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 Mantle wrote:
The embraces are in the bottom right corner of the second sprue picture on the GW website, I'm on an iPad and couldn't manage to upload a picture

oh yeah.... kinda look like swollen Harli kisses

 Ghaz wrote:

Well, there is a precedent for a catamaran-style Eldar vehicle

Hum, yes...



Doesn't look that good though.

This is all very depressing to me because I had a fantastic painted Harlequin army complete with wraithlord and jetbikes back in 1999 which was stolen out of my car. Lesson I learned, don't keep important things in a soft-top Jeep Wrangler. The jerks even cut into the windows rather than just unzipping it from the outside.

I also had an Undead Warmaster army stolen, but I don't really care or even remember building and painting or playing it.

Januine wrote:
"His left hand is extended before him as if ready to deliver a benediction, while in reality his gloved hand conceals a deadly harlequin's caress" "From the back you can see the power nodes and sharpened nails of the Harlequin's caress" Description of the solitaire in WD 53



apparently it surrounds the hand with a deadly forcefield

the embrace spits a web of monofil wire.

Bloody hell, their descriptions just keep getting more overwrought with every release. Last time I was in church, which was admittedly a fair long while, priests generally didn't give a benediction while doing a parkour leap over the altar.

Hhahahahaaaaaa - think I just wee'd a little!!!!!

 Yodhrin wrote:
Last time I was in church, which was admittedly a fair long while, priests generally didn't give a benediction while doing a parkour leap over the altar.

Clearly you go to a really lousy church then.

Januine wrote:

 Mantle wrote:
The embraces are in the bottom right corner of the second sprue picture on the GW website, I'm on an iPad and couldn't manage to upload a picture

oh yeah.... kinda look like swollen Harli kisses

The two items circled in blue are the Harlequin's Embraces.
The two items circled in red are the Harlequin's Caresses.
The three items circled in green are the Harlequin's Kisses.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, you can get your own space-elf to dress up as a clown. You get the choice of being penetrated with a long+slim or a thick+short or maybe just a good old fashioned fist.

Kisses, embraces, and caresses. Such love.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Last time I was in church, which was admittedly a fair long while, priests generally didn't give a benediction while doing a parkour leap over the altar.

Clearly you go to a really lousy church then.

Right? If the priest isn't also rapping about X-Box while instagramming sunsets he's just not going to bring in the youth.


Pre-ordered some Troupe boxes at my FLGS.
Haven't looked at Harlequins since RT though. Would a High Avatar still be the standard HQ choice?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Last time I was in church, which was admittedly a fair long while, priests generally didn't give a benediction while doing a parkour leap over the altar.

Clearly you go to a really lousy church then.

I guess there ARE christian churches where the priests wear masks with goat horns... somewhere.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Last time I was in church, which was admittedly a fair long while, priests generally didn't give a benediction while doing a parkour leap over the altar.

Clearly you go to a really lousy church then.

Back to the point, harlequin release has been very so-so. Great that they're getting a release after so long, but a little luke-warm from it all. It's not a step back, but it's no leap forward on what is supposed to be such a bright release.

Got a laugh out of the Eldar Power Nails though, geez they've dropped the ball on creative weapons. Sorry but a razor-sharp field-powered manicure does no justice to the harlequins.

 plastictrees wrote:
Right? If the priest isn't also rapping about X-Box while instagramming sunsets he's just not going to bring in the youth.

"And the Lord said: Double rainbow," the preacher said, before back-flipping off the organ whilst taking a selfie.

Something about the new GW models that just aren't resonating with me. It's perhaps it's a little too obvious they're computer generated models? I compare them to Wyrd sculpts and they just don't hold up. The new bikes are still beaten by those third party bikes some dude in Eastern Europe made a few years ago.

That one weapon with the triple ends looks more like a bedroom accouterments than a weapon. Also, transporting it is likely impossible.

Hrmmm. :/

That lower rider looks like he is about to toss some bolas... Very cool!

 Fango wrote:
With the new Harlies having wargear from both Eldar and Dark Eldar Codices, what do you think the chances are that you will be required to own all three to have all of the rules to use them fully in print...?


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 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:
Anyone else see a startling resemblance between those riders and Hellions? Same stance, similar weapons and almost the exact same pose. I like the Dark Eldar feel they are giving, with the distinctly Reaver looking Jetbike rider as well.

