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Niiru wrote:
Wave Serpents don't have a transport bay, the extra space on the back is just a door that opens up into a portable Webway Gate. Troops enter the gate, and are teleported to a comfortable waiting room, with an open bar and a buffet, 3D chess and a pool table.

When they are needed, a discrete green light comes on, and they finish their drinks (cocktails, possibly. I can see the Eldar being wine spritzer type folk. Espressos for the warp spiders) and then file out of the door, and back onto the battlefield.

No transport capacity required!

Funnily enough that is actually how one of their super-heavy tanks is supposed to work. The Storm Serpent did indeed mount a portable webway generator on the prow allowing it to bring ridiculous numbers of infantry and bikes into battle. Cocktails were not explicitly mentioned but I am sure they were available.




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 Enigma of the Absolute wrote:

This old WD article might be of interest to you. It contains full instructions and a template for creating your own conversion in the style of the Epic 40k Wave Serpent (this was prior to the release of an official 40k scale model).

http://warpod40k.tripod.com/downloads/waveserpent.pdf

I remember that issue, I actually built one back in the day. With modern laser cutting and 3D printing, I wonder if it would be possible to make those parts in kit form allowing classic style of Wave Serpent to be produced en-masse.

 Karhedron wrote:

Niiru wrote:
Wave Serpents don't have a transport bay, the extra space on the back is just a door that opens up into a portable Webway Gate. Troops enter the gate, and are teleported to a comfortable waiting room, with an open bar and a buffet, 3D chess and a pool table.

When they are needed, a discrete green light comes on, and they finish their drinks (cocktails, possibly. I can see the Eldar being wine spritzer type folk. Espressos for the warp spiders) and then file out of the door, and back onto the battlefield.

No transport capacity required!

Funnily enough that is actually how one of their super-heavy tanks is supposed to work. The Storm Serpent did indeed mount a portable webway generator on the prow allowing it to bring ridiculous numbers of infantry and bikes into battle. Cocktails were not explicitly mentioned but I am sure they were available.

If only they added that as an option! Eldar having only one transport in their entire army is kinda silly. No superheavy transports? No flying transports? Even the Orks have both of these!

Niiru wrote:

 Karhedron wrote:

Niiru wrote:
Wave Serpents don't have a transport bay, the extra space on the back is just a door that opens up into a portable Webway Gate. Troops enter the gate, and are teleported to a comfortable waiting room, with an open bar and a buffet, 3D chess and a pool table.

When they are needed, a discrete green light comes on, and they finish their drinks (cocktails, possibly. I can see the Eldar being wine spritzer type folk. Espressos for the warp spiders) and then file out of the door, and back onto the battlefield.

No transport capacity required!

Funnily enough that is actually how one of their super-heavy tanks is supposed to work. The Storm Serpent did indeed mount a portable webway generator on the prow allowing it to bring ridiculous numbers of infantry and bikes into battle. Cocktails were not explicitly mentioned but I am sure they were available.

If only they added that as an option! Eldar having only one transport in their entire army is kinda silly. No superheavy transports? No flying transports? Even the Orks have both of these!

The Vampire would be the Superheavy transport, and the Falcon does have transport capacity.

 Imateria wrote:

Niiru wrote:

 Karhedron wrote:

Niiru wrote:
Wave Serpents don't have a transport bay, the extra space on the back is just a door that opens up into a portable Webway Gate. Troops enter the gate, and are teleported to a comfortable waiting room, with an open bar and a buffet, 3D chess and a pool table.

When they are needed, a discrete green light comes on, and they finish their drinks (cocktails, possibly. I can see the Eldar being wine spritzer type folk. Espressos for the warp spiders) and then file out of the door, and back onto the battlefield.

No transport capacity required!

Funnily enough that is actually how one of their super-heavy tanks is supposed to work. The Storm Serpent did indeed mount a portable webway generator on the prow allowing it to bring ridiculous numbers of infantry and bikes into battle. Cocktails were not explicitly mentioned but I am sure they were available.

If only they added that as an option! Eldar having only one transport in their entire army is kinda silly. No superheavy transports? No flying transports? Even the Orks have both of these!

The Vampire would be the Superheavy transport, and the Falcon does have transport capacity.

True about the falcon, I guess, though it's fairly useless (particularly right now).

However I was completely wrong about the superheavies, I have the IA codex and managed to completely not see that the Vampire Raider version has a transport capacity. Is even a superheavy flier, so is both of my requests in one! Hideously, hideously expensive in points though it seems.