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I haven't purchased a GW miniature in several years, but a decent representation of that Drazhar artwork would have my wallet out in a heartbeat.

Word on the street from Natfka and Larry Vela are that the Blood Angels and Dark Eldar will get a boxed set in between their books this fall. Here's the rumor.

One of those two will print anything passed his way and the second is a compulsive liar, so that means absolutely nothing.

The rumour had actually show up earlier than that on beasts of war,

(I believe it tracks back to Warren wittering on about the possibilities the of different campaign boxes while looking at stormclaw)

I am a little confused here. Everyone keeps crying that we don't have anything in super heavy.....Did you guys forget the Revenant Titan? That is our LOW and a darn good one at that. I am working on converting mine now hehe.

WWP needs help and so do the Coven armies.

It's an Eldar LOW shoe horned into Dark Eldar because they don't have anything like that. Not even on Forgeworld does Dark Eldar a super heavy or gargantuan.

tbh I feel like the WWP and every object who's function is similar to it ( a deployable object that allows units coming out of reserves to come out from it) should be changed to function like a Portalglyph to make up for no longer being able to assault out of them.

"During a turn in which the Webway Portal was deployed, the user may choose to either have successfully arriving reserve units enter play from base-contact of the portal for that turn, or they may instead spawn a unit of 6 warriors, witches or wracks- the unit may have up to X points' worth of upgrades (note these upgrades down on a sheet of paper for you and your opponents' benefit). The user must make this decision at the start of every turn on which the Webway Portal is on the board. Regardless of the player's decision, units entering play via the Webway Portal may not assault the turn they arrive."

Dunno. Just my opinion.

but demons don't get upgrades coming through the portaglyph. summoned demons do, not port-a-demons.

It's true.

The portalglyph also doesn't allow units coming out of reserves to enter from it, either. Dun dun dunnnnn.

My greatest hope is the decapitator is more of a relic for Dark Eldar so that he fits the fluff. Guy jumps in, target unit takes x amount of Ap2 hits and he is gone.

Definitely hoping that the Dais is a super heavy though....

Saw this in the Necron Thread.

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/08/after-nagash-come-real-evil.html

Looks like DE is up next in September.

Edit: SALT NOT INCLUDED. SOLD SEPARATELY.

I'm at a tough spot right now. I just sold my old oop DE army last month and was planning on replacing it with the new models. I have pretty much run out of stuff to paint for my SM army and want to get started on buying DE. With all these rumors though I feel like I should wait. I would assume buying a battleforce would be safe. What do you guys think? What other units do you guys think I could buy that won't change too much?

Any basic models will be a safe choice.

Wolfsblood wrote:
I'm at a tough spot right now. I just sold my old oop DE army last month and was planning on replacing it with the new models. I have pretty much run out of stuff to paint for my SM army and want to get started on buying DE. With all these rumors though I feel like I should wait. I would assume buying a battleforce would be safe. What do you guys think? What other units do you guys think I could buy that won't change too much?

I think you can't go wrong with Troops choices and their DTs.

I've the same concern.

Recently bought the DE codex off ebay for a bit cheaper than retail, and planned my army.

Just started painting some OOP Wyches as a paint scheme tester.

I plan on getting into them soon enough, but a new book gives me pause.

So troop choices, or the current battle box sound like the best option before any major changes.

Some pain tokens, trueborn, and Archon's on skyboards would be nice.

But I haven't read the book deep enough to have an opinion on special characters.


A long term dream is the build a Viking longboat/ Thieme like Super-heavy as a battle barge.

For scale with slaves, gun emplacements, and the carried squad visible.

Sort of like this:

Bets on them releasing the dark eldar as a three book set? $50 for kabals, $35 for wyches, $25 for haemonculi forces?

Goresaw wrote:
Bets on them releasing the dark eldar as a three book set? $50 for kabals, $35 for wyches, $25 for haemonculi forces?

For a xenos army? Doubtful. More likely just cut out a few special characters, tweak a few point costs, add a new kit or two, and call it a day.

Wolfsblood wrote:
I'm at a tough spot right now. I just sold my old oop DE army last month and was planning on replacing it with the new models. I have pretty much run out of stuff to paint for my SM army and want to get started on buying DE. With all these rumors though I feel like I should wait. I would assume buying a battleforce would be safe. What do you guys think? What other units do you guys think I could buy that won't change too much?

GW never put much effort into DE.
I think the new codex will contain a few minor changes, but no new models to be released. Similar to GK.

