The Drukhari Fleet! The Ships, Tactics And Strategies Of The Dark Eldar Navy 

yeah... they really do neglect the Dark Eldar, unfortunately they seem to only care about space marines. as much as i like the Astartes, there are so many other interesting factions, even in the Imperium itself, that they seem to ignore or just throw some half assed junk at

Faction gets neglected -> Fewer people collect faction -> Faction gets even more neglect due to selling poorly because of previous neglect -> Rinse and Repeat.

Corection its more effort than gw has put into anything in the last 10 years

Complete with cannons that shoot black holes!

Hopefully they send back those T'au exchange students soon, it's been decades.

​Didn't they return as abominable haemonculi​@@VioletDeathRei

Dang you see them on the burn out or something?

@@Asterion_Mol0c Aye some of them but they took a bunch more on their way out. Also we both know they are likely still kicking even if they wish they weren't Drukhari never let good spoils go to waste.

I boiled a kettle for some coffee and they had fleeced an entire Tau world by the time I added milk, it's good to put it in context.

Imagine if the drukhari Crusade rules work like this.

"Grand theft Drukhari" would probably be a smash hit lol Be the baddest Gangster ever to scourge the galaxy with notority points for your cabal. Complete with goth elf girlfriends/butlers! Enjoy PVP with the most badass melee weapons and firearms in the arena with leaderboards. Customize your ship!

Imagine a class in Schola Progenium watching "Imperium Vox documentary: The Trans-Void slave trade" as part of Critical Enemy Theory curriculum

​@@Ozzystrayroo"Critical Enemy Theory" kek

Do you honestly think current BL/GW writers would do it justice?

Bear in mind that the Eldar wages war againts necron alongside the Krork, and if the ork/freebotaz tactic of current year can be trusted, the krork are the perfect distraction to eldari harassing tactic.

I'd think the sensitive piping and electronics behind the walls would be an issue. Don't want to pop a coolant or fuel line mid firefight by accident.

​@@nicholasrandall3507 Thatd be the big issue. Sure you have multiple hulls but all the stuff that makes your ship function is probably right up near the internal hull. REALLY dont want to capture a ship only to have to drive from in the engine room using tin cans and string as your internal communication system.

@@theatagamer90 The trade off would be maintenance access. Having multiple hull layers on the inside makes it that much harder to access your systems. Makes more sense to pad your external layers and keep a thinner internal one. Keep in mind the trade off of adding weight. Heavier ships require more power to change speed and direction, and would be more likely to tear themselves apart with high speed maneuvers.

Plasma, melta, high explosives wouldn't be great next to windows and thin exterior hulls but your logic is correct 40k ships are grand in such a way that they can take a pounding

There is some boarding action in Void Stalker where Nightlords are fighting loyalists and nobody seems to worry about hulls while all guns are blazing

They would find it amusing, Dark Eldar have captured nids on several occasions. At times with disastrous results.

@mikewaterfield3599 Very true but purestrain genestealers in very tight confines are nasty.

@@Fulgrim2 there are good reasons old hat nerds like me remember them with a bit of fear from the space hulk days. In the open at least artillery and ranged combat are possible, however considering how much dark eldar like their death games and knife play.......... Bear in mind like all good emo's dark eldar do have continuous $uicidal ideation. "Bleed just to know your alive" sort of mindset.

That would be just a bonus dude, imagine the betting and excitement genestealers and the hybrids would cause in the arenas, I mean Drukari capture hive tyrants for the death pits ......gene stealers are badass but not tyrant level badassery

​@@mikewaterfield3599 didn’t the Dark Elder capture a entire planet of nids and held it above Commorragh as a joke

You could pick to either start off in a low postion in a kabal and "move" you up or set off and make your own in the lower tiers. The benefits of one would be you have more resources from the start but have less freedom and have to follow orders or the other you have more freedom but no resources

Dark eldar tech is probably the MOST advanced shit in the setting but has zero logical explanation. It blows up shit and runs ridiculously fast that Orks would re-consider "red goes fast" to "spiky go fast" but NOTHING is explained how.

