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 MobileSuitRandom wrote:

 bullyboy wrote:

zamerion wrote:

This could be the Corsair kit for sure

Yeah, fits the reddit rumour - upgraded guardians with a warlock and optional ranger. Rather happy they didn't continue the Vespid cosplayer style of the FW Corsair kit, never really liked that.

The 'vespid cosplayer' look was taken more or less directly from Rogue Trader art.

Eldar pirate 'corsairs' were the default for eldar at the beginning, before Craftworlds OR vespid were a glimmer in anyone's eye.

Voss wrote:

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:

The 'vespid cosplayer' look was taken more or less directly from Rogue Trader art.

Eldar pirate 'corsairs' were the default for eldar at the beginning, before Craftworlds OR vespid were a glimmer in anyone's eye.

Yeah I'm an RT era kid myself (think my first Eldar were either RTB06 Harlies or the Space Crusade expansion, LOL), but that still doesn't make the FW corsairs look less like Vespid cosplayers in my eyes.

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:

Voss wrote:

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:

The 'vespid cosplayer' look was taken more or less directly from Rogue Trader art.

Eldar pirate 'corsairs' were the default for eldar at the beginning, before Craftworlds OR vespid were a glimmer in anyone's eye.

Yeah I'm an RT era kid myself (think my first Eldar were either RTB06 Harlies or the Space Crusade expansion, LOL), but that still doesn't make the FW corsairs look less like Vespid cosplayers in my eyes.

Yeah...



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...no, I'm not seeing it. Going for that similarity, they could be "cosplaying" almost literally anything with wings. Including SoB.

fearies

Mosquito-Men

 skeleton wrote:
fearies

Underappreciated comment!

Can't say I really like the wings all that much but those heavy weapons are nice....

 skeleton wrote:
fearies

To be fair it's the first thing I thought of when I first saw Corsairs. And I like them quite a bit !

Would deal with the lack of Faery representation in AOS

 silverstu wrote:

Cheers for all that. Really hopeful for corsairs - sounds like they get their own set rather than an upgrade for guardians. Really hoping they are more flamboyant - maybe with the punk/goth hair of early eldar sculpts [and yes I know DE got them but Corsairs sit between the craft worlds and DE].

I like my Corsairs more like the guy in the top left...


I'd also like some kind of lizard or cat pet...and a pony!

I can't stop looking at the cosplayer on the upper right (#2). That's some cringetastic 80's RT art!

I mean… those are all terrible haha. Like, the worst kind of 80’s art design in a single image.

 Tiberius501 wrote:
I mean… those are all terrible haha. Like, the worst kind of 80’s art design in a single image.

lol couldn't agree more, the proportions are just all completely off-kilter lol.

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Wow, they really nailed the GW fanboy in the top right, like they could see the future.
Agree about the Corsair, the best way to describe them should be Mr Fancypants, top left is spot on.

That Navigator looks like he wandered out of Nordland...

On the other end of the 80s artwork spectrum, would be nice if they looked at these for inspiration.

Vorian wrote:


On the other end of the 80s artwork spectrum, would be nice if they looked at these for inspiration.

Yeah I'd love it if they brought more of the eldritch feel of the early eldar concepts in with the corsairs- especially their their own flavour of warlocks etc. Its going to be interesting to see how they differentiate corsairs from guardians. Also intrigued to see what the new guardians look like..


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 Jack Flask wrote:
The Corsair Killteam has options for a Ghostwalker (Ranger), Void Dreamer (Warlock), Felarch (Sergeant), and Way Seeker (???).[/list]
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Had a thought re:Way Seeker- it might be the d-weapon specialist, I think in The Path of the Outcast, the corsairs use a D-cannon to remove bulkheads in a ship so they can avoid/outflank defenders s could refer to the corsair with the wraith weapon in the rumours.

They have mentioned the new Killteam sector coming in their latest video. Hopefully later in the week they might show something, I think they are doing little reveals through the week rather than a big online reveal/event.

