Honored to join the 'Eldarith Ynneas'

Hello everyone!

I've finally decided to jump back into Warhammer 40,000, and after a few false starts, I've settled on collecting an army of Dark Eldar. I simply love the models, and painting them represents a new challenge for me in terms of my hobby skills.

I'm a fairly casual gamer, and a big painter and modeler, but I want to do my homework to be able to play this army right. I realize there is a lot of negativity surrounding Dark Eldar and the newest edition of the codex right now, but I've been involved in this hobby for a long time, and I've found that it's generally best to simply forge your own path - I played Chaos for years being told my codex was bad, or units were underpowered, and so on. I still enjoyed playing them, and I won game or two as well!

I've been watching some videos, and while Dark Eldar are certainly difficult different to play in comparison to power-armored armies, I feel like they can definitely be viable as a stand-alone army, even in an era of allies and detachments. Now I might be wrong, but I hope to have some good tactical discussions at any rate.

This is a fantastic forum you have here, BTW. I might need to buy a T-shirt if they are still available!

Welcome to the dark city! I started as a pure dark Eldar player too but came to love the coven supplement. They now run as auxiliary units for my Kabal of the tainted Reborn and I'm sure you'll come to love them as well.

Sharpen your knife and enjoy your stay and don't let those doom sayers pull you down.