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via La Taberna de Laurana and Faeit212

Hm I can't wait to see larger pics of the chariots, from what I see the eagles look decent!

Oooooh, new pics.

The cover looks great, nice to see GW can, in fact, get *1* thing right.

Also what's that thing in the bottom left of the 5th pic? It looks like the Empire uniform guide book thing but for HEs.

 jonolikespie wrote:
Oooooh, new pics.

Also what's that thing in the bottom left of the 5th pic? It looks like the Empire uniform guide book thing but for HEs.

Thats because it is =)

 pities2004 wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:
Oooooh, new pics.

Also what's that thing in the bottom left of the 5th pic? It looks like the Empire uniform guide book thing but for HEs.

Thats because it is =)

Alright them. Why are they doing that?

I'm not saying they make good business decisions, but it's not realistic to expect them to turn around their Tau fail completely only a month later. Based on their cost-cutting, share price maximizing decisions made in the last few years... if their production lead time is up to 2 years, Tau may be the beginning of the problems resulting from closing US production. When did they shutter production in Memphis? I'm not exact on the date.

So I dont' believe the High Elf issue is supposed to come out in the US till this saturday, but feth if I didn't get mine in the mail today. Anyone else get theirs?

 squall018 wrote:
So I dont' believe the High Elf issue is supposed to come out in the US till this saturday, but feth if I didn't get mine in the mail today. Anyone else get theirs?

Bollocks! The one issue this year that matters to me, and it's the one that subs get early.

They never sent me last month's tau issue so when I called and asked for them to send me one, I think they sent this month's High Elf issue instead. I called and told them and they said they would send me the Tau issue but wanted me to take a picture of the magazine and the envelope it came in for "their records". Kind of wierd.

 Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:
Hm I can't wait to see larger pics of the chariots, from what I see the eagles look decent!

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2013/04/high-elf-army-book-cover-and-more-pics.html

Slightly larger in Spoiler

Maybe this is the wrong place to ask, but to HE still get Giant Eagles as a rare choice(or any choice) or has there been any mention of them at all besides as pullers for the sky chariots?

Pretty sure we are still keeping our eagles.

Wow, dem Pheonixes look great up close! The riders seem awkwardly positioned though, may be a conversion job there...

I'm having a hard time figuring out what parts the 2 variants of the Phoenix share other than the heads and riders.

Either way, I'll end rocking a flame one for Monstrous Arcanum games.

A tidbit regarding the phenix (flame one) and its resurrection rule,
you do have to mark the spot where it died and in the battle report the high elf player managed to get it back just after it died,
so it might be a single chance "have it back in your next turn or it's dead for good" ... Can't tell much from the battlereport

via BramGaunt on Warseer
Sea Helm provides his chariot with a 4+ invul save. If he joined a unit, it can make a free regroup after it has been charged (!)
Annointed is a pricy Lord with a 4+ invuln save

Frostheart Phoenix gives enemy units in b2b -1 strength and always strikes last
Flameheart deals d6 s4 hits to a unit he flies over , and d3 hits per every aditional rank the unit has. It can ressirect with full life.

Skycutter has s5, t4 and 4 wounds
Can have a s5 bolt thrower
Less then 100 points

Shadowwariors drop in points
Swordmasters, white lions, archers drop in points. Wl and sm more then archers. Lion chariot and bolt thrower drop significantly in points.

Loremaster is quiet expensive

Allarielle is a S4 mage, grants her unit a 5+ invul against non magical attacks, can heal herself or anither character, may grant +1 to hit for 1 turn (cc and ranged), all allied witards which use lore of life or lore of light get +4 on casting

Enemy *units in B2B? Aw crap, Mat Ward. Holy shiet. He leaves his footprints wherever he goes - some of the new stuff already sounds broken.

 pretre wrote:
via BramGaunt on Warseer
Sea Helm provides his chariot with a 4+ invul save. If he joined a unit, it can make a free regroup after it has been charged (!)
Annointed is a pricy Lord with a 4+ invuln save

Frostheart Phoenix gives enemy units in b2b -1 strength and always strikes last
Flameheart deals d6 s4 hits to a unit he flies over , and d3 hits per every aditional rank the unit has. It can ressirect with full life.

