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 Kanluwen wrote:
White Dwarf has them as an army unto themselves and able to be taken as Allies.

Battle Brothers: Eldar+Dark Eldar
Allies of Convenience: Armies of the Imperium and Tau Empire
Desperate Allies: Orks
Come the Apocalypse: Everyone else.

Same as Eldar, it seems. Pretty much what everyone should have been expecting, both fluff-wise and mechanics-wise.

While WHFB is collapsing their range with the End Times and the new edition, 40k is expanding with mini-factions like the Imperial Knights and Harlequins.

I wonder if they'll release plastic Sisters of Battle before I get my TGotG figures?

 Breotan wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Fresh from GW's blog thing today:

Dark Eldar style 'quins aka Masque of Soaring Spite. Regular performers in Commorragh.

Spoiler:

These look much better.

They sure do. Anybody know what GW uses for that brass color? I NEED my shuriken pistols to look like that.

 Breotan wrote:
I wonder if they'll release plastic Sisters of Battle?

Ha!

Not 100% sure, but I think it is:
Base of Balthasar Gold
Shade with Nuln Oil or Agrax Earthshade
Apply a layer of Sycorax Bronze
Shade with Seraphim Sepia

 Breotan wrote:
While WHFB is collapsing their range with the End Times and the new edition, 40k is expanding with mini-factions like the Imperial Knights and Harlequins.

I wonder if they'll release plastic Sisters of Battle before I get my TGotG figures?

There was the rumor of an admech force on the horizon. Maybe these little stand alone/alied releases will be the trend for this year.
On topic.
I have high hopes for the dedicated transport from this Harli dex.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Not 100% sure, but I think it is:
Base of Balthasar Gold
Shade with Nuln Oil or Agrax Earthshade
Apply a layer of Sycorax Bronze
Shade with Seraphim Sepia

Thanks for the shopping list! Exactly what I was looking for.

Can the bikes also LOS on a 2+? would be amazing for a squad of 2W models.

 Asmodas wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Not 100% sure, but I think it is:
Base of Balthasar Gold
Shade with Nuln Oil or Agrax Earthshade
Apply a layer of Sycorax Bronze
Shade with Seraphim Sepia

Thanks for the shopping list! Exactly what I was looking for.

As alternate approaches, you might want to try:
Base of Screaming Bell
Shade with Agrax Earthshade or Nuln Oil
Apply a layer of Auric Armor Gold
Shade with Nuln Oil/Earthshade

Base of Warplock Bronze
Shade with Earthshade or Oil
Apply a layer of Brass Scorpion
Shade with Sepia, Oil, or Earthshade as you want

Gehenna's Gold, Runelord Brass, or Hashut Copper can all be used to substitute for the layers though. Personally I am becoming fond of Sycorax Bronze though.

 extremefreak17 wrote:
Can the bikes also LOS on a 2+? would be amazing for a squad of 2W models.

That only works for characters in the unit, if there even is an option for a character for the Skyweavers.

Thanks again, Kanluwen. I've been putting a lot of thought into my scheme for the Harlies, as I have a finecast squad fully painted, but hate the color scheme I used the first time around.

On another note, it looks pretty clear that the jetbikes will need to be taken in large units in order to make the most of them. A unit of 2 is probably not going to have the power to really make a difference in close combat, which would leave them basically as just a gun platform similar to the Vyper. So I'm thinking 4 is a minimum, as then you have enough bodies that you can shift wounded bikes to the back, plus enough attacks to mulch larger infantry squads.

 Redemption wrote:

 extremefreak17 wrote:
Can the bikes also LOS on a 2+? would be amazing for a squad of 2W models.

That only works for characters in the unit, if there even is an option for a character for the Skyweavers.

Oh, I thought it was gven to anything with a flip belt?

Hm, 50 points seems a bit much for those bikes.

Warhams-77 wrote:

Week 2 - Skyweaver Jetbikes

 streetsamurai wrote:

Oh man... those don't hold a candle to the old jetbikes. The faces on the "hoods" just look tacked on, rather than encompassing the whole jetbike as a laughing machine of death...

I dunno, 17 points for a Guardian jet bike, 6 pts to upgrade the pilot to a harlequin, 15 more points for a second harlequin, 10 points for the shuriken cannon upgrade, thats 48 points , so 2 points for the grenade launcher plus the crazy 1 shot bolas thing, plus whatever else they have.
It costs out roughly where I'd have expected it.

