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Yay for fantasy, square base all the way.
I'm torn between woodelves or brets for my new fantasy project so may wait 6months or so an see if new brets emerge, if not wood elves it is.

Heard about this from a guy I know, apparently along with the WE Beastmen are getting done...and all for a new WFB starter box.

That's just what I've heard, and it ties in with the may WE rumours.

BAN wrote:
...so may wait 6months or so an see if new brets emerge...

Six months is rather optimistic. This is Bret's we're talking about, after all.

The helmeted versions of those riders have a very 'Dark Elf' look about them, pretty cool stuff. I'm glad they seem to be next for an update, gives me renwed hope for a Brettonian love in

People are so excited by this release that the thread on citadel tools has twice as many pages...

Well WE are GW's most popular army...

rothrich wrote:
People are so excited by this release that the thread on citadel tools has twice as many pages...

I believe we just found the quote to sum up the entirety of Dakka feelings towards GW at the moment...

rothrich wrote:
People are so excited by this release that the thread on citadel tools has twice as many pages...

Let's be fair now. A whole bunch of those posts in the tools thread are about the massive price GW has hung around the necks of their precision crafted h-h-hobby jewelry.

 Breotan wrote:

rothrich wrote:
People are so excited by this release that the thread on citadel tools has twice as many pages...

Let's be fair now. A whole bunch of those posts in the tools thread are about the massive price GW has hung around the necks of their precision crafted h-h-hobby jewelry.

Exactly!

WFB may not be shining as brightly nowadays as it used it, but it is fair bit more important and 'popular' than than stuff!

 Alpharius wrote:

Exactly!

WFB may not be shining as brightly nowadays as it used it, but it is fair bit more important and 'popular' than than stuff!

I think Alpharius might be having a stroke...


But yes, I think the other thread is fueled by a fair deal of outrage. This thread is pretty light on info, and exists in a 40K centric forum, so the light traffic make sense. (To me at least.)

I'd love to see more WE on the board, so persist with high hopes.

Lets be fair all we have is some old art and a rumour that has been doing the rounds for the last few years. That isn't much to get excited about considering there isn't really anything much to go on other than "WE might possibly could be next (and this time we really mean it)".


Once there's some actual news, like leaked product photos and WD pages then there will be pages of excitement (and a bunch of people moaning about paying for things )

It's actually nice that this thread hasn't been ruined by the price whinging.

Yet.

Of course, there's nothing else being discussed either, so it's not all positive.


I dislike the idea of more bird surfers. I don't like the current war hawk riders doing it, and I'd rather any new ones didn't.

Here's hoping I still get to use my 30-ish Metal Eternal Guard for something other than paperweights

 Scrub wrote:
The helmeted versions of those riders have a very 'Dark Elf' look about them, pretty cool stuff. I'm glad they seem to be next for an update, gives me renwed hope for a Brettonian love in

According to the 2nd War of Vengeance novel - some of the original Wood Elves were Dark Elves.................

Leggy wrote:
It's actually nice that this thread hasn't been ruined by the price whinging.

Yet.

Of course, there's nothing else being discussed either, so it's not all positive.


I dislike the idea of more bird surfers. I don't like the current war hawk riders doing it, and I'd rather any new ones didn't.

Here's hoping I still get to use my 30-ish Metal Eternal Guard for something other than paperweights

I'm sure when we actually know some prices we'll hear some complaining. At the moment all we have is a single piece of artwork and some rumours that may or may not be sketchy.

Not impressed so far. Looks to me like its going to be another 'Elf Woods army book'.

No Eternal Guard at all. This looks likethe army is entirely tree and skirmisher base. While a good theme it should not be all the army can be.
I miss Wood elves with spear and shield, and don't see why they cant have them.

As for the pigeon surfers, GW are compounding their idiocies with having double-pigeon surfers. They will end up looking like they are playing Twister.

Nice to see the department of silly names is earning its pay again. You cant have giant owls, you have two have Stonefaceowlwraiths or something equally crass.

Elf Woods have had crap imagery for ten years now, and its only getting worse. Not long now before they look like they go to the same tailor as the Savage Orcs.

If the new Wood Elves are as good as the recent Hobbit Wood Elves - that would be good ?

I am very interested in seeing how they change the rules for Wood Elves in order to make them work in 8th. Being almost entire made up of Skirmishers is a massive disadvantage in 8th as you have no way to hold enemy troops and face a Static Combat Resolution disadvantage of -3 in every fight - which is nothing to scoff at!