Skycutter has s5, t4 and 4 wounds
Can have a s5 bolt thrower
Less then 100 points

Shadowwariors drop in points
Swordmasters, white lions, archers drop in points. Wl and sm more then archers. Lion chariot and bolt thrower drop significantly in points.

Loremaster is quiet expensive


Allarielle is a S4 mage, grants her unit a 5+ invul against non magical attacks, can heal herself or anither character, may grant +1 to hit for 1 turn (cc and ranged), all allied witards which use lore of life or lore of light get +4 on casting

Any word on Teclis?

Not a single peep on teclis that I know of.

Lion Chariot drops significantly in points huh........

Earth Dragon wrote:
Lion Chariot drops significantly in points huh........

That is the rumor. Apparently around 110 ish points.

Wow i'm surprised I really like the flying chariot, very "high" fantasy (no pun intended).

Interesting choice of new units. I'd have just gone and redone spearmen myself but seems GW have gone for an altogether more fresh approach that's pretty good I think!!

Man, the high elf stuff looks pretty....I kinda wanna play fantasy and if people around here would this, like ogres, would likely get me back into it...Might pick up the army book at least.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
There shouldn't BE production problems 2 releases in a row period. Regardless of if they tell people in advance, why bother even releasing something if you can't supply it?

At this point we do not even know for certain that there are production problems.

Indeed. At this point, I see no reason not to reasonably conclude that there were no production problems at all in the Tau release, and GW simply falsely implied there were limits available in order to drive up demand by creating an illusion of scarcity.

The fact that they're repeating the exact same line with the next release supports that premise.

Are there two eagle wing positions in the sky chariot? That's much better than I expected.

@Johira

That would make sense if it wasn't taking most stores 3 weeks to get new product in. But hey, don't let me rip that tinfoil hat off your head

I'd say new production can't keep up with the release schedule. And it's going to be bad when Eldar get released. It's been around 8 years for them.

 squall018 wrote:
They never sent me last month's tau issue so when I called and asked for them to send me one, I think they sent this month's High Elf issue instead. I called and told them and they said they would send me the Tau issue but wanted me to take a picture of the magazine and the envelope it came in for "their records". Kind of wierd.

they probably want to trace it back to whomever sent it out early so they can give them a hard time.. Don't expect there'll be too many people responsible for sending them out though?

Sea Helm provides his chariot with a 4+ invul save. If he joined a unit, it can make a free regroup after it has been charged (!)
Annointed is a pricy Lord with a 4+ invuln save

4+ Invulnerable Saves all round then

Frostheart Phoenix gives enemy units in b2b -1 strength and always strikes last

Potentially very ouch - some units will shrug it off though e.g. Anything reasonably strong that was going to strike last anyway

Flameheart deals d6 s4 hits to a unit he flies over , and d3 hits per every additional rank the unit has. It can resurrect with full life.

Anti-steadfast unit methinks

Skycutter has s5, t4 and 4 wounds
Can have a s5 bolt thrower
Less then 100 points

Hmm... quite cheap for a flying bolt thrower - Outflank a unit of Knights + New High Magic spell to increase BS = Knight Kebabs

Shadowwariors drop in points
Swordmasters, white lions, archers drop in points. Wl and sm more then archers. Lion chariot and bolt thrower drop significantly in points.

"Must make more points available so existing HE players buy new releases."

Loremaster is quiet expensive

I should hope so.

Allarielle is a Lvl 4 mage, grants her unit a 5+ invul against non magical attacks, can heal herself or another character, may grant +1 to hit for 1 turn (cc and ranged), all allied witards which use lore of life or lore of light get +4 on casting

Sounds nifty, but I bet you pay the points for it. Model is rubbish too

If nothing else I hope that our bolt throwers will become finally become W3...

 Hulksmash wrote:
@Johira

That would make sense if it wasn't taking most stores 3 weeks to get new product in.

Are most stores taking 3 weeks to get new product in? All I've seen reported here was, "Oh no, we won't have enough for you! Just kidding, buy as much as you want!"

Frontline Gaming just got enough to fill their pre-orders. A local store just got product in finally today. Product wasn't available at any of the local stores outside of the codex that I'm aware of and I've been in most of them in the last two weeks. Maybe it's just Northern Cali and Minneapolis MN.