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Now that is bloody epic!

What base is that? Because if it's the Trygon base, that thing is tall.

Take my money GW, just take it!

Sold. Me likey

It looks like an Eldar Riptide. The fluff paragraph in that shot even shows it to be piloted rather than a pure Wraith construct. Weapon-wise it sure seems like a Riptide with a main weapon, some anti-personnel weapons, and a shield generator. The only difference I can see is the option for a blade. That said, I love the sleek look. It clearly borrows from existing Forgeworld Revenant and Phantom Titan models with things like the groin & thigh armor plates, the Japanese sandal-like feet, the four fingered hand, the air intakes over the shoulders etc...

I admit though I am a bit worried by this trend towards every army having a big "Knight" model. They look nice, but are things then heading towards these showpieces dominating the battlefield in terms of limelight, to the neglect of the average grunt? Are things heading more towards 2 monsters/mecha suits having a showdown and the rest just being cannon fodder mooks?

Just did a rought sketch-up based off the photo, this looks to be about 190/200mm tall by 80mm shoulder to shoulder.

Pretty big.

Don't know why they didn't just call it a firegale and be done with it. Looks about the right size for an Eldar Knight

Iracundus wrote:

I admit though I am a bit worried by this trend towards every army having a big "Knight" model. They look nice, but are things then heading towards these showpieces dominating the battlefield in terms of limelight, to the neglect of the average grunt? Are things heading more towards 2 monsters/mecha suits having a showdown and the rest just being cannon fodder mooks?

Aw c'mon, don't be such a doomsayer!

However, the answer is yes.

Just trying to read the bits in the top left:

3: This intricate set of interlocking ??? is a ?scattershield? a ??? device that projects a powerful forcefield

Additional:

http://www.3plusplus.net/2013/05/some-eldar-treats/#more-6909

Codex cover and Iyanden supplement, and a glimpse of one of the new Eldar flyers.

Not too hot on the Eldar flyer myself as it looks too sharp and spiky for me. That looks more like a Dark Eldar thing.

It looks about 210mm tall. If that's a 120 mm base.

Iracundus wrote:
Additional:

http://www.3plusplus.net/2013/05/some-eldar-treats/#more-6909

Codex cover and Iyanden supplement.

...and the new flyer! Not sure I like the looks of it, though the pic is of course too small to make proper judgement.

http://boards.4chan.org/tg/res/24918551

And there's the wraithknight!

Edit:think I was ninja'd. Oh well its a beast.

Iracundus wrote:
Additional:

http://www.3plusplus.net/2013/05/some-eldar-treats/#more-6909

Codex cover and Iyanden supplement, and a glimpse of one of the new Eldar flyers.

Not too hot on the Eldar flyer myself as it looks too sharp and spiky for me. That looks more like a Dark Eldar thing.

I like the cover, but I am still not sold on the wraith knight. Was still hoping the mc trend was not true.

A codex supplement? well thats interesting, first day buy for me, I wonder if they will do anymore craftworls in the future. New cover looks nice, can't beat the old (4th ed) cover mind you, that was just a work of art.

BTW you can see the new Eldar flyer in the bottom right-hand corner of the page.

Flyer kinda looks like the razorwing. I like the razorwing so that's alright.

Wraithknight is okay I guess, not as cool as the titans but I feel better about it than the riptide. Makes more sense for Eldar to have this kinda crap, too. That said though I still hate how every army needs a big monster now.

I think part of the problem with the flyer pic is that it is trimmed in black, making the actual outline hard to see.

The Iyanden supplement doesnt mention rules, so a mini Uniforms and Heraldry of the Eldar?

It's not helped by the paintjob, I'm not quite sold on it yet.

Link to the cover seems to be down.

And I'll take a two Knights, thank you very much.

Niccolo wrote:
I think part of the problem with the flyer pic is that it is trimmed in black, making the actual outline hard to see.

The Iyanden supplement doesnt mention rules, so a mini Uniforms and Heraldry of the Eldar?

Actually read carefully. It mentions additional rules.

As for the flyer, the very tip is in black which makes it hard to see, but the nose actually looks contoured like a duck's bill or like a rounded off arrowhead. What I'm not so fond of is the side flaring out to sharp points.

3++ looks like it has crashed from the traffic. Anyone got pics of the flyer?


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Forget what I said

Wraith knight is proper meh all they have done is cad scaled up a wraith lord and fiddled the surface detail. No imagination, no creativity, no effort.

Niccolo wrote:
I think part of the problem with the flyer pic is that it is trimmed in black, making the actual outline hard to see.

The Iyanden supplement doesnt mention rules, so a mini Uniforms and Heraldry of the Eldar?

Yes it does, almost at the bottom of the write up. Though it doesn't say for what. It appears to be more of a campaign book focused on Iyanden, with new scenarios recreating it's battles, plus additional rules.

Iracundus wrote:

Niccolo wrote:
I think part of the problem with the flyer pic is that it is trimmed in black, making the actual outline hard to see.

The Iyanden supplement doesnt mention rules, so a mini Uniforms and Heraldry of the Eldar?

Actually read carefully. It mentions additional rules.

Huh, missed that. So a mini Uniforms and Heraldry of the Eldar, with rules then? Or something. As long as the whatever allows you to field the wraith army isnt unlocked in that book, Im interested to see it

A codex supplement? Ok this has nothing to do with eldar now but that opens the possibility for Black Templars becoming a Codex: Space Marines supplement.
I definitly get one just for the read.

UNCLEBADTOUCH wrote:
Wraith knight is proper meh all they have done is cad scaled up a wraith lord and fiddled the surface detail. No imagination, no creativity, no effort.

The Eldar have to some extent all been about iterative approaches to their technology. Look at all their laser weapons from Spears to Falcons to all the way up to Titan pulsars and see how they all share the same contoured barrels. See the same for all the monofilament weapons from Deathspinners to Shadow Weaver to Nightspinners. Wraithguard and Wraithlord share similar shapes. One could argue that the Eldar are not very imaginative in terms of radically new or departures from existing lines of technological development. Their weapons are often iterations and refinements of the same. One could argue that background wise this is the result of their obsessive mindset and culture with its focus on perfection and taking things to extremes. At some point in the past, it seems the Eldar decided certain ways were the proper way to do things and everything else afterwards has been refinement of that.

Or, it is just easier to grow it that way from the same pattern.

I used to play Tomb Kings and the last upgrade made me shelve the whole thing. With the way GW has been acting lately I'll be a pesimist and say that I see myself shelving my Eldar too if the rest of the Codex follows the Riptide Redux example.
Totally not impressed.

M.

@Iracundus One could also point out that you can sculpt a new model drawing on those exact principals however GW haven't you can see the re-used components from the wraithlord but scaled up. I think this is what has caused it's disproportionate body shape. Stumpys arms, puffed out chest and too small fins are just some of the issues with this model. Forgeworld did it right with the revenant and the phantom, GW have screwed the pooch on this one.

 megatrons2nd wrote:
Or, it is just easier to grow it that way from the same pattern.

Human tech in 40K doesn't seem so linear in terms of progression. You have lasers, missiles, conventional cannons, melta, plasma, and wait, suddenly funky stuff like graviton beam, conversion beam, mole mortars,

Eldar don't seem to have such sudden departures. They seem to just have certain main lines: shuriken, lasers, plasma, melta, distortion, missile pods, monofilament, vibro. Pretty much everything they have is a variation of these.