It just dawned on me the KT boxset may actually give us a plastic Warlock.

It would appear that almost all of the previews from the Advent Engine have been relating to the new box set

The two below I can't place though - unless they're alternative weapon options for the Autarch that we've not seen?

What do we think? Warp Spiders and Scorpions?

Weapons for the autarch. The article mentions the chainsword as an option, and also mentions a fourth ranged option, but we only see three (reaper launcher, fusion gun, shuriken pistol), so the death spinner is the obvious fourth option.

Radium wrote:
Weapons for the autarch. The article mentions the chainsword as an option, and also mentions a fourth ranged option, but we only see three (reaper launcher, fusion gun, shuriken pistol), so the death spinner is the obvious fourth option.

Yeah, and it seems to be held in the same pose as the Reaper Launcher the Autarch is holding in the promo pics.

I play both Chaos and Eldar so I was really excited for the boxset, is it only ranger + ranger bikes and the Autarch? I've never been much of a ranger player myself.

Corsair KT box sounds fantastic though!

The news guardians box excite me a whole lot less after seeing the disaster that his the ork boys kit....

 streetsamurai wrote:
The news guardians box excite me a whole lot less after seeing the disaster that his the ork boys kit....

I kinda hope that Guardians are getting a bit of a shake up in rules to allow more options. It would also give more reason to have a new plastic kit (because the current one is fine as-is, even if it's not the same awesome standard as newer kits)

If they are moving DAs and Rangers out of Troops, leaving ONLY Guardians as our Troops, I'd like to see some versatility.
Like being able to take 5-man units, or 2 platforms per 10 models, etc.

You better not get 2 platforms per 10. They stripped Skitarii out because of nonsense like that.

Yeah despite the age the guardian kit isn't too bad really - for my part I would just welcome an add on sprue that had a couple more leg variants that were more dynamic (currently we have "wide stance" and "slightly different wide stance" as the only options) and maybe some additional head/helmet, arm and weapon variants.

 streetsamurai wrote:
The news guardians box excite me a whole lot less after seeing the disaster that his the ork boys kit....

Eh. Its a little different. Guardians (currently) don't have in box options, so they really don't have anything to lose (barring insanity like a 5 man box).
The models themselves are pretty light on any details, and the sprues are underutilized at best.

If it gets redone, they'd have to put some effort in to making it worse than it currently is.

 Galef wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:
The news guardians box excite me a whole lot less after seeing the disaster that his the ork boys kit....

I kinda hope that Guardians are getting a bit of a shake up in rules to allow more options. It would also give more reason to have a new plastic kit (because the current one is fine as-is, even if it's not the same awesome standard as newer kits)

If they are moving DAs and Rangers out of Troops, leaving ONLY Guardians as our Troops, I'd like to see some versatility.
Like being able to take 5-man units, or 2 platforms per 10 models, etc.

Or being able to use lasguns/blasters. That would be interesting.

Hopefully if they add Las weapons to Guardians, it's in the form of Lasblasters.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Hopefully if they add Las weapons to Guardians, it's in the form of Lasblasters.

They might want to leave them for the corsairs, though.

 Albertorius wrote:

stratigo wrote:
Burned eldar players?

Man Craftworld eldar have been the best army in the game far more often then they've even been average.

Hell, right NOW an eldar army is the best army in the game to such a level that 3 nerf cycles haven't even dented their winrate.

I just think Eldar players are uncomfortable when they aren't casually dominating the meta.

Having 3 OP options that are spammed ad nauseam on "the meta" is not what many players (or well, at least me) want.

I want to be able to use the stuff in the codex outside the OP units and not shoot myself in the foot while doing it. I don't want to "dominate". I want to not handicap myself.

If both you and your opponent have this philosophy, you'll be absolutely fine. Unless they really do drukhari the craftworlds, in which case your opponent is screwed