"Its an Elf on The Shelf Innit?" And like that, Melb, Chaos God of Bad Puns was birthed into the warp.

As an eldar player: yes, I want my dinosaurs.

I swear to god, that elf on a shelf thing filled me with equal amounts of contact shame, frustration and disappointment.......I LOVE IT

"When another codex lets you ride dinosaurs, we'll talk" Has anyone ever introduced Snipe to Seraphon?

The sheer disapproval on Snipe's face when the Elf made his appearance is priceless. Also, ah, the 90s, when the strategy for Codex covers was "If there's a blank space on the picture, find something to put there"

*gets 3rd edition eldar guardian squad for Christmas* * snipe and wib upload a video on the eldar* "the craftwold sings to me and i respond in kind"

Just a quick correction, the Eldar Pirates are precursors to the Eldar Corsairs, who are to the Dark Eldar what Blood Angels are to World Eaters. Fairly similar, but they'd probably not be very happy if you confused the two. The Corsairs actually got their own FW rules and models, but those were discontinued since FW really got hit hard by the passing of its CEO.

Yeah the Eldar are nice and all but that neon purple Old One Eye at the start demands more attention Also there’s a Trygon on the other shelf which means there may be an entire purple disco Tyranids army

I'm surprised Wib didn't end up on the wrong side of those horns after the "Elf on a Shelf" joke.

That Elf on the Shelf joke has to be the best holiday themed joke I've heard this year, i love it

The last time I was this early, Slaanesh wasn’t born yet.

Damn, as soon as you showed that 'mystery tank' from the cover I was like...thats a wave serpent. Then I despaired at the wasted space that fact is taking up in my old and addled brain.

I'm so glad you went deep on the D-Cannon lore! I loved that part back then. Anyone remember Vortex missiles? Using the tables in the Waagh book, my pal rolled a Vortex Missile launcher combi weapon with FF for his Warboss. A fun game back then but balanced, it was not. Having 3 to 7 vortexes on my deployment zone (72" range!) every game until the end of that campaign.

This was the edition and codex which got me started on 40K, and I've been an eldar guy ever since. The marines and their lot can all bugger off, they never had dinosaur riding knights, so they're automatically inferior! Still a bit miffed GW never made any exodite knight minis. Still, the minis we did get at the time were quite good. The Striking Scorpion and Swooping Hawk minis were what sealed the deal for me when it came to picking my army. Oh, and it took another edition before we had any vehicle minis other than jetbikes. Also, Eldar psykers were a terror and a half on the field with the 2nd edition rules.

I love the 2nd generation WH40K codex aesthetic, that contrast between the sprawling bright colours in the model displays and the colour art on one hand, as well as the dark imposing Mark Gibbons illustrations

We all need more dinosaur riding space elves in our lives.

“It’s an elf on a shelf init”. 😂

I remember it as BY FAR the most overpowered army book for any game ever published. People think we have issues in modern 40k, they know nothing compared to the literally silly power level of this book compared to every other list in 2nd ed.

"Greetings Exodite Dragonknights..." Why thank you. One of the nicer salutations I've had recently.

I must resist to call the Inquisition at the sight of those horns.

My my my... Sanperor has given me 3 WH40K videos today: from Luetin,MandaloreGaming and now Snipe and Wib. Thank you Sanperor!

I saved up for this Codex for a month when I was 10, knowing nothing about 40k; when I finally got it I never read a word of it. Loved that book to bits.

God i wish i could have someone in my life as lovely as Snipe. She’s just the best

I was like, "whats eldar relate to Christmas...oh "*once I saw the elf doll* Whats next year Christmas? FARSIGHT ENCLAVE?

Happy Sanguinala to all loyal servants of the immortal God Emperor!

The Dark Angles short story "The Black Pearl" was a really amazing story about Exodite Dragon Riders getting STARCHED by Dark Angel's Interrogator Chaplin and his search for the Sword of the Lion.

