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Reecius wrote:Just please get rid of the Man Elves in Man Thongs, the rest I can take.

Done.

Look at the DE pic in the rulebook and you (almost) have the actual DE warrior model, but the models aren't striding and leaning like they are drunk. They stand upright and are awesome.

Give it another month and the studio will start leaking pics....

Here's a fun Dakka game for anyone with some free time.

Go take a look through GW's miniature release catalog and see how many miniatures Jes Goodwin has been a part of in the last few years (the Dark Elf Cold Ones are the only models off the top of my head in probably the last five years).

A full-time sculptor on the books working away for years and years with nothing much at all to show for his work...


...If only we could figure out what he has possibly been working on...


Oh wait, he slipped and TOLD everyone on an official company podcast.


But yeah, I'm sure it is completely and utterly impossible for the entire Dark Eldar line to be revised.

Yeah, that never happened with Wood Elves either...

What can I say....I'm a little bit in awe of Yakface right now.

GG

ChocolateGork wrote:The nids already have a s10, ap1, lance, Melta range-18 physic shooting attack.

S10, Ap1, Lance, nothing more. Although I have a lot of fun telling my friends when I shoot it something else, "I'm gonna use warp lance, it's Strength ten, AP 1, assault 2, lance, melta, rending" They usually respond with a blank stare or a loud "WHAT!?" and then I fire back with, "Yeah, I think it's unfair for rending to activate on either of the two armor pen dice, but it's the rule. Kinda strange how the extra melta die still activates it." They usually yell for a minute about cheese or being overpowered and I tell them I'm joking and show them what it really is. It's great fun (for me at least).

yakface wrote:Oh wait, he slipped and TOLD everyone on an official company podcast.

Salt! SAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!

H.B.M.C. wrote:

yakface wrote:Oh wait, he slipped and TOLD everyone on an official company podcast.

Salt! SAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, but I doubt your disbelief

Salt! SAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!

Pretty pathetic actually. If you're really interested in the discussion, go back a little and see what it started from. I doubted that GW can release an entirely new Dark Eldar line in one go or one wave whichever word you're willing to use. I said I expect them to release two or three plastic boxes and two or three metal units, and whatever the exact amount turns out to be, leaving something to be converted. If anything this has been the trend with new 40K army books (partly because they now have lots and lots of different and very specialised unit choices), and nothing posted in this thread is of any evidence to the contrary. You're just being you.

But yeah, I'm sure it is completely and utterly impossible for the entire Dark Eldar line to be revised.

Is there a forum particularly suited for threads discussing you and other overly sarcastic posters being wrong about the entire Dark Eldar line (models for everything in the codex) being released this fall? I'm just asking beforehand because it's not really suited for "News & Rumours" since I knew it in advance.

Therion wrote:

Salt! SAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!

You're just being you.

This is the bestest thread ever!!!!

Truth or no to the rumours, it still gives me a warm, tingly feeling in my crap factory.

Or it could just be the bad coffee I had this morning. I like to imagine it's the former, however.

Honestly the moment the original dark eldar wych models showed that the MALE wyches had thongs and LESS clothing than the females they should have all been scrapped

That is such a massively bad judgement call and nothing good could ever happen after that :( If I was the art director I would have melted down the entire range just because of the wyches and saved future embarassments

So you would've destroyed thousands of hours and dollars worth of hard work because of a sense of homophobia?

Sorry, but that's not exactly legitimate grounds. The Dark Eldar are, by fluff, sex-addicted, space-cocaine snorting, cross-dressing, slave-taking, soul stealing space pirates. They should fit the bill. No one is forcing you to buy minis with man-thongs.

Indeed, all my wyches are conversions from Dark Elf Witch Elves. No man-thongs for me!

See? If you don't want to use the man-thong wyches, there's a way around it.

Men uncomfortable with their sexuality ITT

Jokes aside, I can't wait to see what Jes has been working at all this time, especially ever since that company podcast.

metallifan wrote:So you would've destroyed thousands of hours and dollars worth of hard work because of a sense of homophobia?

Sorry, but that's not exactly legitimate grounds. The Dark Eldar are, by fluff, sex-addicted, space-cocaine snorting, cross-dressing, slave-taking, soul stealing space pirates. They should fit the bill. No one is forcing you to buy minis with man-thongs.

dry humor isnt your thing, I apologize

metallifan wrote:So you would've destroyed thousands of hours and dollars worth of hard work because of a sense of homophobia?

Sorry, but that's not exactly legitimate grounds. The Dark Eldar are, by fluff, sex-addicted, space-cocaine snorting, cross-dressing, slave-taking, soul stealing space pirates. They should fit the bill. No one is forcing you to buy minis with man-thongs.

Yeah, I mean look at all the S&M models that SoB have.

Kirasu wrote:

metallifan wrote:So you would've destroyed thousands of hours and dollars worth of hard work because of a sense of homophobia?