Honestly in BFG Dark Elder were introduced pretty late in the games cycle and felt pretty much as an after thought (as they so often are) right through to the ship design which was Elder ships with spikey bits, at a guess given given that BFG was one of Andy Chambers babies I'd guess balance was prioritised over narrative consistancy and since he Elder fleet already existed and it was late in development the Dark Elder were a copy paste job

I'd say gene-modification by their homunculi

They cant do psychic bone singing. All their technology is for the most part crafted conventionally out of raw materials in factories. They have an extremely advanced level of science and technology probably only second to the Necrons so their machines are almost akin to magic by our standards. As someone else said I always assumed their ships resemblence to Craftworld ships is just because they copy and pasted the designs with blades attached and called it a day, but you could explain it in lore as a result of shared cultural aesthetics that predate the fall.

I dont think Dark Eldar vehicles are made of wraith bone, they are made in more conventional ways, but Dark Eldar tech is so advanced as most of it is from the height of their empire that it performs on a level only rivaled by Necron tech.

Mmmm, well the Craftworlds are more like the High Elf provinces or whatever they're called in Fantasy on the High Elf island continent thing. So, black arks would probably be more like a mobile Kabal fortress in real space and would be far smaller than a Craftworld to fit the comparison.

FLEET LOGISTICS

Necron fleet tactics: Show up, destroy everything without effort, leave, give no explanation.

yeah if the Drukhari were more..... reasonable, their level of technology could be devastating to almost everything else out in the galaxy. The imperium should be glad that the dark Eldars selfishness and corrupted minds make it basically impossible for a real unified fighting force to be created.

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That would be a pretty cool idea.

Pretty much, they are kinda similar to the brethren court of pirates of carribean movie, and the pirate king is asdrubael Vect

Honestly, considering how Imperial lances are. Having double that firepower on such a small vessel is comically absurd. It's like having an ICBM strapped on a pirate motorboat.

To be fair drukhari use the weapons at weaker level as they dont want to destroy there opponents but leave them crippled so they can collect the crew

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@@MrTdub16 they would be eatin’ good

I believe he already has. The title is "the ork cult of speed" or something. Hope it's what you wanted.

Seriously, they’re everywhere in here.

They generally leave (most) of the skullduggery and customary backstabbing for when they get home. The only predilection more powerful to a Dark Eldar than their own malignant narcissism is their utter hatred of everything that isn't them, so when given a "lesser being" to torment they generally leave each other be, atleast until they run out of victims.

There is a loose etiquette to the realspace raid and an unsuccessful one could hurt the standing of the kabals participating, especially since Vect tends to insist on his tribute anyway.

@@doxasticdraco9990 Exactly, yeah. Just because they have zero moral or ethical compunctions doesn't mean they're stupid.

@@PrimarchLorgar I have wondered whether a society as feral as Commoragh could sustain itself, but I suspend disbelief and go with it.

@@doxasticdraco9990 I mean, when you have a stockpile of pre-fall Eldari technology, none of the losses incurred by having a society as anarchic and dysfunctional as the Dark Eldar are meaningful. If humans in 40K suddenly found that 100% of the species developed malignant narcissism, the Imperium would collapse. Infighting would lead to critical resource shortages, constant rebellions would lead to dwindling imperial tithes, the military would divide into independent juntas and descend upon itself, etc. The whole apparatus of the state would collapse. This simply doesn't matter to the Dark Eldar, they have the technology to produce everything they need, even death is a mere inconvenience to them. The only resource they can't produce is their psychic shield against She who Thirsts, generated by inflicting pain upon unwilling sapient victims. Their own ancient, withered souls far too faded to make any acceptable offering of pain. So long as the raiding fleets carry innumerable souls from realspace to the bustling ports of the Dark City, Commoragh and her children will prosper.

That's a ship, mate

​@@grzegorzcembruch2834 ah arch has changed it. it was earlier the 8:42 picture

Ahhh Dark lance spam. The dream.

