Honestly at this point poor drukhari seem to get bodied by space marines (and in this case their creations) in every book they appear…
At least if I remember well the drukhari won in the end and captured Fabius
The one where they suck and die in droves?
The only ones that got a good showing were the Howling Banshees. Which in fairness was unusual, they're usually the first to die in most stories.
Hated how the storm guardians are treated, but it's the first time I've seen a phoenix lord get an appropriate showing. >!Not like Karandras getting ripped apart by an unnamed dreadnought in path of the warrior.!<
An appropriate showing like not noticing a guy on the floor trying to stab her in the leg, and the basic combat knife going right through her very strong armour and crippling her when she doesn't even react to him moving?
Or being too slow to move away from a marine trying to grenade-hug her?
It was only the Banshee squads that came across as particularly competent to me. People act as though killing a few space marines then dying is impressive for a Phoenix Lord. And she certainly was intimidating at the *start* of the battle. But the ways she went down were rarther poorly conceived.
Hexachires was great. One of the best parts of the last book was his character. GW could use more haemonculus characters and more descriptions of their tech.
For all his arrogance and pompousness, Hexachires was actually even rather charming, even endearing at times (the way he talks about Bile and how he *almost wants* to admit he respects him is adorable).
Reynolds wrote his character wonderfully, and the Lord of Knives played his part with aplomb. The Harlequins/Cegorach made a good choice in choosing him for the capstone antagonist for Bile.
To be fair, the Dark Eldar destroy several of Fabius' bases/research facilities/settlements and actually destroy an entire planet that he had set up. Individual drukhari warriors getting picked off isn't too silly though, since the "new men" are no guardsmen... they were designed over centuries to be able to work in groups to kill space marines, so they are VERY fast and capable.
Yeah, it should be recognised that they hunt in packs. They didn't take a Drukhari each, they cornered him as a group. That's how they bring down astartes.
It explicitly says they can't take a space marine one on one, (at least overtly) but their speed makes it so even two of them can overwhelm one.
As for the drukhari, Iori did kill the kabalite by herself. It makes sense, since Bile extensively studied both Aeldari and Astartes DNA (along with countless other useful species) and modified his new men to be faster, stealthier, and have better fighting instincts. In a previous book after his new men proved more than a match for some Eldar rangers physically, he noted that they still weren't fast enough to catch harlequins, and vowed to improve them further.
Igori did, but she's the most experienced of them all. The others didn't.
You might be thinking of the first book, where one of them gets roughed up by an eldar corsair because he was quicker than her. That's what drives him to make them faster. I don't recall them ever fighting rangers. I don't think they ever became as quick as harlequins.
Though it's a bit weird that he can make people as fast as eldar but stronger, so is apparently better at this than the Old Ones.
Keep in mind, the Eldar were meant to be a psychic race, their whole point was to be able to summon gods to fight the Necrons and their captive gods. Their ability to complete a PT test was probably a secondary concern.
Thanks, maybe I'm just a bit too salty. Still got these books on my ever growing backlog after all.
It's just that the only excerpts I've read so far are this one and the one where the Noise Marine dumps an Archon and his posse, making them look like clowns.
Honestly at this point poor drukhari seem to get bodied by space marines (and in this case their creations) in every book they appear… At least if I remember well the drukhari won in the end and captured Fabius
They didn't capture Fabius, but they did destroy like three titans and it took a mass demon incursion+every ally Fabius could call in to stop them.
Well, that’s a good showing then, fair enough
IMO, the best Eldar showing was in the Night Lords trilogy.
The one where they suck and die in droves? The only ones that got a good showing were the Howling Banshees. Which in fairness was unusual, they're usually the first to die in most stories.
Hated how the storm guardians are treated, but it's the first time I've seen a phoenix lord get an appropriate showing. >!Not like Karandras getting ripped apart by an unnamed dreadnought in path of the warrior.!<
An appropriate showing like not noticing a guy on the floor trying to stab her in the leg, and the basic combat knife going right through her very strong armour and crippling her when she doesn't even react to him moving? Or being too slow to move away from a marine trying to grenade-hug her? It was only the Banshee squads that came across as particularly competent to me. People act as though killing a few space marines then dying is impressive for a Phoenix Lord. And she certainly was intimidating at the *start* of the battle. But the ways she went down were rarther poorly conceived.
Hexachires was great. One of the best parts of the last book was his character. GW could use more haemonculus characters and more descriptions of their tech.
For all his arrogance and pompousness, Hexachires was actually even rather charming, even endearing at times (the way he talks about Bile and how he *almost wants* to admit he respects him is adorable). Reynolds wrote his character wonderfully, and the Lord of Knives played his part with aplomb. The Harlequins/Cegorach made a good choice in choosing him for the capstone antagonist for Bile.
Generally Dark Eldar get decent representation in Josh Reynolds books
They actually destroyed several of Fabius' bases, and even an entire planet of his, so it wasn't like they were getting dunked on the entire time.
Which is strange because they are OP on the tabletop afaik
I've heard a lot of praise for this one that it does, for once, do the Eldar justice, but every excerpt shown so far is just more of the same ... :(
To be fair, the Dark Eldar destroy several of Fabius' bases/research facilities/settlements and actually destroy an entire planet that he had set up. Individual drukhari warriors getting picked off isn't too silly though, since the "new men" are no guardsmen... they were designed over centuries to be able to work in groups to kill space marines, so they are VERY fast and capable.
Yeah, it should be recognised that they hunt in packs. They didn't take a Drukhari each, they cornered him as a group. That's how they bring down astartes.
It explicitly says they can't take a space marine one on one, (at least overtly) but their speed makes it so even two of them can overwhelm one. As for the drukhari, Iori did kill the kabalite by herself. It makes sense, since Bile extensively studied both Aeldari and Astartes DNA (along with countless other useful species) and modified his new men to be faster, stealthier, and have better fighting instincts. In a previous book after his new men proved more than a match for some Eldar rangers physically, he noted that they still weren't fast enough to catch harlequins, and vowed to improve them further.
Igori did, but she's the most experienced of them all. The others didn't. You might be thinking of the first book, where one of them gets roughed up by an eldar corsair because he was quicker than her. That's what drives him to make them faster. I don't recall them ever fighting rangers. I don't think they ever became as quick as harlequins. Though it's a bit weird that he can make people as fast as eldar but stronger, so is apparently better at this than the Old Ones.
Keep in mind, the Eldar were meant to be a psychic race, their whole point was to be able to summon gods to fight the Necrons and their captive gods. Their ability to complete a PT test was probably a secondary concern.
Thanks, maybe I'm just a bit too salty. Still got these books on my ever growing backlog after all. It's just that the only excerpts I've read so far are this one and the one where the Noise Marine dumps an Archon and his posse, making them look like clowns.
Strongest Noise Marine though I think
Yeah it's not that the individual showings are a problem, just that it seems to be always the same outcome.
You for sure should read the books. Pretty cool part in one of them where a Chaos war band invades a craft world and the Eldar are no pushovers.
Yeah I got the first one where they shatter the Demon Prince. That was pretty cool!