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 MajorStoffer wrote:
I really don't dig GW's current penchant for big MCs. What happened to tanks or kick-ass infantry squads?

Mega units don't have to be some mecha-godzilla, and only a few factions are really suitable for that. Eldar already have the Avatar and Wraithlord, there's a precedent, but I don't feel its needed.

I mean, at this rate, what, will the Guard have a giant mecha-commissar? This rather predictable format of flier/oval base unit/FC characters and single plastic character is not terribly exciting.

I doupt IG will get some. DA didnt.
SM might get something like the forge fiend.
Tyranids, well that is their thing.
Flesh golem for DE?
Spacewolfs? They have wolf cavalry(A unit i think should ONLY exist for deamons and tyranids) they are silly.



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 Kroothawk wrote:

Bigred @ BOLS wrote:Stats for the Eldar "Knight" main gun:

"Pulsar Lance"
Primary fire mode:
36" S:8 AP2 Heavy 2, Lance

Overcharge mode (weapon may not fire next turn)
48" S:10 AP1 Heavy 1, Blast, Lance

Str 10 Lance?
May the gods have mercy.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

Overcharge mode (weapon may not fire next turn)
48" S:10 AP1 Heavy 1, Blast, Lance

Str 10 Lance?
May the gods have mercy.

With all the talk of a big powerful lance weapon, I wonder if it will be this Knight model in 40K scale?



I would rather the Towering destroyer though. Four arms would make it really unique on the tabletop. All the speculation of course also assumed the GW designers of the new model care about Epic 40K at all for inspiration. Because the Eldar could get a plastic Nightwing interceptor as their flyer, but aren't in favor of something sounding totally different.

I still hope the brightstallion.
We need more stupidity.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I still hope the brightstallion.
We need more stupidity.

Leave the stupidity for the orks, I prefer my eldar more refined.

To be honest I wouldn’t mind a Bright Stallion. At least it’d be interesting, and not just a bigger Wraithlord. Sure it’d send all the 4Chan bronies into a talespin of self-congratulatory nonsense, but really who cares about bronies?

*Cries in corner*
Nahh, Although, Im not really expecting it TBH.

I wouldn't mind an Eldar construct that looks like Metal Gear Excelsus.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:



Flesh golem for DE?

I really hope not. I wouldn't buy that, either. In fact, I can't think of any huge, oval based thing for DE that would seem right. It's one of those armies that such a thing just doesn't feel right, to me at least.

CWE, at least, have a previous history of things in the Knight size range, however much I dislike the look of most of them and hope they get a redesign if they appear.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
To be honest I wouldn’t mind a Bright Stallion. At least it’d be interesting, and not just a bigger Wraithlord. Sure it’d send all the 4Chan bronies into a talespin of self-congratulatory nonsense, but really who cares about bronies?

I enjoy MLP, and DON'T want the Bright Stallion. The only reason to buy one would be if I could figure out how to convert it into something that I'd feel was more welcome in my army.

shade1313 wrote:
I enjoy MLP, and DON'T want the Bright Stallion. The only reason to buy one would be if I could figure out how to convert it into something that I'd feel was more welcome in my army.

Good for you. I liked the Bright Stallion before MLP was even a thing.

*readjusts ironically over-sized glasses and continues listening to indie bands you’ve never heard of*

Some of the new High Elves plastic stuff looks good. I hope new Eldar look similar in quality.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

Str 10 Lance?
May the gods have mercy.

Tyranids have had a deep strikeable S10, AP1 lance since their 5th edition book.

My gaming group is already calling this new construct the "Butt Stallion" (clue: Borderlands 2)

 Ma55ter_fett wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I still hope the brightstallion.
We need more stupidity.

Leave the stupidity for the orks, I prefer my eldar more refined.

