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Though there are lots of new flyers and montrous creatures 6th ed is an Objective heavy game so Infantry still plays a big part of course.

I think a big MC would be SWEET!!

And Ive been around since Rouge Trader days...i still have guardian MUSICIANS in my units.

At one point in time I had the Towering Knight Destroyer...it was from Armorcast and it was AWESOME!!! .. Then 3rd ed came out and we couldnt use them in our games anymore. I wish I would have hung onto that model!!!

But I am also eagerly awaiting the new Codex too.

I hope the writer fixes the Shuriken Catapult as well.

I want to see the Eldar become the masters of manuverability again too.

How about a vehicle upgrade that allows the Falcon to move at combat speed and fire at ANY point in the movement.

And lets be honest...make the Falcon BS 4 and fix the Pulse laser. It should be Str 9 Hvy 2 Lance 60" range. or so...

As far as the WarWalkers...bring back a REAL power field like we had back in the day. I would be fine with a 5++ save.

I would like a single assault ramp whether it is a new vehicle or a grossly overpriced upgrade for a Wave Serpent. Howling Banshees were already difficult to set up in 5th and now they are practically impossible.

Last two comments were righ ton regarding:

Fix the Falcon and Wave Serpent to be more usable.

I'd also like for our flyers to fit the fluff as being the reason Eldar usually have air superiority.

The fighter should be an Interceptor without peer in the sky...I don't mind paying more than other flyers for this advantage.

And the Bomber should be great at pinpoint damage to vehicles.

When I was first playing Orks in 1989/90 I was new to 40K and loved the look of the wraithlord towering over the battlefield and thought they were awesome and I wished I played Eldar. Having just got back into 40K a year ago I had to pick Eldar despite knowing they were dealing with an out of date codex. As far as I am concerned I love the idea of another huge Eldar construct and you could call it a Wraithsquire or Wraithprincess for all I care as long as we get an updated codex. However I do not think naming conventions have to indicate hierarchy or that we should assume a bigger construct means it needs to be daddy to the smaller etc just my opinion.

Remember the Dell commercials?

"Dude your getting a Codex!"

Some guy on reddit claims that the LGS he works at just placed an order for new Eldar stuff.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/comments/1e2emi/eldar_definitely_getting_updated_next/

"I work at a hobby shop and yesterday I was submitting my Games Workshop order. To my surprise my GW rep asked me if I wanted one of the collectors edition codex's ( he knows i'm a huge Eldar fan). I submitted my order for the entire new line of Eldar mini's. Some notable orders were a Wraithguard box set, a new Eldar Avatar box, Jetbikes 3 pack, and the new flier. He couldn't give me names but I can confirm that on May 24th the pre-order for Eldar will be released and they will be released the first week of June.
Edit: Removed location to protect the identity of those who are involved"

Nothing really surprising in there, but gives us a solid date to think about.

Sounds like something dumb a store rep might do. Chances are he's in trouble now. :(

Best_pone added this, i don't know if you guys posted it before (don't think so)
"To be fair, the flyers and wraithknight are the new shiny things, so they're going to be what grab the most attention.
You are getting new wraithguard - it's a double pack that also do a close combat version. Both types will also have weapon options.
The Finecast that I've seen are a spiritseer and a ranger, and your new battleforce replaces the warwalker with a viper."

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?371780-Eldar-Rumours-Mk-II/page11


I wonder if the viper will be worth taking

Heading into less likely territory. CC Wraithguard?

It is a long standing rumor that there will be a CC variant of WG.

 warpspider89 wrote:
It is a long standing rumor that there will be a CC variant of WG.

One benefit of such a unit would be the fact that your current wraithguard are useless and you'd have to buy/convert new CC ones. I can see it now....

Still, Eldar already have a lot of CC-oriented units, they don't really need another. Although a T6 close combat unit with a 3+ save is nothing to be sneezed at.

 pretre wrote:
Heading into less likely territory. CC Wraithguard?

Eldar could use a tarpit/deathstar unit for close combat I guess.

 pretre wrote:
Heading into less likely territory. CC Wraithguard?

75hastings69 wrote: there's a huge wraith guard construct type thing (similar to tau) IIRC it has two builds (shooty & cc), also IIRC the actual wraith guard have some kind of CC build option.

Aggh! My petards!

 Shandara wrote:

 warpspider89 wrote:
It is a long standing rumor that there will be a CC variant of WG.

One benefit of such a unit would be the fact that your current wraithguard are useless and you'd have to buy/convert new CC ones. I can see it now....

Still, Eldar already have a lot of CC-oriented units, they don't really need another. Although a T6 close combat unit with a 3+ save is nothing to be sneezed at.

Eldar may have some CC-oriented units, but they need some that make sense. Two editions since the last codex haven't been kind to Banshees (and to a lesser extent Scorpions).

 TheKbob wrote:
Keeping up on rumors sucks now that my fave rumors site got SPESS LAZERRRED.

It's like how rumour flow was reduced to a trickle when ghost21 stopped posting

So, part of the new rumors is that the Eldar walker gets a name to sound like the Eldar are just wishing they were Grey Knights, and to keep my Saim-Hann jetbike army legal without painting more foot Troops, I have to take a Special Character all the time, and I will be forced to sink points into a mandatory Exarch for all my Aspect Warrior squads? Bleh.

