Ah yes, Wraithguards and Wraithblades, the most interesting Eldar units. What's so interesting? Two things: 1)eldar claim to be a dying race, but they send their teens to die in meat waves as guardians so that already dead can have a few more hours in their VR simulation. These guys actually go to fight to save the future of their race; 2)they're eldar supersoldiers. Technically they're giant robots being driven by mind upload, but they're infantry so yeah, they count. Why is that important? Supersoldiers are unique qaulity of humanity in 40k. Eldar and orks don't design better being, they're naturally so far above us that all they need is to train and become older. Tau, necrons and leagues just bypass the idea with diversified equipment. But humans? Humans looked at eldar speed and ork strength and thought, "yeah, we should create a massive dude who can barely be able to fight those in a fair fight". And we did for some reason. It wasn't a greatest idea and we were the only one dumb enough to try, but here we are... And these guys are de facto filling that role for eldar. So yeah, love them, the only eldar units that make sense, are cool in lore and hope we've seen more of them.
I hope Oh mighty, Settra... Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds... and many, many more...gets to keep most of his titles in AoS
Saying "nothings perfect" right after mentioning Settra is the purest form of elf arrogance. And you will pay for such slander when Settra sends you to Djaf himself.
Settra is perfect in all ways, and will always be perfect in every single imaginable way unto eternity. His followers however, may be found lacking compared to his wonderfully euphoric splendor.
Yep, I’m with @sethmiller2532 in this. The Eldar aren’t perfect bc they don’t have Settra with them. Which is pretty humble for an elf-simp, actually. 🤔
@@SwordWieldingDuck I don't think DnD is a good gauge at all as in spite of those statistics you rarely if ever hear people talk about elves or elf lore. All I hear is ''knife ears bad'' jokes repeated ad infinitum a lot of the time these days no matter the settings.
small rules corrections on spiritseers pros: the keyword bit about leading a unit doesn’t mean the wraiths need lethal hits. it means that when the spiritseer is leading them, they *gain* the lethal hits keyword. so congrats, your d-cannons, ghostaxes, and whatever you put on your wraithlord now have lethal hits. go wild cons: once a bodyguard unit like a wraithlord is fully destroyed, the leader model is no longer counted as part of the unit. so unfortunately no resurrection shenanigans once they’re gone
For me this is the most tragic aspect of the eldar. They'll NEVER find rest. Being a craftworlder is like having to protect an urn for every single person of your family tree for the rest of your life, knowing that one fuck up means your granny or your father is going to eternal hell. Imagine the torture of living this life, imagine the stress of knowing that this also is your fate once you die, to be eternaly dependant of another person to take care of your helpless soul until the death of the universe.
If they were meant to rest, the Old Ones would have built that into them. Nah, they are just fancy Orks, rampant bio-weapons that never got the turn off code.
@igncom1 sure, I Just find the idea of never not being in danger, even after death, for eternity, really dreadfull. Even A fuck up your great great great great great grandson makes 30 thousand years in the future will lead you to eternal hell.
While true, it also allows those urns to be fairly safe in 30k standard. Most humans get devoured by some daemon or get sucked in by big E in the warp. At least soulstones/infinity circuits allow some level of peace away from danger. Plus, you can always talk to your dead grandpa if you are inclined. Or, as the dead grandpa, you can say "get the f*ck off my lawn" to anyone who enters your house.
Fellas I have read the comments and it has occurred to me I have read the entire spirit seer thing wrong and have likely lost several games in no small amount because I’ve read the Lethal Hits rule wrong. Someone please just hit me with a wrench I have been reading that rule wrong since 10th edition started holy fuck.
Also you have the Spiritseer resurrection on the Wraithlord wrong. As per the Leader and Attached Units rules, once either the bodyguard or leader part of the Attached Unit dies, the remainder reverts back to the original unit. IE the Wraithlord bodyguard is considered fully destroyed and the Spiritseer is now just a Spiritseer with nothing to revive.
@@BasicallyTabletopthat feels like such a rules trap. the dude whose entire job it is to resurrect wraithguard suddenly can't do that when there's a whole pile of wraithguard right there? not five meters away? just because they all fell at the same time?
Knowing 40k, it will end like this. Fake Baldermort's voice: The defiant, melta-armed Dreadnought melted the Wraithknight's hand, so the throw went wide. The dreadnought crashed into 666 orks instead, before hitting a Leman Russ whose hull and crewed survived due to rugged Imperial design. Both Tallarn and Armageddon tank commanders said "Da fuh" at the sight, for different reasons. The Raven Guard Thunderhawk had to fly back its wounded before assisting the other Raven Guard in evacuating the guardsmen. The captain was subsequently sent to the Deathwatch as an exile for more focusing on fighting enemy champions instead of leading. The Wraithknight ultimately went down to an Ork bike ramming straight at it. Yet the eldar at many sectors had baited orks into withering ambushes. The autarchs mourned the losses yet took heed at their moderate casualties to secure the last webway gate and retake the Ork-taken, then Imperial-conquered Exodite World.
"Nice opinion, but have you considered I can just respawn this Wraithblade? Have fun chewing through another T7 Terminator" On an unrelated but amusing note, my first D&D campaign I got my Artificer turned into a fantasy Wraithguard because Disintegrate + Soulstone
I choose to believe that the reason those soul-yeeting D-scythe guns work on vehicles is because it exorcizes the machine spirits, and the Mechanicus HATE the Eldar for it.
Aeldari Wraiths are such an underrated gem in the Warhammer lore. They’re not just war machines; they’re a powerful reminder of the Eldar’s struggle to preserve their culture and people in a galaxy that’s so relentlessly hostile. The mix of necromancy and advanced tech is what makes them uniquely Eldar.
They're kind of the exact opposite. Most necrons don't even have a personality left, so they're incapable of being bothered by the fact that they're immortal soulless machines. Eldar wraiths are piloted by a disembodied Eldar soul. The necrons gave up their souls in return for ageless bodies, the Eldar do everything in their power to save every(Eldar) soul they can.
First video of the new year: "How would the Terrans from Starcraft fare as a faction in 40k?" I really loved your UNSC, Covenant, Forerunner, and Flood videos. I think you could do the same for Starcraft as well honestly. Seeing as terran marines are just kinda mass produced cheaper versions of space marines with the guass rifle, I think it would be a very interesting comparison, especially taking into account untis like Ghosts, Thors, Battlecruisers, and whatnot. They even have their own versions of Psykers with the Ghosts like kerrigan/ queen of blades. Psionic units vs Warp units would be an insane matchup
The Wraithlord revivals talked about at 16:00 dont work that way, sadly. Once the bodyguard unit is destroyed, the Spiritseer becomes it's own unit and can not revive models they had in their retinue before.
