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A week or two ago, the 10-sister squad box vanished on all GW sites. Panic ensued. Before long, ten pages or more of discussion had been furiously posted. Now it's back. Lessons have not been learned.

It could be to do with the new battle missions release, they may get new kits then.

A codex is due and it may come out but, as has been said, the rumour of it has been lingering for ages, so if it is i think it'll be at the end of the year or next year. Don't hold your breath though.

crazy_irish wrote:Just wanted to add something odd...

I have played DE since 2004 and have never seen a box with 5 Inccubi. but now they have a Retinue box with 5 Inccubi in the online store.

also check the fast attack section and related products. there are two without a real picture and with a wrong price.
on the german webside, there are not named.

funny aye?

The mans right about that, if you go check. Sounds to me like they're just repackaging then.

They are just repackaging them.

G

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Reecius wrote:And Kyoto would be happy with nothing but the most obscure codexes possible!

He hates Marines. He hates Eldar (in all its forms). He makes fun of dead races. He makes fun of current races. One wonders what he likes about 40K?

This from the guy who made up his own rules?

I like 40k for its fertile soil for mockery.

There have been a lot of unopened dark elder blisters on eBay recently.possably shops clearing stock for new models?

Kid_Kyoto wrote:I like 40k for its fertile soil for mockery.

Aye, there's a lot of fertilizer out there...

Oddly enough Dark Eldars and Witchhunters suddenly started to disappear from stores here.

Whether it has to do anything with this, I dont know... I can only wish (DE are actually rather popular here!).

Mick A wrote:Has anyone considered the possibility that both Dark Eldar and the Inquisition are being dropped?
GW are trying to improve profits for the shareholders any way they can. By dropping two armies with a smaller following and not having to produce any more models they can then concentrate on the bigger sellers. People who collect both those armies would prob end up buying more mainstream ones rather than just give up on the game and therefore bring in more money without new models.
Before anyone says don't be daft remember its happened before...
Mick

If GW dropped the Inquisition, I'd be done with GW. There are various reasons why, but that would be the straw that shattered the camel's spine.

This from the guy who made up his own rules?

I like 40k for its fertile soil for mockery.

Please, we all love this stupid game, why else would we waste so many productive hours on this website and playing with our stuff?!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:This from the guy who made up his own rules?

Which has all of what to do with what Kyoto?

Gargskull wrote:Why on Earth would they be in the same book, that doesn't make any kind of sense. Besides which, GW seems to want more books not less.

QFT. Putting DE and Eldar in the same codex would make the same amount of sense to GW as putting multiple marine armies in the same codex. All it does is reduce the overall number of books sold.

Oh god, not the return of the "one book Eldar" rumor. Which wasn't even a good rumor, but someone misunderstanding when the design team said they were concepting both at the same time. Which makes sense given that they're both, you know, Eldar.

I never herd of a combined Elder/DE codex. And this rumour was around for years? Boy I missed that one, this is new to me. I use to want to start a DE army but been waiting for a new codex. Now if and when it comes out, meh, lost the interest now. But who knows maybe it can be rekindled if GW hypes it up properly and not like how they handled the Tyranid release.

One idea came to me about people talking about an Inquisitor release. If it happens, I will be surprised, but I believe there will be no Grey Knights or Sisters of Battle in there so it will be interesting to see what it will consist of. If it's in plastic I will start it, if in metal still, I will not bother with them.

I was at one of the seminars at UK GD back in the day when Gavin Thorpe talked about the Eldar.

He talked about how he wanted the entire eldar race to be addressed/worked on as a whole.
He also stated that they would be separate codexes.

He just wanted their background and fluff to be created at the same time and intertwined, instead of having bits tacked on as the various codexes was released.

In true fashion (with complete disregad for the facts) this was interpreted as "There will be one complete codex containing all the eldar races". *shrugs*

I can see GW releasing Eldar in June to August, and then releasing Dark Eldar in September

Mick A wrote:Look at it this way, does it sound right that GW are saying to people 'dont buy our product as we have new stuff coming out later this year...'

Mick

as opposed to say... "Buy this BEFORE it becomes clearance/scrap?"

if GW was planning on clearing the line, they would be shipping every last model they had, and Ebay would be the LAST place FLGS s would place them...

I don't have the link with the article on me at the moment, but if anyone else does, could they post the proof that GW recently had the Patent/Copyrights approved and granted for Dark Eldar models and molds as well as IP in the codex?

I think it came out around spring of last year...

Personally I like the idea of a book that has Eldar/Dark Eldar, and Harlequines all in the same book, but as mentioned above, GW can make more money by making three separate books. Speakin of Harlequins, does anyone think we will ever see a stand alone book for them? The new new range of Harlequins seemed to be very well recieved when the Eldar book came out, and the WD issues that covered those models made mention what they would go back and revisit the idea of adding the Great Avatar and the Solitare at a later time. Granted that was well over a year ago. Could it be that they would add Harlequines as a unit for DE if the DE book is released before the Crafterworld Eldar book is updated again? Food for thought.

If they combined the Eldar and Dark Eldar books why don't they also combine the space marine and chaos space marine books to? Not going to happen people.

Yeah, baby steps. They'd have to put all the Space Marine Codexes back together before finally Chaos Space Marines.

I think it's a rather intelligent approach to get all the boxes out and sold long before the codex is even on the horizon.

