One cutscene in Heroes of might and Magic 5 always brings Dark Eldar to mind it was a Dungeon (Dark Elf) villain telling his subordinate something like: "I'm in a mood to celebrate! Fetch me a slave, and towels for the blood."
It was my first Codex as well! Reminds me of the smell of plastic glue and the sweet sounds of Vengaboys as I got frustrated with the spindly arms of the old Warrior box. Good times.
They were my secondary army after my beloved 3e and 3.5 ed chaos (remember kids: if it has a 3rd and a 3.5 edition, it's the best thing ever). They were an impossibly difficult army to play and every single choice to the last item counted and had to be part of a plan. Said this, the update made some difference, I wouldn't despise it.
The "gruesome trophies" rule does seem a bit funny at first, given that at least three other races like displaying heads or skulls (of their enemies, in the case of Orks and Chaos, or their heros in the case of the Imperium). But i suppose it makes sense - a throne made out of a mountain of skulls is badass. A throne made out of a mountain of fingers would just be creepy and weird.
I know my limits, and that is 31 shots of wiskey. I almost went above that after doing a marathon of these episodes. Pray for my liver, im stoping here.
Are you guys going to do another video on the 1st Ed "Rogue Trader" book? I recently got a copy of ebay, and there are still a lot of interesting/bizarre/stupid things to cover. (Like the planet Birmingham, and the Space Wolves chaptermaster being a Lord Lucan).
Or as I put it to someone at GW once as I was building my DE army list in 6th "They drink the tears of children" one of the managers looked at me funny as did the person I was explaining it too "What? you asked me about the different between Eldar and Dark Eldar" was my reply.
I have a simlar experience with the DE codex. I started in highschool, around 98/99, Dark Eldar were the new hotness in the 3ed box set, the lore, imagery and proliferation of Space marines and the Imperium in general drove me into the clutches of the Xenos so much that I struck a deal with 3 friends that wanted to play: split a box with me, you get the ass-tard-es, rule book dice, templates and rulers. I get vampire pirate space elves and terrain. I ended up with 30 warriors around 10 wyches converted from the female and light armor bitz, add in a metal Archon [converted to have a splinter rifle because I was bad at 40k and thought models with 3+ wounds and attacks should be able to stay 12+" away and throw s3 spitballs...] and a raider and I had~ 1,000 points of bolter splatter [having made 3 opponents whose BoG standard troops choice is a hard counter to everything in my army that costs less than 100pts... The store we played/shopped at [a model store whose owner insisted that Lionel trains were his bread & butter when the only non-GW thing he had to restock was brushes and glue...] closed around 2003, the actual GW store being a 2 hour train ride away and work/school responsibilities broke the group up [~1500 Dark Eldar, 1,000 Dark Angels with a baneblade..., 3k+ Dark Angels, 1000 Blood Angels, 500 Eldar, ~250 Sisters Of Battle and 2500+ Hive Fleet Behemoth]. I picked it up again when a friend's store shifted from MTG and video games to MTG and GW around 2010, the end of 4e. I rejoiced at the 4.5e codex that removed the need for special characters to have melee troops, gave veteran versions of wyches and warriors and made splinter weapons suck less. I got back into it so heavily that my 1500 [damaged down to almost 1000 from poor storage and moving] swelled to 3k with points bloat [every vehicle and wargear choice, my shooty warriors were close to Land Raider price]... just enough to enter MWG's first Apocalypticon [the 500k one, I'm the DE player that deep striked my entire army [ok the wyches and incubi used the webway...] and didn't get tabled. More moving damage [some caused by customs not allowing me to close my own case, broke almost an entire squad] and Harlequins [and later Ynnarri and Corsairs] becoming a thing I now have 4-5 1000-1500 detachments: Killer Klowns [Death jester heavy Quins], Edgey Vamps [Poisoned Tongue] , Irate Pirates [Duke Sliscus Sky serpents], Crak-Worlders [Ynnarri lead byAhrha an incubus converted Karandras using Vysarch rules] and EDC Fight Club [Wych cult of 7th Woe]
Oh my. You have awoken some memories related to the era of that Codex... one of the best must be this one fan made "Family Guy 40,000" parody comic where they plainly had Dark Eldars squela how their Codex WILL get it's update... fun stuff, fun stuff... xD
One of the codices I remember well. They were always kind of mysterious as they hadn't had a chunky 2nd edition codex to provide fluff. From what I remember there was a story in White Dwarf 241 that went into a bit more detail, or heavily hinuted at the relationship between Slaneesh and the DE. But they really ended up one of those abandoned armies, like SoB throughout much of the 2000s. It feels like it's only in recent years that GW have realised that people actually want variety and exploring different aspects of the universe like back in RT days.