Most wraithguard/knights: This is sacrilege! I have earned my rest, let me be free of war and return to the soul circuit! Craftworld Eldar: n-No ancient one! We still desperately have need if your services! Forgive us ancestors, may you be returned to peace soon. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Iyanden Eldar: Please ancient one, your work is done, the craftworld has been saved! Return to your rest! Iyanden wraithguard: No. *Chad face*
"Do you have any idea how boring it gets in there?! Not to mention I've had to put up with your great grandmother's nagging every day of the past three centuries, this is a welcome reprieve of that torture... Grandma wants to come out and see your children one of this days by the way, get someone on building her another of this."
4:00 considering that the Doom of Malan'Tai juiced itself up specifically on the souls of the infinity circuit, and souls have always been heavily associated with the warp and by all accounts exist entirely as warp stuff, this poses the potential that the tyranids, if they wanted to, have a method to permanently kill demons. Imagine the damage this could do if they got those blueprints over to Kronos. Regular chaos L.
Wraith constructs can be a perfect example of angle of examination. They can be both Noble and Grimdark at the same time. It is true that they have to battle until they get utterly annihilated, but they also fight to protect innocent people and to save lives with their sacrifices. As they are wont to say in ... Unification or DoW 3 or something: "We have died so others wouldn't need to die (needlessly)". Could this be said about Dreadnoughts? Eh ... different circumstances create different outcomes. They are quite fascinating. One of my favorite parts of Eldar.
I think D-weapon are meant to be 'metaphysical' weapons, as crazy as it sound: it rips apart the fabric of reality and doesn't just destroy the soul, it also destroy the very conceptual existence of a soulless entity, ranging from its programming to whatever animating force it has. Including daemons which are probably just unmade and re absorbed into the warp's overall whole.
You see me now, a veteran Of a thousand psychic wars I've been living on the edge so long Where the winds of limbo roar And I'm young enough to look at And far too old to see All the scars are on the inside I'm not sure if there's anything left of me
Wraithlords are sick. Before the start of the heresy one of them was keeping up with and slapping around Fulgrim until he got a power boost from the Slaneeshi Deamon hiding in his sword.
I love how aggressively Irish they went with the names for stuff in the Eldar, and yet they continuously give them British accents. Give me elven sounding elves darnit.
i heard someone at GW state a long time ago that most of the craftworld and eldar names were inspired by the welsh language. maybe it's both, i just remember reading that a few decades ago.
@@commentingisdangerous7530 It would make sense, given the welsh's proclivity to engage in Slaaneshesque taboo relations with the agricultural products.
@@commentingisdangerous7530 well Scáthach (pronounced Scah-hah) is literally a Scottish warrior/Irish martial arts teacher who trained the Irish hero Cú Chulainn, Commorragh could be Welsh, but looks and sounds _very_ Irish as far as pronunciation and spelling goes… It honestly could be a mixture of all kinds of Celtic lore. I wouldn’t be surprised if it truly was a mishmash of all kinds of Anglo-Saxon culture.
Sooooo, who’s going to tell him that the spiritseer actually gives the unit lethal hits and a +1 to hit? Also having watched further you can’t revive if it’s only the spiritseer left, as the spirit seer is now its own unit.
At 7:59 , the statement: "...Because it rips your body out of your soul, and throws it into the warp!" completely sent me. I've been cackling about it for entirely too long now.
People say Idoneth are like Underwater Drukhari. But they are more like Craftworlders and Wood Elves. Isolationists who live close to their natural enviroment, go on wild hunts and store the souls of their dead in special stones (chorrals) to avoid Slaanesh eating them. With this said having Treekin/Wraithguard in the form of singular Idoneth souls possing chorral bodies would be cool. It even has a precedent in AoS The demigods of Mathlann are many dead souls taking a single corporeal form after all.
8:00 Don’t you just hate it when your body gets ripped out of your soul & tossed into the Warp, and you’re just left as a disembodied soul wandering the battlefield with nothing to do? 🙃
one thing i wish we got as a unit is, what happens when a bonesinger, someone who can generate and control wraithbone, becomes a wraith, a being made entirely of wraithbone, if anyone played lancer im imagining an eldar balor, a nigh unkillable regenerating mass in the rough shape of a person who doesent so much have a weapon as pieces of itself it extends to tear its opponents apart from within
15:43 I hate to be that guy pancreas but the leader rules state that "Each time the last model in a Bodyguard unit is destroyed, each CHARACTER unit that is part of that Attached unit is no longer part of an Attached unit. It becomes a separate unit, with its original Starting Strength. If this happens as the result of an attack, they become separate units after the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks." This would mean that you sadly can't pull such chicanery. I'm not a dickhead I swear I'm just looking out for fair play.
God I need some trailer for an Eldar video game were it starts with the death of an eldar, them being turned into a soul stone, and then that soul stone promptly being put into a wraith guard that starts ripping and tearing all with mechanicus game level grim dark music playing in the background.
Apologies if im not understanding a simple thing, but this basically means that if you have lost your last wraith in a unit with a seerer leading it or attached to it you no longer can revive the wraiths but if there is a wraith left of the three you can revive the other two?. Sorry in super new to the weird way the rules are written.
@@RageDuck0 When your Bodyguard unit is destroyed, your character become a new unit. So if there's still one wraithguard, you can revive 1. If there's 0, you don't have a unit of wraithguards anymore, you have a unit of one spiritseer, not leading anyone. For the same reason, the Spiritseer lose the Lethal Hits and +1 to hit of Spiritmark when his bodyguard is destroyed.
13:20 - Am I reading Spirit Mark wrong? Just from what's on the screen, it doesn't require Lethal Hits, it provides it. "Weapons in that unit have the [Lethal Hits] ability and. . ."
He isn't reading it wrong necessarily, it's written in a way where there's two ways of interpreting the meaning. That said, from context the correct meaning is the one that goes like you say it does, because why else would that ability be there.
@@Zwijger No, there is no other interpretation. "Weapons in that unit have Lethal Hits and +1 to hit", there is no condition, except leading the unit. To have your interpretation the wording would be "Weapons in that unit, that have the Lethal Hits ability, have +1 to hit".
Nah, he's just reading it as "units THAT have [Lethal Hits]" which is an easy mistake to make and one that doesn't get caught when you're the only person in your local group playing that army. I saw it that way on first read but the "and" gave me pause to double check.
