Title pretty much sums up the thread's question. Are you going to make a Dark Eldar army after their release, and why?

I don't know if this thread has been done before, I have a feeling it has but better to start it again now before someone else.

For me, it's more of a maybe. I don't know if I'll join.
I REALLY love the new minis, but I'm afraid the play style will be a bit punishing to learn from my time spent using Tau, as the switch to Chaos Space Marines did *shudders*.

*EDIT* Changed to poll. Answers are left simple to keep discussion going.

I'm actually thinking of finishing my SW and starting a small SM or IG army, something very British and tea-drinking maybe...

No. I have no interest in the dark eldar. Despite all the hype, I think they'll be a lot fewer people jumping to DE because it's harder to jump to a xenos race like them than it is to "counts as" an existing army like we saw with the SW and BA.

I have been sure that I'd bandwagon the bad space elves for a long time now. But after seeing the pics, I'm not so sure. The Raiders and Warriors are cool but I'm not seeing a lot else that really grabs me. Mind you, I'm not saying that the models aren't beautiful on the whole. They certainly are. Those bikes are especially making me salivate. But it's going to take some neat rules to convince me. Otherwise, I've been thinking of Ultramarines for a long time now. And, no, that's not even a joke.

purplefood wrote:I'm actually thinking of finishing my SW and starting a small SM or IG army, something very British and tea-drinking maybe...

Vostroyans for guard ^^

As for the post, I was thinking about it then I decided to go all out on my IG army coverting all that great stuff!

I hope alot of folk do actaully jump on the bandwagon with DE

Every non marine army is a good thing imo

revackey wrote:

purplefood wrote:I'm actually thinking of finishing my SW and starting a small SM or IG army, something very British and tea-drinking maybe...

Vostroyans for guard ^^

As for the post, I was thinking about it then I decided to go all out on my IG army coverting all that great stuff!

Actually was thinking about making a Praetorians army, i found some models i might be able to use. I also have a some names for platoons and the regiment overall... but that's a secret.

purplefood wrote:

revackey wrote:

purplefood wrote:I'm actually thinking of finishing my SW and starting a small SM or IG army, something very British and tea-drinking maybe...

Vostroyans for guard ^^

As for the post, I was thinking about it then I decided to go all out on my IG army coverting all that great stuff!

Actually was thinking about making a Praetorians army, i found some models i might be able to use. I also have a some names for platoons and the regiment overall... but that's a secret.

That sounds like a cool idea, good luck with it!

Jubear wrote:I hope alot of folk do actaully jump on the bandwagon with DE

Every non marine army is a good thing imo

I just hope that they don't make the DE way to good, they were already pretty competitive if you played them right with their old codex.

Well I don't know if it counts as jumping on, since the only reason I didn't get them when I re-entered the wonderful world of 40k was the rumours that a new codex/models were coming "soon".

Now the day is here, I will finish putting together/painting my 1000 or so points of Biker Marines and join the Dark Kin

del'Vhar wrote:Well I don't know if it counts as jumping on, since the only reason I didn't get them when I re-entered the wonderful world of 40k was the rumours that a new codex/models were coming "soon".

Now the day is here, I will finish putting together/painting my 1000 or so points of Biker Marines and join the Dark Kin

I was more or less the same with SW

I feel like doing a diagram of a fight between some space puppies and spiky eldar...

I am, have been, and always will be, a Chaos player.

My brothers had to practically drown me in the toilet to get me to agree to play Imperial Guard for our unified appocalypse army...

Edit: So to answer your question: Nothing will get me to jump on the Dark Eldar Battlewagon.

*raises hand* btw a poll might be a better way of discerning how many people are getting their deldar on

Yep, consider me jumping onto the bandwagon. Those models are pretty sweet and I just bought a house, so I've got plenty of room for another army...

IdK, I already have a Dark Eldar army, and with the changes in them.... eh i am not willing to buy copies of what I already have...

I will buy the new codex, and maybe.... Maybe add 500 points to the army if the new models look like they would make a good addition to the pre existing army.

I will defo be buying the new models, they look so amazing. But I am a DE player already so Im just upgrading my bandwagon wheels really.

I would, if I had the money.

The new Dark Eldar models look amazing and its nice to see this army get an update. The new models look 100x better than the previous ones.

Me personally, No I'm not. As I said the new models look amazing it's just the Dark Eldar don't peak my interests very much. If I were to start a new army after I was done with my SW I'd be more likely to go with Eldar than Dark Eldar, or SoB if they came out in plastic.

