I think it would make the stronghold more intimidating if instead of them being obviously surprised, there's like three separate forces, and you control one army at a time as they are decimated one by one, until finally you control your commander's army which manages to capture the Dark Eldar base.
@@resolutionblaze363 you do damage but it's mostly superficial maybe you level a sub base but you'll get swarmed fast then the commander leads the assault on the most isolated one now that all the units are away
Dark Eldar on Soulstorm: "Why are we even here? And why is our base placed near the fallen Mon'Keigh who will feed our souls to the God we have actively been avoiding for thousands of years!"
Archon: do not worry we keep a keen watch,if an army approach surly we will see it coming. Random Dark eldar trooper: My lord, the humans have flanked us with a hundred baneblades. Archon: WHAT!! How did they... CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
“What do you mean our prisoners don’t react to anything we do to them?” “You see, when we tried to stick them in the ass with a giant spike, they just shanked a scourge with it and strangled our haemonculi!”
It was obvious that Tahril wasn't going to win. I mean, he let a Haemonculus question him three times when any self-respecting Archon would outright KILL someone if they got even a single syllable wrong in their speech!
The Haemonculi are the life blood of Commoragh. Kill one, and you will suddenly find that they stop reviving you and your troops, and your souls are suddenly gonna get tortured forever because you also lost one of your main food sources
Simple : it is because the _Dark Eldar_ are scared of the Haemonculi Covens. Yes... The race that literally gets turned on by torture, rape, bdsm gladiatorial matches and occular fluids are _scared shitless_ of these weirdoes. And to give you a small example, there was a story where one haemonculus made _Night Lords_ inconfortable in the dark. Yes ! These guys made the _NIGHT LORDS_ afraid of the dark !! 8/
That's because Tahril's not an idiot. No relatively sane Archon would antagonize the Covens, let alone kill one of them. They would be tortured by Slaanesh for eternity as the Covens wouldn't resurrect them after death.
"These foolish armies know nothing of strategy! If an army approached, surely we would see it coming-WHOOPSIE DAISY, HALF OUR STRONGHOLD WAS TAKEN OVER BY GUARDSMEN AND WE DIDN'T NOTICE. TARILL, YOU FUCKING IDIOT, WHY DID YOU SET OUR HEADQUARTERS NEXT TO THE FALLEN MON'KAI?! They'll feed our souls to the dark god we've been actively trying to avoid for thousands of years! I FUCKING HATE YOU TARIIIIIILLLLL!" *gets shot down* "Well shit." -Thunderpsyker's review of Dawn of war soulstorm.
Just throw an Ork army at them. That "BS 'break the morale of everything on the map with a single shot' weapons." doesn't do a damn thing to those lovable big green git as once an Ork horde gets to a certain size it becomes immune to having it's moral damaged until the Ork horde shrinks too much. Watching their little Super-Moral-Killing weapon do bugger all against my horde as I overrun their crappy base is always so..... satisfying.
Soul cages dialogue during the Dark Eldar Stronghold: Imperial Guard Guardsman: Sir, there are four soul cages located in these areas. I believe something's weird is going on. Stubbs: We need to take them out fast or these aliens will use our souls to torture our men. Orks Nob: Boss, de'se dark pointy-ears are using soul cages to play us for the kill. Gorgutz: Dem Dark Eldar are using some kind of a machine to use our souls to eradicate us all. Stomp those soul cages, ya git! Necrons Necron Lord: These... Soul cages... Are... A... Nuisance... We will... Destroy... Them all. Chaos Carron: These soul cages! They will torture our souls if we don't take it out. Destroy them quickly! Space Marines Sergeant: Captain, we found four soul cages located in these designated areas. It appears the Dark Eldar will play us with our Brothers' souls. Boreale: Brothers, take out these cages to free ourselves from these depraved aliens. Tau Empire Fire Warrior Shas'Ui: Shas'O, our sensors found four soul cages. Each soul cage is emanated with different abilities. Or'es'Ka: Or maybe it's a manipulation from the Dark El'dar. We need to clear these cages before we can proceed. Eldar Seer Council: Farseer, the Dark Eldar have used soul cages to torture us for the final blow. Caerys: Tahril! I knew it! Destroy these cages to prevent these depraved fools from using our souls as their weapons. Sisters of Battle Veteran Superior: Canoness, the Dark Eldar have used the four soul cages to use its power to corrupt us. Agna: Sisters, we need to take out these soul cages if we can survive our crusade against these unclean aliens.
Tahril! You fucking idiot! Why would you position our headquarters right next to the fallen Mon'Keigh that'll feed our soul to the god we've been actively trying to avoid for thousands of years?! I fucking hate you Tahril! *boom*
Tahril's walk, I know SS was a lazy game, but it just exemplifies the "I'm greater than everyone and I know it" attitude the DE are known for. That being said, it probably isn't even intentional.
