i love how effective eliphas is at spooking his enemies, except the necrons, they spooked him.

Eliphas: You come to death Necron. I will send you back to your tomb. Necron Lord: Vanilla Dawn of War II won't have Chaos Space Marines. Eliphas: No. That cannot be so.

... I swear Eliphas is secretly hitting on Tal'deer.

The Tau know not to feed the trolls

That Necron had some sick burns.

Eliphas calls the Necrons soulless, then acts surprised when the necron has no soul?

Apparently the Tau have no warp presence, so the whole time Eliphas is talking the commander thinks his own people won't shut up. It's clever and hilarious writing.

Loll the tau are all "lost all my contacts, who dis?"

I can just imagine some Chaos Sorcerers nervously debating who should be the one to tell Eliphas that O'Kais can't actually hear him, and just letting him continue on and on for the rest of the battle.

i find the tau not understanding the guy hilarious on top of the chaos bastard's shock that the necrons have no souls

Eliphas: you come to your death necron. and I will send you back to your tomb. Necrons:........ Eliphas: No.. that cannot be so. Necron Soldier: My lord, I just realized that the comms array is off, they didn't hear our response, should I re-transmit? Necron Lord: Nah, Lets keep up with the silent treatment. It is freaking these guys out. hehe

lol freaking tau are not even aware Eliphas is talking to them, and the orks get trolled XD

Eldar: Afraid of chaos. Orks: Tortured by whispers in their heads. Tau: Finds chaos influence mildly annoying.

When I first played DC, I thought that the Tau brushing off Eliphas was just a sort of 'ignore the annoyance' sort of thing, now that I'm more familiar with the lore I understand the Tau/Chaos interactions better.

If O'Kais is actually the protagonist of "Fire Warrior", it's safe to say his desire to eliminate the chaos threat with no hesitation is probably him remembering the trauma Chaos caused him. This honestly makes it all the more powerful imo, few Tau understand the threat of Chaos, but O'Kais DOES.

Necrons are great orators.

”Yes come into my home Taldeer.” I'm sorry? That doesn't sound like a Slaanesh thing at all, no sirree

I think eliphas had some horrifying realization about the necrons. The necron used to have souls but their gods the c'tan ate them. Plus the necrons are actually older than chaos since it was their war with the old ones and the eldar the created the warp and chaos in the first place. I think eliphas realized that these "soulless automatons" are actually older than his gods and was horrified.

The Necrons responses are more creepy then anything Eliphas says.

Translations of Necron Lord speech : COME AT ME BRO !!!

I love that the only time in the entire Dawn of War series where Elpihas’ composure breaks is when he realises just what the Necrons really are

I love how well Dark Crusade showed how dreaded the Necrons are, even Eliphas has some small fear of them.

Eliphas: _"Alien, you come here to your doom."_ O'Kais: "y'all hear sumn"

Sisters of Battle: Entry: Eliphas: "The Emperor sends his harlots after me? How quaint. How do you wish to die this time?" Selena: "Our sisters have never died in vain and today will be no different, traitor!" Eliphas: "Of course not, my mistake. Are your Grey Brothers with you as well?" Prisoners: Sister: "Oh, Holy Father... Our sisters are held captive by Chaos forces!" Selena: "Fear not, sister. Their faith protects them from this vile realm! Quickly, rescue them from their clutches!" End: Eliphas: "So the Emperor's bridesmaids have finally come. Your efforts are laudable but wasted." Selena: "Your existence is crime against the Emperor, heretic! We will send you back to your depraved masters in pieces!" Eliphas: "A pity. Khorne would have welcomed you with open arms."

Chaos Lord: "Alien, you come here to your doom" Tau Commander: "I've got a buzzing in my Comms. Switching Channel." *CLICK* *tootootoot*

Does anybody else think Eliphas was trying to seduce Taldeer?

Tyranid : Eliphas : You will never be able to use our flesh, bug !!! Genestealer Alpha : All lifeform on this world his the prey of the Great Devourer. If you can't be consume, then we will destroy you, as any other rival, Malefactor End : Eliphas : Yes, send all you have Great Devourer. Send billions of skull for the Skull Throne, River of blood for the Blood God Genestealer Alpha : The Hive-Mind will be the one who feast this day, Malefactor.

As an earlier comment pointed out, the Tau are immune to the warp and O'Kais really only heard buzzing.