 RiTides wrote:

Oh man... those don't hold a candle to the old jetbikes. The faces on the "hoods" just look tacked on, rather than encompassing the whole jetbike as a laughing machine of death...

The funny part is that the "hoods" on the old ones were just an add-on bit themselves...

Well I'll reserve judgement on these until I see the whole kit, cause I'm guessing they have a squad leader character for those jet bikes.He/she may have a more pimp looking ride than the others. Also- methinks some of the Sisters of Slaughter heads might look pretty cool on the Harlequins..

 Kanluwen wrote:

 RiTides wrote:

Oh man... those don't hold a candle to the old jetbikes. The faces on the "hoods" just look tacked on, rather than encompassing the whole jetbike as a laughing machine of death...

The funny part is that the "hoods" on the old ones were just an add-on bit themselves...

And really looked it. Nostalgia props up those canopies quite nicely.

I like the compromise here. Leaves room for freehand and airbrush work.

Is it wrong that I'm quietly hoping that these have an option to just leave off the 2nd rider and play them as a regular Eldar Jetbike?

Because otherwise my old Harlequin bikes represent a bit more conversion effort than I feel like putting forth.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Well I'll reserve judgement on these until I see the whole kit, cause I'm guessing they have a squad leader character for those jet bikes.He/she may have a more pimp looking ride than the others. Also- methinks some of the Sisters of Slaughter heads might look pretty cool on the Harlequins..

I'm hoping so as well. Have a box of Witch Elves that I never ended up using for Death Cultist, I think they should blend nicely.

 plastictrees wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 RiTides wrote:

Oh man... those don't hold a candle to the old jetbikes. The faces on the "hoods" just look tacked on, rather than encompassing the whole jetbike as a laughing machine of death...

The funny part is that the "hoods" on the old ones were just an add-on bit themselves...

And really looked it. Nostalgia props up those canopies quite nicely.

I like the compromise here. Leaves room for freehand and airbrush work.

And I'm sure that these could probably just be left off if someone(like me for example...) wanted to.

That gives me Harlequin Wraithguard ideas.

 Raesvelg wrote:
Is it wrong that I'm quietly hoping that these have an option to just leave off the 2nd rider and play them as a regular Eldar Jetbike?

Because otherwise my old Harlequin bikes represent a bit more conversion effort than I feel like putting forth.

You could just do that, if it isn't an option anyway. Leave the back guy off, and make the Harly more generic Eldar. It looks like it'd be bigger but does that affect their rules at all?

Anyone started thinking of/coming up with colour schemes and name for their Masque yet?!

Januine wrote:
Anyone started thinking of/coming up with colour schemes and name for their Masque yet?!

I don't know. Part of me wants to go dark with bright spot colours for contrast, another says go full-on Joker with them (purple capes, painted stylised faces ect), the rest I don't know. The biggest trouble I'm having is deciding whether to allocate funds to them or to the Malifaux multi-part RPG minis.

Ugh, no way am I paying 50 points for a 4+/5++ save at T4.

Initial thoughts are yellow/red checks/stripes/whatever with a dark blue highlighting to turquoise as the darker split.

Also tempted to just go old school bananas with them. I've always liked the more uniform Harlequin schemes though. There was a blue-white troupe that was in WD back in the day that looked good.

I'm also thinking of picking up some wraithguard to stick masks on as the foundation of the eldar part of the list.

Thanks to Neckutter on Warseer the full rules:

Haywire canon is 24", S4, Ap4, heavy 1 blast and haywire.
Mirage launchers: once per game 4++ against shooting instead of Jinking.

Star bolas: 12", S6, Ap2, assault 1, blast, one use, and can use in addition to jetbike weapon.
Zephyroglaive: S:user Ap3 when not charging, S+1, Ap2 when charging

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?403593-A-Laugh-For-Christmas&p=7374778&viewfull=1#post7374778

I have two ideas so far.

One is old school Rogue Trader scheme. No diamonds but each arm, leg and torso will be a different bright gaudy colour complete with goblin Green bases flocked.

Or

Sin City style black and white with a single splash of colour on marble bases.

Sin City scheme was exactly what I was thinking...