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New Valrak rumours
Genestealers getting a single psyker character that looks similar to the necromunda Delaque Psyker
Also getting a boxset with 2x Goliath Rockgrinders and an unspecified number of Neophytes and "Hulking Brutes" which he probably meant the Aberrants with. No specific information if the new HQ is in here but its very likely looking at every other box.
Sister of Battle get a new Canoness with Jump Pack and the boxset will have Seraphim/Zephyrim and two tanks but no info which tank.

 Matrindur wrote:
New Valrak rumours
Genestealers getting a single psyker character that looks similar to the necromunda Delaque Psyker
Also getting a boxset with 2x Goliath Rockgrinders and an unspecified number of Neophytes and "Hulking Brutes" which he probably meant the Aberrants with. No specific information if the new HQ is in here but its very likely looking at every other box.
Sister of Battle get a new Canoness with Jump Pack and the boxset will have Seraphim/Zephyrim and two tanks but no info which tank.

Oh good, Sisters rumors on April fools day.

 Matrindur wrote:
New Valrak rumours
Genestealers getting a single psyker character that looks similar to the necromunda Delaque Psyker
Also getting a boxset with 2x Goliath Rockgrinders and an unspecified number of Neophytes and "Hulking Brutes" which he probably meant the Aberrants with. No specific information if the new HQ is in here but its very likely looking at every other box.
Sister of Battle get a new Canoness with Jump Pack and the boxset will have Seraphim/Zephyrim and two tanks but no info which tank.

Woo, just what GSC needed...

Jump pack canoness, though: hurray!

ERJAK wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:
New Valrak rumours
Genestealers getting a single psyker character that looks similar to the necromunda Delaque Psyker
Also getting a boxset with 2x Goliath Rockgrinders and an unspecified number of Neophytes and "Hulking Brutes" which he probably meant the Aberrants with. No specific information if the new HQ is in here but its very likely looking at every other box.
Sister of Battle get a new Canoness with Jump Pack and the boxset will have Seraphim/Zephyrim and two tanks but no info which tank.

Oh good, Sisters rumors on April fools day.

Only the tanks are a new part of that rumor. Rest has been mentioned some time ago as well. Wouldn't mind this to be in the box, I'm interested in more Zephyrim and the tanks are a nice bonus (that I may or may not keep).

Us3Less wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:
New Valrak rumours
Genestealers getting a single psyker character that looks similar to the necromunda Delaque Psyker
Also getting a boxset with 2x Goliath Rockgrinders and an unspecified number of Neophytes and "Hulking Brutes" which he probably meant the Aberrants with. No specific information if the new HQ is in here but its very likely looking at every other box.
Sister of Battle get a new Canoness with Jump Pack and the boxset will have Seraphim/Zephyrim and two tanks but no info which tank.

Oh good, Sisters rumors on April fools day.

Only the tanks are a new part of that rumor. Rest has been mentioned some time ago as well. Wouldn't mind this to be in the box, I'm interested in more Zephyrim and the tanks are a nice bonus (that I may or may not keep).

I know, it's also a really tame rumor to be your big 'April Fools!' joke.

I just really fething hate this holiday. I still haven't forgiven the 'War Mammoths for Space Wolves' thing.

ERJAK wrote:

Us3Less wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:
New Valrak rumours
Genestealers getting a single psyker character that looks similar to the necromunda Delaque Psyker
Also getting a boxset with 2x Goliath Rockgrinders and an unspecified number of Neophytes and "Hulking Brutes" which he probably meant the Aberrants with. No specific information if the new HQ is in here but its very likely looking at every other box.
Sister of Battle get a new Canoness with Jump Pack and the boxset will have Seraphim/Zephyrim and two tanks but no info which tank.

Oh good, Sisters rumors on April fools day.

Only the tanks are a new part of that rumor. Rest has been mentioned some time ago as well. Wouldn't mind this to be in the box, I'm interested in more Zephyrim and the tanks are a nice bonus (that I may or may not keep).