Goresaw wrote:
Bets on them releasing the dark eldar as a three book set? $50 for kabals, $35 for wyches, $25 for haemonculi forces?

I would die a little.

Nah there will be a book about Vect, he'll become a Lord of War, and that'll be it.

I predict a Vect with Dais of Destruction kit as the mandatory Lord of War when the new Codex hits. Probably the Voidraven to fill the Flyer slot? Who knows.

Don't forget the loss of most of the coven arcane gear and the copy pating of most of the unit entries. I am honestly wondering if they can fix the army, now too many units are grossly over priced for what they are, but after orks I won't hold my breath.

Raiders:
OT
Transport
Skimmer
Volatile

*volatile- If hit more then once per turn, vehicle automatically explodes and occupants are removed as well.

Goresaw wrote:
Bets on them releasing the dark eldar as a three book set? $50 for kabals, $35 for wyches, $25 for haemonculi forces?

None. They didn't do it with Orks or Space Wolves or Grey Knights (despite what the Grey Knight crutchplayers are saying--anyone who expected Inquisition stuff to remain in the GK book after they released an Inquisition Codex was deluding themselves).

I could see, as HBMC mentioned, a Vect and his Kabal book with a set of formations. Possibly the one from Valedor where your Raiders and the Kabalite Warriors/Trueborn mounted in them had Skyfire.

I would predict, however, in terms of kits:
Vect on his Dais of Destruction as the LoW and possibly with an alternate build for a Haemonculi Engine of some kind.
Kabalite Trueborn/Incubi dual kit.
Voidraven Bomber
Plastic blister of a character. Not sure if it would be an Archon, a Haemonucli, or a Succubus.

 Red Corsair wrote:
Don't forget the loss of most of the coven arcane gear and the copy pating of most of the unit entries. I am honestly wondering if they can fix the army, now too many units are grossly over priced for what they are, but after orks I won't hold my breath.

Raiders:
OT
Transport
Skimmer
Volatile

*volatile- If hit more then once per turn, vehicle automatically explodes and occupants are removed as well.

Nah, Power from Pain will now cause your units to suffer permanent soulblaze, fear all opponent's units in combat, and finally -2 leadership, upon receiving each respective pain token.

Man, a Vect + Dias kit would be sweet.

I wonder if they'd do a multi option kit for the Dais of Destruction? Would seem silly not to.

Mass tiny points drops (around 5 points) for everything except the troops and the dedicated transports, the latter of which will get a 5 point increase.

Vect gets turned into a Lord of War. Malys, the Duke and the Baron go bye-bye- a new hero might get added.

The power from pain table gets randomized, any abilities that change a unit's location on the FoC (such as into troops) gets removed. Most of the arcane wargear options are removed, a relic section is made consisting of "generic weapon+1" like assault 4 splinter-pistols, various AP2/3 swords with one or two supremely expensive buff items.

We'll get a formation giving us something marginal like a +1 to reserves when taking 3 raiders with warriors a succubus and 2 venoms with wytches. A special FoC that allows us to spam more of something we don't really take a lot of anyway.

More or less, the codex gets "stream-lined", whacky options are removed, more randomness is added in and a bunch of middling points drops are sprinkled around, mostly on the "bad" units. Dakka dakka proclaims that Mandrakes are suddenly a decent unit because they're 2ppm less.

etc

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Mass tiny points drops (around 5 points) for everything except the troops and the dedicated transports, the latter of which will get a 5 point increase.

Vect gets turned into a Lord of War. Malys, the Duke and the Baron go bye-bye- a new hero might get added.

The power from pain table gets randomized, any abilities that change a unit's location on the FoC (such as into troops) gets removed. Most of the arcane wargear options are moved, a relic section is made consisting of "generic weapon+1" like assault 4 splinter-pistols, various AP2/3 swords with one or two supremely expensive buff items.

We'll get a formation giving us something marginal like a +1 to reserves when taking 3 raiders with warriors a succubus and 2 venoms with wytches. A special FoC that allows us to spam more of something we don't really take a lot of anyway.

More or less, the codex gets "stream-lined", whacky options are removed, more randomness is added in and a bunch of middling points drops are sprinkled around, mostly on the "bad" units. Dakka dakka proclaims that Mandrakes are suddenly a decent unit because they're 2ppm less.

etc

Yeah, that seems about right.

It'll be really sad when the DE contract as an army to remove things without models.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
It'll be really sad when the DE contract as an army to remove things without models.

At the most they'll lose some special characters. No real biggie. With this plastic revolution GW is having, I'd put money on some excellent plastic character kits coming out