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 GaroRobe wrote:

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.

The "daemon rumour engine" in 2019 ran for two weeks rather than a month IIRC. Terminators, Havocs, and that terrain piece were also shown in addition to that list above (plus Abaddon had already been previewed earlier).

If they stick with Eldar models in this rumour engine until Xmas that implies more models are coming than the 8 units above.

One thing I hadn't thought of until now is that presumably the two days of images with text make up one quote which is:

"Only in defeat will you know victory ... steep the soul price for slender hope".

Now I'm not mega up to date about new lore but that is definitely Ynnari stuff right? That the whole idea is that the god will only birth with all the souls of the Eldar in the soulstones. Then it has enough power to defeat Slaanesh.

Maybe that is not necessarily model related, that could just be talking about bringing forward the Eldar lore to the current timeline I guess.

 xttz wrote:

The "daemon rumour engine" in 2019 ran for two weeks rather than a month IIRC. Terminators, Havocs, and that terrain piece were also shown in addition to that list above (plus Abaddon had already been previewed earlier).

If they stick with Eldar models in this rumour engine until Xmas that implies more models are coming than the 8 units above.

Not necessarily. Last year's advent engine showed multiple photos of the same units. Out of those 25 images, only two remain unsolved...and they were something Inquisition-tied, making me wonder if the Octarius books had a tie-in model that got delayed for some reason.

 Olthannon wrote:
One thing I hadn't thought of until now is that presumably the two days of images with text make up one quote which is:

"Only in defeat will you know victory ... steep the soul price for slender hope".

Now I'm not mega up to date about new lore but that is definitely Ynnari stuff right? That the whole idea is that the god will only birth with all the souls of the Eldar in the soulstones. Then it has enough power to defeat Slaanesh.

Maybe that is not necessarily model related, that could just be talking about bringing forward the Eldar lore to the current timeline I guess.

A decent bit of informed speculation.

If we turn to AoS, they’ve been slowly building to Slaanesh escaping it’s prison, so I’m wondering if both AoS and 40K will have Summer Of Lust, where Elfy events kind of change up Slaanesh a wee bit?

Oh boy, we are indeed switching to chaos. That claw could be from a daemon engine. And the advent engine has turned full chaos, ouch.
So how many Eldar kits did we actually see? Not that many in reality.

 bullyboy wrote:
Oh boy, we are indeed switching to chaos. That claw could be from a daemon engine. And the advent engine has turned full chaos, ouch.
So how many Eldar kits did we actually see? Not that many in reality.

It's looking like the advent engine contents will match the 5 new units in that rumoured Eldar vs Chaos boxed set. Then likely there will be additional waves of releases for both later in the year.

Did anyone grab the image? I’m getting a 404 not found.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Did anyone grab the image? I’m getting a 404 not found.

The little silhouette is still up, looks like a lightning claw.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Did anyone grab the image? I’m getting a 404 not found.

got the same, I just zoomed in on image at top of page

Not necessarily, based on one of the original Harlequin Models.

Sigh. Still waiting on that Harlequin codex. It had better be worth the wait...

With the banner growing teeth, I think we are firmly in the chaos side.

Still, good lot of Eldar stuff to look forward to.

Definitely looks chaotic to me. Would have liked a few more days of Eldar to be honest but there you go.

So 10 days Of Eldar - 10 days of chaos? Maybe something else for the last 4?

 Nevelon wrote:
With the banner growing teeth, I think we are firmly in the chaos side.

Still, good lot of Eldar stuff to look forward to.

No! Showing a Craftworld piece in a rumor is basicly a gentlemens agreemet that they (GW) commit to release a full reworking of the aspects, scouts and guardians, compleat with phoenix lords and aditional named and unnamed characters. Furthermore they (GW) agree to release plastic corsairs with official in-codex rules. And the way I interpret the deal, they probably need to throw in some exodites as well.


Sorry for wasting you time, dakka.

Interesting, looks like a not-quite-Lightning Claws.

Just as I feared, a token release for Eldar. I suppose there is no Illic there, no Warp Spiders or Reapers, no Avatar, only Rangers, Ranger bikes and an Autarch with options. Or even no Ranger bikes, only Autarch on a bike.

There is still a slim chance, that Advent Calendar is just for the soon-to-be-released two faction box like Blood of the Phoenix and a larger waves of updates is due when the codex is released, but even then I fear we're heading towards not a major release, but a major disappointment. There was no follow up after BotP.

I am wondering if we'll get a Shadowspear box, with pushfit models and a real release further down the road

Lightning Claw. Finally, Chosen.

Could be possessed as well, it looks like it's more teeth coming out of the back of his fist, complete with eyes a little further back.

Chaos Chosen?

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Chaos Chosen?

Yeah, that's the model I was thinking of. Let's hope this kit has a lot more options than that one though.

It's maybe emprah's children but that is going off the slimy things around the pic so dose this comment with a bunch of salt.

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Chaos Chosen?

Yeah, that's the model I was thinking of. Let's hope this kit has a lot more options than that one though.

Honestly I expect this to end up a sword brethren situation

Dudeface wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Chaos Chosen?

Yeah, that's the model I was thinking of. Let's hope this kit has a lot more options than that one though.

Honestly I expect this to end up a sword brethren situation

Still vaguely better than completely monobuild push-fit.

But not by much.

Dudeface wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Chaos Chosen?

Yeah, that's the model I was thinking of. Let's hope this kit has a lot more options than that one though.

Honestly I expect this to end up a sword brethren situation

Ok, I didn't follow the Black Templars stuff. Can you explain what that means, please?

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

Dudeface wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Chaos Chosen?

Yeah, that's the model I was thinking of. Let's hope this kit has a lot more options than that one though.

Honestly I expect this to end up a sword brethren situation

Ok, I didn't follow the Black Templars stuff. Can you explain what that means, please?

The usual "you can build 5 bog standard guys fine but you may have 1 of each special weapon as per on the sprue"

Dudeface wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

Dudeface wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Chaos Chosen?

Yeah, that's the model I was thinking of. Let's hope this kit has a lot more options than that one though.

Honestly I expect this to end up a sword brethren situation

Ok, I didn't follow the Black Templars stuff. Can you explain what that means, please?

The usual "you can build 5 bog standard guys fine but you may have 1 of each special weapon as per on the sprue"

Thanks. I really, really hope you're wrong, though. That would be....horrible.

As an Eldar player: My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.