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 Azreal13 wrote:
I'm not sure what that's supposed to prove?

I mean...

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Codex-squats-ENG

Provides the same result.

OMG Codex Squats is coming! I totally called it!

 Mr Morden wrote:

Nocturnus wrote:

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

Nocturnus wrote:

 MajorStoffer wrote:
To be fair, the current book is awful, a monument to GW's writing incompetence.

Honestly, it's a perfect representation why a company with such mediocre writing talent should move to a "living ruleset" with some sort of feedback mechanism so things could be adjusted and updated on the fly. of course, that is predicated on them not being evil.

They'd much rather sell you a still broken, but different broken codex as often as possible!

Your tears are delicious! I love hearing people cry about Wave Serpents.

translation - I love playing with Cheese Serpents and winning without skill.............

translation - people need to man up and deal with it.

Exactly!!

I refer you to my earlier statement - do you actually play against Wave Serpents or just choose whatever cheese is flavour of the month in order to win?

I do play both against and with Wave Serpents. As for flavor of the month, who the hell can afford to play that way? I think every one of the strong books( Eldar, Tau, Necrons, Marines) have units that are a pain in the ass to deal with. Figure out how to deal with them and move on. Also, if you're playing against total dicks that are using spam lists, find new opponents. And in regards to your previous statement, I don't run Serpent spam. And since when has winning in 40k had anything to do with skill? It's whomever spends the most, min maxes the most and how lucky you get.


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 Azreal13 wrote:
I'm not sure what that's supposed to prove?

I mean...

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Codex-squats-ENG

Provides the same result.

Someone more savvy than I can explain it to you, but what you posted isn't an actual redirect. Note the difference when you try and enter: http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/eldar-avatar versus your made up link. In the case I posted, Eldar and Avatar get capitalized.

Some more info on redirects can be found in this thread on Bolter and Chainsword: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/302401-rumours-mechanicus-skitarii-next-week-onager-dunecrawler/page-9#entry3981321

This is the method people used to find out about the entire Skitarii release list several weeks ago.

 Swastakowey wrote:
Well their codex and the supplement + jetbikes and shining spears are no longer available through browsing the website.

So maybe...

Good catch! Looks like they are moving some stuff around.

rollawaythestone wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
I'm not sure what that's supposed to prove?

I mean...

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Codex-squats-ENG

Provides the same result.

Someone more savvy than I can explain it to you, but what you posted isn't an actual redirect. Note the difference when you try and enter: http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/eldar-avatar versus your made up link. In the case I posted, Eldar and Avatar get capitalized.

Some more info on redirects can be found in this thread on Bolter and Chainsword: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/302401-rumours-mechanicus-skitarii-next-week-onager-dunecrawler/page-9#entry3981321

This is the method people used to find out about the entire Skitarii release list several weeks ago.

Ok, I see how that works, it effectively autocorrects the URL to the page that "does not exist" rather than simply throwing up an error page for an address that really doesn't exist.

Still, the absence of the Codex from the site (and it is missing, not simply sold out) probably suggests a new Codex, perhaps renamed Craftworld Eldar, rather than a supplement.

Yeah, many of the rumor mongers have suggested that it will be a full codex release not a supplement.

I get exactly the same page return whether i click on Az's made up link or the eldar avatar one. urls are also exactly the same (except for the avatar/squats ending of course)

What surprises me is how soon this is happening! The Skitarii redirects popped up just weeks before the release itself. Now, with so much missing on the website, and these redirects being activated, this Eldar release is right around the corner. If next week is when we see the Onager Dunecrawler kit, the following week could be Eldar. Just two weeks away.

 SirDonlad wrote:

Warhams-77 wrote:

Sad Panda wrote:
There is no summer campaign. Not Sisters vs. Tzeentch. Not CSM vs. Dark Angels. Not Eldar. Those rumors are all nonsense.

Eldar get new Codex, similar to Necrons. Wraithknights gain some weight.

Quoting before it gets burried. Thank you for the hints, Sad Panda

Second!

That little comment got me exited like a kid near christmas...

Well, given Sad Panda has so far proven über reliable, this is the first nail in the coffin of whispereroftruth.

I'm a little hazy on the implications of the Wraithknight comment, is it a reference to a points increase, force org slot or what?

Updated OP.

Better putting thread page numbers than dates dude, much easier to find.

 Azreal13 wrote:
Better putting thread page numbers than dates dude, much easier to find.

Is moving every scrap of legitimate rumor onto the OP incorrect?
I am attempting to give a sense of progression.

 Azreal13 wrote:


I'm a little hazy on the implications of the Wraithknight comment, is it a reference to a points increase, force org slot or what?

Maybe it's no longer a jump MC?

Verviedi wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
Better putting thread page numbers than dates dude, much easier to find.

Is moving every scrap of legitimate rumor onto the OP incorrect?
I am attempting to give a sense of progression.

No, do what you want to, I meant you'd changed the thread title to the date of the update, I'd either say "OP updated x/x" or "shiny new thing, page X" to make people aware both when and where new info is available and can be found.

MrFlutterPie wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:


I'm a little hazy on the implications of the Wraithknight comment, is it a reference to a points increase, force org slot or what?

Maybe it's no longer a jump MC?

Hmm, that would help a lot from the non-Eldar side of the table....

Hhmmm. Thoughts on the craft worlds part?

 pretre wrote:
Hhmmm. Thoughts on the craft worlds part?

