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I need to get me a scorpion type 2 fast, I got a feeling the turret could be used for an all plastic scorpion from gw.

Stick 2 long barrelled pulsars, and It could work.

Now I just wonder if they will change the falson as well when they redo the codex. They could take the opportunity to change the rules as well.

I wonder how the new turret would look with a pulse laser.

They both look quite nice, although the fire prism cannon does look a little too long for the tank.

Not too bad overall though, and 100% better than the metal one. Dang I get a shiver just thinking about putting that horror story together, the less metal/plastic combi kits the better in my book.

I like them both. The turret is possibly a fraction large, but that could just be down to camera angle. The Nightspinner weapons look a little downsized from the Forgeworld version, which is good... they always looked a little goofy. And the new prism cannon is a huge improvement over the 'just bung a crystal on it' old version. The longer barrel seems more appropriate, to me.

I foresee a lot of small Eldar flyer conversions coming from that turret...

Huh, would have expected them to keep the design of the Fire Prism and just recut the sprues. I like the Night Spinner, but I'm not yet convinced by the Prism, which looks slightly off-balance. Might be a problem with the photograph.
One thing I have to agree with, though: You can't really improve on the Falcon hull. For a design that's more than ten years old it holds up remarkably well.


Is the bigger one of the cristals (the one closer to the turret) clear or opaque? Would be weird if one was clear plastic and the other one wasn't.

Flashman wrote:Well, we now know that the Night Spinner has AP (-)

Just perused the text next to the model

Well, no surprise here, as the Nightspinner always had AP - , that's why I always doubted its usefulness in Heavy Support.

Are we just looking at a mobile twin-linked shadow weaver here? In which case,

I'm loving both tanks!

Not sure about the Fire Prism, I think that elongated barrel will stap off in transport really easily.

I own 12 eldar grav tanks, and will not be adding any new prisms to my fleet. I could care less for them, they look silly. I will however buy some night spinners when time comes, I have money set aside to finish up my bugs.

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:I ... will not be adding any new prisms to my fleet ... I will however buy some night spinners when time comes...

You understand that they're the same kit, and you could do it in a modular style if you wanted?

HBMC, what've I told you about using logic?

Stop it! Stop it now!

I love the look of that prism for sure. Nice work on it

Anyone else think Night Spinners will be able to be taken in Squadrons?

In Spearhead, probably yes.

Of course, GW needs you to buy lots of them

Look great. I'd buy eldar tanks,but I dont have a spraygun,so it's way harder to paint them....sigh

Aduro wrote:Anyone else think Night Spinners will be able to be taken in Squadrons?

More like: Anybody think Eldar Grav-Tanks *won't* be available in Squadrons?

GW's got a lot of models to sell, and Squadrons are the easy way to do it.

Even if they can be taken in squadrons why anyone would be taking Night Spinners in Spearhead is beyond me. Considering its supposed/expected to be based around large tank battles I can't see a below par anti-infantry tank being much help.

Fire Prisms in squadrons on the other hand .

Outside of Spearhead I think squadrons for the main Eldar tanks is unlikely (in the next codex when they get around to it), probably just make the Falcon available as a dedicated transport.

Maybe the Night Spinner always hits the Rear Armor of vehicles.

Maybe it creates dangerous terrain.

Maybe it creates Dangerous Terrain that always hits the Rear Armor...

Powerguy wrote:Even if they can be taken in squadrons why anyone would be taking Night Spinners in Spearhead is beyond me. Considering its supposed/expected to be based around large tank battles I can't see a below par anti-infantry tank being much help.

Fire Prisms in squadrons on the other hand .

Outside of Spearhead I think squadrons for the main Eldar tanks is unlikely (in the next codex when they get around to it), probably just make the Falcon available as a dedicated transport.

We don't know it'll be exclusively tank battles.

We could be getting rules for having armored spearheads breaking through fortifications(which would be manned almost exclusively with infantry!) or things like that.

Maybe it always hits rear armor, creates dangerous terrain and on a roll of a 6 creates rending ponies?

It's AP- against Infantry, but against Vehicles it's Str10 AP1 Melta Lance.

According to the most recent but most likely soon to be obsolete FW rules the Night Spinner is a str. 6 AP - heavy 1 7" blast weapon with no special weapons rules.

I believe the "new" rules for it are something like S6 AP-, barrage, and a unit hit by it counts as being in dangerous/difficult terrain in their next movement phase.

Not 100% certain of that though.

Of course this is a disappointment. A new turret does not make a new tank.

I don't think it's an issue of the turrets being too big as much as the tank being too short in the back. If they had the same extension as the Falcon Type II, then the turret would look proper size to the eye. If I were into Eldar, I might by the conversion kit just to make the Nightspinner/Fire Prism look better visually.

olympia wrote:Of course this is a disappointment. A new turret does not make a new tank.

Tell that an IG player looking at the "new" models for Chimera, Basilisk and Leman Russ

Breotan wrote:I don't think it's an issue of the turrets being too big as much as the tank being too short in the back. If they had the same extension as the Falcon Type II, then the turret would look proper size to the eye. If I were into Eldar, I might by the conversion kit just to make the Nightspinner/Fire Prism look better visually.

Maybe use the elongated hull of a Serpent. Or, as you said, just add the FW parts.



Or use the Serpent with the Mk 2 FW parts

They look mad sexy! Prism cannon here I come!

Thanks OP and Kyoto as my dial up couldn't load the OP picks.