Nope, never liked the D.E fluff.
Though the new models look great though.

I said several years ago that I would start DE if they ever got updated. The awesome models, and the fact people are now to scared of my Nids to play them, just gives me more reason.

I'm not going to start DE, but I'm thinking that the new Incubi might make some neat GW wielding Chosen/Chaos Warriors for my WoC.

People considering starting DE should wait for the FAQ though. GW's current track record concerning non-SM FAQs if pretty bad.

I doubt I'll wind up getting an actual army, but I will certainly pick up a few of the miniatures to paint and perhaps make a mini-diorama from. They're too pretty to not.

That being said, if there were a way to make a cheap jetbike list at around 750 points, then maybe. Maaaaaybe. But I've already got my Orks and Lizardmen to finish first.

DiscoVader wrote:I doubt I'll wind up getting an actual army, but I will certainly pick up a few of the miniatures to paint and perhaps make a mini-diorama from. They're too pretty to not.

That being said, if there were a way to make a cheap jetbike list at around 750 points, then maybe. Maaaaaybe. But I've already got my Orks and Lizardmen to finish first.

I'm pretty much like this, too busy with other armies to commit to a new one, but i might buy a few and expand it later.

Im sure I could google this but can any of you kind chaps tell me when they new models are set to release?

purplefood wrote:I'm actually thinking of finishing my SW and starting a small SM or IG army, something very British and tea-drinking maybe...

I like the cut of yer gib sah!
Cutting the crusts off scale cucumber sarnies could be fiddly though.

Already have a DE army and cannot afford/be bottomed to build a whole new one but there are certain elements missing.
fwiw will probably get a Talos old one if the new one proves to be a duffer.
Given the release that seems highly unlikely.

Will get some mandrakes if they look cool

Pretty much have the rest.
The inclusion of the Harlies is very good news as I love their fluff and will cram in as many as poss.
However will be looking to convert the new models rather than buy the current ones. They just don't cut the mustard for me.
Not that they are bad
But the modelling possibilities with the new models for conversions is very exciting

Sorry to be speculative and probably the wrong place but what is te likely allowable Harlie component, how much may one have in the Eldar army for example please?




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asimo77 wrote:*raises hand* btw a poll might be a better way of discerning how many people are getting their deldar on

Suggested that in the run up to Games Day with people proclaiming interest and vowing allegience.
I was wondering what sort of proportion actually will

but no poll was forthcoming from Legoburner

Im on! the models are great! and im hoping the codex will be good too!

I might do up a force.

The models are great!!!!

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I wont be getting them but I hope others do. Any people not playing humanity is fine by me. Adds more variety to the game and that's never a bad thing. If DE is a smash hit hopefully GW will be more inclined to support xenos races from now on and not let them rot for 10+ years.

Been looking to make a bike centric army, and those new bikes look so fething beautiful. GET ON THE RAIDER!

I have been looking at doing DE for a while now, probably about a year ago to be my alternate army to my orks. All the rumors made me wait it out though and now I am very glad I did.

I am very impressed by the models and thought about it. Then I realized that it costs money and I don't make a lot of money, and homecoming is coming up, and I have other armies I'm working on and that I don't play enough to have 4 armies. So it's not going to work for me to start the bondage elfs

...Possibly. I already have a teeny DE force, but if they're everywhere then I won't bother. Yeah, I'm antisocial .

I won't be jumping on the band wagon, but I can see myself making a Dark Eldar army in a year or so. I know of at least 5 people at my local GW who will be leaping on the bandwagon though. So in my area the DE should be a success.

I'm a big fan of the new models. They look fantastic. I'm not sure if I'll jump on the bandwagon or not, I've got three other armies in various levels of completion. I may buy more into the hype though... Or I may just suck it up and gather up 1,500 points or so.

Either way, I'm eagerly awaiting updates.

I just started an Adeptus Mechanicus army (thanks to the fine folks at MicroArt Studios) and I still have several squads for the start of my Crusading Marines ('Counts As' Black Temparls) to build.

I can see myself getting a box of Wyches to make Techno-Gladiators for Dark Heresy, but that's about it.

Of course i'm jumping on the DE Raider, I call Shotgun!

Shamelessly joining the ranks of the Dark Eldar. Been considering a new space marine army for a long time, but the look of these models has me on board.

....besides, with the same paint scheme...they'll look cool matched up with my Fantasy Dark Elves.

TsarNikolai wrote:Of course i'm jumping on the DE Raider, I call Shotgun!