Fun question: what potential plot lines could GW do for the eldar And for them to be relevant My idea : cegorach Casually Holding a soul stone that has guilliman mom Soul in it
@@isuckatusernames4297 Maybe. There's also an audio drama where she dies on a ship after live support fails. She did tell Curze off when he tried to kill her though which was hilarious.
Honestly, I feel Ynnead should have just woken up. But instead of Rofflestomping Slanesh it’s a more prolonged war. The main accomplishment is that now the Eldar have just a bit of breathing room. Maybe their psychers are allowed to actually do something cool more often because Slanesh isn’t constantly trying to eat up their soul. Insert some Eldar vague BSery that we’re all used to. Slanesh was instant, but Ynnead is a story in the making.
Put old Eldar next to Macross/Zentradii stuff. Parallels are obvious. The fun question is whether GW found out about it directly or if their newly made US branch saw what FASA was up to.😊
Ah yes, Wraithguards and Wraithblades, the most interesting Eldar units. What's so interesting? Two things: 1)eldar claim to be a dying race, but they send their teens to die in meat waves as guardians so that already dead can have a few more hours in their VR simulation. These guys actually go to fight to save the future of their race; 2)they're eldar supersoldiers. Technically they're giant robots being driven by mind upload, but they're infantry so yeah, they count. Why is that important? Supersoldiers are unique qaulity of humanity in 40k. Eldar and orks don't design better being, they're naturally so far above us that all they need is to train and become older. Tau, necrons and leagues just bypass the idea with diversified equipment. But humans? Humans looked at eldar speed and ork strength and thought, "yeah, we should create a massive dude who can barely be able to fight those in a fair fight". And we did for some reason. It wasn't a greatest idea and we were the only one dumb enough to try, but here we are... And these guys are de facto filling that role for eldar. So yeah, love them, the only eldar units that make sense, are cool in lore and hope we've seen more of them.
Drukhari have super soliders too, what do you think the Haemonculi are doing? Sure, their supersoldiers are made with the flesh of other races, but still ^^
I’m a big fan, pancreas no work! I’ve been watching your videos for a few years and turning the sound off and watching the images change has lulled me to sleep many a times! Words cannot express how important these images are for my physique and mental health!
I don't use your videos for sleep, but it's not because your voice is unpleasant or something, on the contrary, it is actually super pleasant. The problem is, I can't fall asleep because I end up laughing at your jokes so much my body starts aching. 😅❤
I deliberately took time to delay watching this until it would end right after 2025 started on the East Coast. Thanks for being a weekly-ish ritual for me this past year or so.
I have a Wraithknight that I proxy as a Knight Gallant for my Imperial Knights army. The best part of having an entirely mech-based army is that you can basically treat them like a D&D party, with all the idiosyncratic bullshit that comes with it.
Wraith constructs are my favourite Eldar unit too, with Wraithguard right at the top. First encounter with them was in Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising. In the multiplayer, their voice presence made me think they were some sort of ethereal being choosing to exist for the moment to kick ass (I knew sod-all about Warhammer 40k as a whole in my youth so I never really clocked what they were, I figured they were dudes in armour like the rest of the Eldar.) Still have yet to play the tabletop, but my models of Wraith constructs outweigh my flesh-and-blood Eldar in both headcount and sheer tonnage. Got a Knight, so many Blades, a few Guard, a Lord and even a damn Seer. Not painted up in canon craftworld colours though (except for an Ulthwe one I painted on accident) - headcanon for My Dudes is that whoever becomes a Wraith construct chooses to do so for their own reasons, and the Craftworld respects them immensely since they're giving up the peace of death to run the risk of life once more. And rather than wear the Craftworld's colours, each Wraith gets a unique paintjob of their choosing (which is totally not my excuse for using Wraithguard/blades as a testbed for any patterns or designs I want to test out first because I think they're really easy to paint and really fun to assemble and paint besides). I think I have about 30 mixed Guard and Blades at this point. Edit: I did not know the Skathatch existed until now but now I want one
Just in case you didn't realise, the spiritseer gives the Wraith units both lethal hits & +1 to hit. So it isn't that you need lethal hits to get the +1 to hit, you just get both lethal hits & +1 to hit. It has now changed in the Eldar codex
2 minor corrections. The spirit seer does not need the wraith unit to HAVE lethal hits to give the unit +1 to hit. It gives the unit lethal hits AND +1. “While this model is leading a unit weapons in that unit HAVE the lethal hits ability.” And when the unit a character is attached to dies that unit still dies, medics (such as apothecaries, plague surgeons, spirit seers, etc.) cannot continue to revive those units. It’s the same reason that if you kill both units for an objective you get points for killing two units.
'...The machines moved slowly, as if time ran differently for them. Boltgun rounds smacked into them, but failed to penetrate. Together, the ghost machines raised their weapons. ‘Take cover!’ shouted Galt. He and his veterans were familiar with the deadly effects of wraithcannon fire. The guns were silent. A black orb appeared on Verderio’s chest. He glanced down at it, and died. Verderio collapsed in on himself, pulled toward the ball of unlight. His armour shattered with a deafening crack. Blood sprayed in all directions as his body imploded. The Sternguard went for cover, keeping up fire as they went. The machines were slow, but their shots many. They tore chunks from the battle-scarred bridge. Dozens of bolt rounds spattered off them without harm, a few exploding when they ricocheted and buried themselves in the fabric of the chamber. Throughout it all the ghost machines made not a single sound. The Space Marines were fighting the dead. Galt watched from behind a fallen spar. The roaring of flames from the adjoining room had become louder, punctuated by the crashing of falling chunks of wraithbone. He had to end this now. He waited until the wraithguard were facing away from him, ready to exploit their poor reactions. ‘For Honourum! For Corvo! For the Oath!’ he cried, and ran full tilt at the eldar machines. He slammed into one, jarring his own body. It staggered back from the force of his impact. The second registered his presence, and brought its deadly rifle to bear. The machines overtopped him by thirty centimetres or more, slender giants. Galt looked into the long, cold face of the thing’s helmet. His own was reflected in the gloss of its surface. Galt swung his power sword with all his might, the crackling edge of it slamming into the bulbous end of the ghost warrior’s cannon. The strange alloys of it split. He stepped back and brought the sword down again, severing the end of the gun from the stock. The wraithguard dropped the shattered weapon, and made a clumsy lunge for him. He sidestepped, sweeping his sword around toward the leg of the first wraithguard, now recovered from Galt’s charge. The sword dug deep into the back of its knee. The construct rounded on him, gun coming toward his head. Galt wrenched at his power sword, the tug of it coming free sending him backwards. He regained his guard in time to stare right down the muzzle of the wraithguard’s gun. And then Aster was there, followed by Gorfillio, advancing on the dais. Their guns spoke, and now the bolts buried themselves deep. Galt’s charge had bought the Sternguard time to change their magazines for those holding vengeance rounds, the unstable fusion cores of these bolts allowing them to penetrate the thick armour of the constructs. Even so, such was the density of the materials used to make the wraithguard that evidence for the explosions of the rounds within was but a splintering upon the surface. The ghost machines did not react as living beings would. They were neither knocked back by the rounds nor did they convulse. They simply stopped; one remained standing, becoming the statue the Space Marines had originally taken it for, the fingers of one hand splayed to grab at Galt. The other folded in on itself and sank to the floor. ‘Thank you, my brothers,’ said Galt. He deactivated his sword, and went to retrieve his helmet. As he went he called up the embarkation deck flight control of Novum in Honourum ‘This is Captain Galt,’ he said. ‘Immediate retrieval required. We are done here. Imperator vincit omnis. One casualty, Brother Verderio. Inform the infirmary and Chaplain Odon. We commend his soul to the Emperor.’ - Nova Marines under the command of Brother Captain Mantillio Galt vs Wraithguard[circa, 887.M39] - "Death of Integrity" - Guy Haley
Wraithknight is so gorgeous. I hope in the codex GW will make several different knight profiles for different weapons with different prices. Because my favorite combo is sword and shield, but this is literally a avatar of Khaine for 495 points
Wraith guard is a unit just look amazing their skull is so smooth and so different from anything else that GW makes that I just love them Sucks that you can't paint them with anything other than an airbrush but still they're the reason I invested in an elder army and an airbrush The scheme I'm going to do is black and white with the main armor panels being cyan
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Can I do a video on what if Destiny factions where in 40k
That would be cool to see
@@djashovel that would be cool you should do that dj
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Ah yes, Wraithguards and Wraithblades, the most interesting Eldar units.
