r/EldarCorsairs40k

Hey all! Through a production error I found myself with two copies of the Corsairs combat patrol and I'm struggling to figure out what to do with the second Kharseth. My experience is that anyone near me interested in corsairs has already bought one of the combo boxes containing them and online info on what to do with multiples seems sparse since they're a new unit. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Also here's my first one painted.

I know it's not the best way to run them but I've committed.

I wanted them to feel less elite than the voidscarred like maybe they still haven't quite shaken off fighting like guardians yet. So I gave them some more understated heads and I chopped down their capes.

Bonus at the end of all the stuff I did to the capes.

Primed her for clarity, anything i should add/change befire painting?

I added a unit of guardians to my list and wanted to bash them up a bit to look more like commandos.

My mind is reeling with all the options. It's gonna take me a while to get everyone built up.

Corsair Princess Yalania is a former Striking Scorpion of the Shrine of the Creeping Vines and now Mistress of ‘Hyro’s Lament’ in the Vergangais Sector. Yalania was the sole survivor of a mission to recover a trove of ancient Aeldari botanical research from the Crone World of Aktosha and cast herself upon the Path of the Outcast, where she joined a Corsair fleet terrorizing the sector. In her years as an outcast, she grew ambitious. She took command of an Eclipse-class cruiser and began to form her own fleet, called the ‘Thorns of the Vines’. Needing a home base for her growing fleet, she found a ruined void dock of ancient Aeldari construction and set about restoring it to full function, naming it for a consort of hers, Hyro’yenna, who perished on the mission to Aktosha. Sensing an opportunity, she opened the station as a safe port for other Corsair fleets and eventually to any pirate not tainted by the Ruinous Powers. Despite being the matron of the station, she still regularly leads raids against Imperial shipping personally. As well as being skilled in void warfare, she is also a highly lethal personal combatant, having slain a captain of the Deathwatch who was hunting her down in personal combat with her paired Scorpion’s Claws. Her skill and authority have given her a fearsome reputation in the Vergangais Sector as the “Queen of Thorns”. On top of her own combat skills, she is always accompanied by her blade-sworn retinue of former Aspect Warriors, Succubi, Incubi, and even Harlequins. She wears into battle her old Striking Scorpion Aspect armour, modified with collected pieces of Incubus armour, wielding twin Scorpion’s Claws and mandiblasters while fighting without a helm. She does not have the best relationship with Craftworld Lótessara, having left with her Aspect armour, her Exarch’s weapons, and the soul stone of her slain consort Hyro’yenna, which she still wears next to her own stone.

These models are such a blast to paint! The staff arm was made by liberating the staff from it's original right hand and grafting it in place of a sword in a left hand. I thought the out of the box pose was too stiff. Eldar are crazy agile and Corsairs are so free that I wanted more movement and energy to come from the Seer.

I realize as a 1000+ year old space wizard there's an elegance in just melting the mind of some lower species and moving on. But shooting eldritch energy around and finishing them with a spinning blow of your staff is much more memorable to recant over drinks later.

Just finished Prince Tanishar "the Jester Prince"

Lore i thought of for now:

Tanishar was born on Craftworld Lugganath and was facinated by the Halequinn since his childhood but still remained on the Craftworld because he felt like he had a Duty to his Home.Over the Milenia he walked the various Paths from the Path of the Seer to the one of the Mariner.While he walked on the Path of Command he was first called "Jester" due to his often reckless or foolish tactics that in the end still worked out advantageous for the war effort.After suffering a crusching defeat he began laughing basically non stop in battle wich alianated him to the rest of the Craftworld ss they saw this as distasteful.In truth for Tanishar in that Battle he realised just how ridiculus his entire Existence and the State of the Galaxy in general was and couldnt help but laugh.Not much later he left the Craftworld with the Halequinn of the Masque of the Nameless but left them a relatively short time afterwards and formed the Eternities Shadow Warband and crowned himself Prince.He is mainly active in the Segmentum Tempestus and the T'au Empire but also in other Parts of the Galaxy.His Carisma and unconventional but strategicly brilliant Battleplans caused many other Corsairs to rally behind him wich only elevated as the Reputation of "the Jesterprince" spread.

The Main thing i am currently struggling with are the finer parts of his Character so i would love if anyone could just ask some random Questions (can be realy anything) that i could try to answer about him.

Thanks in advance

I couldn't help but use the infinity lament's helmet for my Yriel it's just so cool looking. It's also funny that I literally just finished a playthrough of Colony Ship and my MC ended up looking almost exactly like this.

Using Corsair parts from the jump-packs and the normies) Amazing effects!

I got down to painting my Crucible character… ish. There’s work to be done, I haven’t named the dude yet. I’m happy with how he is turning out though.

I am calling my viper complete for now, may go in later to do some free hand. My scheme is based on the Arizona Green Tea cans.