Sorry, but that's not exactly legitimate grounds. The Dark Eldar are, by fluff, sex-addicted, space-cocaine snorting, cross-dressing, slave-taking, soul stealing space pirates. They should fit the bill. No one is forcing you to buy minis with man-thongs.

dry humor isnt your thing, I apologize

No. I'm not from the UK, so it often evades me


And there's nothing like a hooded muscley chick with a chainsaw to get the loins all fired up

And all this time I thought the whych models were girls.

Forgot to look at the adams apples.

GG

yakface wrote:Oh wait, he slipped and TOLD everyone on an official company podcast.

'Slipped' is one way to put it I guess... I believe his words were "It's not that much of a secret, but I'm working on Dark Eldar."
Here's the podcast:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=&pIndex=4&aId=9400003&start=5
It's toward the end of the Podcast. I believe this was broadcast around the time 5th Edition came out, a couple years ago.

metallifan wrote:So you would've destroyed thousands of hours and dollars worth of hard work because of a sense of homophobia?

More like "tranie"phobia as wearing women's lingerie doesn't mean you are a homosexual (see lesbian trapped in a man's body). It is likely more of a personal disgust of seeing a male butt in a thong, which is perfectly fine and he is certainly entitled to that oppinion, one that has been vocally shared by other posters in this thread.

And yes you can just green stuff over it, assuming you have the skill...but if the majority of DE players want non-man-thong wyches, then GW would be wise to appeal to the majorities wishes being a for-profit comapny and all.


However, if most want the man-thong, then let the Tankini rule them all.




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Gandair wrote:

ChocolateGork wrote:The nids already have a s10, ap1, lance, Melta range-18 physic shooting attack.

S10, Ap1, Lance, nothing more. Although I have a lot of fun telling my friends when I shoot it something else, "I'm gonna use warp lance, it's Strength ten, AP 1, assault 2, lance, melta, rending" They usually respond with a blank stare or a loud "WHAT!?" and then I fire back with, "Yeah, I think it's unfair for rending to activate on either of the two armor pen dice, but it's the rule. Kinda strange how the extra melta die still activates it." They usually yell for a minute about cheese or being overpowered and I tell them I'm joking and show them what it really is. It's great fun (for me at least).

That's pretty hilarious, because you claim that a weapon has a profile that it doesn't.

That does sound like a lot of fun.

Wyoming, Man-thongs on toy soldiers that aren't real is one thing. That, however, is not an image -anyone- should suffer

*shudder*

I had completely forgotten about that movie too

Therion wrote:Pretty pathetic actually. If you're really interested in the discussion, go back a little and see what it started from. I doubted that GW can release an entirely new Dark Eldar line in one go or one wave whichever word you're willing to use. I said I expect them to release two or three plastic boxes and two or three metal units, and whatever the exact amount turns out to be, leaving something to be converted. If anything this has been the trend with new 40K army books (partly because they now have lots and lots of different and very specialised unit choices), and nothing posted in this thread is of any evidence to the contrary. You're just being you.

And we try to show you the official evidence that the DE release will be something special and bigger than normal releases. Even with some units spared for a second wave, the first wave will be more massive than SW and BA and Tyranids. But we don't force you to believe Jes Goodwin's recorded statements

metallifan wrote:The Dark Eldar are, by fluff, sex-addicted, space-cocaine snorting, cross-dressing, slave-taking, soul stealing space pirates.

So no danger that this release will NOT be extremely popular among all teenagers around the world

I personally never had issue w/ the 'male' wyches. They're gladiators and guess what? Real Gladiators wore next to nothing. It's really making something out of nothing imo.

agnosto wrote:Yeah, I mean look at all the S&M models that SoB have.

Too bad they're not matching the Codex illustrations. If they were more pain-based, I'd get some of the models.
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generalgrog wrote:And all this time I thought the whych models were girls.

Forgot to look at the adams apples.

Thai surprise!

Kroothawk wrote:

metallifan wrote:The Dark Eldar are, by fluff, sex-addicted, space-cocaine snorting, cross-dressing, slave-taking, soul stealing space pirates.

So no danger that this release will NOT be extremely popular among all teenagers around the world

Teenagers aren't into slavery...just bondage

Rymafyr wrote:I personally never had issue w/ the 'male' wyches. They're gladiators and guess what? Real Gladiators wore next to nothing. It's really making something out of nothing imo.

+1

To add to this: Wrestling matches during ancient Greek games were between 2 naked, oiled up dudes. Make of that what you will. These, on the other hand, are toy space elves. By comparison, the bare plastic buttcheeks don't seem so bad now.

metallifan wrote:Wrestling matches during ancient Greek games were between 2 naked, oiled up dudes.

Yeah, *totally* unlike modern WWE-style "wrestling"...

The only differences being that winning in the Greek sport was based on skill, not popularity determining your script. And they wear Spandex now. Which isn't much better, mind you, but at least you're not getting a bare phallus to the face when you're trying to pin someone down