"Soulless automatons! You cannot prevail against chaos!" **squeak** :3

Eliphas : No... That cannot be so *SPOOKY SCARY SKELETON* Eliphas : No... That cannot be so... *[Skeleton Shriek]*

Eliphas : The Blood Pulse will kill all of your infantry *Use Rhino transport* Carron : Look! Rhinos! RRRRRRHHHHIIIIIIINNNNNOOOSSSSS! Our enemies hide in METAL BAWKSES, DA KOWARDZ! TEH FEWLZ!! We...(asthma) We should take away their METAL BAWKSES!

Because Tau have such a weak Warp presence, O'Kais couldn't hear Eliphas' mind babbling, and it came off as mere noise in the comms. I love it.

I'm replaying Dark Crusade. It bugs me that the Necrons are affected by the blood pulse. It bugged me even more that I couldn't use the Resurrection Orb to bring back my fallen warriors. Made for a nice challenge though.

Farsight Enclaves vs. Word Bearer Legion Entry Eliphas: Interesting, these Tau seem better equipped to face us. Not that it will save them. Farsight: Brothers, among these are the same forces we faced on Arthas Moloch. These talismans should protect us here as well, while we make our approach. Prisoners Torchstar: O'Shovah! Our bond brothers are being held in chains, at the mercy of mad sorcerers. Farsight: An image not un-similar to the Tau Empire...We must free them, their release will make our Mont'ka all the more effective. End Eliphas: Gaze into the maw of the warp, Tau, and see how insignificant you truly are. Farsight: I have done so and found foul enlightenment long ago. Among such was how quickly your forces crumble to Mont'ka. Die well, Word Bearer Inheritor.

Eliphas: You are most welcome here, not even your craftworld bretheren would satisfy Slaanesh as you will Archon: So the lesser animal speaks to me asking to feed him? Well it will be most enjoyable to gouge it a little Eliphas: You are as arrogant as always, but it only makes Slaanesh anticipate you even more End Eliphas: At last the lamb comes to the slaughter. Archon: But it will be your soul which will be offered, I hope you have a good explanation for your failure to your Daemon prince. Eliphas: But your death will satisfy Slaanesh's thirst, I will offer you personally.

I suposse that this is the traslation of Lord Necron First Part: -Eliphas: ''Soulless automatons! you cannot prevail against chaos!'' -lord necron: ''We will, we gave our souls to our gods, and we will help you to be next.'' -Eliphas: ''It...your soul is gone. I will destroy you.'' End: -Eliphas:''You come to your death necron. I will send you back to your tomb! '' -lord necron: ''We will help you to go to yours first.'' -Eliphas:''No, that cannot be so.''

"You come to your death, Necron. I will send you back to your tomb." "..." "No. That cannot be so..." That was HILARIOUS...

Tau commander is definitely trolling Eliphas.

"Your subtlety astounds me ork" "Getz outta me 'ead, I said!" Eliphas and Gorgutz are awesome when they argue.

*Eliphas' reaction to the necrons underneath his helmet* "It... 😮 Your soul is gone. 😳 I will destroy you." 😠

Necrons: h Chaos: bY THE WARP

I love how the Tau commander just thinks Eliphas is messing with his radio. He straight-up IGNORED chaos!

genuine fear,coming from chaos,now that is unique

Black Heart Kabal vs. Word Bearers Legion Entry Eliphas: You?! You look different, Eldar. Are you devoted to Slaanesh? Tahril: No, I am surprised that our corrupted souls will no longer manipulated by Slaanesh. We are independent from your Warp Gods, Inheritor. End Tahril: Even Slaanesh will not control us, Eliphas. Perhaps you will embrace a new deity. Eliphas: How about you will succumbed to the Chaos Undivided and your corrupted souls will soon disappear forever. Tahril: Oh... I disappear, once you are dead.

Chaos: Soulless automatons ! You cannot prevail aganist chaos! Nekron: Lucky creatures. At long last you have found the tranquility of death. Chaos: It...your soul is gone. I will destroy you! Nekron: I was like you, once, clinging to life and blind to the truth.

Am I the only one who thinks there's some UST between Eliphas and Taldeer?

Eliphas getting ignored by the Tau and Necrons is hilarious.

0:47 Why are you surprised they have no souls? You just finished yelling 'soulless automatons'

Eliphas realizing that the Necron souls are gone is priceless.