What's so interesting? Two things:
1)eldar claim to be a dying race, but they send their teens to die in meat waves as guardians so that already dead can have a few more hours in their VR simulation. These guys actually go to fight to save the future of their race;
2)they're eldar supersoldiers. Technically they're giant robots being driven by mind upload, but they're infantry so yeah, they count. Why is that important? Supersoldiers are unique qaulity of humanity in 40k. Eldar and orks don't design better being, they're naturally so far above us that all they need is to train and become older. Tau, necrons and leagues just bypass the idea with diversified equipment. But humans? Humans looked at eldar speed and ork strength and thought, "yeah, we should create a massive dude who can barely be able to fight those in a fair fight". And we did for some reason. It wasn't a greatest idea and we were the only one dumb enough to try, but here we are...
And these guys are de facto filling that role for eldar.
So yeah, love them, the only eldar units that make sense, are cool in lore and hope we've seen more of them.
Somewhere in an alternate universe there’s a type 2 diabetic with a UA-cam channel called KidneysNoWork who really likes dwarves
It would probably be named KidneysYesFail
Nah, Dwarf fan would be called LiverNoWork because of the ale.
@@FriendlyArchpriestBut wouldn’t that make you not a true dwarf fan?
WUT KYND A LYTEWEIGHT ARE YE?
I never paid attention to what his name said till now.
Instead of the insulin pump beeping it’s “Thank you dialysis machine, very cool”
"I am a Wraith. How can you kill a Wraith? What a grand and intoxicating innocence."
"Is this how you honor the sixth craftworld and the tribe unmourned?"
Even the Eldar are N'Wah compared to the greatness of the Chimer/Dunmer.
@@atpyro7920 "Shame on you sweet phoenix lord"
This will be even better if it is a Kroot or isekai-ed Seraphon hearing this.
@@Sir_Bucket"Takes off helmet,is an imperial."Oh your a monkai,I was expecting an eldar
"No Settra to lead them, but nothing's perfect"
You know, except for Settra.
Settra could always get that solid gold body Khatep promised him.
Khatep just needs to catch Gelt.
I’m refusing to play AoS until Settra comes back, beats the shit out of Nagash, and forms the new tomb kings faction
I hope Oh mighty, Settra... Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds... and many, many more...gets to keep most of his titles in AoS
Last time I was this early, Biel-Tan was still a whole craftworld and Iyanden wasn't 90% in the grave.
Last time i was this early Cadia was standing
Last time I was this early Elves were still hedonistic.
Last time i was this early necrons all had super cancer😢
Last time I was this early the ctans were still semi sentient balls of energy
Cadia still does.
Saying "nothings perfect" right after mentioning Settra is the purest form of elf arrogance. And you will pay for such slander when Settra sends you to Djaf himself.
Counterpoint: Settra isn't perfect because he's a skellyman and deserves to be in his golden body. Then he'd be perfect.
Settra is perfect in all ways, and will always be perfect in every single imaginable way unto eternity. His followers however, may be found lacking compared to his wonderfully euphoric splendor.
Settra is a blowhard and stinky, fite me.
If I'm not mistaken, he was saying that the fact that Settra isn't leading the Wraithguard is what was short of perfection.
Yep, I’m with @sethmiller2532 in this. The Eldar aren’t perfect bc they don’t have Settra with them.
Which is pretty humble for an elf-simp, actually. 🤔
I for one like his Space Elf simping because he is pretty much the only person that covers them
Everybody and their beard likes dwarves, it's nice to see the elves get a fair shake.
@@DinsRune pretty sure dwarfs are not popular at all, just check any DnD statistics, elves are always most popular
Dwarves are liked... but are rarely a favorite. People who like dwarves tend to like other things more, while people who like elves tend to love them.
Baldermort is also an Elfsimp
@@SwordWieldingDuck I don't think DnD is a good gauge at all as in spite of those statistics you rarely if ever hear people talk about elves or elf lore. All I hear is ''knife ears bad'' jokes repeated ad infinitum a lot of the time these days no matter the settings.
small rules corrections on spiritseers
pros: the keyword bit about leading a unit doesn’t mean the wraiths need lethal hits. it means that when the spiritseer is leading them, they *gain* the lethal hits keyword. so congrats, your d-cannons, ghostaxes, and whatever you put on your wraithlord now have lethal hits. go wild
cons: once a bodyguard unit like a wraithlord is fully destroyed, the leader model is no longer counted as part of the unit. so unfortunately no resurrection shenanigans once they’re gone
Was just about to let him know, cheers
Pretty much this. He had the rules in front of him too. XD
Thank god this was bugging me in that way of I might have been playing wrong this whole time
It was a mistake on his part. A biased mistake.
For me this is the most tragic aspect of the eldar. They'll NEVER find rest.