Maybe call the new walker a Ghost Warrior, to bring back a name from pre-Second edition. That's what they used to call Wraithlords (Dreadnoughts had a pilot, while Ghost Warriors were run by Spirit Stones alone like current Wraithlords.)

Oryza Sativa wrote:
Some guy on reddit claims that the LGS he works at just placed an order for new Eldar stuff.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/comments/1e2emi/eldar_definitely_getting_updated_next/

"I work at a hobby shop and yesterday I was submitting my Games Workshop order. To my surprise my GW rep asked me if I wanted one of the collectors edition codex's ( he knows i'm a huge Eldar fan). I submitted my order for the entire new line of Eldar mini's. Some notable orders were a Wraithguard box set, a new Eldar Avatar box, Jetbikes 3 pack, and the new flier. He couldn't give me names but I can confirm that on May 24th the pre-order for Eldar will be released and they will be released the first week of June.
Edit: Removed location to protect the identity of those who are involved"

Nothing really surprising in there, but gives us a solid date to think about.

while I have no reason to doubt this guy, this story would sound much more likely if it was any company other then GW. With as tight lipped as they try to be I find it hard to believe a conversation like this would happen

On the other hand, he doesn't really say anything groundbreaking. It only further supports the current rumors of a Wraithguard Box, 3x Jetbikes, and new flier. There's a rumor of the Wraithknight, but it could easily have been mistaken for a Avatar.

ground breaking or not it would mean a member of GW spoke to a member of the public about a future release before the info appears in white dwarf....the inquisition would not stand for this!

Just a quick one since its 2:30am and i really dont want to search through 30+
Any real buzz kills for wraith guard?
I currently run 30 (2 units of 10 for troop and 2 units of 5 in elite) and 3 wraithlords.

Love my ghost themed army, but just want to know if anything has been said about changes.
Really dont want my army to become illegal overnight.

 Jackal wrote:
Just a quick one since its 2:30am and i really dont want to search through 30+
Any real buzz kills for wraith guard?
I currently run 30 (2 units of 10 for troop and 2 units of 5 in elite) and 3 wraithlords.

Love my ghost themed army, but just want to know if anything has been said about changes.
Really dont want my army to become illegal overnight.

ghosts are getting the new giant wraith construct one of the weapons someone posted the stats for (could be wrong) was a bright lance on crack called a pulsar lance with an overcharge option like the riptide (this one is suspect at this point, better stats are a few pages back)
a new plastic farseer
and a plastic box with regular wraith and a dual kit option for some form of cc wraiths. (rumored obviously but is almost 100% likely at this point)

what they do or if any of them suck is up in the air

According to the warseer rumors out today, there are weapon options for both the close combat and ranged wraithguard. I take this to mean they both can take more than one weapon to fill their role.

That - I would think - is bad for the wraithcannon. Why make a weapon option that is effective and the current model possesses? no, make a new weapon option which is clearly better, leave the old option as is, and everyone has to buy new units whether they had 25 wraithguard (like me) or not.


the above is speculation.

True i guess, new model syndrome is something they like, but dont forget, sometimes this isnt allways the case (fingers crossed)

As it stands, its £37.50 for 5 wraithguard. (£7.50 each)
A new dual kit is bound to be £25 - £30 (£8.30 - £10 each)
So i can see the price going up.

Just hope they retain the option to stay troops, otherwise i will be needing to use all 3 elite slots to take them -_-

Gwyidion wrote:
According to the warseer rumors out today, there are weapon options for both the close combat and ranged wraithguard. I take this to mean they both can take more than one weapon to fill their role.

That - I would think - is bad for the wraithcannon. Why make a weapon option that is effective and the current model possesses? no, make a new weapon option which is clearly better, leave the old option as is, and everyone has to buy new units whether they had 25 wraithguard (like me) or not.


the above is speculation.

Could just as well be something like a D-Cannon per 5 Wraithguard, no need to be all doom and gloom yet.

It has now been confirmed to.me by two.different gw staff that eldar are in june.

D-cannon per 5 wraithguard seems good to me
Wouldnt mind converting mine since 15/30 are finecast, so easy enough to chop.

Would be nice to see D-cannon as an option for a wraithlord too.
I just think the whole wraithlord fun is at the end of its days.
Really dont see it staying T8.
Would be nice to have more than 2 attacks though, might make the blade more useful.

Thinking about the maybe new plastic wraithguard, I expect them to be 5 to a box. 3 to a box is only for large infantry models, things like Crisis suits and the such. Wraithguard as more human size creatures, so 5 to a box is more likely, if indeed they come out,.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Maybe call the new walker a Ghost Warrior, to bring back a name from pre-Second edition. That's what they used to call Wraithlords (Dreadnoughts had a pilot, while Ghost Warriors were run by Spirit Stones alone like current Wraithlords.)

I thought the smaller constructs (roughly equivalent to Wraithguard) were the 'ghost warriors'... the dread-like ones were spirit-something-or-others, if my cloudy teenage memories can be trusted.

 pretre wrote:
Heading into less likely territory. CC Wraithguard?

This wouldn't be fluffy. Shooting fits much better.