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Hey people

Okay so I was looking over the weapons in the new 40k rule book and I noticed that shuriken catapults only have a range of 12"
what happened to the long range of 24" ?
But las guns are still the same long range of 24"
Does this mean that Dire Avengers and Guardians with shuriken catapults have to get in close to be even able to fire the guns?
This sucks if they have changed the profile on the Shuriken catapults. I hope this is a miss print as it seams strange for them to change a weapons stats.

Any thoughts?

Shuriken Catapults have been 12" since at least 1999 (3rd edition). Dire Avenger Shuriken Catapults have a different range (as mentioned in the codex).

Thanks for the info I used to play the second addition I missed out the 3rd addition, must have been when they down graded the weapons.

Still annoyed at the lack of range my Eldar army now has and 18" for the Dire Avengers is still a bit weak I think.

Guardians are 12" and Avengers 18".

It is very short for an entire armies basic weapon. However, the Eldar codex is out on June 1st so hopefully things will change drastically.

There are already rumours that the Eldar can move, run, shoot and run again. This alone will help with getting shuriken weaponry in range without getting charged first.

That rumor smacks a bit of the crisis suits as troops rumor i heard a few months ago.

Also the WD's battlereport only mentions them run then shoot ,
not run shoot run.
(I can't recall for the life of me if it said shoot then run or the opposite, it's a part where the farseer tried to cast guide on the unit and failed.)

Maybe they get to choose, that'd be kinda cool.