Played Eldar for over 10 years and I had the third party resin casts from armor cast and epicast for the tanks etc. the old falcons were door stop/cheese wedges with fixed barrels lol. I was so glad in the late 90's when the plastic grav tanks came out. I converted/kit-bashed almost all my models. I made my own exodite dragon riders using the warhammer fantasy dark elf raptors and gave them all trench coats and lances. One of my cheesiest strats was to take 10 harlequin bikers and give them all smoke grenades. The smoke grenade used a huge template that made an area that blocked line of sight and if an enemy moved through them they had to roll scatter dice and move randomly while inside the template. Rush forward at 3 or 4 inches apart (I can't remember how far apart bikes were allowed to be back then) and throw a line of them across the center of the battlefield. No shooting through that huge screen and no trhying to charge through it was just comical with each model moving randomly. Also back then you could not fight hover vehicles in hand to hand. The smoke lasted for a while so I could just sit back behind the smoke screen over half or more of the table and just wait for enemy models to wander out of the smoke randomly not even in a unit anymore and then just gun them all down. This was almost a guaranteed win against tyranids.

2020, year of the Exodites.

I vote for full time Snipe antlers.

I just got 2 of the bus stop rangers. Ever since this video came out i have badly wanted one, so my life is now complete

Wib channeling his inner Mr Bean for the intro! Big fan. I think that the Eldar pirates became Eldar Corsairs, outcast emo Eldar, but distinct from Dark Eldar.

Eldar Pirates are the precursors to the FW Eldar Corsairs army list from the Doom of Mymeara (First Edition in 5E and a Second Edition in 7E adding even more new Corsair units), they were mostly discontinued in 8E sadly. RIP discontinued FW armies like the Kroot Mercenaries/T'au Auxilaries, Elysian Drop Troops, Tallarn Desert Raiders, Renegades & Heretics and Eldar Corsairs :(

Cool stuff - Im still using some of these models in my army. And intersting to compare the codex to our 40k 8th edition now - as back in these days, there have not been many models available for all of the armies, there had to be many complicated "rules" to compensate for the lack of physical things on the tabletop. Now its vice versa, many models, many armies, terrain and stuff, so you need to speed up rules-wise.

Weird I just started watching this and my missis has come in and told me that our son has managed to get our elf and is now cuddling it fast asleep, wish us luck guys. Merry Christmas to everyone.

"James workshop, Jim if your nasty" 🤣

Wow! Brings back memories! I ran a game store near San Francisco in the 90s and was all about Warhammer- I remember all these guys! This was my first Codex... and we used to sell the resin casts too and had regular visits from the sculptors. Talk about spending years waiting for the Eldar models- I had forgotten about the pirates- but we converted models :)

Yaaas, a new Codex Compliant! Thanks for all the hard work you put into these guys, really love your content.

This time I was this early, Sangunius was still alive.

Hey. You're awesome! I'm a long time lurker first time poster. I'm a 46 year old plastic crackhead that giggles uncontrollably to your videos. Keep up the great work and happy holidays!

Last time i checked, in my 4th edition Eldar Codex, Exarch still could have special powers, but tide to their aspect temple (like shooting twice for the Avenger one an his squad) and the Avatar was still invulnerable to melta weapon.

Eldar had dinosaurs?! Dude! I haven't been this mad bout retcons since the Squats!

I've said it before. 2nd edition was the peak of 40k.

This was my first codex, a gift from a friend who was also into 40k. I loved, for whatever the exact reason, the eldar over chaos from a white dwarf issue 216, which introduced multi part chaos warriors, the eldar falcon grav tank and a build able eldar pyramid with scenario rules. Thank you snipe and wip for another fantastic video and merry Christmas!

that was the first gw product i ever bought, still got some of my metal eldar miniatures from the 90s

I love you still have those daft antlers that guy sent you in the box.