I call Dark Lance

Lord Harrab wrote:

TsarNikolai wrote:Of course i'm jumping on the DE Raider, I call Shotgun!

I call Dark Lance

If this were facebook I'd like that.

Lord Harrab wrote:

TsarNikolai wrote:Of course i'm jumping on the DE Raider, I call Shotgun!

I call Dark Lance

Looks like I'm left with the seat facing the pewter broads

I highly doubt I'm going to play them but I sure as hell am getting some wyches and Lelith Hesperax to paint.

Yep.
The combination of amazing new models and new awesome rules is irresistable.

Not only am I going to jump on this bandwagon so hard it'll snap in half under my weight, I'm also going to break my "no named characters ever for any reason" policy and buy Lelith Hesperax. If nothing else, just to paint, but I may field her.

(And yes, I have six armies, and zero named characters. )

If the fluff's good, I'm in.

If the rules are cool then maybe. I love the models. i think it is the best sculpts that GW has ever released. Models can break any chance of starting an army for me but they can never, alone, make that decision.

No, the only intrest I have with DE is what their insides look like.

Count me in on the Bandraider, but wait! I can expalin!

So I was really, really considering getting DE about a year ago, and I even ordered the codex and a battleforce. (I don't know of any stores that sell them, not even our very own battlebunker) When the models came, my eyes melted and I was blinded for a week by the ugly models. Due to my lack of commitment, I promised noone in particular that I would buy a DE force when they got a new book (kinda a joke at the time) So yeah, bandwagon all the way.

I'm considering it. But I'm drawn to whatever I think is pretty.

EVERYBODY knows. (or SHOULD know) that when a new codex comes out there will be a massive influx of players jumping onto the wagon. It's because the newest codex usually has some juicy stuff in it that makes a mockery of the other races previous to it (in some cases at-least). And people want a piece of this, ofcourse theres people who just want something new because their current army is old and boring suddenly (I kid, sorry to those who take it srsly).

to answer your question. No I won't jump into the wagon just because its a new codex and now that said codex will rape mine profusely due to new rules that counter mine.

I'm teetering on that edge, man. I just got a big ol' box of Tyranids alongside my unfinished Iron Warriors and Warriors of Chaos armies, so I think it's probably in my best interests to wait it out for a while.

Of course, come November and Christmas-list time, lord knows how bad/awesome my judgment will be.

I will not be raider-jumping/ensnared upon their slave chains/scaling nets.

I have no wish to start a DE army. Although I can see myself buying several of the kits/boxes purely to add differences to my existing CRAFTWORLD Eldar army.

The new Reavers will make kickass rides for jetbike characters.
Wych bits will see use in Guardian storm squads.

The Raider will possibly join the other vehicles for armies I don't collect in the display cabinet (I don't play Tau, Orks or Necrons either, but have both a hammerhead, a Trukk AND a monolith purely because I like the models).

Well I used to play them for a long time but sold them as I never got them painted (and TBH thought they were squatted)

However as hell has officially frozen over I might just pick them up again. The minis are awesome. Wouldn't be keen if the incubi are metal though.

Codex will be the first stop.

I gotta admit the new DE models look AWESOME (except for the witch character, IMHO she looks like she was a he that just had a part of it's manhood cut off after many years of confusion) and I'm glad they've finally been done some justice after so long. That being said I'm not going to be playing Dark Eldar any time in the forseable future, it is very tempting to do some kit bashing between the DE and DE from fantasy but I'll probably just get the codex so I can read up on their rules, fluff and have a visual source of models for future conversions.

Regardless of what the rules are I'll be pre-ordering next week just because the models are awesome and suddenly I'm bored of painting blue power armour (I actually never thought that would happen), so the Smurfs will have to sit back and watch for a while, as I build my first complete evil army (I've got bits of most armies but they temd to never get finished/the codex changes and invalidates what I've got already)

good thing i have excuse of being DE forum mod to start playing them

I'm still trying to re-attach my jaw after I saw a preview of those new DE models. I'm probably going to drop my Tau army in favour of those amazing new models!

I will be starting an army, probably not a big one, and definitly not until everything I have going is done (thats a LOAD). But the models are too nice not to!

I've been starting them all year >_>

Everytime I have significant money to start properly something more pressing has come up.

I do however, have a haemy, a jetbike without the rider, and a Archon conversion using Yriel

It'll depend on how the codex itself turns out. The models are great but the ones I really love are the jetbikes. If I can do a reaver heavy list and not shoot myself in the foot, then I'll almost certainly jump on it.

