for their new Posistion as Grand Succubus

[@specs.weedle]

dafuq is dat shit doin in an ork book

[@Katazo98]

@specs.weedle something I notice with some Black Library authors they will pull you out of story to try and Justify a part of writing that has nothing to do with the plot of the story but they wanted to explain to the reader why they are doing something for Twitter Brownie points. Example of this was one that I found more egregious was Ghazghkull Thraka Prophet of Waagh where they interrupt the story over an argument of the Gender of Ghazghkull, like it wasn't really funny and had no point to the story of it other then to have their Brownie points.

[@Gabensrightnut]

you might not consider yourself a productive member of society but you help us get through the day and entertain us while getting paid thats pretty cool

[@johnarnold8485]

I accept one alternate option. Fighter Pilot was so good at his job that they named the entire profession after him.

[@damianwaga6357]

I have been into Warhammer 40K for about 12 years now. I haven't bought a single model because I'm mostly a book lore and video game guy, but I've considered Admech for the cool cybernetic and transhumanist themes or the Tau for the cool federation/covenant mixed species feel. That last bit comparing the aspect warriors to the Ginyu Force is single-handedly make me rethink what my first Army should be. The idea of a faction dedicated to gardening or poetry living alongside literal super soldiers that create a background explosion via group pose is just too good.

[@nerdyvids1]

Honestly I kind of love this more specific unit based video.

[@ratatouilledrinksclorax9897]

GIVE ME MY FLESH EATER COURTS VIDEO PLEEEEASE PANCREAS I really wanna know where, how, and what to read about these guys since idk how AoS works

[@shooey-mcmoss]

pyro gaming

[@YatzeeWillWearAGreenHat]

I couldn't care less about Eldar, but a chosen pancreas with brand recognision (and also the guy it lives inside) makes me listen

[@bb4276]

Death Korps of Krieg and Orks got me into 40k. I am now binging primarchs and Khorne.

[@RuenUsque]

1) Absolutely fantastic work... 2) Recommend listen at 1.5 speed. Don't know why, but he sounds a lot funnier when it sounds like he's rushing through and is running out of breath.

[@theswarmsquad3606]

“Oragami keeps quagmire happy. Oragami keeps my mind off sex. Keep on folding cranes…”

[@batshit36]

The striking scorpions vs space marine scouts is a box my friend and I splint. He was trying to tell me how screwed the scouts were if that fight was more accurate. I turned to him and said “you might be centuries old warriors who have perfected your art of way, unfortunately I’m an unsupervised 17 year old with a rocket launcher”

[@Warmaster2001]

Hehehe why I thought like Skaven vs High Elves. High Elves a diehard warriors against a clanrat who just got his ratling gun.

[@TheWcasey]

The Eldar’s strongest supporter does it again. Great vid love your work.

[@QuixoticCowboy]

New head cannon for me is that all Warp Spiders are gambling addicts as the most extreme for of gambling is Russian roulette. And since Eldar did the Eldar thing and had zero chill they made a whole aspect dedicated to the most extreme form of Russian roulette, with murder being a added bonus.

[@SusCalvin]

All teleportation had some risk. Necrons do weird spacetime buggery.

[@TheHammerHero]

I just realised, eldar only focus on one aspect at a time, that means that there probably are eldar who dedicated their life to cleaning. Those craftworlds must be the cleanest places in the known universe!

[@LinkiePup]

What I love about the Exarch is that a male Eldar can wear Jain-Zar’s armor. Meaning that: Eldar are literally femboys.

[@robkemp598]

Theory: the Eldar are genderfluid...not because they are progressive or anything they just get bored after a thousand years and want to experiment 🤣🤣

[@Therapy_Uncle]

Now it makes way more sense why their empire was destroyed.

[@Loloswaghetto]

​@@Therapy_Uncle chud take

[@EnergyBurst2]

Regarding that end bit with the Ginyu Force I was expecting you to say Guldo was the Warp Spiders since his time stop would allow him to basically do what they do, appear where the enemy doesn't expect them to be seemingly out of nowhere.

[@KawaiiCanadafreememes]

Thank you for inspiring me to strip and repaint my Aspect Warriors I will name them in your honour

[@michaelsantamaria5295]

a little lore correction but the Fire Dragons are as name suggest represent the dragons of eldar mythology characterize by their destructive scourge earth nature, the Swooping hawks represent the eldar hawks who were believed to be the reincarnation of those who were wronged now a spirit of vengeance while Dark reapers take the form of Khaine grim reaper aspect a deal of death (possibly a nod to him killing the nightbringer)

[@TheCrystonian]

Great video, have to say in both lore and table top, Shadow Spectres are my most favorite of the aspect warriors. I usualy bring 5 of them and a Solitaire, then drop them behind enemy lines and be encredibly annoying. Its great

[@mazubahtender]

If I ever wanted to play Eldar (I won't, last time I painted them I hated every second) I'd use a lot of Shadow Spectres. I like the spooky ghosts

[@Warmaster2001]

Sortoff weird variant of spamming Cairn Wraiths and Hexwraiths of Vampire Counts?

[@andgodsaiduntoabraham]

Listening to the part about Warp Spiders and picturing Eldar dropping out of the warp and hosing down a terminator with silly string until he explodes

[@jasoncrowell8863]

I absolutely want a series of short stories based on a squad of "relatively young" Aspect Warriors from various aspects that a Farseer pulled together dealing with some very odd threats...yes, I want to go with the Sentai bit and commit to it.

[@SeanCrosser]

The way that elder farsight and prophesizing works, it could work! Like some seer finds a path that would lead to doom, and can only be averted by putting together a band of different Aspect Warriors and have them truly work together on a heist.

[@sovietunion7643]

this is a great video to listen to while trying my first total war warhammer game as the high elves

[@ozgurruh2535]

Honestly, i really feel bad for you guys as another xeno fan. But also i love Elves getting curb stomped because I just don't like elves, i am just mixed on the issue of Aeldari lore managent. But it's so fun to see you complain about it

[@GYanki750]

orksorksorks

[@ozgurruh2535]

@@GYanki750 GREEN IS DA BEST

[@Aleph3575]

21:42 Man I remember when the Swooping Hawk Exarch had a weapon that could shoot 6 times lol.

[@lilvalko5096]

every video you tempt me closer and closer to buying eldar... you are the slaanesh to my eldar