I know, it's also a really tame rumor to be your big 'April Fools!' joke.

I just really fething hate this holiday. I still haven't forgiven the 'War Mammoths for Space Wolves' thing.

I don't think this is an April's fools thing though.

Dudeface wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

Us3Less wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:
New Valrak rumours
Genestealers getting a single psyker character that looks similar to the necromunda Delaque Psyker
Also getting a boxset with 2x Goliath Rockgrinders and an unspecified number of Neophytes and "Hulking Brutes" which he probably meant the Aberrants with. No specific information if the new HQ is in here but its very likely looking at every other box.
Sister of Battle get a new Canoness with Jump Pack and the boxset will have Seraphim/Zephyrim and two tanks but no info which tank.

Oh good, Sisters rumors on April fools day.

Only the tanks are a new part of that rumor. Rest has been mentioned some time ago as well. Wouldn't mind this to be in the box, I'm interested in more Zephyrim and the tanks are a nice bonus (that I may or may not keep).

I know, it's also a really tame rumor to be your big 'April Fools!' joke.

I just really fething hate this holiday. I still haven't forgiven the 'War Mammoths for Space Wolves' thing.

I don't think this is an April's fools thing though.

But you can never know, can you?

NFL player Vontae Davis (famous for retiring at halftime during a game) was found dead in his apartment today.

Or was he? It would be a tasteless April Fools joke, but wouldn't be unprecedented.

I won't know 100% for sure that he's dead until tomorrow. That's an extreme example, but it does codify why I find the entire holiday irritating.

 Matrindur wrote:
New Valrak rumours
Genestealers getting a single psyker character that looks similar to the necromunda Delaque Psyker
Also getting a boxset with 2x Goliath Rockgrinders and an unspecified number of Neophytes and "Hulking Brutes" which he probably meant the Aberrants with. No specific information if the new HQ is in here but its very likely looking at every other box.

a new psyker would actually be really cool since the army really only has the magus right now, if this was an edition where psychic mattered

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:
New Valrak rumours
Genestealers getting a single psyker character that looks similar to the necromunda Delaque Psyker
Also getting a boxset with 2x Goliath Rockgrinders and an unspecified number of Neophytes and "Hulking Brutes" which he probably meant the Aberrants with. No specific information if the new HQ is in here but its very likely looking at every other box.

a new psyker would actually be really cool since the army really only has the magus right now, if this was an edition where psychic mattered

We also have the patriarch, and the Magos is supposed to be a top-level psyker (relatively speaking), so i'm not sure we need another one. Unless it's a low-level one you can distribute widely among the army. Maybe like Eldar warlocks? Take them as a group or individuals.

 ProfSrlojohn wrote:

We also have the patriarch, and the Magos is supposed to be a top-level psyker (relatively speaking), so i'm not sure we need another one. Unless it's a low-level one you can distribute widely among the army. Maybe like Eldar warlocks? Take them as a group or individuals.

Literally a big part of the lore for GSC is that the early expansion of a brood targets psykers to bring the psyker gene into the pool and to remove the potential of psychic detection of the Broodlord.

Introducing another Psyker isn't terrible. Especially if it ends up being more of a "combat psyker" than the Magus, who's more of a "support psyker".

Or maybe introduce a (low level) psyker brood instead another character? It could simulate first instances of psychic in particular generation etc.

A psyker in and itself isn't terrible, but GSC don't need more HQ units, they need some more tanks/vehicles and a shooty infantry unit. Give them a Termite or some kind of slow tracked giant mining laser. Make a unit of Abberants that are less good in combat but fire bio-plasma from their maws. Give a unit of familiars sniper rifles etc etc.

(Note: it would be nice if 40k's design space remained where not giving some armies stuff worked, but it has moved on, so every army at this point needs to have units that do every thing to be realistically playable.)

Honestly most GW armies today don't need more HQ options - however GW are very much trying to keep attention on armies with small releases and that has manifested as them doing lots of leader models; because those fit 1 model moulds really easily.