SaintHazard wrote:Not only am I going to jump on this bandwagon so hard it'll snap in half under my weight, I'm also going to break my "no named characters ever for any reason" policy and buy Lelith Hesperax. If nothing else, just to paint, but I may field her.

(And yes, I have six armies, and zero named characters. )

I like your style =)

Already playing Dark Eldar (but my friend owns them >.&gt. This new stuff will make me buy my own.

To be honest, I would love to field a Dark Eldar army. However the playstyle and fluff don't really mesh with me well.

I'd love to play such an army (and stomp it into the ground! ) but I wouldn't pick it up myself. Here's hoping sales go well though, maybe we'll see more rapid updates in the future! I wanna start a Necron army!

I probably will. I love the look of the new models and I want to get back into something completely chaotic and evil. Now that I'm picking up some commission work it shouldn't be too hard either.

Theyre my first army. Sold the old models ages ago and have been waiting for the new release whilst playing guard and nids in time being. It will be good to go back to my favourite army. Especially with the look of some of the new models in the GW newsletter.

No. I might buy Lelith to paint, but that's it. And even that probably won't be for another 12 months, until there's anything else I'd want to order from the UK.

Yep, I'll probably get some. Orks are still my main army but I've been considering DarK Eldar for a while so this is obviously the time, probably just get enough to field 1500pts.

Although as I'm about to start a Necrons army I may have to wait until new year to buy my Dark Eldar.

Ya know, I really thought I wasn't going to. I already have my 3rd Edition Dark Eldar army, all nicely done as Warriors and Incubi. I have my next three armies planned. That will be SEVEN armies I own. But yet... Wych Cult. I never did a Wych Cult. Maybe my eighth army will be my second Dark Eldar army. Odd.

Hell yeah. I'm not going to bother with my Mordian Iron Guard until I have a nice amount of Dark Eldar. I figure it will stop me ranting on about how they haven't been updated when I'm drunk next time. Its quite embarassing as you can imagine.

I think I may now jump in for a 500 pt force. After all I would LOVE an army whose theme revolves around him



He's Voldo from Soul Calibur if you are unfamiliar

He looks like Psycomantis skipping holding two boquets of flowers. Or at least a pair of Flur-de-Lys'.

Would love to have a DE army for something different, instead of my usual marines whom I have trouble keeping away from! but i'm really into good looking but quick painting styles with my armies, and the DE as much as i'd love to paint them up would take forever inmo to get them looking how I want them, so nope I'll wait for my Necrons to come back out....soon hopefully before i'm 40

God yes. The models are b-e-a-utiful. Though I probably won't jump on the bandwagon. More run along behind it as it speeds into the distance, so I stop, make some other armies, and then call a taxi.

I´m jumping. Also, I ´m afraid I will get some extra boxes to mix them with my CW eldar. My poor wallet..

I´ll try to sell some stuff i won´t need anymore while I wait for them.

Hi Dark Eldar. Bye Tau!

I'm just happy my Necrons will have something other than Space Marines to kill.

I'm just getting started into 40k in general and My choice to start was CSM, still is. DE looks REALLY cool but I'd want to read up on the new edition first, see what I could do and then go from there.

So I guess for the moment I'm undecided...even if the figures are outstanding

Guess I will be hopping on the raider. I have always been interested in them but the model quiality has kept me away.

I'll consider it, esp. with this Pirateninjasinspace theme/vibe I'm getting from them

I had decided to play DE a while back. I'm in the process of finishing my Tau then after that I'm going to start with DE. I was going to start buying DE way before they came out, but I decided that I needed to finish my Tau, and why buy old things when the new mini's were coming out anyway? I had the desire to play DE way before I found out they were getting redone.

Never liked DE. :/

Wont be jumping on just yet.
Got 10k of nids to get finished before i start another project army.

May however pick up the book and have a read, and possibly paint up a few character models.

I actually have some D. Eldar, but they never got to be an actual army because the models sucked. Now I am going to buy some just for the models. I most likely will not use them in a fight until the hype goes down and I can use them without anyone booing me for "Bandwagoning." The only reason I do not have around 1500 pts is the models use to suck so much I couldn't bring myself to buy them.

I'll buy them for the painting experience, and nothing more. I refuse to get sidetracked from my Daemons again.

I'm pretty sure I posted already that I would: but only if the models were amazing, as I already have about 5 different 40k armies. Well, I'm about to start my 6th (on a teacher's salary!!). Haha!. The models are fantastic, and I don't care what the rules are-these sculpts are just the best GW has ever done. If they keep getting better for every army...I'm gonna have a lot more than just 6 armies. Plus, that doesn't include my fantasy army and mantic dwarf army that I'm working on. War games rule my life....