Greets
Schepp himself

I won`t care if the new DE dex has a few pages about eldars... I just want to touch it.

I wonder if GW considered melting down all the current DE models (Probably the best use for them imo) and using the material to produce new sprues for cheap!

I mean every game store ive been to in this area has had the same DE stuff sitting on shelves for years..

Miniature version of soylent green.. those citizens that are wasteful can be turned into productive people (new models)

Chamleoneyes wrote:Personally I like the idea of a book that has Eldar/Dark Eldar, and Harlequines all in the same book,

GW can make more money by making three separate books.

Speakin of Harlequins, does anyone think we will ever see a stand alone book for them?

Could it be that they would add Harlequines as a unit for DE if the DE book is released before the Crafterworld Eldar book is updated again?

In such a scenario, a single "unique" unit of Dark Eldar becomes an Eldar Elite, with Transport (i.e. T10 Raider / T6 Ravager) folded under that entry a la Harlequins, forcing the rest of the DE as a "Counts As" army. If you're a DE player, that probably wouldn't be the sort of "support" you were looking for.

I doubt GW would make more money, primarily because of the Harlequins, even if there were enough demonstrated pent-up demand for a new Dark Eldar Codex and range.

Like Grey Knights, the Harlequin model range and Fluff are just far too narrow to support a full army. Great Apoc Datasheet, lousy Codex.

If CWE didn't historically (2E) and currently (4E+) have Harlies, DE could have them added in. But current GW design wouldn't allow strict duplication of units. However, assuming DE did get a Codex, a Crone entry would be possible.

JohnHwangDD wrote:Great Apoc Datasheet, lousy Codex.

I wouldn't say great. They're still just infantry, and we all know how long that lasts when Apocalypse games get underway.

JohnHwangDD wrote:Like Grey Knights, the Harlequin model range and Fluff are just far too narrow to support a full army. Great Apoc Datasheet, lousy Codex.

Grey Knights seem to be doing just fine as an army, no matter what your personal bias against PAGK and full GK armies might be.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Chamleoneyes wrote:Personally I like the idea of a book that has Eldar/Dark Eldar, and Harlequines all in the same book,

GW can make more money by making three separate books.

Speakin of Harlequins, does anyone think we will ever see a stand alone book for them?

Could it be that they would add Harlequines as a unit for DE if the DE book is released before the Crafterworld Eldar book is updated again?

In such a scenario, a single "unique" unit of Dark Eldar becomes an Eldar Elite, with Transport (i.e. T10 Raider / T6 Ravager) folded under that entry a la Harlequins, forcing the rest of the DE as a "Counts As" army. If you're a DE player, that probably wouldn't be the sort of "support" you were looking for.

I doubt GW would make more money, primarily because of the Harlequins, even if there were enough demonstrated pent-up demand for a new Dark Eldar Codex and range.

Like Grey Knights, the Harlequin model range and Fluff are just far too narrow to support a full army. Great Apoc Datasheet, lousy Codex.

If CWE didn't historically (2E) and currently (4E+) have Harlies, DE could have them added in. But current GW design wouldn't allow strict duplication of units. However, assuming DE did get a Codex, a Crone entry would be possible.

I don't see the problem with adding Harlequins to the DE - they are, afterall, in DE fluff as well - not a straight copy from the Eldar book of course, but something similiar (I mean, the marine armies share stuff don't they?). Anyway, what's a "Crone"? Croneworld? Or is it something I've missed in eldar fluff?

JohnHwangDD wrote:
But current GW design wouldn't allow strict duplication of units.

See Codex: Imperial Guard, Witch Hunters, Daemonhunters, Space Marines, Blood Angels, Dark Angels, Space Wolves, Black Templars, Chaos Space Marines (Sorry if I accidentially left you out)

Impgaurd - Witch hunters - Deamonhunters
Chimera Entries seem duplicate As is Inquisitor Lord

WH, DH, SM, BA, DA, SW, BT, CSM - Rhino

SM, BA, DA, BT - Assault Terminators

"" "" - Dreadnaught

"" "" - Land Raider Crusader

GW loves overlap, it means more people will buy the same thing, for different armies... So I guess the only real thing I have to say about GW and "Not allowing Duplicate Entries" is "Huh?!?"

Daemon-Archon wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:
But current GW design wouldn't allow strict duplication of units.

See Codex: Imperial Guard, Witch Hunters, Daemonhunters, Space Marines, Blood Angels, Dark Angels, Space Wolves, Black Templars, Chaos Space Marines (Sorry if I accidentially left you out)

Impgaurd - Witch hunters - Deamonhunters
Chimera Entries seem duplicate As is Inquisitor Lord

WH, DH, SM, BA, DA, SW, BT, CSM - Rhino

SM, BA, DA, BT - Assault Terminators

"" "" - Dreadnaught

"" "" - Land Raider Crusader

GW loves overlap, it means more people will buy the same thing, for different armies... So I guess the only real thing I have to say about GW and "Not allowing Duplicate Entries" is "Huh?!?"

And lets not forget Grey Hunters and Chaos Space Marines are nearly identical.

Except GH are cheaper because space wolves are totally awesome.. see rule below

"Total Awesomeness" This rule grants the unit one USR of your choice for free. In addition all unit upgrades cost half the normal points for this unit