Not going to lie, "Space elves riding space dinosaurs into battle" was not a concept I thought of at all before this video. But now every now and again when I'm browsing 40k stuff, I sometimes find myself thinking, "You'd know what's cool? The idea of space elves riding space dinosaurs."

"Waiting for the bus in the rain" Little Nightvale reference there, eh?

Guys, I was gonna start collecting Orks as an army, then you come out with this and tell me I can make Dinosaur riding space elves. Why must you make my decisions so much harder? Awesome video as always, comedic timing is on point this episode.

This was the codex that got me playing 40k back in 95. Having returned last year after a 20 year absense, I cannot express the disappointment I felt on discovering that Exodites still did not have model support. Where's my damn space elves on space dinosaurs!

I absolutely love the cover art for this one!!! It's kind of my motivation for collecting an Eldar army.

"When another codex let's you ride dinosaurs" So Tau codex? Or whichever one includes the Greater Knarloc.

warp spiders and plasma missles were OP in 2nd ed eldar was amazing

Still can't get over the fact that James Workshop is a official GW mascot now.

"The craftworld eldar are mostly the same here as in the present day" So's our range!

Still have the 2e Eldar codex and all the core 2nd ed books in pristine condition. Good old days! Anyone still play 2e? Kinda gutted how you didn't mention just how kill'y the Avatar and the other Phoenix Lords were back then. The Avatar was monstrous. It's fascinating that formal Chaos Elves never made it out. To be honest, I find that concept a lot more terrifying (and believable) than the Dark Eldar narrative brought in from 3E onwards.

I love that 3rd Edition Codex Eldar Artwork, i remember reading it round a friends in the mid 90's!

There was a rule in there for the Death Jester's shuriken cannon toxins. It'd make the victim randomly stagger about the battlefield and then explode. That was a fun one to read when I was 10 years old :)

The statement of how space elfs riding space dinosaurs are the coolest thing we don't have is wrong it is the dinosaur desk that the twin fists sub daddy of the ultra smurfs had

The pirates were arguably the precursors to Forgeworld's Corsair/Anhrathe army list from DoM, rather than the Dark Eldar, sadly 'space elf ninja pirates with jetpacks' was too beautiful a thing for this world so James squatted them in the move to 8th. Not that I'm salty my army became illegal :P

Another ruddy fantastic video! Man, I need this book especially since it details exodites! I wasn't an Eldar fan for ages but then I read a short story in the warhammer 40,000 compendium and it totally changed my opinion on them

rewatching this video now that the 9th edition codex is out, its cool that some of this stuff has made a comeback, exarch warrior powers and rangers on jetbikes for example

Ohh, a Yule Pat for all uf from Snipe and Wib.

Nice.

RE: Dragon Knights I used to put Shining Spear figures on Cold Ones, then add a fancy long penant on the lance. Then use the Shining Spear rules

Oh, Wib has become a Lost and the damned chaos warrior

I just stumbled onto your channel but "Bring them back James Workshop, you inveterate coward." and everything about it is why I'm going to stay.

The Eldar I think need to be pushed by GW more as a multi media thing. I think their strength versus nearly any other faction is their history and concept are simple and really compelling. An animated Netflix show in the style of Castlevania that opens on the Birth of Slaneesh and shows how existentially horrible that event was? Cut to tens of thousands of years later onto a craftworld where they spend time explaining how Craftworlds work before setting up they found more Soul Stones on a Nid inhabited world and then cut to a battle scene that shows off their incredibly badass tech, mechs and tanks as well as a Phoenix Warrior in action and what exactly a small group (relative to anybody else in 40K ) can do their extreme specialization. Have a few die to the Nids and show the process with which they preserve their culture and the toll even that takes on a Craftworld due to the lingering knowledge it's only prolonging the inevitable. It'd print money, it's easy to get the gist quickly and understand why the Craftworld does what it does. You could also have a nightmare fuel fest about the Dark Eldar later after subtly building them up for ppl who don't know. I really think they could print money with it, especially if they went all in on animating how the lore says they fight. I think it's way easier to just understand with little information compared to the Imperium which is by it's very design needlessly complex and has a lot of stuff goin on. I also just want GW to hire top class animators to make a Harlequin vs Daemons in the Warpay battle.

