I started my Eldar army under 2nd Edition back in 1997. At first, there were a vast array of primer white minis with only two squads of seven original Plastic Guardians with Lasguns painted as Ulthwe with golden and yellow helmets whom I bought in order to increase the troops content. The only other painted model was a Dreadnought (now Wraithlord in 3rd edition) that I painted blood red, bleached bone, with gems that tried to go from yellow to dark green with a black dot with a white dot inside. Alas, it matches the Blood Angel Tactical squad I painted during the same week. I was trying for a Saim Hann craftworld look, but then discovered much later that the Saim Hann do not field Wraithlords or Wraithguard for that matter. Thus, another craftworld is born, borrowing from Ulthwe, Saim Hann, and Beil Tan, reforming under Codex Eldar core rules. The GraemeDar and their Farseer(s), who are unnamed to protect them from the daemons of the Eye of Terror, fight along side other craftworlds and occassionally against them when it is clear that they threaten the survival of the entire race with their pride caused battles with the seemingly endless Mon-Keigh races.
Recent battles of the GraemeDar have found them defending against and then counterattacking the Space Wolves over a meaningless world. Their first contact with the Orks, while well briefed, ended in disaster with a near complete rout/destruction of the warhost. The tale told by the fleeing Guardians and a squad of Swooping Hawks who wisely directed a withdraw after dropping their grenades. They all spoke in hushed tones of the lone eldar warrior, an ancient Wraithlord, who was last seen being surrounded by Grots and the rest of the remaining Ork Mobs. A return to that field of battle will be made to retrieve the soul stones of the fallen and the fallen twice, nay thousand times fallen in service of their brethren.
The Seers of GraemeDar warn their current hosts of the hundreds who have fallen in the past protecting the craftworld from discovery and allowing them to age enough to do repeat the process. Micro-craftworlds are being strewn onto maiden worlds and into deepest space in the hope that they will prosper and grow in seclusion until the gathering is triggered signalling the final battle to rid space of the Mon Keigh.
This is a sort of bat-rep from last summer when Andrew Long, Jack, and myself arranged and held a three-way battle featuring Chili Pot's Dark Angels and Drew's mysterious Necrons and my GraemeDar (generic Eldar Craftworld) warhost (1750 pts each) is seen below:
| Starting positions at Turn one. Dark Angels and Eldar facing each other across the table and the Necrons approach from the "bottom" of the picture, all of us equally distant from the other and with the the same size deployment zones. |
 | Closeup shot of the Necron Lord suddenly without cover of the Immortals about to take concentrated Eldar weapons fire. Take that Necrontyr! |
 | Banshees bailing out as the Dark Angel Deathwing Terminators approach. Oooh Look! That Necron Lord is TOAST! And he teleported the mission goal right into the middle of my Eldar. Gee Thanks. |
 | Here Jack (aka "Chili Pot" advances his Ravenwing and Dark Angels towards my Eldar lines and towards the uncharacteristically RASH Necron Lord who has put himself between us both. In the background you can see the other raving and rabid gamers at Open Gaming Night (Monday nights from 1600 to 2100 hours) at Other Realms: Your Comic and Gaming Specialists, our best source for Games Workshop fun here in Hawaii. |
 | Dark Angel Tactical Squad vainly attempting to wrest the "prize" from my lone surviving Warp Spider. They failed and Farseer GraemeDar smiled ever so slightly as the battle was won for the Ulthwe and balance maintained in the sector. |
 | The most recent battle was actually a Skirmish/Squad level combat using my most recently personally painted miniatures: A 20 man unit of Storm Guardians. A close-up picture of them shows the multiple colors and the sanded bases I then worked up with 1 basecoat, two levels of drybrush and finally glued some patches of static grass. I had stripped these minis, assembled using new "old" eldar arm/weapon sprues, and painted to this level in about 3 solid days. Eventually I'll put the final picture up that shows off the finished bases. It was very very nice to field a LARGE completed painted unit for this past Games Day in June at Other Realms. |