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Rymafyr wrote:So, now that this has an official 'announcement' can we have serious discussion topics started in 40k general without those being locked?

I don't know, can you?

It really is up to the users in general, in the end!

Kanluwen wrote:

Cadaver wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:

Of course there's a Battleforce. GW's not stopped making Battleforces, and likely will not.

There, however, will not be an army box or spearhead, as both of those were things that failed miserably and just took up shelf space in the end.

According to the reliable rumor mongers, there is not a battleforce among the first wave releases. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a DE battleforce with Warriors, Wyches, a raider and some Reaver jetbikes. it would be great. Granted, the rumor mongers, even the ones who are right 99% may be wrong. I'm hoping they are in this case, but my post was just in reference to what they have stated about 1st wave releases.

Then ignore them.
The battleforces are always within 1st wave of releases, at least when we're talking about armies where a large amount of the range has been redone. There's not been any point where they've not done that, and I'd be completely surprised if they missed the opportunity here.

I hope so, as JES GOODWIN designed models might make me start up a new army!

All honesty, I can almost imagine them bringing back a Spearhead or Army Box, just for Dark Eldar given the kind of interest it generates here.


Then I remember pretty much everyone claiming "Oh man, I'm gonna drain my bank account making the coolest army ever!!!1!1!1!!" will buy one box of Warriors, screw up the paintjob or assembly then call everything "Worst. Designed. Army. Ever."

Is that piece of art from the old book? I know it's been floating around for a while. Sadly, C: DE is the one 40k book I do not own.

Uhh that artwork is from the main rulebook

I love the thread title, btw. Will there be a strong chance of snow if plastic sisters ever show up?

That skimmer looks huge! Maybe av14 or 13?

So Dark Eldar and Duke Nukem Forever get officially announced release dates within a month of one another.

It's the end of days, run for the hills!

I am excited and scared at the same time! I hope I don't have to completely rebuild my army...

Manchu wrote:I love the thread title, btw. Will there be a strong chance of snow if plastic sisters ever show up?

Quite possibly.

they are/have been worked upon. 100% honestly...I'm somewhat loathe to speculate upon them for now, we've got quite a lot of other release before we should see them.

New Dark Eldar OMG 1337 EPIC VACUUM CLEANER!!!!!!!!!!!!

*ahem*

Well, looks awesome, and will probably make me stop painting the Island of Blood and get back into 40k.

Hmm. I best land that bar job I applied for. Then I can chuck my Redundancy payment (all £1,400) at Dark Eldar, and get back into 40k some!

It's going to be interesting to see if they flop or not financially.

Damn it! as soon as I say to myself i'm not getting any more models until everything is painted! Those ba*****ds at GW are going to make me break my promise

reds8n wrote:they are/have been worked upon.

You just brought a tear to my eye.

Vhalyar wrote:It's going to be interesting to see if they flop or not financially.

Even more interesting to know how Interscrotes with no access to the specific details needed to be able to judge are going to present their opinions as facts.

P.S. Not calling your good self an Interscrote.

Kane wrote:Oh My credit card screamed in fear when I saw this thread!!!!!

Mine is lamenting also .

Kanluwen wrote:
Then ignore them.
The battleforces are always within 1st wave of releases, at least when we're talking about armies where a large amount of the range has been redone. There's not been any point where they've not done that, and I'd be completely surprised if they missed the opportunity here.

I'd like to order a Daemons battleforce when you find one, then, Kanluwen.

I'm excited as well. When I started 40k I avoided DE because I thought they'd never be redone. Now my dreams will come true.

Anyways, interesting that he noted 'some' new had been made. No codex confirmation or anything, just that they had done something.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:So Dark Eldar and Duke Nukem Forever get officially announced release dates within a month of one another.

It's the end of days, run for the hills!

That just made me LoL IrL, just FYI.

Well, it's lucky for a friend of mine, she just started playing and wanted to be a form of "space elf", so another option just opened up for her.

jspyd3rx wrote:That skimmer looks huge! Maybe av14 or 13?

The Raider will be 12/10/10 open topped, fast skimmer.

puma713 wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:
Then ignore them.
The battleforces are always within 1st wave of releases, at least when we're talking about armies where a large amount of the range has been redone. There's not been any point where they've not done that, and I'd be completely surprised if they missed the opportunity here.

I'd like to order a Daemons battleforce when you find one, then, Kanluwen.

To be fair there was a battalion splash released for demons when the code was released

Awesome, my friend can stop crying about them now.

Aramus wrote:Awesome, my friend can stop crying about them now.

Well now my other friend is gonna start crying about how broken they are, funny how that works?

I think, if some of you are right, that it will be hilarious if they just put out some new sculpts but no new rules. Well, hilarious on my end. It will be interesting to see next month what they start revealing to us. Black Library has beefed up the appearance of Dark Eldar in novels as of late, hopefully some of that content will make it in.

evilsponge wrote:

puma713 wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:
Then ignore them.
The battleforces are always within 1st wave of releases, at least when we're talking about armies where a large amount of the range has been redone. There's not been any point where they've not done that, and I'd be completely surprised if they missed the opportunity here.

I'd like to order a Daemons battleforce when you find one, then, Kanluwen.

To be fair there was a battalion splash released for demons when the code was released

To be fair that doesn't remove the fact that demons haven't gotten an actual battleforce.

On topic, I hate 40K nowadays, but I am happy to hear about the DE getting released. Hopefully in a proper way they deserve instead of "Chaos spiky eldar...of DOOOOOM™®© "

If I still played I would be all over this.

Father Gabe wrote:It will be interesting to see next month what they start revealing to us.

It's only two weeks to GDUK, isn't it? Hopefully Jes will be showing off his work then. It makes a hell of a lot more sense than undermining their big event for little gain by waiting another week.

Black Library has beefed up the appearance of Dark Eldar in novels as of late, hopefully some of that content will make it in.

Has there been anything in these novels that the design team are likely to take as inspiration for a new unit?

reds8n wrote:

This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

Kanluwen wrote:
Then ignore them.
The battleforces are always within 1st wave of releases, at least when we're talking about armies where a large amount of the range has been redone. There's not been any point where they've not done that, and I'd be completely surprised if they missed the opportunity here.

Daemons didn't and still haven't got a battleforce. But otherwise you are right

I would be very surprised if there isn't some kind of set, most likely involving a Raider, Wych set and warrior set

Great news

\m/

Daemons didn't and still haven't got a battleforce

Daemons did not get a Battleforce for a logical marketing reason. They are a niche army that is often collected and played by many enthusiasts using only the models of certain Chaos powers or even just a single Chaos power. Rather than put out a Battleforce that contained a great mix of plastics troops for multiple powers and have it sit on shelves collecting dust because a lot of customers only play Tzeentch or only play Khorne, etc., the GW Marketing team decided not to chance it and not have a Battleforce at all.

Now, that said, this logic clearly does not apply to Dark Eldar, the actual topic of this thread if I recall.