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An anthropomorphic Games Workshop humanoid is holding a spear to your throat. It tells you to press one of two buttons. No funny business. ‘Corsairs or Exodites? There can only be one, we love the Imperium and Space Marines too much, and we can’t let you Eldar players and your sympathizers get too big for your britches, but we know we can make fat stacks of cash by throwing out a new faction. Choose wisely.’

I voted Corsairs, but only out of spite.
Always had a big, heavy conversion Exodite army rattling around in the back of my head and I'd hate to have em be the new hotness before I get to it.

Corsairs, because (and this might very well get me lynched, but...) I find the idea of Space Elves riding around on dinosaurs completely naff!

Aren't eldar corsairs just guardians with jump packs? I feel like they have a bit less character than weird, atavistic feral Eldar who haven't been contacted since around the time of the birth of She Who Thirsts. I was very unimpressed by FW corsairs, and would have to see 'em very re-imagined to have any interest at all.

I’d go with Dark Eldar, myself.

I voted exodites. I loved the 7th edition corsair rules, but you can kind of reproduce a lot of their flavor by simply allying craftworlders and drukhari together. Exodites could be significantly more unique. Picture an army composed primarily of cavalry and beast units. Picture herbivorous monsters that are also transports. It would be very easy to make exodites very unique.

But ideally we'd eventually get both.

If we got a really cool corsair kit with all the ott outfits, pirate trophies, personalised weapons and swagger like in some BL books, that's be really cool. Elves on dinosaurs is also cool, but I feel corsairs would be better.

I want dino-riding eldar with spears & elemental psyker powers.

As I'm currently building and painting an Exodite army currently, I obviously voted for Exodites.
Both factions are incredibly cool and I wish Corsairs didn't get slammed when they came out of 7th.

Dino riding Elves for the win!

Voted corsairs, the rogue trader eldar were mostly pirates and I still love that look and fluff.

 Ginjitzu wrote:
Corsairs, because (and this might very well get me lynched, but...) I find the idea of Space Elves riding around on dinosaurs completely naff!

This for me too.

Also, as a Drukhari player, I don't want any more Aeldari factions because because it would take away even more valuable time/resources from the stuff I collect.

 harlokin wrote:

 Ginjitzu wrote:
Corsairs, because (and this might very well get me lynched, but...) I find the idea of Space Elves riding around on dinosaurs completely naff!

This for me too.

Also, as a Drukhari player, I don't want any more Aeldari factions because because it would take away even more valuable time/resources from the stuff I collect.

LAd, go play Ynnari.



Jokes asside:
My vote goes to Corsairs, BECAUSE FETH GW THAT RUINED FW INDEXES.

Corsairs b.c i have them, they are ready for 8th (their 7th rules fit 1 for 1 into 8th without any problems), and their fluff IMO is better than Exodites, also you can put Ynnari for Corsairs and just use the Corsair rules. Its literally a perfect fit/fix for this stupid Ynnari system.

Exodites.

Nothing against corsairs, but I don’t think they are distinct enough from the rest of the eldar range. Sure, they have a few new tricks and gear options, but it’s basically more space elf shenanigans. Exodites bring a lot of new things. Not just another flavor of jetbike, but different units and playstyles.

Plus dinos. Everyone loves dinos <roar>

Personally exodites would fit well with my army. My theme is Fast moving mech/bikes, where nobody has to get mud on their boots. I do base in a maiden world lush green though. Exodites would provide a great ground presence to counter the grav bikes/armor.

I would actually pick up a detachment’s worth of exodites. I’d just wistfully look at a corsair release but never pull the trigger to buy them.

Corsairs to me were always just mercenary space pirates. Bit boring.

Go go Dino riding elfs.


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Corsairs to me were always just mercenary space pirates. Bit boring.

Go go Dino riding elfs.

Exodites without a shadow of a doubt.