THE DARK ELDAR WERE ALSO MY FIRST ARMY, MY MOM WAS ALSO WEIRDED OUT! MY CODEX IS IN WORSE CONDITION TOO HAHA YOU GOT YOURSELF A LIFETIME SUBSCRIBER!!! BEEN LOVING YOUR CODEX COMPLAINT SERIES, ITS SO NOSTALGIC AHHHHH (sorry for the all caps .... my cat I dont own stepped on the keyboard) lol
I like to imagine the magneto directional impulse spine is kind of like having a cat that is also a gun. When it battle it revs up like its hissing and draws itself toward enemies and after the raids it softly purrs while being caressed by its dark eldar master for a job well-done.
my favorite part of that book, is the hermonculi (sp?) qoute "you know, you really should be grateful, you will feel so much cooler once I have removed all of your skin"
I found it very funny at the time that Scourges were basically useless, as they had jump packs, but used heavy weapons...so had to miss a turn of shooting if they moved, which you wanted them to...
Unbeatable evil space elves. Facing a horde army, splinter cannons. Facing a tough army, dark lances. Facing a fast army, they're not as fast as you. They were massively unbalance, thank god the minis where so ugly or everyone would be playing them.
My first army I played against my brother on our dining room table. I've got an entire collection of 3rd edition codex collection and still playing 3rd today. 3rd edition just hits different.
This was my first ever codex. Thanks for those memories. (I've actually recently stripped Kruellagh to repaint with a touch more technique than when I bought her.) You've got a new subscriber!
Trayzn wasn’t in the 3rd edition codex though, he was introduced later when the Necrons were revamped from an army of Space terminators led by some cosmic gods to an army of Space tomb Kings that enslaved some gods. This massive change from the original fluff made some people angry though.
The second editon version was my favorite codex. Dark eldar was my favorite army alongside eldar. The original Talos scorpion model was just awesome, i feel like they went a step back with the newer model for it.
Another great video. As far as the codex goes... I'm sorry but I can't imagine Gruesome Talismans freaking out a Bloodletter, or ANY daemon for that matter.
Y’know… all this talk of a city rife with sin and depravity makes me imagine a 40k rendition of Batman. (Whom I’ve already kinda written and drawn up.)
One cutscene in Heroes of might and Magic 5 always brings Dark Eldar to mind it was a Dungeon (Dark Elf) villain telling his subordinate something like: "I'm in a mood to celebrate! Fetch me a slave, and towels for the blood."
Bruva Alfabusa sees to do that Dark Eldar voice a bit too well......
Just try not to meet him in a dark alley...
Oculas2003 at the very least too enthusiastically.
it's been decided. wib will voice all deamonettes from now on .
But there are no deamonettes in the game.
Spacefrisian ??? Slaanesh doesn't have their deamons anymore ???
No chaos god in 40k has deamons
@@Spacefrisian are you high?
@@flamekaizer8476 No i have the cover of the codex in front of me.
I am Mr. Decapitator! And this is my friend, who is also Decapitator.
One of them took the other's name after they married.
Hi, I'm Rod and I like to decapitate
Decapiception!
That's...Stupid. (Also you're not Morty. Take me to Morty.)
And my hobby is cutting hands off
The Dark Eldar are not nice, not nice at all - Best Army Description
Sounds like something Rogal would say
Gav Thorpe, all hail the spikiness! Writing about all those Dark Eldar must be what caused his hair to look like that in the 90s.
Alfabusa sexy voice is like a light of thousand suns shining on my pale skin,
Like a thousand menial urchins going at a sack of potatoes?
I read both in Corax's voice.
It is quite sensual
The Dark Eldar are not nice. NOT. NICE. AT ALL.
"Life in the 41st millenium is hard"
They'll certainly be getting coal in their Christmas stockings.
I remember one of the books where they stripped someone down to the nerves and hung them from the ceiling. And the dude was still alive!
