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The Jetbikes look great! Very sleak design, even with two riders it looks fast and dynamic

It is also awesome to have Harli Jetbikes back. They are different to the old ones but therefore seem to function different to the CWE bikes which is a good thing. The old metal harli jetbikes can be played as CWE guardian jetbikes and used in a second detachment or allied in. A Mantle Jetseer as HQ and the metal harli bikes as troops.

 Ghaz wrote:


Looks good, but how does that transport an entire troupe?

ooohhhhh lovely jubbly!! credit is trembling in anticipation.....don't touch the wedding fund, don't touch the wedding fund.....

Out of curiosity do we know what the gun is underslung on the far version, the nearside is using a shuriken cannon but I dont recognise the other gun.

It looks like a Dark Eldar "Heat Lance".

No, that's a haywire blaster, the heat lance doesn't have the three prongs around the tip and the tip is longer IIRC?

 Kanluwen wrote:
It looks like a Dark Eldar "Heat Lance".

**Edit: Ninja'd by Ace

The bikes also appear to have those Torment grenade launchers like Dark Eldar have on their vehicles. I'm guessing that those might be loaded with hallucinogenic grenades for these.

Interesting. 2 riders would imply 2 wounds (ala SM attack bikes), in addition to whatever else the statline looks like.

I was wondering what a Harlequin jetbike would look like stat wise, being as CWE and DE jetbikes are very different monsters. DE reavers have both Harlequin-esque offensive and defensive stats, while CWE jetbikes have much better Defense and much worse offense. Judging purely aesthetically at this point, it looks like Skyweaver is actually going to be a mix: Harlequin offense w/ CWE armor save. Based purely on the similarities of the CWE jetbike and the Starweaver (would suggest the armor save). If that is correct (3+ armor, 2 Wounds, T4) these are going to be hella expensive points wise. 40'sh points easy. Not to mention what looks like heavy weapons options underslung (though could just be new shrieker cannon). As a matter of fact, would guess price point to be about that of a stock vyper.

Don't normally prognosticate from photos, but these seem like fairly reasonable guesses.

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Alt: AV10 open topped 2HP. But surely GW won't be that stupid....right?

 Unix wrote:
As someone who will be getting everything, does anyone know if there's any leaks about a battleforce/army box? As much as I like to spend full retail and bleed a little each week, it would really help me out if I could buy it all in one go with a little discount to boot.

Not yet. My guess is that they won't. They generally do that kind of thing for the core stuff, not the cool special stuff. You never know though...

That also looks like the use of anarchy models stencils on those bikes, which is interesting in itself.

Yep, looks like a haywire weapon to me, plus aren't the pods a torment grenade launchers?

Also these are Skyweavers jetbikes not STARweavers (the transports)

**Edit: that top jetbike's pillion passenger looks like he has a Hellion's Helglaive, possibly a power lance

 Ghaz wrote:
Then these don't look like a dual Sky- and Starweaver kit IMHO.

There is no Sky- and Starweaver dual kit.

There is the Skyweaver kit (i.e. Jetbikes).

Than there is the Starweaver (dedicated transport), which is rumoured to be a dual kit that also builds a HS version (probably named shooty-doom-weaver or something, if the rumour is true).

 Melcavuk wrote:
Out of curiosity do we know what the gun is underslung on the far version, the nearside is using a shuriken cannon but I dont recognise the other gun.

My money is on either a Blood Frost Supa Holo Lance, or possibly a Harlequin's Embrace Caress Kiss Penetration

Hmm. I might pick up these to use as shuriken cannon craftworld jetbikes, rather then buying the GW conversion kits a/o kitbashing my own. Just leave the guy on the back off and headswap the rider for a guardian helm.

NoggintheNog wrote:
That also looks like the use of anarchy models stencils on those bikes, which is interesting in itself.

How do you see that they used diamond-pattern stencils from that particular company? Those things are legion (not to mention easy to make yourself, doubly so with some slightly more advanced office-printers, etc..)

Ace Rimmer wrote:
No, that's a haywire blaster, the heat lance doesn't have the three prongs around the tip and the tip is longer IIRC?

Yup, you're right.

I don't know what I was thinking.


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NoggintheNog wrote:
That also looks like the use of anarchy models stencils on those bikes, which is interesting in itself.

Or it could be the new transfers, which are mentioned in the product description of the Harlequin Troupe box.

Regarding the Battle force army set - Tempestus had one containing all the new models plus Valkyrie, it came with a good saving! And Archibald_TK has posted on Warseer the code for the battle force sets is similiar throughout the factions, just the army code changes. There are several free numbers not yet used between the Solitaire clampack and the Troupe box including the usual army box number. So there is a good chance there will be a Harlequin Battle Force with a saving at the end of the release weeks

I foresee a lot of conversions of those bikes to regular eldar...


Very tasty.

What's the lower rider wielding as a melee weapon? Is that the Embrace? I haven't seen an Embrace yet (not in any of the pictures in the WD), so I'm kind of curious what it looks like. The Embrace seems like a good weapon for a jetbike, too, as you are going to much more reliably be able to get charges on a jetbike platform, so the HoW hits are more reliable and potentially more valuable on smaller jetbike units.

 Asmodas wrote:
What's the lower rider wielding as a melee weapon? .

Microphone stand.

Hrhr, Weee

Another rather nice unit there. Looking forward to seeing the starweaver and it's HS variant.

And yeah definitely a haywire blaster. Looks like their weapons are going to be a mix of Dark Eldar and Eldar stuff. No doubt harlequins or their elites are going to have the option of haywire grenades looking at this which is probably really needed due to only one heavy support choice (or two if death jesters unit are in HS slot) which probably won't be the best.

Oh, man, those are epic. If they are priced at a reasonable level, I might just have to reallocate some funds!

31 EUR for two, priced like the Troupe box was rumored today

 ceorron wrote:
Another rather nice unit there. Looking forward to seeing the starweaver and it's HS variant.

And yeah definitely a haywire blaster. Looks like their weapons are going to be a mix of Dark Eldar and Eldar stuff. No doubt harlequins or their elites are going to have the option of haywire grenades looking at this which is probably really needed due to only one heavy support choice (or two if death jesters unit are in HS slot) which probably won't be the best.

As of the White Dwarf entry, they have Haywire Grenades as an option on Troupe Masters and Solitaires.

Warhams-77 wrote:
31 EUR for two, priced like the Troupe box was rumored today

Ouch, maybe not then. That price for 3 and I might have been tempted, but they're going to have to have A LOT of bits or cost many, many points to tempt me there...

Did/does GW do "boxes of 2" multi-part plastic kits?

Outside some finecast hobbit/LotR stuff, I can't really think of one.

I would've thought these hit the same "format" as ... say ... Thunderwolf Cavalry, box-wise, though probably more expensive for being new (TWC is 33 EUR?).

Wonderwolf wrote:
Did/does GW do "boxes of 2" multi-part plastic kits?

Outside some finecast hobbit/LotR stuff, I can't really think of one.

Off the top of my head, the LotR Eagles are the only 2-in-a-box plastics. There are also 2-boxes of Carnifexes and maybe some other stuff, but those are just repackages of existing kits.

The fact the WD cover only shows 2 lends the idea some credibility, though.

Just a rumor, so maybe it is wrong. We will know soon. Skyweavers being more like vypers, I think the price is okay. Point wise they should be like three bikes plus heavy weapons and other upgrades

Dash2021's analysis (Skyweavers = units with t profiles) sounds right to me

If Skyweavers are in fact a dual kit with Starweavers, I could see the 2 for $40 being pretty reasonable since a Venom is $30.