(Edit: this is how they *could* make it look, I possess no actual information what so ever) Do not think of the generic horse-body. Make the upper portion of the legs slimmer than what you usually find on living animals, in particular the rear. The body should also be slimmed down to a point where if it were an animal, it'd be starving. Center the torso-head on the middle of the body, not to the front. The torso should have a slim wasp-waist leading up to a typical Wraithlord chest with a decorated head. For extra Kali-effect, give it four arms with customizable weaponry - both melee swords and shooting weapons. For extra alien effect make the body omni-directional.

Keep in mind that the Bright Stallion is an old figure from the Egyptian-pose era made for a game of a smaller scale than normal 40k. All models in that range looks goofy.

 Kroothawk wrote:

Bigred @ BOLS wrote:Stats for the Eldar "Knight" main gun:

"Pulsar Lance"
Primary fire mode:
36" S:8 AP2 Heavy 2, Lance

Overcharge mode (weapon may not fire next turn)
48" S:10 AP1 Heavy 1, Blast, Lance

Waaa!, I just squealed inside. If true then I can see my mate keeping his 2-3 battlewagons he runs in every game not so close together. Currently he blocks them up like a wall and angles them for max armour and cover. With a lance at S:10, blast there is a good chance to popping/crippling two in one shot. BS:3 or 4? that's the question now.

 whembly wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

Overcharge mode (weapon may not fire next turn)
48" S:10 AP1 Heavy 1, Blast, Lance

Str 10 Lance?
May the gods have mercy.

This bothers me a tad.... Update from BoK -

-Universal Fleet including the Avatar. The Wraith stuff though won't have fleet.
-Old independent character special rules moved to Warlord Traits
-Jet Bikes moved back to Fast Attack (IC to unlock to troops)
-Eldar psychic powers nerfed: some powers disappearing, random table, focus on witchfire
-Warlocks can only use Eldar specific psychic powers
-Runes of Warding Nerfed: No longer board wide
-Farseer 2 wounds
-Eldrad Mastery Level 4, Staff of Ulthamar similar to Ahirman staff
-Almost all Phoenix Lords lose Eternal Warrior have cost reductions
-Exarch's must be included in all Aspects units. (Sergeant Character)
-Don't expect many changes with the Aspect warriors just cleaning up old rules and such
-Dark Reapers, Swooping Hawks, and Banshees see the biggest cost drops and anti-flyer additions
-Guardians 7 points a piece
-Vehicles will have either no cost reduction of very minor reduction (5pts) with Vypers benefiting the most
-Vehicles come stock with shuriken cannons vehicle savings come with cheaper weapon upgrades and wargear
-Eldar Flyers first to get Vector Dancer (minus Forge World of course)
-Don't be surprised to see Giant Wraithlord with T8 and Will not Die

The Eldar codex in essences won't reinvent the wheel this is update to bring them in line with 6th edition units costs and such and with Phil Kelly supposedly once again at the helm expect the changes to be more like Chaos Space Marine codex and less like the Chaos Daemons codex.
Don't expect to see any new Aspect molds with maybe Swooping Hawks getting an update.

Giant Wraithlord with T8? Meaning the existing WL won't be T8.

I guess GW really does still think it's pre-TAR 3rd Ed when Wraithlords were all the rage.

That list from BoK is just pure wishlisting/speculating without any rumour source, he even states as much in his article:
http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2013/05/08/rumor-it-eldar-expect/

Basically he just made the entire list up.

Edit: fixed link

the latest rumours make a very sad panda;

-no point reductions on vehicles
-psychic power nerf
-farseer nerf
-guardians still 7 points( if there is no drastic change at their weapons and stat line this is still too expensive)

But these are only rumours, hope the codex in a gneral will be good.

edit: redemption is right

"Well I have bunch of hunches on what you can expect to see from the new Eldar codex..."