WE used to be the most interesting army in 7th because they had a very distinctive and different playstyle, but that, sadly, changed in 8th when GW decided to dumb the game down by a good shot and e.g. removed difficult terrain which was vital for WE as it allowed them to out-maneuver most enemies at ease, carefully picking and killing targets.

I am very excited about the release and might even start picking some Wood Elves up. Second hand, of course, no way I'm going to pay these prices

 Mr Morden wrote:
If the new Wood Elves are as good as the recent Hobbit Wood Elves - that would be good ?

That's what I'd personally like. If the LOTR wood elf range was more expansive, I would make a WHFB WE army using the LOTR figures. Oh, and the price, LOTR Mirkwood Elves are painfully expensive to create an entire army of them.

I wouldn't mind surfing if the eagles were bigger and maybe with a long reign up like on the PP Legion Hellion = however I never liked how tiny the eagles are compared to the riders - it just looks wrong to surf them .

 Overread wrote:
I wouldn't mind surfing if the eagles were bigger and maybe with a long reign up like on the PP Legion Hellion = however I never liked how tiny the eagles are compared to the riders - it just looks wrong to surf them .

I bought LOTR Eagles to use as my WE Eagles, far better models.

I did the same - heck the old metal eagle is years old and a bit clunky. Plus two good looking plastic eagles is all I need (and I can make the wings magnetic easily)

 Red_Zeke wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

Exactly!

WFB may not be shining as brightly nowadays as it used it, but it is fair bit more important and 'popular' than than stuff!

I think Alpharius might be having a stroke...


But yes, I think the other thread is fueled by a fair deal of outrage. This thread is pretty light on info, and exists in a 40K centric forum, so the light traffic make sense. (To me at least.)

I'd love to see more WE on the board, so persist with high hopes.

Ha - good one!

That's me on a phone for you - not working out well, usually...

Still, I've love to see WFB make a comeback, somehow - I enjoy that game far more than 40K these days...

No wood elf new faq on site, probably an indicator of wood elves next month

http://www.blacklibrary.com/faqs-and-errata.html

If the owl or hawk sculpts are half as good as the High Elf Phoenix model, I will be content.

The artist of the wood elf pics has removed them from his gallery and blog post

Looks like he posted early

Well that pretty much confirms it was real......

the question is was he a little early (ie coming soon) or a lot early (2015)

 LazzurusMan wrote:
Heard about this from a guy I know, apparently along with the WE Beastmen are getting done...and all for a new WFB starter box.

That's just what I've heard, and it ties in with the may WE rumours.

I would love for this to be true seeing as how the next fantasy army i want to play is Beastmen and my brother wants to play Wood Elves. This would be perfect for us!

Weaverman over at Warseer wrote:Please take from this what you will, my friend has just seen some pictures of the new woodies from an independent retailer

"Lads i have seen some pics of the new wood elves. U can have a man treeman or a woman treeman not sure what they do, warhawk or owl riders and look great. New war dancers with 2 or 3 different levels and they now rank up. New fast cav models too."

On the leaked WoodElf art:

Imperator64 over at Warseer wrote:I asked daarkon why the pic had gone from his site and he just said the gw had asked him to remove it.

Not new, but as people interested in Wood Elves are gathered here, I just found a very old and quite unknown collection of not-used Wood Elf background texts written for Warhammer RPG. Was old in 2006 already But 61 pages!
www.madalfred.com/articles/Laurelorn_Elves.rtf

Strange for multiple reasons that GW is making WE pretty much all skirmish. First, it's strange because it doesn't fit the 8th edition playstyle, and second, it's strange because adding a modern looking spear unit to the army is a unit that most players will buy at least 4 boxes of. Put them at the same price as the new DE spearmen and that's $200 per WE player.

 Overread wrote:
Lets be fair all we have is some old art and a rumour that has been doing the rounds for the last few years. That isn't much to get excited about considering there isn't really anything much to go on other than "WE might possibly could be next (and this time we really mean it)".


Once there's some actual news, like leaked product photos and WD pages then there will be pages of excitement (and a bunch of people moaning about paying for things )

I saw tomorrows White Dwarf on Tuesday. In the back under the regular "Next Week" section it says:

"If you go down to the Woods today...

...You're in for a big surprise."

If that's not a confirmation, it's trolling on a new level for GW.