As for psy if its anything like how Tyranids and other 10th armies have gone then chances are more psy leaders will work because we have lost the whole tool-box approach to psychers this edition.

So chances are you'll have the offence, debuff and buff versions with one or two abilities each.

 The Phazer wrote:
A psyker in and itself isn't terrible, but GSC don't need more HQ units, they need some more tanks/vehicles and a shooty infantry unit.

The term you're looking for is "characters", as "HQ" isn't a thing anymore. Some "characters" feature a "Leader" rule while others have "Lone Operative".

Also, I'm down with them getting "more tanks/vehicles and a shooty infantry unit"...thrown into the codex and the absolute, 100% removal of the garbage "Brood Brothers" rule that exists right now.

Give them a Termite or some kind of slow tracked giant mining laser. Make a unit of Abberants that are less good in combat but fire bio-plasma from their maws. Give a unit of familiars sniper rifles etc etc.

(Note: it would be nice if 40k's design space remained where not giving some armies stuff worked, but it has moved on, so every army at this point needs to have units that do every thing to be realistically playable.)

Literally except for GSC, whose ability to pick from the Guard range is fairly unprecedented and needs to be reined in significantly.

 The Phazer wrote:
A psyker in and itself isn't terrible, but GSC don't need more HQ units, they need some more tanks/vehicles and a shooty infantry unit.

If they make five shooty characters for the next five codices, they can consolidate them into a shooty unit in the sixth codex.

I should pitch this idea to GW.

 Overread wrote:
Honestly most GW armies today don't need more HQ options - however GW are very much trying to keep attention on armies with small releases and that has manifested as them doing lots of leader models; because those fit 1 model moulds really easily.

It's good in a way, but also cheap. Slaangors have a small sprue and no options. Chaos Cultists have a small sprue and no options. But they add an extra non-character option to their respective armies. If GW can't be bothered with a normal units with all the bells and whistles*, they should at least consider small monopose unit additions instead of mindlessly cranking out more characters.



* Bells and whistles have been rationalized. We now call the absence of bells and whistles bells and whistles because it's the highest standard GW offers.

Another Valrak video about Eldar
This image is basically a summary of what he is talking about:
I'm not sure if anything here is even new or if its just old rumours again but at least the image summarizes it nicely.



The Swooping Hawk are part of the rumours about Kill Team going up into the air so maybe part of the next season or a box between seasons instead of the fourth of the current one?
He is planning to make another video about Kill Team soon with more info.

Besides forgetting Karandras that sounds like a pretty decent spread for the end of 2024-start of 2025 for Eldar.

That takes pretty much everything up to plastics for their model range right? Save for the FW models of course.

Yes they'd still have some older vehicle designs, but at least they'd have plastics for their whole army range and whilst things like vypers and falcons are old they are still decent designs where if we got new versions they'd likely be refined rather than ground-up redesigned.

Yeah, the Falcon is still great. I'd assume it would be a "new" kit in the same vein as the "new" Leman Russ and Chimera kits we got a decade ago. New and improved, but still basically the same thing.

“Forgot” to make Karandras?

Aye. Right.

I’ll believe this when I see I think.

 cuda1179 wrote:
Yeah, the Falcon is still great. I'd assume it would be a "new" kit in the same vein as the "new" Leman Russ and Chimera kits we got a decade ago. New and improved, but still basically the same thing.

Yep and to be fair that's how most of the other Eldar updates have come too. Scorpions and Banshee are very much refinements not redesigns.

Makes me wonder if we'll see them move several FW models over into plastics in time.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
“Forgot” to make Karandras?

Aye. Right.

I’ll believe this when I see I think.