Being a craftworlder is like having to protect an urn for every single person of your family tree for the rest of your life, knowing that one fuck up means your granny or your father is going to eternal hell. Imagine the torture of living this life, imagine the stress of knowing that this also is your fate once you die, to be eternaly dependant of another person to take care of your helpless soul until the death of the universe.
If they were meant to rest, the Old Ones would have built that into them. Nah, they are just fancy Orks, rampant bio-weapons that never got the turn off code.
@igncom1 sure, I Just find the idea of never not being in danger, even after death, for eternity, really dreadfull. Even A fuck up your great great great great great grandson makes 30 thousand years in the future will lead you to eternal hell.
While true, it also allows those urns to be fairly safe in 30k standard. Most humans get devoured by some daemon or get sucked in by big E in the warp. At least soulstones/infinity circuits allow some level of peace away from danger. Plus, you can always talk to your dead grandpa if you are inclined. Or, as the dead grandpa, you can say "get the f*ck off my lawn" to anyone who enters your house.
@@gunterthekaiser6190 All the more sad that the biggest percentage of Eldar are the Dark Eldar.
And if you are a non-trueborn Dark Eldar, then welcome to the 40k equivalent of being a Skaven. Have fun fighting your way into a Kabal.
Fellas I have read the comments and it has occurred to me I have read the entire spirit seer thing wrong and have likely lost several games in no small amount because I’ve read the Lethal Hits rule wrong.
Someone please just hit me with a wrench I have been reading that rule wrong since 10th edition started holy fuck.
*Ork nob running fast as he can towards you wielding a wrench for a basha*
Those AP-4 weapons become a lot scarier when it’s almost certain you get some auto-wounds!
Also you have the Spiritseer resurrection on the Wraithlord wrong. As per the Leader and Attached Units rules, once either the bodyguard or leader part of the Attached Unit dies, the remainder reverts back to the original unit. IE the Wraithlord bodyguard is considered fully destroyed and the Spiritseer is now just a Spiritseer with nothing to revive.
@@BasicallyTabletopthat feels like such a rules trap. the dude whose entire job it is to resurrect wraithguard suddenly can't do that when there's a whole pile of wraithguard right there? not five meters away? just because they all fell at the same time?
After so many years of making fun of the Khorne players, it turns out you were the one who couldn't read
Biel-Tan wraithknight be like: "Silly Mon'keigh. THIS is how you serve in Death." And then they fling a Dreadnought like a baseball.
I'm just imagining a Titanfall 2 BT throwing Cooper actually like a baseball instance
Koby
*Chuks the dreadnought into a tunderhawk*
Knowing 40k, it will end like this.
Fake Baldermort's voice:
The defiant, melta-armed Dreadnought melted the Wraithknight's hand, so the throw went wide. The dreadnought crashed into 666 orks instead, before hitting a Leman Russ whose hull and crewed survived due to rugged Imperial design. Both Tallarn and Armageddon tank commanders said "Da fuh" at the sight, for different reasons. The Raven Guard Thunderhawk had to fly back its wounded before assisting the other Raven Guard in evacuating the guardsmen. The captain was subsequently sent to the Deathwatch as an exile for more focusing on fighting enemy champions instead of leading.
The Wraithknight ultimately went down to an Ork bike ramming straight at it. Yet the eldar at many sectors had baited orks into withering ambushes. The autarchs mourned the losses yet took heed at their moderate casualties to secure the last webway gate and retake the Ork-taken, then Imperial-conquered Exodite World.
@TSInfiMa-r6z Damn you, I read this in his voice!
"Nice opinion, but have you considered I can just respawn this Wraithblade? Have fun chewing through another T7 Terminator"
On an unrelated but amusing note, my first D&D campaign I got my Artificer turned into a fantasy Wraithguard because Disintegrate + Soulstone
I choose to believe that the reason those soul-yeeting D-scythe guns work on vehicles is because it exorcizes the machine spirits, and the Mechanicus HATE the Eldar for it.
you hit the nail on the head.
Aeldari Wraiths are such an underrated gem in the Warhammer lore. They’re not just war machines; they’re a powerful reminder of the Eldar’s struggle to preserve their culture and people in a galaxy that’s so relentlessly hostile. The mix of necromancy and advanced tech is what makes them uniquely Eldar.
"What if when the guy who died kept fighting?"
- Some Iyanden guy after hitting the legendary soulstone pack
Imperium: Only in death does duty end.
Iyanden: Not even in death does duty end.
Eldar Wraiths. Necrons but more magical and actually necromantic. And less depressed, I think...
You can’t be depressed if you’re a necro-robot!
They're kind of the exact opposite. Most necrons don't even have a personality left, so they're incapable of being bothered by the fact that they're immortal soulless machines. Eldar wraiths are piloted by a disembodied Eldar soul. The necrons gave up their souls in return for ageless bodies, the Eldar do everything in their power to save every(Eldar) soul they can.
@@magisterrleth3129 which leaves in question the fuck soul is and why you should even hold on to it.
@@snaplordmeep6748 A "Necrobot" even.
@@magisterrleth3129the phaerons however are extremely depressed
I mean, you joke, but go look at modern Evangelion animation if you wanna know what Wraith Knights would move like.
Eva Rebuild did them a lot of justice
Or the 40K proper animation with a Wraithknight vs Imperial Knights
First video of the new year:
"How would the Terrans from Starcraft fare as a faction in 40k?"
I really loved your UNSC, Covenant, Forerunner, and Flood videos. I think you could do the same for Starcraft as well honestly.
Seeing as terran marines are just kinda mass produced cheaper versions of space marines with the guass rifle, I think it would be a very interesting comparison, especially taking into account untis like Ghosts, Thors, Battlecruisers, and whatnot. They even have their own versions of Psykers with the Ghosts like kerrigan/ queen of blades. Psionic units vs Warp units would be an insane matchup
The Wraithlord revivals talked about at 16:00 dont work that way, sadly. Once the bodyguard unit is destroyed, the Spiritseer becomes it's own unit and can not revive models they had in their retinue before.
You have no idea how quickly i jumped in to comments to check if anyone else corrected this before i got to it. 😅
Still guy who re-revives the dead guys cannot because why tho.
Most wraithguard/knights: This is sacrilege! I have earned my rest, let me be free of war and return to the soul circuit!
Craftworld Eldar: n-No ancient one! We still desperately have need if your services! Forgive us ancestors, may you be returned to peace soon.
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Iyanden Eldar: Please ancient one, your work is done, the craftworld has been saved! Return to your rest!
