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Is it me or is the end of that weapon crooked?

Thank feth Dark Reapers.
I knew they couldn't leave Dark Reapers out.

Yeah I don't know why people were so dismissive of the text clues, not an absurd thing.

Definitely Dark Reapers, very excited for next year.

I'm definitely hoping it's Dark Reapers too.

HOWEVER.

The weapon in the Advent Engine image is missing the small indents that are near the tip of a reaper launcher, whereas the missile launcher doesn't have those indents, so it certainly seems like it could be a hand-held missile launcher.

Or it is just a slight design shift from 3rd edition metal sculpting to 9th ed plastic.

Dark reapers, autarch, kill team? I’m good for any/all of those things.

What a time to be alive with pointy ears!

I'm wondering now if the Craftworld shredder could be an alternative weapon option for the Reapers?

To have a new Dark Reaper kit is going to be awesome. Been trying to replace the ones I had to part with almost two decades ago and held off on the resin kit.

A new Maugan Ra has to happen now.

I'm betting on the launcher being for the Autarch rather than new Dark Reapers, but either way, an exciting development

I'm not convinced it's a reaper launcher, or at least for dark reapers specifically.

corsairs could carry heavy weapons, so it could be a portable missile launcher.

But it doesn't have all the features of the reaper launcher. Reaper launchers have the two rows of ports on the head for the two different types of rounds, while this one only has the single round.

My guess is either the corsair box is a killteam and has a big range of options including portable missile launcher, or it's an autarch weapon.

I think you may be right. It does look just like the end of the Eldar Missile Launcher. That would make a lot more sense as a weapon for Rangers or Corsairs.

Dark Reaper Exarch can have a Missile Launcher...?

Saimm Hann? The Cosmic Serpent? Gods, that'd be interesting.

The cost of souls for a hope sounds like ynnari to me

 Knight wrote:
Saimm Hann? The Cosmic Serpent? Gods, that'd be interesting.

Looks like the advance of the Eldar lore. Hopefully no Deathwatch captain will feth up yet another iconic part of the Eldar mythology this time around.

It’s a skull....return of Ferrus Manus , that’s why they had the Iron Hands bundle deal

It’s another licensed product, Eldar weight loss shakes for the more robust hobbyist.

The skull plus the text from the rumour engine makes me think we're swapping to Chaos model previews

Every day, it gets darker – what can you expect from the Advent Engine today?

Can you hear chanting? Is that just in our heads? What does the Advent Engine have to do with it? Let’s gaze into the face of the future and see if we can divine an answer.

The chanting seems to have quieted for now. Quick, to the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar Facebook pages to discuss the revelation before it begins again.

There's definitely a Saimm Hann rune on the skull, plus a serpent. I'm not sure how that relates to a soul price though. The text made me think Avatar, although anything phoenix lord or exarch related involves a soul price too.

This is the first one that lends the deleted Reddit rumour some credence. It had Nuadhu Fireheart/ axe-wielding wild rider bits in it that were not part of any other leaks.

Interesting if it is Saimm Hann, my original Eldar army was basically that craftworld with reversed colours. I wanted to do Iyanden at the time but much too scared of painting the yellow.


Steep is the soul price is surely a reference to the Ynnari though. In order to birth the new god most of the Eldar must die..

To awaken the Avatar, it requires the sacrifice of the Young King.

Nuadhu Fireheart would be an interesting addition, on a new Vyper.
I noticed that the vertical curved "claw" with spike off back is present in center of image again like in the last advent engine script image.

also, I kinda see the skull, but that is one primitive looking skull

I've been hoping for his sculpt for ages.

While I'm excited as any other for this release, the summary of the last 10 days isn't really all that good. It looks that we have at least two days for any one kit and one day in five for intermission script. Averaging this to 2.5 rumours per kit and 5 intermission days total, this gives us no more than 8 kits in the entire Advent Engine. If it is not entirely Eldar, but mixed Eldar&Chaos calendar, we might have seen almost everything there is for us by now.

nou wrote:
While I'm excited as any other for this release, the summary of the last 10 days isn't really all that good. It looks that we have at least two days for any one kit and one day in five for intermission script. Averaging this to 2.5 rumours per kit and 5 intermission days total, this gives us no more than 8 kits in the entire Advent Engine. If it is not entirely Eldar, but mixed Eldar&Chaos calendar, we might have seen almost everything there is for us by now.

I mentioned it earlier as well but I doubt they'll use the festive event purely for 40k on top of that.

nou wrote:
While I'm excited as any other for this release, the summary of the last 10 days isn't really all that good. It looks that we have at least two days for any one kit and one day in five for intermission script. Averaging this to 2.5 rumours per kit and 5 intermission days total, this gives us no more than 8 kits in the entire Advent Engine. If it is not entirely Eldar, but mixed Eldar&Chaos calendar, we might have seen almost everything there is for us by now.

It may still be just an eldar only themed rumor engine. When shadowspear dropped, they only teased chaos models for the month, IIRC. And in total that got us:
Master of possession
Greater Possessed
Venomcrawler
Obliterators
Chaos space marines.

Which is still not a great sign, since it was only a handful of models revealed (the rest of the wave came later) but as long as we don't just get eldar rangers (which by now we know isn't happening) I'll take it

The Black Adder wrote:
There's definitely a Saimm Hann rune on the skull, plus a serpent. I'm not sure how that relates to a soul price though. The text made me think Avatar, although anything phoenix lord or exarch related involves a soul price too.

Is it a rune, or is it just a five on the skull?

It's the rune of the Cosmic Serpent.