It's a grey area, if he doesn't accompany the eldar release we can never say if it was because they "forgot" or chose to wait. I'd opt to read it as "not this time".

for 'forgot' i can believe that a sculptor was assigned a bundle of eldar stuff to do, managed to do most of it but not Karandras and then left GW (or was moved onto a different project)

Management thinks it's done until the sculpts are further down the posing, cutting, sprue layout, moulding etc pathway and by the time they do realise the 'eldar' slot has been used up and its something elses turn

easier to skip Karandras for now rather than disrupt a whole bunch of other stuff, especially since they're running so close to the wire on all this stuff now

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
“Forgot” to make Karandras?

Aye. Right.

I’ll believe this when I see I think.

It's extremely difficult to believe, seeing as Jes is pretty hands-on for the range.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
for 'forgot' i can believe that a sculptor was assigned a bundle of eldar stuff to do, managed to do most of it but not Karandras and then left GW (or was moved onto a different project)

Management thinks it's done until the sculpts are further down the posing, cutting, sprue layout, moulding etc pathway and by the time they do realise the 'eldar' slot has been used up and its something elses turn

easier to skip Karandras for now rather than disrupt a whole bunch of other stuff, especially since they're running so close to the wire on all this stuff now

Yeah esp if they are moving projects around to short term sculptors. Another element is it could just be one department is overworked or got a flood of orders go through. So no one left, but the model just got kicked down in priority over other things being pushed through. Not forgotten just put to one side constantly until whoever was supposed to do it or approve it forgot it had been put to the side. Then you fastforward and someone from marketing or shipping wants the photos for the box art and such and suddenly "Oh wait we were doing that?"

Considering how many projects GW is handling right now I could see things like that slipping. In the end GW make toys, so whilst I'm sure they've got checks to try and avoid things slipping, I'm sure they do.

How many GSC characters did the guy at GW make lol, i reckon there're still more. If only we had these kind of fanatic for Eldar/Ynnari.

genestealers currently have 13 characters and 9 non-characters. soon to be 14 characters and 10? non-characters. not sure if the new kill team will be its own unit, but i suspect it will

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
“Forgot” to make Karandras?

Aye. Right.

I’ll believe this when I see I think.

Well Scorpions already have a plastic Phoenix Lord

Lord Zarkov wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
“Forgot” to make Karandras?

Aye. Right.

I’ll believe this when I see I think.

Well Scorpions already have a plastic Phoenix Lord

Part of me did wonder if this was sort of the point. I might be misremembering but didn't the last narrative arc for the eldar have them fight and Karandras run off defeated?

 Overread wrote:


Yeah esp if they are moving projects around to short term sculptors. Another element is it could just be one department is overworked or got a flood of orders go through. So no one left, but the model just got kicked down in priority over other things being pushed through. Not forgotten just put to one side constantly until whoever was supposed to do it or approve it forgot it had been put to the side. Then you fastforward and someone from marketing or shipping wants the photos for the box art and such and suddenly "Oh wait we were doing that?"

Considering how many projects GW is handling right now I could see things like that slipping. In the end GW make toys, so whilst I'm sure they've got checks to try and avoid things slipping, I'm sure they do.

I can't see this happening at all. People at every step of the process would be asking "What about Karandras?" The designer would ask when assigned the project; if they forgot, their superiors and the schedulers would be asking when checking in on projects. The other designers sat next to the designer making the Striking Scorpions would be asking "Are you making Karandras as well?" The painters prepping for the project would be asking… And, as others have mentioned, the evidence is that Jes Goodwin is still closely involved.

I can imagine oversights in terms of allocating time and other resources and deciding therefore that Karandras would be the thing to be dropped, but 'forgetting' when they intended to make one… I don't see it. Sounds like someone using a clumsy phrase to describe the decision to wait.

Chopstick wrote:
How many GSC characters did the guy at GW make lol, i reckon there're still more.

I mean, a big chunk(Nexos, Saboteur, and Clamavus) of the last batch was clearly meant for a dedicated Brood Brothers kit that never showed up.

If only we had these kind of fanatic for Eldar/Ynnari.

lolwut? The last release for Aeldari had more named special characters in it than some factions/subfactions have!