I will use a word I dont use often, dark eldar are....mean
I’d still hit
Love the use of the dual shock Resident Evil music for Alfa's quote reading. XD
It was my first Codex as well! Reminds me of the smell of plastic glue and the sweet sounds of Vengaboys as I got frustrated with the spindly arms of the old Warrior box. Good times.
I love how they're the most stupidly gothic thing ever, and this is coming from a ten-years Imperial player.
I'd say more emo goth
They were my secondary army after my beloved 3e and 3.5 ed chaos (remember kids: if it has a 3rd and a 3.5 edition, it's the best thing ever).
They were an impossibly difficult army to play and every single choice to the last item counted and had to be part of a plan.
Said this, the update made some difference, I wouldn't despise it.
it was said that the dark Eldar stole 24 cakes, that's as much as 2 dozen and that's just terrible.
The "gruesome trophies" rule does seem a bit funny at first, given that at least three other races like displaying heads or skulls (of their enemies, in the case of Orks and Chaos, or their heros in the case of the Imperium).
But i suppose it makes sense - a throne made out of a mountain of skulls is badass. A throne made out of a mountain of fingers would just be creepy and weird.
And uncomfortable to sit on, I'd imagine... :P
@@freakishuproar1168 Great for massages, though
An entire race of Dio Brandos with way too many kinks.
The real one or the anime one?
@@DarkLordOfSweden the anime one
WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Kink shame them with cyclone torpedoes
@@DarkLordOfSweden What do you mean by "real" Dio Brando?
That Heckin' Jeffer and his goth poetry. Never a minute of peace with that guy around.
Edgy bois
The Edgedari
Hey, at latest Vect was playable character back then.
Also: wow! I never thought you could have been Druchadi player
I know my limits, and that is 31 shots of wiskey.
I almost went above that after doing a marathon of these episodes. Pray for my liver, im stoping here.
Are you guys going to do another video on the 1st Ed "Rogue Trader" book? I recently got a copy of ebay, and there are still a lot of interesting/bizarre/stupid things to cover. (Like the planet Birmingham, and the Space Wolves chaptermaster being a Lord Lucan).
Technically, Birmingham is still canon. It's in the fifth edition rulebook.
Birmingham is a planet, Hull and Milton Keynes are completely different dimensions entirely!
@@teecefamilykent At least that's how Londoners feel about them.
congrats wib! you have become inquistor obiwan sherlock glousso, ive seen tts.
"I want grenades" , "regular grenades". "NO YOU FOOL GRENADES THAT INSPIRE NIGHTMARES", but "Regular grenades do inspire nightmares..."
Or as I put it to someone at GW once as I was building my DE army list in 6th "They drink the tears of children" one of the managers looked at me funny as did the person I was explaining it too "What? you asked me about the different between Eldar and Dark Eldar" was my reply.
This video was so good but too short, can't wait for more, your content is great.
What timing, I just started putting together a small Dark Eldar force the other day! Excellent video as always!
I remember my friend playing Dark Eldar and he had that old codex... for what seemed an eternity.
I love this Codex, and I love those goofy spiky OTT Dark Eldar. Thanks for covering it so well.
I have a simlar experience with the DE codex. I started in highschool, around 98/99, Dark Eldar were the new hotness in the 3ed box set, the lore, imagery and proliferation of Space marines and the Imperium in general drove me into the clutches of the Xenos so much that I struck a deal with 3 friends that wanted to play: split a box with me, you get the ass-tard-es, rule book dice, templates and rulers. I get vampire pirate space elves and terrain.
I ended up with 30 warriors around 10 wyches converted from the female and light armor bitz, add in a metal Archon [converted to have a splinter rifle because I was bad at 40k and thought models with 3+ wounds and attacks should be able to stay 12+" away and throw s3 spitballs...] and a raider and I had~ 1,000 points of bolter splatter [having made 3 opponents whose BoG standard troops choice is a hard counter to everything in my army that costs less than 100pts...
The store we played/shopped at [a model store whose owner insisted that Lionel trains were his bread & butter when the only non-GW thing he had to restock was brushes and glue...] closed around 2003, the actual GW store being a 2 hour train ride away and work/school responsibilities broke the group up [~1500 Dark Eldar, 1,000 Dark Angels with a baneblade..., 3k+ Dark Angels, 1000 Blood Angels, 500 Eldar, ~250 Sisters Of Battle and 2500+ Hive Fleet Behemoth]. I picked it up again when a friend's store shifted from MTG and video games to MTG and GW around 2010, the end of 4e.