To me its giving something really different to the range that hasn't existing before outside of lore mentions, a bit of artwork and one or two models made a VERY long time ago.


Like the others above the Corsairs are not a bad idea, but they are basically the same themes that we've seen already with Eldar. Dinosaur riding Eldar is a dramatic difference and a big shift.

Dino-aelves for sure.

Corsairs could be like a craftworlds supplement with some dark eldar units, mainly the tanks i feel with there other unique units.

And i think it would be a great release.

I just do not want to see another full eldar range, when it seems GW struggling on the current ones.

You evil little so and so, how dare you make me chose!

Exodites, but only because visually they'd be completely unique.

I do really miss the Corsair rules though, the comments here from people claiming they were boring just shows they've never even looked at the FW rules for them in 7th, they played absolutely nothing like Craftworlds and Dark Eldar and despite using the same or similar units had a very distinct feel all of their own.

 Ginjitzu wrote:
Corsairs, because (and this might very well get me lynched, but...) I find the idea of Space Elves riding around on dinosaurs completely naff!

*Leans in to microphone* wrong.

Corsairs as I already have an army of them and I'd like to save the money.

 harlokin wrote:

 Ginjitzu wrote:
Corsairs, because (and this might very well get me lynched, but...) I find the idea of Space Elves riding around on dinosaurs completely naff!

This for me too.

Also, as a Drukhari player, I don't want any more Aeldari factions because because it would take away even more valuable time/resources from the stuff I collect.

This made me chuckle a bit...as a long time "Real" Eldar player.

I imagine exodites would have far more conversion opportunities and be much more interesting than corsairs, model wise anyway. Corsairs would just be another shape of eldar armor, and between fantasy models and 40k models, there's already a ton of ways to do that.

Exodites, mainly for fluff reasons as they are the last major branch of the Eldar yet to be given an army and truly fleshed out.

Corsairs would be nice, but they are an in-between faction, in between all the major Eldar branches, and their fighting style can sort of be emulated with existing Eldar.

Ideally both would be nice but GW has enough trouble as it is with updating the Eldar lines.

Corsairs. I might have been more excited about Exodites before I saw what they did with the fish-elves in Sigmar and the idea of them doing Tzaangor-style laser-weapon conversion packs and saying "no there's a sci-fi explanation for the flying sharks trust us" just seems too much like one of those "we cannot in any way admit that we f***ed up" things GW would do.

 Ginjitzu wrote:
Corsairs, because (and this might very well get me lynched, but...) I find the idea of Space Elves riding around on dinosaurs completely naff!

I'll hang beside you in the hanging tree, because I agree. Dark Elves and High Elves are cool to sci-fi-ify, Wood Elves are not. I don't want the Avatar movie adapted to 40k.

Corsairs. 100%.

The idea that "it's just Guardians with jet packs!" ignores that Corsairs aren't a unit. They were a whole damn faction, with unique Psyker concepts, unique deployment, and unique vehicles(the Wasp was 100% ace).

Exodites work as a unit concept, not as a whole army.

Ohhh hard choice!

Hmm Dinosaurs win

If we get Exodites can we also get Boarboyz on Cyborks back?

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Corsairs. I might have been more excited about Exodites before I saw what they did with the fish-elves in Sigmar and the idea of them doing Tzaangor-style laser-weapon conversion packs and saying "no there's a sci-fi explanation for the flying sharks trust us" just seems too much like one of those "we cannot in any way admit that we f***ed up" things GW would do.

There's literally an explanation for 'the flying sharks'. And it has to do with the fact that the Idoneth are not "fish"(they breathe air, there's no gills, etc).
That explanation is their magic has allowed them to do this. Their cities have the Idoneth walking around as though on land, with fish swimming around as normal.

The Idoneth are unaffected by the sea around them, and the Tidecasters effectively 'reverse' things while on land--allowing for the creatures to act as normal while the Idoneth don't need the protections they'd have in their homes.