The Eldar running animations are stiff and wooden and need a rework. I am not too impressed with the over the top acrobatics either and would have imaged that that would be the realm of Harlequins or Banshees rather than Avengers. Rolls and slides would have been far more useful. Grace is needed in the animations. There is none in the current standing poses and running - arguably the two most important 'stances'.
Currently, what I want to say everytime I run around is... "yolololololololol..... Yololololololololo". I mean, with the current animation, are you afraid of a Striking Scorpion running at you? No. Yet you should because you're gonna die soon! Same thing with the accidentally released-reverted Banshee. They are not threatening, they don't seem lethal or deadly. but they are. They don't seem like the alert xeno soldiers about to slay you with grace... no... And well that's lacking. Standing is .... weird aswell. in the best case scenario, I'd like a different standing animation/stance for each aspect: - Banshees would be standing tall, (the DoW1 Banshee stance was sweet imo) - Scorpions would be a little vaulted, more like someone that would rather not be seen. - Dire Avengers and Fire Dragon would have feet apart (more than what they have), exposing their flanck onward, in order to reduce their hitable "front" side. ... and so on
I'd even improve a bit landing animations depending on height you jump from and land to the ground - for low heights animations seem pretty correct, to my mind - all of eldar slightly bend their knees to amortize weight of their bodies, but when they fall from big heights this animation seems pretty strange - even if eldar skeleton is flexible and much lighter than that of SM, their bones must be broken when they fall from such heights and land strictly on slightly bent legs, to amortize weight from such heights they need additional help, say - help with their other limbs to land successfully. What I mean is approximately shown at a pic attached below- pay no attention to a raised blade , look at her pose in whole, especially how legs are bent and left arm serves as a hold - this is approximately how an eldar can fall from big height and land without breaking his/her bones. Well, probably for Dark Reapers this pose is not appropriate, but for Banshees, Scorpions and Warlocks - definitely is. Remember just yourselves in our mon-keighs' shells - when we jump from heights, we bent our knees much and almost instinctively try to help us with our hands by using them as additional holds but remembering that we are not in movies we dont do this
And this animation when an eldar starts to swing his/her blade and sound battle cries - this looks really ridiculous . I like SM's animations in this aspect, when a shield bro swings onward with his sword as if calling his brethren to charge, I think eldar could to the same with their blades, looks impressive enough, dont know about a knife though , may be throw it a bit upwards, making it rotating in the air several times before catching its handle back, but definitely not swinging it like a blade
Yeah I kind of agree with some of these point the Eldar sprint looks a bit funny, and personally I think the flip is pretty ridiculous.
Because you are the one responsible for creating Chaos god and deaths of billions Eldar lifes and everyone blames Eldar but truth is that Dark Eldar should be blamed.
DA and hawk taunt(battle-cry) is my favourite always fill this empty shell with oOOo kawai feelings and i remember when i was 5 years child and after i scrunch one dry tear from my eye corner : o )
https://www.games-workshop.com/reso...600x620/99810104009_HowlingBansheesNEW_01.jpg https://www.games-workshop.com/reso...0x620/99810104007_StrikingScorpionsNEW_01.jpg https://www.games-workshop.com/reso...600x620/99810104012_FarseerWarlocksNEW_02.jpg https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99020104009_VaulsWrathBattery02.jpg The Craftworld Eldar have a tendency of pointing barrels up outside of a firing stance. I understand that people have their own opinions on how they feel the Eldar should move, but it's pretty well-established that they don't swagger around with their equipment when they move. I would imagine that what throws most people off about their sprint is that the Eldar don't pump their arms like the Space Marines (and most of us) do in an animated fashion.