Iyanden wraithguard: No. *Chad face*
"Do you have any idea how boring it gets in there?! Not to mention I've had to put up with your great grandmother's nagging every day of the past three centuries, this is a welcome reprieve of that torture... Grandma wants to come out and see your children one of this days by the way, get someone on building her another of this."
4:00 considering that the Doom of Malan'Tai juiced itself up specifically on the souls of the infinity circuit, and souls have always been heavily associated with the warp and by all accounts exist entirely as warp stuff, this poses the potential that the tyranids, if they wanted to, have a method to permanently kill demons. Imagine the damage this could do if they got those blueprints over to Kronos. Regular chaos L.
PnW could make a video on the inner workings of a 4 slot toaster and still find a way to glaze elves
So a Mechanicus video?
Wraith constructs can be a perfect example of angle of examination. They can be both Noble and Grimdark at the same time. It is true that they have to battle until they get utterly annihilated, but they also fight to protect innocent people and to save lives with their sacrifices. As they are wont to say in ... Unification or DoW 3 or something: "We have died so others wouldn't need to die (needlessly)". Could this be said about Dreadnoughts? Eh ... different circumstances create different outcomes.
They are quite fascinating. One of my favorite parts of Eldar.
The Dagoth Ur joke got a chuckle out of me. Almost enough to make up for the eldar induced pain I suffered watching this.
Last time i was this early to a Pancreas video Warhammer Fantasy didn't explode yet
I think D-weapon are meant to be 'metaphysical' weapons, as crazy as it sound: it rips apart the fabric of reality and doesn't just destroy the soul, it also destroy the very conceptual existence of a soulless entity, ranging from its programming to whatever animating force it has. Including daemons which are probably just unmade and re absorbed into the warp's overall whole.
that would make sense. i don't think the eldar would ever invent a weapon that couldn't be used against the necrons.
You see me now, a veteran
Of a thousand psychic wars
I've been living on the edge so long
Where the winds of limbo roar
And I'm young enough to look at
And far too old to see
All the scars are on the inside
I'm not sure if there's anything left of me
Wraithlords are sick. Before the start of the heresy one of them was keeping up with and slapping around Fulgrim until he got a
power boost from the Slaneeshi Deamon hiding in his sword.
The penis sword…
I love how aggressively Irish they went with the names for stuff in the Eldar, and yet they continuously give them British accents.
Give me elven sounding elves darnit.
i heard someone at GW state a long time ago that most of the craftworld and eldar names were inspired by the welsh language. maybe it's both, i just remember reading that a few decades ago.
@@commentingisdangerous7530 It would make sense, given the welsh's proclivity to engage in Slaaneshesque taboo relations with the agricultural products.
@@commentingisdangerous7530 well Scáthach (pronounced Scah-hah) is literally a Scottish warrior/Irish martial arts teacher who trained the Irish hero Cú Chulainn, Commorragh could be Welsh, but looks and sounds _very_ Irish as far as pronunciation and spelling goes…
It honestly could be a mixture of all kinds of Celtic lore. I wouldn’t be surprised if it truly was a mishmash of all kinds of Anglo-Saxon culture.
At first, I misread this title as "The Meatriding never ends".
I mean...yeah?
To my knowledge drukari don't use wraiths.
I will always see Wraiths as the Eldar going:
‘Hey gramps we need you to do your duty. Death isn’t an excuse! Now get in the robot!’
Sooooo, who’s going to tell him that the spiritseer actually gives the unit lethal hits and a +1 to hit? Also having watched further you can’t revive if it’s only the spiritseer left, as the spirit seer is now its own unit.
Nothing better than going to sleep, getting some lore on IV straight to brain while doing it.
"Mods, crush his Spirit Stone. Thank you."
At 7:59 , the statement: "...Because it rips your body out of your soul, and throws it into the warp!" completely sent me. I've been cackling about it for entirely too long now.
i can confirm i do use your videos to sleep when ever i cant fall asleep i will put one of your videos on
I love when pancreas posts a eldar video. It means i fall to sleep even quicker. Space elf lover
People say Idoneth are like Underwater Drukhari. But they are more like Craftworlders and Wood Elves. Isolationists who live close to their natural enviroment, go on wild hunts and store the souls of their dead in special stones (chorrals) to avoid Slaanesh eating them.
With this said having Treekin/Wraithguard in the form of singular Idoneth souls possing chorral bodies would be cool. It even has a precedent in AoS The demigods of Mathlann are many dead souls taking a single corporeal form after all.
8:00 Don’t you just hate it when your body gets ripped out of your soul & tossed into the Warp, and you’re just left as a disembodied soul wandering the battlefield with nothing to do? 🙃
Always nice to see one of my favorite pre-servitors post a video.
I think somewhere in the galaxy a Wraith is talking to a Necron about their bosses not letting them sleep.
*Waithguard* "it takes more than killing me, to beat me"
1:21 “No shade, I do it too.”
PNW loses sleep (& nutrition) while working on his videos. Gets it back while listening to the final product. Nice. 👍
Bro's using the fnaf army
I see Eldar video: I click, I watch and I like. Simple as.
one thing i wish we got as a unit is, what happens when a bonesinger, someone who can generate and control wraithbone, becomes a wraith, a being made entirely of wraithbone, if anyone played lancer im imagining an eldar balor, a nigh unkillable regenerating mass in the rough shape of a person who doesent so much have a weapon as pieces of itself it extends to tear its opponents apart from within
15:43 I hate to be that guy pancreas but the leader rules state that "Each time the last model in a Bodyguard unit is destroyed, each CHARACTER unit that is part of that Attached unit is no longer part of an Attached unit. It becomes a separate unit, with its original Starting Strength. If this happens as the result of an attack, they become separate units after the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks." This would mean that you sadly can't pull such chicanery. I'm not a dickhead I swear I'm just looking out for fair play.
Pancreas probably doesn't play many Necron players.
God I need some trailer for an Eldar video game were it starts with the death of an eldar, them being turned into a soul stone, and then that soul stone promptly being put into a wraith guard that starts ripping and tearing all with mechanicus game level grim dark music playing in the background.
Small rules correction, the seer revive no longer works if the wraith unit is destroyed. From that point on the seer counts as it's own unit.
Apologies if im not understanding a simple thing, but this basically means that if you have lost your last wraith in a unit with a seerer leading it or attached to it you no longer can revive the wraiths but if there is a wraith left of the three you can revive the other two?. Sorry in super new to the weird way the rules are written.
@RageDuck0 you can revive 1 model per turn in your command phase. If they kill the whole squad then that's it tho, no more reviving.
