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It might be my imagination and the blurry photo but I'm not sure they don't have mandiblasters. I see, something, towards the bottom of some of their helms, around the neck line in the blown up version.

Also, I'm curious where these blurry photo's come from and why they are always so uniformly blurry. Camera phone stealth picturing?

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Well not sure about your pricing but I thought that GW were supposed to be moving more into plastics.
So it is a tad surprising that they may be metal.

It's not so much that they're "moving more into plastics", but that they're moving away from hybrid metal/plastic kits. Metal kits are pretty much going to be staying, as they're the best way to do special characters and one-off units that you won't see too many of.

However:
They're moving more into plastics for Warhammer Fantasy by all accounts. Simply because of the size of units and the potential for huge ranked units.

Interesting pic and a long time overdue. It's a bit hard to make out, but the two things that seem to stick out to me:

1. the swords remind me of the chunky Warmachine type swords, and not in a good way.
2. metal models? for whatever reason, they seem like metal.

The swords remind me, personally, of the Draichs that the Dark Elf Executioners have.

Saldiven wrote:This might seem a little off topic, but I've been waiting for this release for a long time.

When the pre-order stuff is finally available, what is the quickest method of pre-ordering, as far as how long it takes to receive the product? Would that be ordering directly from the GW web site, or ordering through a local store? Does it make any real difference?

Sadly, it is from the GW site. I have read several stories over the years of pre-orders arriving 2 or 3 days early.

Would that be ordering directly from the GW web site, or ordering through a local store? Does it make any real difference?

Virtually every Advance Order I have done from the GW web store this year has arrived 2 days before release date and that's quite a few. That said, they aren't perfect and occasionally things arrive after release date, but in general they are quite reliable. Example, I had my Slaanesh Daemon Prince conversion built 2 days before most people even had the model.

Gwar! wrote:

Saldiven wrote:This might seem a little off topic, but I've been waiting for this release for a long time.

When the pre-order stuff is finally available, what is the quickest method of pre-ordering, as far as how long it takes to receive the product? Would that be ordering directly from the GW web site, or ordering through a local store? Does it make any real difference?

Sadly, it is from the GW site. I have read several stories over the years of pre-orders arriving 2 or 3 days early.

This.

It ends up being quicker pre-ordering from GW because they ship out preorders at the same time as they fill the orders that stores place.

Kanluwen wrote:

Gwar! wrote:

Saldiven wrote:This might seem a little off topic, but I've been waiting for this release for a long time.

When the pre-order stuff is finally available, what is the quickest method of pre-ordering, as far as how long it takes to receive the product? Would that be ordering directly from the GW web site, or ordering through a local store? Does it make any real difference?

Sadly, it is from the GW site. I have read several stories over the years of pre-orders arriving 2 or 3 days early.

This.

It ends up being quicker pre-ordering from GW because they ship out preorders at the same time as they fill the orders that stores place.

Thanks.

I plan on throwing a good bit of money to my FLGS for the new models (my first major GW purchase since I built my C:CSM Alpha Legion about five years ago), but I'm really hot to get my hands on the new CodexE as soon as I can.

Warning. If you order only the codex from GW, they're likely to send it media mail, which is extra-slow. Did that with a release earlier this year and got my codex a few days after the release.

If you mix the codex in with some minis, it won't qualify for media mail and you should be good to go.

Also, I sent you a PM.

Personally, I'm not fond of the new Incubi Models. Something about the Helmets and Blades. Blades don't look bad, just don't fit my current mental conception of Incubi. The helmets look like they belong on Chaos Warriors or Chaos Storm Troopers, not Dark Eldar troops.

Thinking I might order Incubi from Maelstrom, but the problem there is I don't want to shell out $60 for 10 Models for a Codex I haven't even seen the rules for yet (plus, I still need to set aside money for my Orks too).

Red Corsair wrote:I love them, I liked the old ones for what they were but none of them were the right scale and their waists were super thin.... I think with clearer pics they will have a more samurai w/ Oni death mask feel then chaos feel. I am personally hoping for Ar-ha or however its spelled to be their only phoenix lord and founder of the incubi.

Scottywan82 wrote:Yeah, having Ahra, the Father of Scorpions as a special character would be sick. Incubi count as troops? Please please?

I'd settle for Incubi are scoring units.

If DE get Arhra, I'm gonna faint



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ShineBoss wrote:It might be my imagination and the blurry photo but I'm not sure they don't have mandiblasters. I see, something, towards the bottom of some of their helms, around the neck line in the blown up version.

That stands to reason, since Incubi are supposedly the children of Arhra, the Father of Scorpions, the Fallen Phoenix.

Hulksmash wrote:It looks like some of the swords have an open handgrip up the blade to make it almost like that damn klingon style weapon when they want to. I'm really excited about these models actually...very excited....

I noticed that too, although from what I can tell all the models have a grip higher up on the blade, it's just hard to tell from the pics. This actually makes more sense cause those blades would look a bit too long otherwise.

