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And little Timmy didn't understand why his cool spiky space men had to be so easy to kill when his friends armies weren't. But they're so evil! Why doesn't anything in the army have higher toughness or better armor? Why are my vehicles so easy to kill? THATS NOT FAIR!! I'm gonna sell my Dark Eldar on ebay and play marines like everybody else.


Still, an army that can field 30 dark lances and 9 pinning blasts with cumulative leadership penalties for each model under the templates(for 5 points each) at a tournament has a lot going for it.

*sigh* . . . And don't we know it . . . why is it that the xenos lists kinda get ignored, they get the least fluff, and the slowest updates (OK you can include Inquisition in there aswell) . . . not everything is about the Horus Heresy you know lol

Like has been said, most of the codex is trash. But Warriors(2x dark lances for 10 points each), Raiders(with a dark lance,one for every squad) Ravagers(3 dark lances), Archons(in Raiders with dark lances, with a warrior retinue with 2 more dark lances) and Wyches(in a raider with dark lance) is a severely nasty army. Ludicrous firepower against anything that isn't a Monolith or Blessed Hull Black Templars land raider, with the mobility(fast skimmers for all!) to put that firepower wherever the heck they want.

Doesn't sell because it's completely unforgiving to the unexperienced newbie market that that GW loves so much these days.

I'd have a Dark Eldar army myself if it werent for the mostly awful warrior squads and goofy looking Archon. The glass cannon army(literally, their signature weapons shoot superdense poison glass for god's sake) with huge mobility and alpha strike firepower isn't really matched anywhere else. If the reposed the Warrior models and gave them reasonably sized helmets and lost the Dragonball hair(you know the one) they'd be fine models.

For about the first 7 years of playing DE I didn't win more than about 2 games . . . not a good army to start with, but now that I've started understanding the game they are a kick ass army =]

You couldn't win more than a couple games with DE in 7 years? Wow. I won more games with them in that many months, before I unloaded mine.

Has anyone looked at the repackaging, closely? Are their new boxes and is there new art work on the boxes? If so, look closely at the artwork.

I imagine it would be the exact same style as when they repackaged all of the Eldar Aspect warriors so that you couldn't get a full squad without spending 70 dollars and having an extra Exarch.

Hollismason wrote:This just lends credence to a release soon, possibly after the Wolf Codex.

I know they had some Green Homnoculus done at a gamesday does anyone have those pictures?

Not sure if anyone mentions this in the rest of the thread, don't have time to dig through six pages, but the Homonculi from GW Spain are not greens for the army. Those models have shown up on several sites over the past two to three years and it has been stated time and again that those were test models for a sculptor to get a job at GW. This doesn't mean they won't be sculpted when DE are released, but it also doesn't mean they will.

Posting those homoculli is a bannable offence these days.

I'm pretty sure he knows that, he was just being a smartass.

Posting those homoculli is a bannable offence these days.

Only if you're not a mod.

focusedfire wrote:Has anyone looked at the repackaging, closely?

That would require someone setting foot in a GW store and looking at the GW models...



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Railguns wrote:I imagine it would be the exact same style as when they repackaged all of the Eldar Aspect warriors so that you couldn't get a full squad without spending 70 dollars and having an extra Exarch.

I have no idea what you're talking about. I bought all of my Aspects by the blister, or on eBay.

I can check out the packaging tonight as I'm probably going to the FLGS.

Kungfuhustler wrote:Yep. My LGS got in a large shipment of dark eldar models today! The store owner confirmed that the Dark Eldar are no longer direct only.

You know what's most amusing?

I poked my head in the GW LA Battle Bunker, expecting to see these rumored "Dark Eldar models" that the OP claims, and...


...NOT A SINGLE DARK ELDAR MODEL IN SIGHT!


Shenanigains!


I call "shenanigains" on the OP.

Pics, or I'm getting out my broom!

Railguns wrote:I imagine it would be the exact same style as when they repackaged all of the Eldar Aspect warriors so that you couldn't get a full squad without spending 70 dollars and having an extra Exarch.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat1020001&rootCatGameStyle=

They come in blisters for 13 something or in boxes of 5 plus an exarch for $30 now.

I hope that they come out with some cool new things for that army. My buddy has been playing with the same old stuff for quite some time. Any news if there will be anything new for the army?