Godamnit what happened to this Eliphas?

Tau: "Why is everybody so crazy?!"

... sounds like -love- rape can bloom on a battle field. Watch your drink around him Taldeer.

Eliphas: "Alien, you come here to your doom." O'Kais: "I've got a buzzing in my comms, switching channels." Now THIS is just hilarious.

"You come to your death, Tau." "And shut down that comm chatter." "Can you hear me ? Hello ? Do you hear my telepathic messages at least ? Oh come on, don't tell me I've been threating the wind. This is insulting. HEY, I CAN HEAR YOU LAUGH BEHIND !"

"your subtlety astounds me, ork"

Orks of Armageddon vs Word Bearers. Eliphas: You're like every Ork, bound to die by my hands. Ghazghkull: Funny, I waz gonna say da same ta yew and yer gogs. Mid: Ghazghkull: Yew Chaos gitz neva learn new fings, not even wif yer big boyz around. Eliphas: I have plenty more to spare, Ork. End: Ghazghkull: When I'ze thru wiv you, you can tell yer gods dat dey can kiss me arse! Eliphas: I will see you dead myself, Ork!

Necron Lord: The 6th edition is being released without you, the Orks, or Eldar getting an update for this one. Eliphas: No, that cannot be so. Necron Lord: Really, you don't believe that even with FOUR of the eight codexs being Space Marine ones. Eliphas: "Commits suicide"

Even though Eliphas and Taldeer usually has the best lines against other commanders, O'kais just pwns him here, even though it's not on purpose. "I've got a buzzing in my comms. Switching channels" And "You come to your death, alien." "And shut down that comms chatter!"

Bloodletter waiter: Follow me please....FML... Taldeer: Oh Isha's tears....ffs. Eliphas: (Poors drink) Wine? :3 Taldeer: (Shrugs) Sure....why the hell not....T-T

Eliphas: Soulless automatons! You cannot prevail against Chaos! Necron: Magic was nothing to us, forever ago, psycher. It shall return to nothing. Eliphas: It...Your soul is gone! I will destroy you. Eliphas: You come to your death, Necron! I will send you to your tomb. Necron: I've been enjoying my death for eons, moreso than you've enjoyed your gods. Come. You'll feel new freedom, in oblivion, just as you preached to your gilded brethren. Eliphas: No... That cannot be so.

Eliphas secretly love Taldeer

Eliphas:yes come to my home tal'der Tal'der:am here to destroy you....b...baka

SOULLESS CREATURE! *5 seconds later* wait, you dont have a soul! i didnt know this!

1:40 O'Kais total troll eliphas XD

Imagine thinking up some sick burns only to get ignored by some aliens

Eliphas has such a dominating voice against all but the Necrons. Otherwise he verbally rag dolls them.

Eliphas: “Alien, you come here to your doom!” Kais: “New phone, who dis??”

is Eliphas hitting on taldeer?

"Soulless automatons! Wait, you actually are soulless? That wasn't just a joke?"

Eldar: Old enemies, Eldar are painfully aware of the corruption of chaos Orks: Pissed off at the voices in their head Necrons: Nothing, no effect Tau: Physically can’t hear the word of chaos Humans: Very susceptible to chaos Tyranids: EAT CHAOS

0:33 he calls Necrons "soulless automatons", and few soconds after that, he is shocked by discovery that Necron are soulless. I mean, Eliphas is cool AF (at least his DoW 1 version), but he should make up his mind

Hurray for O'Kais!

Necron. No more needed to say.

Chaos: "Soulless automatons! You cannot prevail against Chaos!" Necrons: *mumble* Chaos: "You... you cold heartless monsters, how could you say such a thing that really heart my cold dark feeling :("

Why was he so scared by the necrons?

Necron Lord: Matt Ward will soon rape everyone's fluff. Eliphas: No, that cannot be so

He looked inside the Necrons head and it was just straight up empty lol.

Interesting detail that the Tau characters don't even really hear Eliphas. Because of the very weak presence that Tau have in the warp, Eliphas's actual words don't reach the commander's mind, he's just dimly aware of something buzzing in his ears, and assumes it's an issue with his coms.

God I wish they kept this voice actor for Rising and Retribution. No offense to Steve Blum, but he doesn't quite have that delicious condescending tone.