Just a thought, but with Necrons in the slave cages, why would Dark Eldar even consider taking Necrons captive? As far as I can tell, Necrons are useless to the Dark Eldar, being machines that don't show any emotion and, therefore, shouldn't respond to the torture. From a narrative perspective, this doesn't make any sense.
+TheScribeInYellow It also is questionable why Necron warriors have morale, but at the end of the day it's a game so there needs to be some balancing and remaking certain portions of these "cinematics" for some races would be a big job.
+Tickles Ticklerton No need to. The Dark Eldar put anything and everything in their arenas...Orks, Tyranids, Space Marines, Ogryns, you name it. All that matters is that it can put up a fight.
If the Dark Eldar bothered to use the mini webway gates the Eldar use, maybe Tahril would be telling the truth. Of course, when their enemies start using "strategy" instead of using typical Ork tactics, they are screwed since they mostly just have poorly-rounded weapons that can only lower morale. What would they do against Necrons?
KommissarReb thats not true, i have seen the eldar and the tau move off planet, the space marines just kinda sit there...and the orks are too busy getting killed by the marines
You know, there are many horrors in the WH40k universe, but the Dark Eldar just sicken me. I await the day when my Sisters of Battle will purge Lacunae in holy fire.
Gruemenael: Come Lord Tahril, watch, watch as I torture this foolish prisoner, let us see him bawl in pain! Tahril: Gruemenael.... That's a fucking Necron.
If only the game had banter like this. Fire Warrior: Commander, we have liberated some of our comrades. But so many of them are Oreska: By the Ethereal! Such mutilation is unheard of. Archon: Ah, I see you have discovered a hint of what awaits. Oreska: Your travesties have gone on long enough. Know that you have thrown away any luxury of mercy. Archon: My luxury is seeing you bent down in chains. Oreska: Ready whoever can still fight! I am confident they would want to enact retribution.
Like I said, a "stray" Tyranid bioship. As you know, 'nids can be seperated from the hive mind. The Shadow in the Warp only applies when there is an entire fleet present due to the sheer number of like minds.
That Dais Of Destruction is a pretty powerful vehicle. Nice ability it has. Other than that, the DE are really good with all their abilities they got when they have enough souls.
The Dai is quite easy to take down, assuming you don't suck. All you have to do is wait for it to come, then trap it (Various ways, eg. Curse of the Machine Spirit spam for Imperial Guard, line the way with Webway gates for Eldar, Deep Strike Terminators for Space Marines.) Hell, you can trap it in with your own men if you must, the simple fact that the objective drops by for a visit frequently makes this quite easy to win if you're strategically savvy.
@Fr0st1989 I don't think it can be, the cast was almost all comprised of Canadians and the actor you're thinking of was in LA. He would have been amazing as Drukhari voices though
Tau are represented in the Warp, but their signal is so small they are almost invisible to daemons (the Inquisitor handbook states so) and have great resistance to psychic powers affecting their minds. About the Tyranids, maybe a small bio-ship without a Norn Queen could be corrupted, but Tyranids are already controlled by some mysterious force. It is rumoured to be the Outsider, the 4º C'Tan. That would make corruption by Chaos almost unfeasible (although not totally impossible)
@InnocentDarkside Archon Tahril:......we would tear it into pieces. *Archon Tahril leaves* *Haemonculus desperately shakes Guardsman* Haemonculus: Wake up, wake up Guardsman, you must not die. You still have a timeshare to sell to me instead.
I know your comment is 8 years old, but I'll say it anyways. Gorgutz was canon according to DOW3...though I like to pretend DOW3 doesnt' exist. I agree that Boreale was a dipshit though. Biggest embarrassment of the Blud Rehvens followed by dumbass Diomedes and Kyras who as a librarian thinks it's a good idea to worship Khorne. I actually liked Davian Thule in Dark Crusade (even though they had the same VA in both). The Blood Ravens were at their best in the original DOW2 campaign with Commander Hairgel Aramus and the boys.
This is the most easiest faction to battle in Soulstorm; all you need to do is to take down Dais of Destruction. If Dais dies, you win against the Dark Eldar. But they are not pushovers, you need superior firepower against them. Note: Dais is said to be one of the oldest of the Dark Eldar, he was one of the few who founded their new home planet(could not spell it).