@@RageDuck0 When your Bodyguard unit is destroyed, your character become a new unit. So if there's still one wraithguard, you can revive 1. If there's 0, you don't have a unit of wraithguards anymore, you have a unit of one spiritseer, not leading anyone.
For the same reason, the Spiritseer lose the Lethal Hits and +1 to hit of Spiritmark when his bodyguard is destroyed.
Ain’t gonna lie, your videos have helped me sleep on deployment. Love the vids even when I’m not sleeping, thanks for all the great lore this year!
13:20 - Am I reading Spirit Mark wrong? Just from what's on the screen, it doesn't require Lethal Hits, it provides it. "Weapons in that unit have the [Lethal Hits] ability and. . ."
Pancreas is reading Spirit Mark wrong ^^
You know you're the only Iyanden player in your local community when. . . 😆
He isn't reading it wrong necessarily, it's written in a way where there's two ways of interpreting the meaning.
That said, from context the correct meaning is the one that goes like you say it does, because why else would that ability be there.
@@Zwijger No, there is no other interpretation. "Weapons in that unit have Lethal Hits and +1 to hit", there is no condition, except leading the unit.
To have your interpretation the wording would be "Weapons in that unit, that have the Lethal Hits ability, have +1 to hit".
Nah, he's just reading it as "units THAT have [Lethal Hits]" which is an easy mistake to make and one that doesn't get caught when you're the only person in your local group playing that army. I saw it that way on first read but the "and" gave me pause to double check.
Fun question: what potential plot lines could GW do for the eldar And for them to be relevant
My idea : cegorach Casually Holding a soul stone that has guilliman mom Soul in it
I'd rather not have GW write a story of the Ultramarines killing the last Eldar god personally.
@@deathnotehell1I thought of eldar and human Alliance
didn't his mom get killed by a primarch ?
@@isuckatusernames4297 Maybe. There's also an audio drama where she dies on a ship after live support fails. She did tell Curze off when he tried to kill her though which was hilarious.
Honestly, I feel Ynnead should have just woken up. But instead of Rofflestomping Slanesh it’s a more prolonged war. The main accomplishment is that now the Eldar have just a bit of breathing room. Maybe their psychers are allowed to actually do something cool more often because Slanesh isn’t constantly trying to eat up their soul. Insert some Eldar vague BSery that we’re all used to. Slanesh was instant, but Ynnead is a story in the making.
Here's to hoping for Harlequin and Skaven Deep Dives down the road🤞🏾🤞🏾
Also merry christmas Pancreas❤️
Put old Eldar next to Macross/Zentradii stuff. Parallels are obvious. The fun question is whether GW found out about it directly or if their newly made US branch saw what FASA was up to.😊
Saying ElfPancreasNoWork is running out of elf related content is wild when you remember he hasn't talk about elves in OTHER franchises.
4:04 hey now, the emperor’s faithful get to go to imperial heaven
9:19
Me dusting off my Dark Angels: so...
How many plasma shots can they take? My dwarves are still needing to be built and painted
“Even in death, you serve? That’s cute. You still have half your body! *I DON’T EVEN HAVE THAT!!* 😡”
Pank i watch 40% of ur vids than the average subscriber. Because you help me work
Thanks for all the video this year! I mean a lot of them where eldar but its the thought that counts!
I bought a couple of those Raycon’s, Pancreas. They are amazing! Thanks for the discount
I’m still sad that there are no psychic dreadnoughts because everyone didn’t like Magnus when he gave it to them all.
Fell asleep listening to a Halo video and woke up a Warhammer fan
Ah yes, Wraithguards and Wraithblades, the most interesting Eldar units.
What's so interesting? Two things:
1)eldar claim to be a dying race, but they send their teens to die in meat waves as guardians so that already dead can have a few more hours in their VR simulation. These guys actually go to fight to save the future of their race;
2)they're eldar supersoldiers. Technically they're giant robots being driven by mind upload, but they're infantry so yeah, they count. Why is that important? Supersoldiers are unique qaulity of humanity in 40k. Eldar and orks don't design better being, they're naturally so far above us that all they need is to train and become older. Tau, necrons and leagues just bypass the idea with diversified equipment. But humans? Humans looked at eldar speed and ork strength and thought, "yeah, we should create a massive dude who can barely be able to fight those in a fair fight". And we did for some reason. It wasn't a greatest idea and we were the only one dumb enough to try, but here we are...
And these guys are de facto filling that role for eldar.
So yeah, love them, the only eldar units that make sense, are cool in lore and hope we've seen more of them.
Drukhari have super soliders too, what do you think the Haemonculi are doing? Sure, their supersoldiers are made with the flesh of other races, but still ^^
@@krankarvolund7771 ah, someone remembers that eldar-human hybrids are still canon thanks to inhumane drukhari experiments with a stapler and glue...
@@TheArklyte I was thinking about the Grotesques and other Drukhari monstrosities XD
This comment warms what's left of my heart
Eldar one of my favorite faction they really need a new story give those aspect that have no lore finally come out and having a story
I’m a big fan, pancreas no work! I’ve been watching your videos for a few years and turning the sound off and watching the images change has lulled me to sleep many a times! Words cannot express how important these images are for my physique and mental health!
I don't use your videos for sleep, but it's not because your voice is unpleasant or something, on the contrary, it is actually super pleasant.
The problem is, I can't fall asleep because I end up laughing at your jokes so much my body starts aching. 😅❤
Thank you PancreasNoWork for making this 16 hour car ride possible. Couldn’t have done it without you.
I am happy for new eldar video
Ironically , those things would be immune to the flood from halo
Merry Christmas PancreaticNoWork!
I needed another elf/space elf lore fix! Thank you.
maybe im insane but your videos are great unintentional asmr. sounds like im listening to a conversation. not audio peaks. merry christmas!
I'd like one of those Wraith Knights. Never knew they existed till this video.
There you go again Pancreas. Slowly turning me into a Space Elves fan.
I deliberately took time to delay watching this until it would end right after 2025 started on the East Coast. Thanks for being a weekly-ish ritual for me this past year or so.
I have a Wraithknight that I proxy as a Knight Gallant for my Imperial Knights army. The best part of having an entirely mech-based army is that you can basically treat them like a D&D party, with all the idiosyncratic bullshit that comes with it.
Just started an Iyanden wraith host thanks to this channel :)
0:58 Except Settra, of course
You don’t need lethal hits for the spiritseer ability to work the ability itself gives you lethal hits.
When you "think" you're out of elf lore to talk about, que other settings elf lore because jokes on you, there is never enough elf simping...
The pointy eared space twinks do have this going for them, Wraiths are dope. That's *with* them having a bowling pin for a head
At this point, I'm hoping you find a way to sneak Settra into every single one of your videos.
