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    Possessed/Slaaneshi Eldar?

    Hi everyone, just wondering if anybody could answer some questions/provide some ideas for me.

    I've decided that as much as I love my Word Bearers and Chaos Daemons, I need a new army project. I don't want to stray too far from the warpy goodness that is Chaos, so I've decided the new army will either be Traitor Guard or an Eldar army possessed by Slaaneshi daemons. Lots of cool backstory, great conversions opportunities and if I do it right, an epic-looking army in the end.

    Unfortunately, while pictures of Traitor Guard are a dime a dozen, I've had incredible difficulty in finding any pictures of Slaaneshi Eldar (all google searches just point me towards old Dark Eldar rumours). If anyone knows somewhere I could find pictures, that would be awesome. Also, any thematic or conversion ideas would be great as well. So far, I'm thinking an Avatar of Khaine with a few of the spare pieces from my Keeper of Seekers added, along with a set of chains and manacles to show how trapped it is. For troops, I'm thinking of making all of the spirit stones smashed, then spreading out my spare daemonette heads and arms amongst the Guardians and Dire Avengers I'd get in the Eldar Battalion set. Vehicles, I'm kinda stumped on honestly.

    Any tips, tricks, photos or brainstorming would go a long way to helping me get started!


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    Your difficulty could be because, as I understand it, Slannesh doesn't possess eldar, it eats their souls. So there are no possessed eldar. You could easily make conversions, just add tentacles and such. And tell Fluff nazi's to shove it when they complain about your army.
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    Hm, I got the idea from the blurb in the Daemons codex about a Keeper of Secrets possessing an Avatar of Khaine, and wondered what it would look like if an entire Eldar army was possessed. To me, the spirit stones being smashed would show that their souls have been eaten, and their bodies taken as playthings. You think simply substituting a few arms and heads for daemonette bits would work? Any ideas for vehicles?

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    Doing kit bashing might work. I have never built eldar so I don't know how the size of the parts would work. You could also use Dark eldar bits to help make the army look darker. Look to possessed marines and try to emulate what happens to them. Which codex was that? I have the last two and don't remember that story. If you have some converting chops you could make it look like a giant demon was inside of the vehicles. Not sure what else you could do.
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    It's the Codexs: Chaos Daemons, the Fall of Kher-Ys bit, it describes how when an army of Slaaneshi daemons gain access to an Eldar Craftworld. The Keeper of Secrets who leads the army races to the Avatar's chamber, it begins to wake up on its own but is much weaker without the Exarch sacrifice, so the Keeper possesses it and leads it against the Eldar.

    I was planning on doing some kit-bashing for the infantry, didn't think of putting some Dark Eldar bits in there though, great idea. The giant daemon inside of stuff like War Walkers and Wraithlords would be cool, another good idea, I guess I just have to think of something for the Falcons and Wave Serpents.

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