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In my not-so-humble opinion I think a lot of the Eldar models actually look good. It's their codex that needs more fixing than their models.

The Jetbike Klan-hoods are easily swapped with regular Guardian helmets (Jetbikers are listed in the codex as Guardians anyway)

Spider poses could be more dynamic, maybe?

Personally i'd be happy with a good looking flier (as long as the rules arnt horrible) some minor point reductions here and there even being able to take 2 squads of aspect warriors as troops so i can drop my mandatory 200 pts of guardians would be nice and for GW to stay away from my warp spiders rules so much s6 is so beautiful

I've been told the new dex is being done by Phil Kelly - can anyone confirm this? I'm workblocked from most of the net.

PredaKhaine wrote:
I've been told the new dex is being done by Phil Kelly - can anyone confirm this? I'm workblocked from most of the net.

Currently its a rumour (Natfka's blog seems to be the source of this). Pretty much a big maybe given what he has said at Games Days over the last couple of years... at some he said he didn't want to be competing with his own previous work, and then some people have said he expressed different views later. Short answer, too hard to tell.

 Morachi wrote:

PredaKhaine wrote:
I've been told the new dex is being done by Phil Kelly - can anyone confirm this? I'm workblocked from most of the net.

Currently its a rumour (Natfka's blog seems to be the source of this). Pretty much a big maybe given what he has said at Games Days over the last couple of years... at some he said he didn't want to be competing with his own previous work, and then some people have said he expressed different views later. Short answer, too hard to tell.

Thanks

The latest bit from Faeit is a discussion on what the rumoured oval-based model might be. Nothing new (yet), only acknowledgement of what is likely to come. Unfortunately, as awesome as a Bright Stallion would be, it would quickly be renamed Butt Stallion or The My Little Huge Pony.

Eberious wrote:
Indeed, Eldar don't need a full revamp. Just some models brought up to date like warp spiders and jet bikes. A MC and a flyer would be nice,even if I never play them.

I'm mostly after a new codex tbh, models can wait. I'm not over looking forward to the rumored MC, GW could royally botch it and look like another power ranger toy. But w'll see, a mini titan would fit better imo. Maybe it'll be convertible into one.

I'm sure which ever rumors are true, I'll be broke the month of their release.

The Eldar codex do not need a full revamp to be made competitive and up to date. The Eldar codex needs a full revamp to be made exciting and current with the 6th edition style and layouts.

The current range of models lack specialization which is something they need to have. Only updating costs and touching up the codex will result in further limitation which is what the Aspect Warriors have at the moment.

I'm happy that the current active rumour is that Phil Kelly was excited about working with the Dark Kin and took a lot of notes for the Bright Kin, as this is indicative that the Craftworlders are in for some change away from the current bland 3rd edition codex (it's not really a 4th edition codex, they just took the 3rd edition altered some prices made 'serpents DT and removed the useful armoury layout in favour of a more confusing positioning of special rules and wargear - and added a lot of fluff).

Are people generally happy with the way the Dark Eldar turned out? From the rules to the background I found them to be lacking and I gave up playing them completely despite trying my hardest to find a fun and new way to play them.

Eldar are my last hope after Dark Angels didn't turn out that great either and I'm not impressed with Thousand Sons.

I'm also of the opinion Eldar need much more work than just point adjustments as there are a great number of things that aren't used (successfully) regardless of their points costs.

I don't want a wraithhorsie thank you, or a scaled up wraithlord simply because GW has a thing for silly walkers. I'm looking forward to the codex, especially about the Autarchs choosing paths. I think Dark Reapers as troops would be lovely.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
I don't want a wraithpony thank you, or a scaled up wraithlord simply because GW has a thing for silly walkers. I'm looking forward to the codex, especially about the Autarchs choosing paths. I think Dark Reapers as troops would be lovely.

Fix'd...

We had reapers as troops in 3rd. It didn't work too well becuase there just weren't enough bodies on the table...

via Best_Pone on Warseer
Eldar Rumors - April 2013

The pods on the wings of my drawing are the engines by the way, and yes, this fighter doesn't have a forked nose. Overall, the length of the Hemyock is a little longer than the Wave Serpant chassis, and the cockpit is located in the nose of this particular design. PENDING

Oh, and I think you're all expecting the obligatory mega-walker. From the glance I got, it looks like a wraithlord scaled up to twice the height I guess. PENDING

A flying penis?