Wraith constructs are my favourite Eldar unit too, with Wraithguard right at the top. First encounter with them was in Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising. In the multiplayer, their voice presence made me think they were some sort of ethereal being choosing to exist for the moment to kick ass (I knew sod-all about Warhammer 40k as a whole in my youth so I never really clocked what they were, I figured they were dudes in armour like the rest of the Eldar.)
Still have yet to play the tabletop, but my models of Wraith constructs outweigh my flesh-and-blood Eldar in both headcount and sheer tonnage. Got a Knight, so many Blades, a few Guard, a Lord and even a damn Seer. Not painted up in canon craftworld colours though (except for an Ulthwe one I painted on accident) - headcanon for My Dudes is that whoever becomes a Wraith construct chooses to do so for their own reasons, and the Craftworld respects them immensely since they're giving up the peace of death to run the risk of life once more. And rather than wear the Craftworld's colours, each Wraith gets a unique paintjob of their choosing (which is totally not my excuse for using Wraithguard/blades as a testbed for any patterns or designs I want to test out first because I think they're really easy to paint and really fun to assemble and paint besides).
I think I have about 30 mixed Guard and Blades at this point.
Edit: I did not know the Skathatch existed until now but now I want one
Bro looks like the grunt spec ops with that sleep mask on 😂
1:48 why does Pancreas look like a short haired Silent Bob
WOOOOOOO MORE ELF SIMPING LES GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
YOU DIDN'T RUN OUT AFTERALL!!!
The music at the last gave me a vivid flash back omg im old
Just in case you didn't realise, the spiritseer gives the Wraith units both lethal hits & +1 to hit. So it isn't that you need lethal hits to get the +1 to hit, you just get both lethal hits & +1 to hit.
It has now changed in the Eldar codex
2 minor corrections.
The spirit seer does not need the wraith unit to HAVE lethal hits to give the unit +1 to hit. It gives the unit lethal hits AND +1.
“While this model is leading a unit weapons in that unit HAVE the lethal hits ability.”
And when the unit a character is attached to dies that unit still dies, medics (such as apothecaries, plague surgeons, spirit seers, etc.) cannot continue to revive those units.
It’s the same reason that if you kill both units for an objective you get points for killing two units.
That rule gives lethals to the unit and plus one to hit, works great and you cannot resurrect a unit that is entirely destroyed
Yes, yes, add the "Akulakhan Wraithknight conversion" to the pile of things I have need of.
'...The machines moved slowly, as if time ran differently for them. Boltgun rounds smacked into them, but failed to penetrate. Together, the ghost machines raised their weapons. ‘Take cover!’ shouted Galt. He and his veterans were familiar with the deadly effects of wraithcannon fire. The guns were silent. A black orb appeared on Verderio’s chest. He glanced down at it, and died. Verderio collapsed in on himself, pulled toward the ball of unlight. His armour shattered with a deafening crack. Blood sprayed in all directions as his body imploded. The Sternguard went for cover, keeping up fire as they went. The machines were slow, but their shots many. They tore chunks from the battle-scarred bridge. Dozens of bolt rounds spattered off them without harm, a few exploding when they ricocheted and buried themselves in the fabric of the chamber. Throughout it all the ghost machines made not a single sound. The Space Marines were fighting the dead. Galt watched from behind a fallen spar. The roaring of flames from the adjoining room had become louder, punctuated by the crashing of falling chunks of wraithbone. He had to end this now. He waited until the wraithguard were facing away from him, ready to exploit their poor reactions. ‘For Honourum! For Corvo! For the Oath!’ he cried, and ran full tilt at the eldar machines. He slammed into one, jarring his own body. It staggered back from the force of his impact. The second registered his presence, and brought its deadly rifle to bear. The machines overtopped him by thirty centimetres or more, slender giants. Galt looked into the long, cold face of the thing’s helmet. His own was reflected in the gloss of its surface. Galt swung his power sword with all his might, the crackling edge of it slamming into the bulbous end of the ghost warrior’s cannon. The strange alloys of it split. He stepped back and brought the sword down again, severing the end of the gun from the stock. The wraithguard dropped the shattered weapon, and made a clumsy lunge for him. He sidestepped, sweeping his sword around toward the leg of the first wraithguard, now recovered from Galt’s charge. The sword dug deep into the back of its knee. The construct rounded on him, gun coming toward his head. Galt wrenched at his power sword, the tug of it coming free sending him backwards. He regained his guard in time to stare right down the muzzle of the wraithguard’s gun. And then Aster was there, followed by Gorfillio, advancing on the dais. Their guns spoke, and now the bolts buried themselves deep. Galt’s charge had bought the Sternguard time to change their magazines for those holding vengeance rounds, the unstable fusion cores of these bolts allowing them to penetrate the thick armour of the constructs. Even so, such was the density of the materials used to make the wraithguard that evidence for the explosions of the rounds within was but a splintering upon the surface. The ghost machines did not react as living beings would. They were neither knocked back by the rounds nor did they convulse. They simply stopped; one remained standing, becoming the statue the Space Marines had originally taken it for, the fingers of one hand splayed to grab at Galt. The other folded in on itself and sank to the floor. ‘Thank you, my brothers,’ said Galt. He deactivated his sword, and went to retrieve his helmet. As he went he called up the embarkation deck flight control of Novum in Honourum ‘This is Captain Galt,’ he said. ‘Immediate retrieval required. We are done here. Imperator vincit omnis. One casualty, Brother Verderio. Inform the infirmary and Chaplain Odon. We commend his soul to the Emperor.’ - Nova Marines under the command of Brother Captain Mantillio Galt vs Wraithguard[circa, 887.M39] - "Death of Integrity" - Guy Haley
20:45 I couldn't help but laugh at the reference.
Wraithknight is so gorgeous. I hope in the codex GW will make several different knight profiles for different weapons with different prices. Because my favorite combo is sword and shield, but this is literally a avatar of Khaine for 495 points
"Welcome back to the land of the living. Now, pick up a shovel and start digging!!"
- Craftworld Proverb
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Wraith guard is a unit just look amazing their skull is so smooth and so different from anything else that GW makes that I just love them
Sucks that you can't paint them with anything other than an airbrush but still they're the reason I invested in an elder army and an airbrush
The scheme I'm going to do is black and white with the main armor panels being cyan
The design for the wraiths weirdly always remind me of the art style of sym-bionic titan
Don't worry, he'll start next year with a new Elf video.
My headcannon for why wraithblades are so angry is; when they come back to life they see their husband/wife with their sister/brother or best friend.