MUTHAUFUCKING HELL THEY'RE MELNIBONEANS!
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skull_bearerOkay, this will make very little sense unless you know a) the Warhammer 40k army Dark Eldar and b) Micheal Moorcock's Elric series. I will also try and be calm, but I'm so happy I'm almost in tears.
So, back in ye olde days about ten years ago, I was really into Warhammer 40k. In particular, an army called the Dark Eldar. They were this twisted and evil bunch of pirates who went around murdering and enslaving and generally being epicly cool. At least in theory. In practise, their rulebook was out of date even at the time and I finally gave up playing them (with great sorrow) after they failed to win me a single game. Since then, there has been nothing and basically everybody stopped playing them because cool as they were, they just could not face up to the rest of the stuff out there unless in the hands of a very skilled player.
So I stopped playing them, and went on to other armies. But I still loved my old Poisoned Claw kabal, and kept the rulebook with the very crappy short stories I'd written about my Archon, Kuthgar the Merciless.
And now... they're about to be re-released.
The weird thing is, when I see the new models. I don't think 'my beloved Dark Eldar! How wonderful to see you again!' I think 'Oh my god... they're Melniboneans.'
Melniboneans. The twisted, chaotic, immoral race from the Elric books. Creatures of eldritch beauty and cruelty, who see the world as a playground and the people in it as toys to be broken at their leisure.
Never have two good things gone better together. Never. This is like chocolate and orange, rain and sunshine, sex and violence, gas chambers and barbed wire. This is too, too awesome. This is so fantastic I don't know where to start. The rules have been re-vamped to the point where I now wonder how these things can lose, the models are so beautiful I want to cry, after what I had to deal with previously. They're finally here after years of fucking waiting and they looks like high-tech Melniboneans and I am so putting together an Elric army with Dragon motifs and chaos and Arioch and dear god YEEEEESSSSSSSS AT LAST!
AT LAST!
AFTER THIS LONG!
THEY IS TOO FUCKING AWESOME FOR WORDS!
BRB HAIL ARIOCH WE'RE GOING RAIDING!
So, back in ye olde days about ten years ago, I was really into Warhammer 40k. In particular, an army called the Dark Eldar. They were this twisted and evil bunch of pirates who went around murdering and enslaving and generally being epicly cool. At least in theory. In practise, their rulebook was out of date even at the time and I finally gave up playing them (with great sorrow) after they failed to win me a single game. Since then, there has been nothing and basically everybody stopped playing them because cool as they were, they just could not face up to the rest of the stuff out there unless in the hands of a very skilled player.
So I stopped playing them, and went on to other armies. But I still loved my old Poisoned Claw kabal, and kept the rulebook with the very crappy short stories I'd written about my Archon, Kuthgar the Merciless.
And now... they're about to be re-released.
The weird thing is, when I see the new models. I don't think 'my beloved Dark Eldar! How wonderful to see you again!' I think 'Oh my god... they're Melniboneans.'
Melniboneans. The twisted, chaotic, immoral race from the Elric books. Creatures of eldritch beauty and cruelty, who see the world as a playground and the people in it as toys to be broken at their leisure.
Never have two good things gone better together. Never. This is like chocolate and orange, rain and sunshine, sex and violence, gas chambers and barbed wire. This is too, too awesome. This is so fantastic I don't know where to start. The rules have been re-vamped to the point where I now wonder how these things can lose, the models are so beautiful I want to cry, after what I had to deal with previously. They're finally here after years of fucking waiting and they looks like high-tech Melniboneans and I am so putting together an Elric army with Dragon motifs and chaos and Arioch and dear god YEEEEESSSSSSSS AT LAST!
AT LAST!
AFTER THIS LONG!
THEY IS TOO FUCKING AWESOME FOR WORDS!
BRB HAIL ARIOCH WE'RE GOING RAIDING!
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Date: 2010-09-28 02:24 pm (UTC)i need to do more work on mine >