Cause the guard always gets the mission done...

except in the 99% of the times, when they just wait the space marines to clean their mess

The servant of Malal claims the first position. Also in relations to the pizza joke on the side...fuck the blood god. He's got two legs that aren't broken. He can get his own damn pizza, the lazy bitch. Besides, tacos rule.

Haha
Obviously they haven't been defeated. Guess what - they just jumped and blow a capital D'eltar ship. Losses: 1 SpecOps team. Reward: 1 ridiculously huge ship destroyed + hundreds of SM-pointy-ears-space-elvish-people

Concepts...
Dark Eldar don't know what a "defeat" is?

You know, the nazis where defeated on normandy beach, and of course for every nazi... ten allies where killed there? xD

Victory and defeat are relative concepts... see Stalingrad. As Heman Rut suggests, 12 imperial guards against huge ship and thousands of pointy-faces...

What about the planet
Herman, actually I think the shockwave destroyed the moon in the background as well.

Hah! Serves those biggot space-elves right. Good commando story is always fun to read

Longest monologue ever. Any half-way decent good guy would have done the deed and killed him by now.

Dark Eldar- as srg Johnson pointed out. Are the stupidiest race ever... Not even getting shagged badly by a spec op team they outnumbered 100:1 can wake them up....

I bet in the next line poor Archon will look down the guns of Tau suit that :D and pointy ears will fry.... har har har

proud
the commissar would be very proud of those guardsmen

You have to admire their inability to admit defeat.

"Yes, you destroyed our ship, wiped out most of our clan and saved your planet from invasion, but that was all part of the plan, see!!?

"You are too stupid to understand...
...when you have been defeated".

And thats coming from someone who got his Ass Whooped while claiming that Victory!

Wow
Just spent all day reading up til this point and just wow totally awesome!! Love the style and humor. Great to see imperial guard being badass... Dying horribly mind you yet still doing so with some gusto lol. Love the tau-terminator in all it's epicness.

and boom goes the diamante

If you work hard enough, you might just live long enough for the Astartes to take all the credit.

Spoken like a true Dark Eldar. The concept of self-sacrifice to attain a goal larger than yourself is completely alien to them.

So you say because the IG blew up the ship with just one squad, they won?
Blowing up a ship, while losing a whole planet in the process is a victory?
The DE came with just that one ship and conquered the whole planet. THAT I'd call the victory.
And most likely the majority of their troops was still down on the planet raping, pillaging, gathering slaves and doing whatever their debased kind does after crushing the enemy resistance.

in a way, IG won here
by destroying this DE ship, they prevented those dark eldars to go after other planets... so they sacrified a planet to delay the dark eldars :p sooo imperial tactics :p

Imperial Atomic-fusion warheads...
A Salute to all Kasrkins everywhere *Salute*
For the God-Emperor of Mankind, D'Eldar b*tches!

Self Sacrifice
See what seperates the humans from the Aliens, is that we don't notice the loss of life, while the Aliens feel it hard. Humans in the 40K universe have the numbers to absorb it. On top of that, we're willing to throw our lives away to protect others. Those 2 factors are why the Imperium still stands despite all their enemies efforts.

Teleport?!
"CREEEEED!"

Actually this just proved why humans are one of the greatest races ever

GAHHH!!! humans
frst of DE are not stupid (we have better tec.) and distrying a DE mother ship is the best way to get the Archon to wipe hundreds of systems cleen of existence.

ironhand, we know what defete is and only the most unintelligent Archon will lead there troops to defete and not get reveng in some way.
norbert, THAT WAS THE MOTHER SHIP IDIT DE mother ship = more than fifty impirial hive worlds.
Geekzoid92, actualy it's not that hard of a blow when a few DE die because they can be revived
humans defintly arn't the gratest race ever(they have yet to get the power of 100th of the old eldar empier)and the only reson that humas have srvived is because of the spacemerines and the fact that humans breed like rats.

Eldar, acient race that exept that every thing should go as planned. Humans, young race that do what they bloody feel like.
And people wonder why I play Necrons. We get to do both(and were even older than Eldar).

Wonderful, simply wonderful so far ^^ I just love the story and the art, and Sha'shiva is hot XD

Well Pyro i have to disagree. DE are stupid, since is their fault the birth of Slaanesh for example. Or like in this case DE waste time (and resource) in a civil war to declare who's the leader instead of build another ship take revenge.
Also the better tec. is held by necron.
But i agree with the fact that the humans aren't the best race ^^

Because guards always get the mission done!!!
Then die stupidly.

This is absolutely a Crowning Moment of Awesome, not just for the Imperium, but for writing a conflict between two factions you despise and still showing them as intelligently competent where appropriate - while at the same time giving a DARK ELDAR villain a backstory and motive!