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Now I want the flier to look like that, just to use the term "Nightwang", that's pure gold!

 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

Oh the humanity.....
It needs bigger engines.

 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

Oh my...... That looks.... Interesting?

Lucarikx

 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.

Idk what you're talking about. Wraith constructs have been an integral part of Eldar for as long as I can remember. They are one of the major craftworlds and have their own, very distinctive paint scheme. I exclusively run Iyanden and Saim Hann; one very brute force approach and one very speedy and nimble. It's perfect. I am VERY excited about all the rumors regarding Iyanden type units, let's hope they will be a lot like Riptides(FoC wise) and look very Wraithlord-like.

Looks like it fits the Necron Night Scythe like a glove... Coincidence?

Perfect Organism wrote:

 azreal13 wrote:

Spoiler:

You saw it here first!

I was expecting something more like one of the Towering Destroyers, but the Bright Stallion would fit better on the oval base, wouldn't it?

I kinda like it, if done right Id consider buying one. Im all in for the plastic farseer, he will fit well in my fantasy skirmish games.

 Insurgency Walker wrote:

 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

Oh the humanity.....
It needs bigger engines.

I'm holding out hope for two spherical engines throbbing with power.

Funny how the image embodies the companies personality. I guess "Nailed it" just doesn't do it justice.

 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

I'm not gonna beat around the bush and just say what everyone's thinking, that looks like a phallus.

The fact that the crude drawing of the FirePrism+Nightwing looks like a penis isn't a surprise. Naftka already made that joke in the reveal. Moving on...

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
I'm not gonna beat around the bush

You should!

Such activity might result in you getting a realistic eldar flyer proxy to use in your games.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I'm holding out hope for two spherical engines throbbing with power.

You mean like this starship from a German Star Trek parody?

Can't wait for the release and more spoilers!

I will never field this flyer against a girl. Purely from how many inappropriate jokes I will be making when it shoots and lands a hit/wound.

Reminds me of the Centauri ships from babylon 5

GTKA666 wrote:
I will never field this flyer against a girl. Purely from how many inappropriate jokes I will be making when it shoots and lands a hit/wound.

Sure, and you never know when you're vehicle might explode before the game is done.

This is far more believable than Chaos getting a flying mechanical dragon- and almost certainly just as true. Also.... is Hemyock a typo, or a clever effort to get around the dakka censors?

Either way, the Nightwang remains a very stealthy aircraft, able to fly below any quality control groups.

Who wantsa some wang? Rumor has stated that the Eldar flyer looked like a crossbow. I hope they don't pooch this one. Maybe the new jet bikes will be awesome. Maybe they will even bring back harlequin bikes.

O...M....G.... When I read Night wang and saw that picture I literally was immobilized with laughter... I hope it has a web cannon.... Oh please say it has a web gun...

Murmaider wrote:
Can't wait for the release

Is GW doing a Full Release this time?

Or a vehicle-sized Vibro Cannon

Can we get off the phallic train here and back on topic?

 Kanluwen wrote:
Can we get off the phallic train here and back on topic?

I got off as soon as I saw it.

I'll bet it's more Klingon Bird of Prey, than phallus.

Then again, feel free to continue to judge an unreleased kit from a poorly drawn silhouette.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Can we get off the phallic train here and back on topic?

Pretty much.

And while it may or may not have been fun, time for us all to move on.

On topic from here on... or else...

Thanks!

Hopefully new sculpts for Dark reapers..

I find it odd there hasn't been much in the way of rumours for new aspect warrior sculpts.

Everytime I go by the Eldar section at my FLGS, I shed a single tear for those poor Eldar players stuck with finecast for every infantry model except guardians and dire avengers.

Truth be told, the Eldar could do with a Dark Eldar style revamp of the main line; they don't need a bunch new silly kits and giant wraithemperors or whatever it is that GW comes up with, just a decent ruleset and plastics instead of finecast. Those shiny new kits are only going to move so many kits when the rest of the army is hamstrung by shoddy kits. While FC isn't completely terrible with purpose-built molds and sculpts, these re purposed metals are a nightmare, and almost every Eldar player I know has opted to buy used metal asepct warriors over the finecast.

if GW wants to move some models, new plastics at a reasonable-by-GW pricepoint wit the same obvious talent and care that went into DE would be a godsend, at least to those people I know who play Eldar, or want to expand their armies.

But then the same logic holds true for most armies with old model ranges; Chaos players would likely prefer some new versions of their ancient special characters, Marines would likely care for some new basic troops, who today are more mold-line than actual model, and Guard players would like some updated troopers. Giant silly expensive kits with questionable aesthetics and battlefield performance, not so much.

[Mod Edit - You were warned not to... - Alpharius]

 MajorStoffer wrote:
if GW wants to move some models, new plastics at a reasonable-by-GW pricepoint wit the same obvious talent and care that went into DE would be a godsend, at least to those people I know who play Eldar, or want to expand their armies.

But then the same logic holds true for most armies with old model ranges; Chaos players would likely prefer some new versions of their ancient special characters, Marines would likely care for some new basic troops, who today are more mold-line than actual model, and Guard players would like some updated troopers. Giant silly expensive kits with questionable aesthetics and battlefield performance, not so much.

That's when you hit the "risk" portion of the industry, and GW has shown that it is actually incredibly risk-averse of late. A new kit, such as the Riptide, will enjoy fairly predictable sales because people both old and new will want it, and there's limited other ways of getting it (i.e. - almost none outside of heavy conversion work). Most of the past few releases have gone the route of "fewer boxes to more people" with big new units while there haven't been a great many "core" kits released. I think the only "update models" that have been released going back to October 2012 are the Raptors which as a dual kit for a new unit,is a stretch, Dragon Ogres, Pathfinders and Broadsides. In the upcoming release you could count the Shadow Warriors, though it's the same toss-up on "does it count?" as the Raptors since the kit will make a new unit too.

So, being generous, that there have been five "update to existing model" kits in eight months of releases shows where GW's focus is at the moment. They don't want the risk of people not buying models because they have "good enough" with the old models or buying the old models cheaper from someone looking to upgrade (as I have no doubt GW views this as a "lost" sale like most blinkered companies). It's not an unfounded fear, as dramatically altering an army's look will never go completely well. I'm sure there's people who lament the Dark Eldar release because they liked the old look. These people are crazy, of course, but they undoubtedly exist. Other armies would be far too cost-prohibitive to trade out every model so the players wouldn't, such as a flot-slog IG force. So, they would rather sell 1-2 boxes to 70-80% of the players of a given army than take a shot at selling 3-4 boxes (or more) to an unknowable percentage.

Would they make more money if they do it right? Sure, but that "if" in there seems as like it's going to scare them away, at least under their current leadership. Maybe the sales enjoyed by the Tau Pathfinders and Broadsides will convince GW to try a bit harder though.

 Alpharius wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Can we get off the phallic train here and back on topic?

Pretty much.

And while it may or may not have been fun, time for us all to move on.

On topic from here on... or else...

Thanks!

So... warnings have already been given.

Just so everyone knows...

 pities2004 wrote:
Hopefully new sculpts for Dark reapers..

I doubt it. Back when GW released sneak previews of their models, this was one of them. They're one of the most recently redone aspects, so they definitely wouldn't be a high priority for GW.