I'm just tired of armies getting Monstrous Creature "walkers" left and right, while Marines and Guard are stuck with useless Dreadnoughts and Sentinels, respectively

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
I'm just tired of armies getting Monstrous Creature "walkers" left and right, while Marines and Guard are stuck with useless Dreadnoughts and Sentinels, respectively

Yep, because Marines are the ugly step child that gets no love from GW at all

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Good for you. I liked the Bright Stallion before MLP was even a thing.
*readjusts ironically over-sized glasses and continues listening to indie bands you’ve never heard of*

My Little Pony – 1983
WD126 – 1990

Design team:

GW designers – proto-bronies?

 Kroothawk wrote:

BoLS wrote:Aspect Warriors are moving to plastic using the "combo-unit" dual-build format GW has moved to of late. We'll leave it up to you to guess which aspects could be paired off into combo-kit boxes with differing heads/weapon options.

My guess: Banshees will look like dudes

So? Some of them are dudes. Female Aspect warriors that look like dudes has been the norm since forever.

 Morachi wrote:
This bothers me a tad.... Update from BoK -

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2013/05/40k-rumors-eldar-tongues-are-wagging.html
Really classy of BoLS to take a random speculation by TastyTaste, delete the part where he says it is his personal speculation, and then present it as the latest rumour

@Scottywan82: Expect the new Eldar background to reveal the reason for Eldar being a dying race: They are dudes and crossdressing dudes, with all females killed during the fall.
Reason for the delayed Sororitas Codex? They are still working on an explanation, why all sororitas are also crossdressing dudes so that the sculptors don't have to learn how to sculpt female looking women.

Indeed, and what's even worse is I cut and pasted that from the BoLS feed... on an iPhone, while commuting... feeding the dodginess. I appologise, my bad. Lesson learned, don't commute and paste. You might just save a life.

shade1313 wrote:
In fact, I can't think of any huge, oval based thing for DE that would seem right. It's one of those armies that such a thing just doesn't feel right, to me at least.

Plastic tantalus? Or some other large skimmer with a big gun on it, maybe.

Glad to see the new rumors are most likely bs, but I still don't expect much from the new codex. I imagine they might not end up being that far off in the end.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
I'm just tired of armies getting Monstrous Creature "walkers" left and right, while Marines and Guard are stuck with useless Dreadnoughts and Sentinels, respectively

I'm sure they'll get their share as soon as a "new ancient super-robot STD pattern" is discovered by the adepts of the machine god in some remote part of the galaxy, don't worry.

In relation to the flyers, Best_Pone (who also got the new High Elf models right) on Warseer posted this:

best_pone wrote:The main hull and wings are common across both builds. It's amazing how different tail and fin positioning can alter the look of the aircraft though

Common features:
- Downward angling of the primary wings (about 30º I'd estimate)
- Canards are very slightly angled down, but near horizontal
- Engines are mounted in pods in the wings
- One weapon mounted centreline under the hull, and one in a pod in each wing

Hemlock:
- Has a single vertical stabiliser mounted on the centreline of the aircraft

Nightshade:
- Twin "vertical" stabilisers (they're actually about 30º from horizontal), one mounted on each engine pod.

So the new Eldar flyer will be a dual kit, making either a flyer called the Hemlock or the Nightshade. He also mentioned they somewhat remind him of a flyer from an anime show called Battle Fairy Yukikaze.

In relation to the new Wraith construct, he said it is called the Wraithknight and that it is very tall, large enough to look down upon current flyer models.

Some of the things on that list were obviously fake. Eldar focusing on witchfire when their whole schtick has been seeing the future forever? Farseers being two wounds when they are the mainstay HQ? Actually, that's about it, the rest are pretty believable. I really hope Phoenix Lords don't lose eternal warrior though, it fits their fluff so well. If they do, then hopefully they have some sort of Exarch-regenerating power.

 Redemption wrote:


In relation to the new Wraith construct, he said it is called the Wraithknight and that it is very tall, large enough to look down upon current flyer models.

They might as well put titans in normal 40k games and call it a day.