I rejoiced at the 4.5e codex that removed the need for special characters to have melee troops, gave veteran versions of wyches and warriors and made splinter weapons suck less. I got back into it so heavily that my 1500 [damaged down to almost 1000 from poor storage and moving] swelled to 3k with points bloat [every vehicle and wargear choice, my shooty warriors were close to Land Raider price]... just enough to enter MWG's first Apocalypticon [the 500k one, I'm the DE player that deep striked my entire army [ok the wyches and incubi used the webway...] and didn't get tabled.
More moving damage [some caused by customs not allowing me to close my own case, broke almost an entire squad] and Harlequins [and later Ynnarri and Corsairs] becoming a thing I now have 4-5 1000-1500 detachments: Killer Klowns [Death jester heavy Quins], Edgey Vamps [Poisoned Tongue] , Irate Pirates [Duke Sliscus Sky serpents], Crak-Worlders [Ynnarri lead byAhrha an incubus converted Karandras using Vysarch rules] and EDC Fight Club [Wych cult of 7th Woe]
My first Codex Was actually the 5th Edition space marine Codex. You know, THAT Codex, the wardiest of them All. Still have it too :3
Just found my old 1st edition Dark Eldar codex and had to rewatch your video. Good times!
I literally can't listen to the Resident Evil basement theme without hearing "You are doomed... DOOMED I tell you!"
I love how edgy the Dark Eldar were back then, I could always get a good laugh from the quotes.
and like any edgy nerd, they lacked the punch to support their edginess...
Lovely meeting you both today.
I freaking love this series!!!! Greetings from your Finnish fans!
Oh my.
You have awoken some memories related to the era of that Codex... one of the best must be this one fan made "Family Guy 40,000" parody comic where they plainly had Dark Eldars squela how their Codex WILL get it's update... fun stuff, fun stuff... xD
I love this series. Always a joy to watch.
One of the codices I remember well. They were always kind of mysterious as they hadn't had a chunky 2nd edition codex to provide fluff. From what I remember there was a story in White Dwarf 241 that went into a bit more detail, or heavily hinuted at the relationship between Slaneesh and the DE. But they really ended up one of those abandoned armies, like SoB throughout much of the 2000s. It feels like it's only in recent years that GW have realised that people actually want variety and exploring different aspects of the universe like back in RT days.
Loved that Firefly reference
THE DARK ELDAR WERE ALSO MY FIRST ARMY, MY MOM WAS ALSO WEIRDED OUT! MY CODEX IS IN WORSE CONDITION TOO HAHA YOU GOT YOURSELF A LIFETIME SUBSCRIBER!!! BEEN LOVING YOUR CODEX COMPLAINT SERIES, ITS SO NOSTALGIC AHHHHH (sorry for the all caps .... my cat I dont own stepped on the keyboard) lol
Loving this series and wallowing in all my 3rd Edition nostalgia!
@matt ward and snipe, this was my first codex too! So much nostalgia
I like to imagine the magneto directional impulse spine is kind of like having a cat that is also a gun. When it battle it revs up like its hissing and draws itself toward enemies and after the raids it softly purrs while being caressed by its dark eldar master for a job well-done.
my favorite part of that book, is the hermonculi (sp?) qoute "you know, you really should be grateful, you will feel so much cooler once I have removed all of your skin"
I found it very funny at the time that Scourges were basically useless, as they had jump packs, but used heavy weapons...so had to miss a turn of shooting if they moved, which you wanted them to...
Naw man, it was like give them 4 splinter canons and bring them in on reserves and light up a squad of enemies hanging out in the backfield.
Unbeatable evil space elves. Facing a horde army, splinter cannons. Facing a tough army, dark lances. Facing a fast army, they're not as fast as you. They were massively unbalance, thank god the minis where so ugly or everyone would be playing them.
My first army I played against my brother on our dining room table. I've got an entire collection of 3rd edition codex collection and still playing 3rd today. 3rd edition just hits different.
