Editing Eldar (section)

===/tg/ Feelings on the Eldar===
[[Image:Banshee_x_Tau.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Elfdar vs. weeaboo: whoever loses, we win.]]

The Eldar's arrogance and penchant for [[Just as planned]], paired with their being used as the defenders of the status quo (see below) [[Dawn of Eldar|and the blatant favoritism they seem to get in any work featuring them]] (with some exceptions, such as if they're fighting Imperium Space Marines), have caused them to be the single most-''hated'' race by [[/tg/]]. Yes, more than the [[Necrons|space zombies]] and [[Tau|weeaboo space communists]]. Part of this stems from the fact that they are a hit-or-miss army, much as their [[Dark Eldar|counterparts]] were in the last edition. When they work, they work amazingly; when they don't, they tend to [[Fail|fail]]. [[Reasonable Marines|Some argue]] that a lot of the hate has been due to them being insufficiently [[Orks|Orky]], which, if true, is [[/pol/|RACIST]]. It doesn't help that in the crunch, Craftworld Eldar have a bit of a history with having rather overpowered rules or codexes. This hasn't been the case with recent editions; with the rise of Space Marines mid-8E and early 9E combined with the neutering of the Ynnari and with the uninspiringly mediocre 8E Craftworld codex (a few solid or cheesy builds, but a rather large swath of price inefficient units and nothing blatantly overpowered), [[That Guy|power gamers]] have more or less allowed these Space Elves to fall out of sight and out of mind.

Thankfully, some of the hate has recently started to abate, and this has everything to do with the fact that the Eldar seem to have become the whipping boys of [[Games Workshop]]. You know they hate you when you can't even win in your own codices. Also, almost every victory they get nowadays is a Pyrrhic one. Indeed, the precious few bits of focused fluff that comes out about the Craftworlders rarely provides [[Advancing the Storyline|any genuine progression]], with whatever gains made by the eldar faction quickly being stripped away or tempered by extreme casualties or MacGuffin bait-and-switches that more or less invalidates the entire story in question. [[Matt Ward]] especially enjoys his crusade against the Eldar, with Avatars dying in almost every codex the guy's written, and if not that then expect similarly one-sided defeats for the Eldar. The Irish goblin [[C.S. Goto]] had a hate boner so hard for the Eldar that he did everything he could to make their race into fucking terrible awful clowns, such as but not limited to: torturing Eldar characters in the most gruesome way he could possibly describe for pages and pages and pages, making them incapable of speaking the human language, making them need to steal IG vehicles because their vehicles are terrible in comparison, and literally having human children destroy an Eldar grav tank by throwing rocks at it, then having them rape and kill the commander with a stick. This is not a joke.

[[Gav Thorpe]], on the other hand, will fight to the death to write about anything starring the Eldar, because he just loves the elves (enough to stop them from losing in their own codex, so he's a much better kind of fan than Phil Kelly in this regard) and it's more or less agreed that he's really the only one who can portray them totally accurately since he is the Eldar expert. However, a sizable number of the older 40k playerbase [[Rage|hate]] Thorpe for turning [[Exarch|Exarchs]] into watered-down [[Space Marine]] sergeants and other travesties of fluff. Eldar are also noted to have a major Asian influence, most notably from [[China]], with their martial arts, yin-yang symbol, phoenix and dragon worshiping, cultural pride and philosophy. Pre-1945 Japan factors in as well, with an infantry standard weapon called the [[Shuriken Catapult]], their belief in racial superiority and their ideas about being direct descendants of gods. So all in all this means that the Space Elves are the 40k equivalent of [[Cathay|East Asia]]... huh.