I loved the art from this period.

I read through this Codex so many times. Also just spent hours looking at the pictures.

I want like this at least twelve times. Nostalgia is good. Spirit stones.... lols!

i loved my war walkers, those 6 barrel thingies were great

What a perfect Christmas this has become. Thank you

Snipe's festive antlers bring me so much joy.

Just found your channel yesterday (corona-quarantine ftw) and today I know I need a Snipe with antlers in my life. That escalated quickly. Great review of the Codex. When skimming through I thought: hey those are the warp spider models still sold today! How about an update on those, eh? Edit: oh, one other thing. I was appalled by the pronunciation of the Phoenix Lords names. I mean the pronunciation was okay as in "sounds like proper english" but for my german-mother-tongue ears pronouncing the names more germany-ish fits them soooo much better.

So you're saying that the dino-riding dinos of the lizardmen are officially the best codex ever I approve!

"When another codex lets you ride dinosaurs, we'll talk" Huh...that statement is odd now since we got new ork squig-osaurs

Merry Christmas! The elf on a shelf joke made me laugh even though its midnight and the rest of my family are trying to sleep.

I own the German Version, which was my first 40k Purchase back in the nineties. It is one of my most highly prized treasures.

That old War Walker was just the predecessor to that Grey Knight's baby carrier mech

You had me at "elf on a shelf"

-There's a new episode of Codex Compliant Open the gate! -It's not 2nd/3rd Ed Tyranids Close the gate! -It's Eldar Open the gate a little!

Ah you missed the fact that you could have an Exarch preform a lobotomy on a Hive Tyrant.

Ahhh my first Codex. The nostalgia

Liked as soon as the elf on the shelf joke was uttered. That's as Christmasy as I get....

This episode is special to me because that Codex is the first one I ever owned.

Please never stop doing these

Watching your videos while painting my first army, really fun

90s house music version of Little Drummer boy. I half expected rap to occur.

I am French and I like your accent (and all your codex compliant videos of course)

0:01 And here I sit, crying in still not having an Exodite army list. 3:03 Fun fact: "world-ship" is literally the word for Craftworlds in the German translation of 40k. 9:25 Actually, since I'm very much in favour of a complete re-do of the Craftworld Aeldari for 9th edition, I'd be down to re-introducing exploding wraithguard (I completely forgot about them being able to do that in the Ancient Times, but it was fun as hell). 10:02 I would even be in favour of having Exarchs as independent characters again, in a roughly similar role to 9th edition Adepta Sororitas Preachers, buffing their respective aspect warrior units with aura abilities. Also, they should be much more powerful and versatile than they are now. 11:41 I whole-heartedly agree.

if they brought back Eldar that ride dinosaurs, I wouldn't utterly hate Eldar and wish for their entire extinction.

I vibe with this codex so much. Sad we don’t have the plastics now and the creativity options of then

Ahh the antlers with decorations. Only the finest.

Epic scale wave serpents XD the sail looking thing was the shield generator, i have some somewhere! They were based on greek troop skiffs called Tri-reme that would cary 20 or so marines

ELVES RIDING DINOSAURS! If GW brings those back I'd start collecting Eldar again.

The flyer commented upon at 10:51 is the Night-wing interceptor (as it was released for Epic once upon a time), bearing no semblance to the current iteration available in 40k today.

Fine choice with the Jazz Jackrabbit christmas music at the end :P

Those exarch powers were great. The one where you can break from melee without sustaining any hits was great for Howling Banshees. Charge in your enemy gets no attacks. Jump out then charge back in.

Nothing has brought me so much joy in 40k recently as this callout to James Workshop.

I will remind Snipe that the Tau effectively have dinosaurs with riders in Kroot Knarloks