That is the reason why I actually HATE Dark Eldar... well I sometimes dislike Eldar a bit but Dark Eldar are far worse. They might be very intelligent, but they are so blind because of their endless disgustful arrogance, that they critically underestimate their foes... and that's why they are the big losers of the galaxy. That's why they get defeated sooner or later. No matter... Eldar or Dark Eldar, they are damned to die. xD I play the tabletop game and I really don't like to play against any of these two races because I do not like hideous and cowardly strategies. But this archon is narrow minded like all Dark Eldar >.< they hate honourable fights and they make fun of warlords who directly charge into battle being blind for possible traps. But they cannot fool Speess Mahreenz, they expect traps everywhere. Arrogance can make even the most intelligent individuals become stupid as shit like anger kills any intelligence. :D How can people actually like that bondage bukkake analsex double penetration lovers? :D
RavenWarrior90 I play elder on both dawn of war and table top. The way we play us calling “cunning strategy” you would lose very quickly with the mind set you display.
The Stronghold of the DE is pretty good for a challenge. The Eldar may be strong with their own games, but the DE is invicible. The only fault they have is they the imprisoned soldiers you get from their cages. Oh well, look out when you see them attacking! They don't play and yes, they do make the chaos marines look a bit weak this time around! Maybe the last Chaos Lord should have been here for this!!
the dark eldar were once eldar but they formed pleasure cults and were eventualy crused by a chaos god with a thing called the turst which means that basicaly they need to feed on the souls of victims
Guardsman: Oh, hi, Mr. Tahril, I'm from the regiment down the hill and I was wondering if you'd be interested in purchasing a timeshare and-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH, MY ORGANS I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD!
I've read of Orks possessed by Chaos, although this might be outdated fluff. They usually don't last long because they are killed by other Orks for being Un-Orky. BTW, Tau DO register in the warp, but their signature is small compared to other races. Chaos Tau may not be impossible. In the novel, Storm of Iron, a stray Tyranid bio-ship was corrupted by Chaos and forced to serve the Iron Warriors.
@deadzare It's called Commaragh and Dais of Destruction is the ship that "he" rides... his name is Asdrubael Vect. He's ancient but damn near every eldar is. Commaragh, from fluff anyway, appears to be just a really, really hardcore craftworld.
Possible dialogue between Archon Tahril and General Stubbs... Stubbs: /shocked at seeing dead and mutilated IG's/ In the Emperor's name! What have these foul xenos done to these poor men?! Tahril: /smug/ Do you like it General? You Mon'keigh make such good playthings! Stubbs: /enraged/ You will pay for the deaths of the Emperor's servants in blood, alien! Know that as you die in horrible agony at the hands of the 252nd Conservator Regiment that you brought your fate onto yourself!!
Again, if the developers tried. Archon: Eldar, here? Oh, this is wonderful. Caerys: I have come to enact the punishment you deserved so long ago, traitor. Archon: Traitor?! You share the blame for what happened! Caerys: The difference between your ilk and mine is that you never sought redemption for your crimes.
The Eldar are mentally affected by the Warp, same as Humans. That's patently obvious. The Dark Eldar are CLEARLY chaos minions... just not in the same sense as the Chaos Marines. The ultimate allegiances may be different, but the fundamental affect of the Warp on them is the same for both factions.
Vect is crazy as the chaos cultist, but despite of Lexicanum says he's the most powerful fella amongst the Dark Eldar, he run as a coward every time the enemy scratch his Dais of Destruction with screaming, I NEED REPAIR I NEED REPAIR!!!
The Dark Eldar are awesome. People keep complaining about them but I can use them in all sorts of ways. You can outrush anyone in the game easily or if you want to take them head on just use warp beasts, wyches, scourges, archon, ravagers and a few talos and you can outtank anyone. I know, ive done it countless times. Dark Eldar rock.
However, the Ork and Tryanids aren't because they're more animalistic than truly sapient, and the Necron aren't actually alive in the organic sense. The big mystery is the Tau. They're as sapient and existentialist as the Humans and Eldar, and yet the Warp does not affect them. I'm pretty sure Games Workshop has big plans for the Tau in the 40,000 universe. It seems very clear that there is something very significant about them that is being kept secret... for now.
It's the guardsmen because the player was using the guardsmen.. If he was playing as Chaos the prisoners would be cultists. If he was playing as Space Marines the prisoners would be scouts.
as far as i've heard one of the reasons the tau can't be controlled by chaos is the way there minds are set in the idea of each caste serving the greater good so the idea of them controlled by the most evil thing in the universe wouldn't be right
There's no fluff connection between the Outsider and the Tyranids. Given that the nid's make extensive use of the warp, and the controlling force is a powerful warp presense, and that the C'Tan are essentially allergic to the warp, I think that any sort of connection is unlikely.
Commorroagh used to be a major (?) port in the Eldar Empire. Sort of like Shanghai...except evil. Then the empire collapsed and the survivors fled into the webway.
@Rimfire83 They are pretty much Dark elves, as Eldar are High/wood elves. They're basically space elves. There is a lot of stuff linking the elves and Eldar together, you just need to look at the fluff.
They are decadent eldar too afraid of Slanneesh but still unable to evade it and the massive assrape (in more ways than one) it has prepared for them in the Warp.