Meh. The bikes look cool, and I would possibly be tempted to model up a Harlequins count-as Dark Eldar army, but other than that I'm not overly impressed. I'm just hoping it will take the focus of the IG and I can bring my tanks and lasguns out again without being one of a mass of IG players.

I am totally jumping on the Grey Knights battle barge though.

Dark Eldar was the first army I learned to play, so I have always been hoping for an update. As of right now I have no army, so when the come out in a bit, you bet I'm on board. I was reading the actual codex, its pretty fethin sweet. Preordering as I type this


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And uh Terminus, you can't counts as Harlequins for Dark Eldar...

No, they don't strike as a powerful race. Torture is all fun and games until someone decides to raid a tyranid bioship.

I will likely buy a few models just to paint them (especially the new Incubi ), but that always snowballs into a full army in time...

I was already on the bandwagon, not alot of room for you guys!

Not moving to Dark Eldar, I'm not being a fan boy like others are, also I dislike the fluff to dark eldar, besides I'm starting space wolves which seem much better.

Suffer not the Unclean to live! Uphold the Honor of the Emperor! Abhor the Witch, Destroy the Witch! Accept any challenge, no matter the odds!


That's a "no" for all you non-Templars out there .

feth yeah!

They were my main army all through third, and they shall be again.

Time to sell some marines.

ShasO Ben wrote:Not moving to Dark Eldar, I'm not being a fan boy like others are, also I dislike the fluff to dark eldar, besides I'm starting space wolves which seem much better.

Yeah because that isn't jumping on the bandwagon...

Today the preview Codex, 2 boxes of warriors and a raider box showed up at my FLGS.

Oh yeah, I'm jumping in.

That said, I have no illusions: I played Eldar before and considered them a finesse army, their Dark kin have that in spades.

I'm sure I can look forward to losing plenty of games before I learn the right tactics.

I killl you all with my*i was here first*, Ageless tactics and OLD, HIDEOUS MODELS! AHHAHAHAHA

It's a shame, i spent the last 11 years getting good at them, and only in the last 3 have i gotten good, and now they change them :(

Nah, it'd be good to see some new DE players,

But realy; WHo is here because of
A.) models
B.) they will play awesome.

Temporis wrote:I killl you all with my*i was here first*, Ageless tactics and OLD, HIDEOUS MODELS! AHHAHAHAHA

Nah, it'd be good to see some new DE players,

But realy; WHo is here because of
A.) models
B.) they will play awesome.

B, with a little A thrown in. I've been wanting to start Dark Eldar for about a year and a half now, and was just waiting (and hoping) for a new release to hit. Since it is here, I'm in full tilt. I guarantee I will lose about 90% of my games as I learn the army, since my other 40k army is Orks, pretty much the exact opposite in play style (I run mech assault, so some similarities). I bought and played Space wolves, I love the viking-esque fluff of them, but for some reason I'm terrible at playing MEQ armies, granted I only played a handful of games with the space puppies. But since every other person plays them, I think I'll change things up, so bring on the dark ones!

I played Eldar back in 4th as my 2nd army but they felt too.. cheaty.

I will be playing Dark Eldar because I'm sick and perverted in the head.

The dark side of me wants to play and so I'm feeding it

The main reason I have always liked Dark Eldar since they were my first army was.

A: The "muahahahaha" evil of them. They aren't on some revenge trip against some father figure like chaos marines are.
B: Their tactics.

The new models are great to get me more encouraged to field them as my main army again., Which I hadn't done for a few years due to being bored of the terrible models, as well as them being my first fully painted force 8 odd years back. So now seems like as good a time as any to do revamp the army from scratch and do the new models some justice. Plus their play-style seems for the most part unchanged. Good all rounder ranged and combat units with a few heavy hitters in close to mid range. And mobile fire-power and speed.

Already been playing em for like a year and a half now, its awesome they are getting an update. just check out my website on my sig. Should be the first stop the bandwagon takes!

'Eff Dark Eldar, gimme Necrons! Thats the Xenos race I wanna play the update for!

gazelle wrote:Ya know, I really thought I wasn't going to. I already have my 3rd Edition Dark Eldar army. But yet... Wych Cult. I never did a Wych Cult.

Same here. I already have 1.5k (my first army!) and it'd be nice to go back and look at it afresh.