"New Dark Eldar"... 100% absolutely confirmed by GW. Hell officially "a bit chilly".

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**reds8n**

Yes, you read that right - the Studio have made some brand-new Dark Eldar and they'll be here soon. I found out this morning when I was flicking through an early copy of October's issue of White Dwarf (it's out next week) and could barely contain my excitement. Once I'd composed myself, I passed the copy to Rob and with camera at the ready, told him to turn to the back page.

Once you're done laughing at Rob, you can click on the image for a better look. For those of you attending UK Games Day, I've some more good news: Jes Goodwin will be there to talk about the Dark Eldar and knowing Jes, show off some cool Dark Eldar-related stuff. If you haven't picked up a ticket to Games Day yet and if you live in the UK or Northern Europe, then you can order a ticket by clicking on this link. If you live anywhere else in the world, you'll need to use the 'Country Select' menu at the bottom of this page and select the United Kingdom for the link to work. At the moment this is all I know about the forthcoming Dark Eldar, but as usual I'll do my best to uncover some more information for you. Watch this space.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=12800005a

So.. that would be October's WD.. for a November release then..

**Kanluwen**

I will never stop laughing at Rob in the picture you have to click through.

It's like the shockface emoticon, but even more shocked!

**pretre**

Inb4 the salt shakers.

And holy crud! Finally!

**SkaerKrow**

It's about time!

**Mithrax**

Evil for Advent. I like the way they think!

**reds8n**

Note the Wolverine mug and fee coke glass you get with a McDonalds value meal...

..and...optimistic as this is... can anyone make anything out from that oddly placed somewhat summary sheet looking like thing on the far side of the table...

**Kanluwen**

It's the standard 40k summary sheet in the main rulebook. Shows what you need to make hits/wounds, etc.

**Quintinus**

reds8n wrote:Note the Wolverine mug and fee coke glass you get with a McDonalds value meal...

..and...optimistic as this is... can anyone make anything out from that oddly placed somewhat summary sheet looking like thing on the far side of the table...

It's just for direct debit subscriptions.

Unless of course direct debit subscriptions are a new piece of Dark Eldar wargear that is a R24" StrX (Poisoned 4+) AP5 Heavy 20D6 weapon. : P

**reds8n**

Kanluwen wrote:It's the standard 40k summary sheet in the main rulebook. Shows what you need to make hits/wounds, etc.

cheers fella !

**Kanluwen**

Vladsimpaler wrote:
reds8n wrote:Note the Wolverine mug and fee coke glass you get with a McDonalds value meal...

..and...optimistic as this is... can anyone make anything out from that oddly placed somewhat summary sheet looking like thing on the far side of the table...

It's just for direct debit subscriptions.

Unless of course direct debit subscriptions are a new piece of Dark Eldar wargear that is a R24" StrX (Poisoned 4+) AP5 Heavy 20D6 weapon. : P

You're looking in the wrong place. Look up above the Dark Eldar announcement page. There's a sheet of paper laying next to the paint stand in the click-through photo.

Red, sorry it wasn't anything supersneaky for you

**Ketara**

Sooo....John won his bet by precisely a month it seems....

**Sarnath666**

....YAY.

**Alpharius**

Given how the date was picked rather arbitrarily, and given J.H.D.D.'s conviction that they'd NEVER be out, he should really allow the +/- one month(ish) and just accept the LOSS like a man!!!

**Starfarer**

Finally... people will stop saying they aren't coming , they have been squatted, etc. Actually, probably not.

I can't wait til GDUK! The question now is how much is this going to hurt the wallet. Since there's no battleforce, maybe we'll get lucky and get a holiday bundle in Dec. Not that I'd wait an extra month to start buying, but hey, they made Apocalypse for a reason.

**Father Gabe**

Im just glad that the nay-sayers have been put in their place. Now the wild speculators can freely run rampant, until the release and are proven wrong about what a red shirt told his sisters, brother who walked by a Games Workshop store...sorry for rant.

Im glad they are finally releasing it, kudos to the information police at GW for keeping it so quiet. I hope a lot of John Blanches artwork he did for it shows up in the book and translated to some good models.

**Lexx**

You beat me posting this by 8 minutes damn it! Still awesome news though.

**Sarnath666**

"his sisters, brother "
wait what.

**Alpharius**

Father Gabe wrote:

Im glad they are finally releasing it, kudos to the information police at GW for keeping it so quiet. I hope a lot of John Blanches artwork he did for it shows up in the book and translated to some good models.

Well, they didn't really do that, since we've 'known' for some time now that DE were coming.

They didn't 'officially' announce it, sure, but this particular "Space Hulk" was out of this "Mystery Box" a long time ago!

**Rymafyr**

Ketara wrote:Sooo....John won his bet by precisely a month it seems....

Won the bet but lost the war it seems...

But OT I'm glad to see GW finally confirming, even if they have to use the same graphic we've seen forever, the coming DE release. I still find their 'secrecy' to be assinine. However, I have to give them props at actually keeping this underwraps for so long w/o any leaks of pics etc. Here's to my 3000+ pts of DE and a new codex coming in the near future.

**Kanluwen**

Cadaver wrote:Finally... people will stop saying they aren't coming , they have been squatted, etc. Actually, probably not.

I can't wait til GDUK! The question now is how much is this going to hurt the wallet. Since there's no battleforce, maybe we'll get lucky and get a holiday bundle in Dec. Not that I'd wait an extra month to start buying, but hey, they made Apocalypse for a reason.

Uh, what?

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.

**Kurgash**

**Sarnath666**

This is going to be the longest two months of our lives.

**Absolutionis**

I feel a gush of wind as all 40k simultaneously sigh in relief.

**Little lord Fauntleroy**

It does make me chuckle that they never actually mention a new codex, just new 'Dark Eldar'.

I'm still grinning like a Cheshire cat.

**Rymafyr**

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

**RaptorsTalon**

Any ideas on what it might be?

**Starfarer**

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.

**Howard A Treesong**

Is that Satan I see in a snowplough?

**Kanluwen**

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.

**Kane**

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