That's precisely what it is. In fact, the entirety of Dark Eldar civilization ie effectively a merchant Republic. Countless guilds, cabals, mercenary companies, humonculi covens, aristocrats and all manner of powerful entities/organisations act independently of one another in order to accrue more wealth, power and influence. Interactions between these powerful factions is almost always transactional in nature, bartering amongst themselves for valuable resources or information. Their "king" Absrubael Vect is their "leader" only insofar as he has single most individual power, wealth and influence, which grants him a limited degree of executive power which other individuals cannot match. His word is not universal, and he is in no position to command or order around any of the powerful organisations of Comorragh.

the devil is always in the detail afterall

I doubt all their material is wraithbone

The aeldari exiles crave the experiences.

The corsairs raid for fun essentially.

Also the faction that requires the most skill on the boardgame too.

They have to have some sort of money, all civilizations do, after all, it's one of the Ten Necessities of civilization. It might not be coins or metal or the like, but to have a functional civilization, you have to have money.

@@vishnu79 what are the ten necessities of civilization?

@@oliverpartington6874 The Ten Necessities are the ten factors that all early civilizations shared that allowed human civilizations to develop from hunter-gatherer style tribes into actual civilizations. It's been a long time, but as I remember it, they are: 1. Structured Religion (this doesn't mean modern religion, by the way, it refers more to a religion that is organized in it's dogmas, ethos, and teachings. It also doesn't mean "complicated" or "complex", only that the religion has a somewhat stable, internally coherent, structure) 2. Money (again, doesnt have to mean coins, or gold or anything, only a generally accepted means by which to exchange "worth" for goods and services. As my History teacher explained it, quote" So that a man could carry around the worth of a horse in his pocket or pouch, and damned unlikely he could carry the horse.") 3. Hierarchy/Government (this one refers more to a system by which the people in charge are selected, permitted, or otherwise gain power that doesn't totally wreck the civilization every time the head honcho dies. Doesn't mean that people cant and dont try to circumvent or game that system, only that such a system exists) 4. Farming and Animal Husbandry (self-explanatory, and probably one of the first of the Ten to be developed) 5. Slavery (surprisingly necessary to primitive civilizations, and interestingly, to early philosophy. All modern ethos's and ideas of human value trace their roots all the way back to the "idea" of slavery. This is one of the more touchy and complex of the Ten as concepts, but would, like the "Money" and "Military" concepts, would need a longer explanation than most would like to see in a RU-vid comment.) 6. Architecture (this refers more to a general development of "construction" than "architecture" as we think of it in the modern sense. To have a civilization, you'll need at least some kind of semi-permanent form of shelter for your people and storage for things like grain/food and usually for other things like crafting and such) 7. Written Language and Mathematics (this refers to a system by which records can be kept, laws/rules/commandments can be decreed and promulgated, and most importantly, taxes can be tallied, also to allow for arbitration between disputes of exchanges of goods, when they arise) 8. Bureaucrats (someone has to keep track of all the taxes, rules, laws, etc, and these are the ones that do that. Usually glorified scribes, and mostly belonging to the various classes of priests in most early civilizations) 9. Organized Military (by this we mean that within the group of people that comprise the civilization, there has to exist a sub-group that either spends the majority of their time in the study and pursuit of, or exclusively spends their time in the study and pursuit of, the Art of War. This doesnt mean that this group is the sum total of that civilizations fighting capacity, only that there exists a group of people whose job is to look at other groups of people and think "how do I kill you better") 10. I cant for the life of me remember the last one. It's been 22 years since college.

@@vishnu79 Thank you for the information I left school at 16 and honestly with the state of universities I probably wouldn't have learned it there even if I went.

@@oliverpartington6874 In this day and age, it is possible (if unlikely) you'd have come across the Ten Necessities as a concept. However, to fully understand them, and why and how they function, you'd need a fairly pragmatic and insightful understanding of both Human nature, and Human motivations.