I made a post awhile back about for the Eldar - they should use the speed of executions to help reinforce our roles. A Banshee should be able to wrist-flick a finishing blow while hardly breaking stride - finishing off the downed is her lot in life. A Reaper shouldn't be pulling out his combat knife to play around in a Space Marines blood - unless he's just doing it to humiliate the Marine: at which point the animation should be slow and gruesome. Warlocks should have quick kills before they return to the fray, Banshees should be sprinting up into melee to take the last hits. Dragons and Reapers should be shooting from one target to the next - downing enemies and providing cover for the more melee-oriented and support roles to do their thing: this reinforces the specialization of an Eldar Warhost. Scorpions should probably have one of each execution for different purposes. On the one hand, as a melee / assassin / defense playstyle - their pistol execution should be quick and expert. On the other hand - to get the Scorpion feel right - I think they also need to have a nice slow messy kill - like placing their chainsword against the SM's throat, and a hand behind their head - and lifting their prey overhead - eyes to alien eyes - until the blade carves right through and the body collapses down - head still in hand. Scorpions are not nice people to meet in a dark alley - their kill should reflect their reverie for melee combat.
It would make sense. Warlocks should just use psychic abilities and make head explode. I think you are right with them being more fast and efficient than LSM / CSM
We need to remember that the time it takes to execute should be roughly the same as for everyone else, or else it is a clear advantage for us, unless they balance it somehow. Just imagine the whining there would be, if Eldar were able to execute way faster than the mon'keigh
I was going to mention too, that they were looking at shortening execution times. It's sort of a shame because I like how brutal the Chaos executions are and I hope the Ork executions are somewhat similar. What I don't understand is why people think it shouldn't make you vulnerable.. The thing is you don't usually just execute someone mid-battle unless there isn't any other threat around or it's being dealt with.. so really executions should be used only in that kind of context. But there are some things that could be changed. Which are probably off-topic.. and in breach of NDA.... MAEL DANNAN!
+1 /'ead 'splodes for Warlocks I think that Eldar executions should be quite gruesome. We need our share of the grue! And if Aspects can get Exarch weapons then would it be a stretch if we got Harli weps for our executions? The Kiss, the Caress and Cegorach's Rose are all prime choices for some fast and awesome death animations.
This opens an old can of worms. None of the executions have the same timeframes in game currently, all of them are slower than other similar games such as Space Marine.
@Cegorach I think it really would be a big stretch to see Harlequin weapons on regular Aspect Warriors.. even Veteran Aspect Warriors, they just don't have them. Plus we hope and pray to Cegorach that we get Harlequins in all their glory as an Elite/Hero Class later on. My my the Flip Belts and Holo Suits would be magical.. Also as for the gruesomeness.. has someone spent a little too much time with Khaine? @Zed-Avatar Space Marine had executions?! Also yes, but they are probably going to change..
I cannot find the old execution discussion thread, its buried somewhere in the history of the site. Someone should start a game mechanics annals. Here is a taste of SM executions. They are all diferent lengths too, some ridiculously quick, some as slow as the EC ones. View: https://youtu.be/vpDYLij_eKg
Ohh yes, the executions in the campaign, I remember now for some reason I was only thinking about the multiplayer. These are all very cool aren't they? Also seem to show Space Marines being quite flexible, not quite sure about that part.