I wonder if Eliphas ever would have figured out all his clever telepathic taunting was lost on the Tau. I wonder if any of his subordinates would have noticed before him and were unwilling to point out they couldn't hear him and then just awkwardly laughed alongside him when was marveled at his own witty dialogue in the battle.

Love the Necron and Tau takes.

"Soulless Automaton!" *two seconds later* "Wow, your soul is gone. I would never have guessed"

I’ve always loved the voice acting in DoW1, the VCs feel like actual characters from the Warhammer universe. That hesitant stutter from Eliphas when taunting the Necrons about the power of chaos has so much more weight than most voiced stuff in video games today

0:40 "Silently charges gauss rifle."

Eliphas: Calls a Necron soulless Also Eliphas: is surprised when a Necron has no soul

Your subtlety astounds me, ork.

"You come to your death Necron! I will send you back to your tomb!" "Look, just because my ice cream van broke down-" "No. that cannot be so."

I swear I can hear the necrons whispering something in thier dialogue, but it is extremely faint The second almost sounds like " I've already been there ", which could be a nod to their reanimation? Or is my brain just filling in the blanks? 😅

Eliphas the Inheritor: "Alien, you come here to your doom!" Shas O Kais: "I've got a buzzing in my comms, switching channels."

"I've waited a long time to speak with you, Taldeer" "Your whispers will not drive me from my present course, Eliphas" "Oh, I certainly hope not. It is your destiny that has brought you to me." "Yes come into my home, Taldeer" "I've come to destroy you monster!" "Then why do I hear fear in your ancient voice?" lol is Eliphas trying to hit on Taldeer here?! Nice job BigDickCheney please keep making the rest!

Gorgutz' reaction is just priceless! :D

1:10 Fuck ya Doin' in Mah Swamp

as awesome as chaos is, you just have to love his reaction to the necrons. they are the only ones who instilled even the slightest bit of fear. "...." "I-..Your soul is gone.. I will destroy you.."

Thanks to the Tau we discover that eliphas wasn't speaking with telepathy , but interfering with the radio channels.

Old One dialogue Eliphas: Well isn’t this a surprise, I had assumed that your kind were exterminated by the creatures of the warp long ago. Old One: Yes, and I would have assumed that one of our failed experiments would have died off before they left their own planet. Humanity was too primitive to have fought alongside us in the war in heaven, and you are more primitive now to follow Chaos. Eliphas: Very well then, my lords will be than pleased with me to slay the last survivor of your foul race. End of dialogue Old One: I could not be more disgraced to still live in this fallen galaxy. Eliphas: The only thing that has fallen is you, vile toad! Old one: Burn in your precious warp fire sorcerer, you can not contend with the gods that crafted the very skin on your bones.

Tyranids assault against the Deimos Peninsula Sorcerer : My Apostle, I sense a disturbance in the Warp. Something is trying to cut us from our Dark Gods Eliphas : Yes...I sense the presence of the Hive-Mind. It tries to banish our powers from this place. Admirable efforts, but for nought so long as we defend the Portal. Prisonner Sorcerer : Your flesh bleed like any other alien, Tyranids. If the Dark Gods cannot have your souls, they will have your blood. End Eliphas : A pity we can't make use of your strenght Tyranids. You could have been a cute pet for me and my legionnaires. Warriors of the Warp ! Destroy these blasphemous beings. Action report : Porjecting a Warp-disturbance known as the Shadow in the Warp, the Tyranid Hive-Mind often block the entry of daemonic legions into realspace with its mere presence. But when the Hive-Fleet first landed on Kronus, Eliphas had already torn the fabric of reality. Confrontation between the Great Devourer and the Word Bearers was inevitable, should one desire full control of the planet. After the battle, the creatures of the Swarm adopted a most unusual attitude. Rather than consume the flesh of the warriors and cultists in Deimos, as they did in other places, the Tyranids procedeed to carefully exterminate any survivor and destroy their remains. Once this purge was complete, the Swarm simply moved to another land, richer in biomass.

Eliphas: You come to your doom, alien! T’au: Y’all hear sumth’n?

" I IGNORE YOU!" Tau are absolutely priceless when it comes to "warp" powers.

"...and shut down that com chatter" lol

eliphas: soulless automatons! You can not prevail against chaos! necron lord :..... eliphas: It...your sould is gone. I will destroy you. necron pariah: my lord, i forget to holdthe transmit button, would you still like to try to talk necron lord: nah, this is fun scaring the shit out of chaos