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I like all of them. They also look like excellent conversion opportunities for a little spice to a regular eldar force. Those venoms would make excellent eldar skimmers, and the scourges look like a nice swooping hawk variant. Me likey.

Price of course me likey less.

Just saw the Chronos Parasite Engine at the local GW. That is tiny. Not much bigger then an Ogre model and it costs 35€. I know I'm late to the party, complaining about GW prices, but it just really surprised me.

Still don't know as what I could use it in my chaos army though. Maybe Sentinels.

Anung Un Rama wrote:Just saw the Chronos Parasite Engine at the local GW. That is tiny. Not much bigger then an Ogre model and it costs 35€. I know I'm late to the party, complaining about GW prices, but it just really surprised me.

Still don't know as what I could use it in my chaos army though. Maybe Sentinels.

We have a thread for complaining about prices if you want to pop over there! Check out the topic on the price increase. LOL.

Good idea for a Chaos use of the kit, Daemonic Sentinels is a fun idea. I can think of lots of good Chaos kit-bash ideas with parts from the kit as well.

While I am not a fan of the whole Haemunculi side of Dark Eldar (don't want fat zombies mixed with elegant Eldar), I actually like the new Haemunculus. I assume that the arms are separate and interchangeable with plastic arms. That would solve the pose problem and the having all arms full of stuff problem. Having all special arms in the blister is necessary, but you can use normal ones as well. That's what I assume of course, but it makes sense.

On the Cronos/Talos kit: The Cronos is considerably smaller than the Talos (-> Scorpion tail), and the kit has two sprues full of bitz, so it is worth some money.

speaking of all the bits in the talos/cronos kit, there are about 6-8 little arms for the side of its body that will be finding thier way onto that new haemunculi model. I think that will fix it to the image I had in my head.

Also the number of bits in the box is great ... want scourges with two heat lances? Talos/cronos comes with 2. Haywire bnlasters? Also 2 in the box. Need extra splinter cannons? yep 2 in the box. Need liquifiers for your HQ? 2 in the box and a bazillion other bits, blades, minit techy arms, chains, etc. I think every DE player will need one of this kit just to get all the fun bits to use on other models. My slaanesh are very happy to have the extra tentacle arms too.

I've seen the new arcticle about the Venom and the Scourges. I love when they talk about the process of creation, and when they show sketches and 360º views.

That Razorwing is the hottest thing that's been on Page 3 for ages...

ShatteredBlade wrote:

TBD wrote:I expected the Razorwing to be the same price as the Valkyrie/Stormraven, but according to that link it's "only" 32,50

I really don't think it'll be only $32.50. That's just..too cheap.

i was in GW last week and one of the employees showed me a little email he had from someone higher up i imagine, there wasnt a relaease dat but there was a price on it.

in GBR it said £22.50 not sure what that is in $ but it seems about right within my limited currency knowledge.

The new haemy looks all good. It has an air of arrogance about it. I can't really say I like the arm poses but I'm pretty sure the kit is intended to be swapped around and edited with wych/kabalite and wrack parts so I wouldn't sweat it.

Anung Un Rama wrote:Just saw the Chronos Parasite Engine at the local GW. That is tiny.

Found a comparison pic on Warseer by Radium:


... and the sprues you get:

Kroothawk wrote:

At this point, it kinda has a "War of the Worlds" feel to it.

Made me think of the squid-robot-things from the Matrix movies. Kind of cool, though.

yeah,
I've preordered two engines for my nurgle army to convert to blight drones... but the more i look at them, the more I think they belong with my hellions.

just so good.

PAnic..

BTW, the article of Jes talking about the Venom and Scourges design, including a 3D-rotating-pic of the Venom, is up:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=16500010a

It's really not that small after seeing the pic. It's about the same general size of a dreadnaught. Just looks smaller due to the spindly tentacles and the more streamlined appearance as opposed to being a brick like dreads are.

I imagine the talos looks a bit better as the arms are quite large and the tail adds some size to the model.

Anyone have a real pic of the talos next to something like the above cronos?

Now if you want to talk about small, the venom really was small as the shop near me at least had that assembled to look at. It could maybe hold 3 models including the gunner in the sled. While I like the idea that it's small so it can hide, it really should have been a little larger perhaps.

That's pretty damn cool, I don't like large models as much as small ones and that's just about the size I like. Oh the temptation to buy one or two ...

"Wanna be a lizard this week?"

"Yeah I'll be a lizard!"

looool

I don't know why but that tickled me.

Sidstyler wrote:

"Wanna be a lizard this week?"

"Yeah I'll be a lizard!"

looool

I don't know why but that tickled me.

The rest of it made me giggle also 'I might not turn you back though!' or what ever it was lol

Kroothawk wrote:BTW, the article of Jes talking about the Venom and Scourges design, including a 3D-rotating-pic of the Venom, is up:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=16500010a

Thanks for the heads up - I just read Jes's notes, and enjoyed them enormously. The thought that's gone into the DE range shows in the models. Amidst the storm of anger (real and exaggerated) that's broken out about GW's latest actions, it's good to read something that shows at least the designers like Jes care a great deal about what they're doing. I think GW would be in real trouble if they lost Jes. The Venom seemed like the least interesting of the soon-to-be released kits, but I'm now quite excited about building some. I think it will actually have more scope for conversion than the Raider.

Nvs wrote:Now if you want to talk about small, the venom really was small as the shop near me at least had that assembled to look at. It could maybe hold 3 models including the gunner in the sled. While I like the idea that it's small so it can hide, it really should have been a little larger perhaps.

They were pretty specific about wanting it to be small, just a bit larger than jetbikes, so I'd say they hit the mark.

Panic wrote:yeah,
I've preordered two engines for my nurgle army to convert to blight drones...

Damn you. Now I want to do this too...

Kroothawk wrote:Here a better pic of the model, that is ... erm ... not a Harlequin but indeed a Haemunculus (posted again on GW-Fanworld first):

You absolute legend.

Can't help but a feel a bit disappointed in the miniature though. Looks very... restricted on parts...

I'm building the Talos for display at my store. Here's a little size comparison, for those wondering.

I just saw the Scourges at the store, and I have to say the pictures on the GW site don't do them enough justice. They looked many times better in person than I thought they would. Especially the wings are beautiful (they only had feathered models built).

The Talos & Venom looked good as well, but as I expected. The Venom doesn't look too small to me at all. Dark Eldar are slender to begin with. Six of them fit on there easily, a couple hanging on at the sides.

Nice! I was wondering how it would look if bent over like that. Thanks!

EDIT:

Can you have both liquifiers AND Chain flails on your Talos?

I thought that only one CCW could be upgraded...

I think you're correct. The forearms are on little stumps, so you can pull 'em off. I'm just building all the bits and figured since both arms were available, I'd stick them on.

It didn't quite register to me until this point, but....

Look at the detail on the Talos! It's magnificent! Every single one of those segments on the tail and arms is fully detailed! GW really outdid themselves.

With included microphone...

Got to record those screams somehow

The Talos is one heck of a Sexy Sexy Kit...

I have absolutetly no need for one, but the Desire is more than likely going to overwhelm the need