It would be too much to hope that Eldar would get 'Craftworld Tactics' like the Space Marine Chapter Tactics, but... what really stands out to me is the slew of different paint web-bundles. That's really impressive, and hints at a higher delineation between different Craftworlds.

Matching Codex Eldar: Craftworlds also simply matches Codex Eldar: Harlequins... but it's not like they have Codex Eldar: Dark Eldar... it's weird.

I'm pretty excited about this. If we get a plastic avatar (but that was something I hadn't heard yet) AND new jetbikes, I'm not sure my psyche could take it!

Craftworld Tactics would be nice. I'm expecting more of a paint by numbers formation for each though.

Could it be something like this? It would be an interesting format to re-introduce, though I doubt they would (why sell one book when they could sell five?).

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
Could it be something like this? It would be an interesting format to re-introduce, though I doubt they would (why sell one book when they could sell five?).

This would actually be pretty cool, if each army got an expansion allowing players to better customize their lists to suit the fluff of their faction. An expansion gave the IG options similar to what was in the 4th ed codex, an expansion for Dark Eldar Kabals and Cults, an expansion for the different Tyranid fleets, etc.

"WraithKnight gaining weight" may be a reference to them becoming a Gargantuan creature instead of a Jump MC. It better NOT become a LOW, unless they IMMEDIATLY re-release the Imp Knight codex and make those LOWs as well.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
Could it be something like this? It would be an interesting format to re-introduce, though I doubt they would (why sell one book when they could sell five?).

The question is, "Can Eldar sell five Codex books?"

It costs money to develop, lay out, assemble, print, stock, ship, and carry each book they develop. If they can't sell five books consistently, there's a lot of wasted money along the way. Space Marines get 5 books because they'll sell five books. If anything, it's possible that they had 5 Eldar books planned, and then Iyanden didn't make as much money as they hoped, so the rest got shelved.

I don't see Codex: Eldar on their site anywhere now. Am I missing it?

Thank you for consolidating all the rumor info onto the first page.

I'm very excited for this to come out. I've been running a very similar Mechdar list since 5th edition, so it will be fun to figure out how to tweak it for the new codex. I'd love to bring my Vypers back out. Currently, Hornets are a much better buy for the points that I've not played Vypers for a few years now.

After painting another 9 Eldar Jetbikes, I'm a little leary of new ones coming out, only because I know I will want to replace all my newly painted ones.

 Nevelon wrote:
On the bright side, GW cut some stuff from the nid codex and then gave it back when models were available. With PDF rules for free on the website. So even if no-plastic=axe, there is hope things will return.

But we can always doom-say later.

I can see this happening only if they cut out models with no rules, or models that are finecast that they are ditching for later.

As for the whole

It's gonna be every 2 years guys!

I wouldn't even start on that until everybody's on track with 7th. (We still haven't seen much of the new cron codex locally, we've got one player that just started cron's and our other player hasn't been able to afford the new codex yet. ) So far, all the other codex's have been pretty much bringing everything into balance, right? I'd just expect to see that trend to continue..unless they're throwing everything the format out again, and they started something new with the cron dex....

From what I understand the jetbikes are really old models, so I can see those being redone, and I know there's no way to get a farseer on a jetbike unless you kitbash it yourself.

I think it'd be interesting to see a craftworlds supplement come out for the eldar...although they already have one supplement...I dunno if that would still be valid or if they would just replace it.

As for the whole genestealers going away and going straight into genestealer cults for nids and those being entire "armies". I can only see 'stealers going away if Genestealer Cults is going to be it's own seperate army and it's going to be BB for 'nids.

There are formations just for genestealers already out there. There's a unique broodlord model they just put out. There's no way they're just going to drop the models.

I know a bunch of old school vets are pretty excited about the idea of genestealer cults coming back..but I don't want to have to buy more stuff for 'nids.

Right now, if you want everything (ruleswise) to run 'nids you need:

3 dataslates from black library (or just buy the bundle), 'nid codex, shield of baal:leviathan,

I really don't want genestealers being taken out of tyranids and GW going "here, buy one more codex for your genestealer models!, and you get to run some other cool stuff like it was back in the day!"

Yep- Eldar Codex is NOT showing up anywhere on GW's main site. Still showing in their eBook section for Black Library though.

All you can see on GW is Codex Dark Eldar, Haemonculus Covens and Codex Harlequins.

 Schlyne wrote:
So far, all the other codex's have been pretty much bringing everything into balance, right? I'd just expect to see that trend to continue..unless they're throwing everything the format out again, and they started something new with the cron dex....

You poor, innocent creature.

Wraithknight will become LOW( my own wish)

Aita from B&C is doing a great job checking the URLs. It is indeed very helpful. It could be that her Avatar predictions are wrong though. There is at least the chance this is the finecast one getting a new box - better carefull with getting hopes up

According the Craftworld name, this is probably caused by

Adeptus Astartes - Blood Angels
Eldar - Harlequins

It would sound stupid to name it Eldar - Eldar. I would not read much into it. The paint bundles are exactly like the Tyranid ones were. Nothing surprising

Warhams-77 wrote:
Aito from B&C is doing a great job checking the URLs. It is indeed very helpful. It could be that here Avatar predictions are wrong though. There is at least the chance this is the finecast one getting a new box - better carefull with this specific one.

According the Craftworld name, this is probably causedvby

Astra Militarum - Blood Angels
Eldar - Harlequins

It would sound stupid to name it Eldar - Eldar. I would notbread much into it. The paint bundles are exactly like the Tyranid ones were. Nothing surprising

Think you mean adeptus astartes - blood angels?