Cheaper to slightly modify existing digital 3D sculpts than to pay for a sculptor to design new ones from scratch....win/win I suppose

The better for conversions then. DE players get to use their Hellions AND their Wyches now.

Seriously stoked about the ridiculous amount of kitbashing options. I don't see myself painting the diamond pattern though....

 TheKbob wrote:
Something about the new GW models that just aren't resonating with me. It's perhaps it's a little too obvious they're computer generated models? I compare them to Wyrd sculpts and they just don't hold up. The new bikes are still beaten by those third party bikes some dude in Eastern Europe made a few years ago.

That one weapon with the triple ends looks more like a bedroom accouterments than a weapon. Also, transporting it is likely impossible.

Hrmmm. :/

You have to make some pose compromises when you are making multipose models.
I must be immune to the mystical spell that Wyrd minis have cast on their fans since Malifaux started. Personally I like minis that have detail that holds up to more than half a coat of paint.

As to the bola, I guess we all see what we want to see.

I wonder if they'll be an expansion on the relationship between The Deceiver and Cegorach? It always interested me that they were very similar characters and that the Deceiver model is pretty reminiscent of a jester. I kind of wish the C'tan shard nonsense didn't exist.

Oh okay so I was right to assume the power fists can be Caresses, I'm not chopping them off...

Only thing I'll have to change is the Solitare because I think the one I have has the Neuro Disruptor

 plastictrees wrote:


You have to make some pose compromises when you are making multipose models.
I must be immune to the mystical spell that Wyrd minis have cast on their fans since Malifaux started. Personally I like minis that have detail that holds up to more than half a coat of paint.

As to the bola, I guess we all see what we want to see.

Huh? Thin your paints? Never had an issue with detail on Wyrd miniatures. And the Solitaire/Clowns are pretty much single pose miniatures with weird body form and just something off in general.

And that "bola", regardless of use (hey, DE won't judge), is terrible as I guarantee it'll snap off in transport super fast. Great design for a game piece.

Also, this is how a bolas is used:

Anyone notice that death jester and shadowseer are now in the Harlequin section. Doesn't look like they are getting a plastic model after all :(

 Rainbow Dash wrote:
Only thing I'll have to change is the Solitare because I think the one I have has the Neuro Disruptor

Don't jump yet. We still haven't seen the relic list, so there might be some sort of useful gun you want to use.

Wyrd minis are pretty good, but they still are a few levels behond gw ones imo

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Rainbow Dash wrote:
Only thing I'll have to change is the Solitare because I think the one I have has the Neuro Disruptor

Don't jump yet. We still haven't seen the relic list, so there might be some sort of useful gun you want to use.

Oh yeah I forgot about that... Yeah if he can have it he can keep it.
Judging by what it does, it sounds pretty good.

Yeah they moved there a few days ago.
I am not mad about that, really...

 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:
**EDIT** Anyone else see a startling resemblance between those riders and Hellions? Same stance, similar weapons and almost the exact same pose. I like the Dark Eldar feel they are giving, with the distinctly Reaver looking Jetbike rider as well.

I hope so. I am going to run wych models as harlequins, so if I can swap out these jetbikes with DE jetbike riders and Hellion riders, they will fit in much better.

 Lynchbread wrote:
Anyone notice that death jester and shadowseer are now in the Harlequin section. Doesn't look like they are getting a plastic model after all :(

The death jester in the last 'tiny pic' leak definitely looked different from the fine cast version.

If they're not getting new models it's not the end of the world... for me that is. I've got 'em both already. In metal. Screw FineCost.

I really like the models so far. The double bikers are an interesting mix of DE/Eldar. I'm really enjoying this release so far. Looking forward to the actual rules. Might finally get me to fully collect an Eldar faction.

Why does the Solitaire have what appears to be a Bloodstone attached to his ankle?

Is it his own spirit stone?

I thought they were born without souls?

Could be a 'prop'. Suits his role anyway.

According to the WD article, all Harlequins start as normal Eldar. Those that become Harlies do not need their spirit stones any more, because Cegorach is the MACK.

But solitaires break their spirit stones, since they will not be saved by Cegorach...they will belong to She Who Thirsts. Ergo...the broken spirit stone.