I ... just...

Right. I'll just keep using my converted Voidraven.

Rumor seems believably. GW consistently fails to attach any semblance of a tail portion to their fliers.

 Absolutionis wrote:
Rumor seems believably. GW consistently fails to attach any semblance of a tail portion to their fliers.

Because science fiction.

Lol, as said ... a flying penis. Well if it looks anything like that then it'll be a DE flyer conversion. It doesn't even flow with the rest of the Eldar design. But hey, lets see what happens. I'm totally not taking that as a serious possibility right now, gave me a chuckle.

 Absolutionis wrote:
Rumor seems believably. GW consistently fails to attach any semblance of a tail portion to their fliers.

Sunshark and Razor Shark had tail portions...

But with additional pylons for added science!

 pretre wrote:
Oh, and I think you're all expecting the obligatory mega-walker. From the glance I got, it looks like a wraithlord scaled up to twice the height I guess. PENDING

Haha. I couldn't find a nice Wraithlord vs Riptide shot. But if the Wraithlord vs Crisis Suit and Riptide vs Crisis Suit shots I found were decent, we're looking at a model about 33% taller than a Riptide. Riiiiiiight.

Eldar are getting a Klingon Sex Toy???

Hemyock?

Hemlock maybe...?

what!?!
i can't even express how funny it would be if the Eldar got stuck with a flying penis...
i mean, they have the best looking flyers in the game, and then this...
just, wow...

Forgeworld looks better with every new release...

cheers
jah

We get it, your minds are in the gutter. Whoever drew that image probably did it intentionally. Even the Faeit212 article mentions the phallic quality of the image.

To be fair, it's really no different than the silhouette of a backswept Nightwing:


With the turret body of the FirePrism attached to the front (minus the cannon):

 Souleater wrote:
Eldar are getting a Klingon Sex Toy???

The front gun has AP1

BTW seems I get my first TRUE for my made up Eldar rumour:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/522374.page

Eldar get a monstrous creature, which isn't a creature (true). It is just a bigger Wraith Lord with two extra weapon choices to save design time.

 pretre wrote:
via Best_Pone on Warseer
Eldar Rumors - April 2013

The pods on the wings of my drawing are the engines by the way, and yes, this fighter doesn't have a forked nose. Overall, the length of the Hemyock is a little longer than the Wave Serpant chassis, and the cockpit is located in the nose of this particular design. PENDING

Oh, and I think you're all expecting the obligatory mega-walker. From the glance I got, it looks like a wraithlord scaled up to twice the height I guess. PENDING

Can we please refrain from posting pornographic images

The Centauri have joined the Eldar!

"Mister Ulthran, my good and dear friend. You will lend me some credits in the casino, yes?"

Not sure what to think about the Nightwang.... But the bigger wraithlord sounds a little dumb for eldar. Seems finesse would be more their thing than big stompy creature.

I hope Eldar aren't getting the super-mecha treatment the Tau just got...

 Sinful Hero wrote:
Not sure what to think about the Nightwang.... But the bigger wraithlord sounds a little dumb for eldar. Seems finesse would be more their thing than big stompy creature.

Nightwang... PRO!!!!!

 Sinful Hero wrote:
Not sure what to think about the Nightwang.... But the bigger wraithlord sounds a little dumb for eldar. Seems finesse would be more their thing than big stompy creature.

That's a good point, but on the other hand, the Titans that Forgeworld makes for Eldar are pretty uniformly awesome. In fact, the bigger they are, the awesom-er they seem...

Hopefully this new beast will be sort of a mini-titan of sorts. Big nast space-elf-beam-cannon arms and not a big bruiser.

-C6

Umm... Really? Eldar get the flying WraithBONE shaft? ... anyway, the only thing that I'm really hoping comes to fruition is plastic Wraithguard. Been wanting to do an Iyanden Craftworld "Wraithwing" for years, but always held out for the possibility of plastics. As it stands Wraithguard are to expensive, monetarily, for what you get IMHO. Never really cared about the total battlefield effectiveness of this army type. but dang it would look cool and be fun to paint!

Here's the high elves:

http://pinsofwar.com/high-elves-leak-2/

Some good and some bad omens for Eldar in there.