Overall, I love the models from what I can see. The armor looks great, the blades are cool, and a much better idea than halberds, IMO. While most people dislike the horns, I think they look good with the masks. Much better than the scorpion helm on the old models.

I'm so ready for Saturday and more pictures of these and pics the rest of the range. I said previously all I needed was one pic to give a clue of the design direction for me to be onboard. These however, have exceeded my expectations, and that's from a blurry pic, although after close examination you can make out a good deal more than some people seem to think/notice.

My only fear is that this picture is actually in full focus, and the models are just very blurry by design.

I like the new incubi a lot. They are a bit fantasy lookin but at least they dont have any stupid helmet pistols anymore.

sum1thtdiesalot wrote:I like the new incubi a lot. They are a bit fantasy lookin but at least they dont have any stupid helmet pistols anymore.

Don't be so sure.

SaintHazard wrote:

sum1thtdiesalot wrote:I like the new incubi a lot. They are a bit fantasy lookin but at least they dont have any stupid helmet pistols anymore.

Don't be so sure.

Gah why must you say such horrible things? Helmet pistols are dumb.. What makes you think that the incubi will still have Tormentor Helms?

yeah the Incubi look pretty sweet i like that they have more of a skull mask

lawl

WarPetrie wrote:Dark Eldar Incubi

please tell me if someone has already posted this or not

Afraid so . . .

Manchu wrote:lawl

WarPetrie wrote:Dark Eldar Incubi

please tell me if someone has already posted this or not

Afraid so . . .

haha was that my fail of the pic that i posted? .....that was already shown? DX o well i tried

sum1thtdiesalot wrote:Gah why must you say such horrible things? Helmet pistols are dumb..

There is much humor here, when compared to all the other things one could apply this statement to in 40K.

sum1thtdiesalot wrote:What makes you think that the incubi will still have Tormentor Helms?

Depends on fluff, really. Right now, it looks like that's out the window with the old molds, so those might be going with it. One of the reasons it might be kept, however, is that it was part of the "iconic" wargear pieces of an Incubi, like a Storm Bolter and Chain Fist for a Terminator a few editions back.

I thought of this when I first saw the new Incubi:

What's up with the nipples?

Personally the only cool part about the tormentor helm was the bonus attack even with a two handed weapon since the splinter pistol was crap....WAS crap, now that it is poison i would welcome the pistols on their hats but they probably just gave them 2 base attacks and no gun so they wouldn't be broken..... but who knows...

In all likelihood, Tormenter Helms will be *exactly* like Mandiblasters.

ShineBoss wrote:
Also, I'm curious where these blurry photo's come from and why they are always so uniformly blurry. Camera phone stealth picturing?

Apparently the photos where taken and uploaded via an iphone, including the GPS date, so location is somewhere in france.

On the Topic. I really love them. The great swords/blades that would just rip people apart. My guess is they ignore everything, even the toughness. They just kill outright if you hit, that would be funny.
I have to say the horns bothert my a bit, but after reading some possible explanations and after looking back again at their f****** swords i totally am fine with them XD

After reading on some forums i have pict up, dont know where, that the wych succubus will have a mask, just as the warlocks of the pathetic eldar have, and that they will switch from drugs to psychic powers. can anyone confirm that?

Archonate wrote:My only fear is that this picture is actually in full focus, and the models are just very blurry by design.

Let's feed this into the rumour-generator telephone game and a few cycles later we'll hear someone announcing they heard from Archonate that all Incubi will get shadow fields!

Few cycles? Just tell BLOS and it'll be the first thing they post tomorrow.

crazy_irish wrote:

ShineBoss wrote:
Also, I'm curious where these blurry photo's come from and why they are always so uniformly blurry. Camera phone stealth picturing?

Apparently the photos where taken and uploaded via an iphone, including the GPS date,

Me, I'm now wondering what GW's reaction will be to this blatant breach of their oh-so-super-secret policy. Will Jes and GW attempt to "punish" the players?

It's too late to yank this release, revise it or postpone it due to the leak. They've already launched their official marketing for it and the White Dwarf with the advert in it plus the following one with the actual preview are already printed given the lead times on that. The actual Dark Eldar products have already been produced and packaged and distribution planned as well. At this point, they pretty much have to endure the leaks and forge ahead with the marketing and release dates they've already planned, to do otherwise would entail significant losses.

Frankly, they've done quite well controlling leaks at this point. Other than the early rumors on the now fact the DE were coming this year, they've pretty much kept everything about it tightly out of sight until this one little blurry photo just weeks before actual release. Not bad for a company that just 3 years ago had their entire release schedule for a full year leaked out.

Surprisingly often, companies will "leak" their own "carefully guarded secrets" in order to build the hype about an up-and-coming product.

For all we know, GW were the ones who leaked that photo.

I say this because of the quality of the photo - I'd imagine anyone attempting to take an actual genuine photo with their iPhone would take a moment to actually let the lens focus, yeah?

The fact that it's only one page - not even, actually, only a portion of one page - also screams "intentional leak."

Who knows, though.