All those quotes deserve to be read in a Vincent Price voice 😄
Having watched all your vids todate this remains my favorite episode
This was my first ever codex. Thanks for those memories. (I've actually recently stripped Kruellagh to repaint with a touch more technique than when I bought her.)
You've got a new subscriber!
My god, it's just like high school. Complete with weird goths and mean girl quotes.
Gothic Armarda 2's got that Necron collector fellow in it. Maybe the next Codex Compliant could be the Necrons, I'm kinda curious about him.
TRAZYN the INFINITE, best necron ever
Trayzn wasn’t in the 3rd edition codex though, he was introduced later when the Necrons were revamped from an army of Space terminators led by some cosmic gods to an army of Space tomb Kings that enslaved some gods.
This massive change from the original fluff made some people angry though.
I loved this codex. it was also my first 40k Army. shortly before the armageddon campaign, i switched to black templar.
I love these videos!! Thank you so much for the great content and amazing nostalgia :) This was my first codex too :)
It is so strange when you still play DoW1 and see the updated model of the hell talon.
I just got some today. Awesome!
Nice that you got Alfabusa to voice in your video. ;D
6:27
I expect this to get a TTS reference sooner or later
*sniff* Charles was the best damn plague marine I ever knew and his split pea soup was exemplary.
That music during the quotes was super spoopy
yay another video!
The Alfa Buss reads edge lore snippets to anyone that has eaten Swedish food. I don't see why you are surprised about this.
It was my first codex as well. And with the little update I won on local tournaments even in the 5th edition! That where the times...
i love this series u guys are the best
Seeing 3rd edition codex’s makes me feel both young and old at the the same time
I caught up with the drinking game. I went too hard in those few seconds. Vomitus ensued. 10/10 my being a fan for you increased great job.
These guys were my first army. I loved them until 4th edition when flyers no longer blocked line of sight. I started CSM at that point.
Do not talk bad about that puppy! He is a good boi!
The second editon version was my favorite codex. Dark eldar was my favorite army alongside eldar. The original Talos scorpion model was just awesome, i feel like they went a step back with the newer model for it.
i know right
This pales to rivals nostalgia critics steven king drinking game where you take a shot for seeing a a steven king trope in a steven king movie
yyyyyaaas a new codex compliant :)
Love the firefly reference
This was my first codex and first army.
From Edgy Dark Eldar to upbeat 8-bit music...
You know it's exactly what Vect blasts from the speakers on the Dais of Destruction. Vect loves him some chiptunes.
Good lord....2 and 3th Edition was so great.... 4th and 5th too!
Can you check the first imperial guard codex next?
"Cuz thats just the one what it is" Well at least I dont feel like your talking down to us!
When are you guys gunna take a gander at 2E Codex Chaos? The best Codex written.
Stellar outro music.
Your videos are great guys :)
oh hey, that was my first codex.
Just rewatched this and wanted to say I still piss my pants when I hear the redc music.
Another great video. As far as the codex goes... I'm sorry but I can't imagine Gruesome Talismans freaking out a Bloodletter, or ANY daemon for that matter.
This Dark Eldar was my first codex too!
I love this series you guys make great videos
Reminded me of the comical Dark Eldar voice acting from Dawn of War Soulstorm.
Christ Bruva is good at that voice.
"...and if you are lucky, they'll do it in that order..." 😘
Gotta love that reference :)
Still infinitely less cringe then a bunch of people in a store screaming waaaGGgHhhhh. That terror being wine bit still goes down well.
I am painting up a Dark Eldar kill team right now. I plan to torture my opponents with a couple of those quotes when I field them.
Y’know… all this talk of a city rife with sin and depravity makes me imagine a 40k rendition of Batman. (Whom I’ve already kinda written and drawn up.)
Could you talk about Grey Knights in the future?
But you should mention the 2nd edition, it fixed several of things (like adding Wychcults).
Every Dark Eldar quote sounds kinda like Mark Hamills' Joker.
Now I can't separate them in my head.
Fetch decapitater's decapitater
I feel for the livers of people participating in that game.
Nice Mimikyu at the back there
the first warhammer 40k minis i ever saw at a friends house all in glorious grey oc
Gather these quotes, write them on the sails of all your Raiders and Ravagers.
Oh Emperor, the edge...
No mention of the "Oopsie Doopsie Poopsie Accidental Invincible Lord" configuration?