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I have seen a lot of people say that the rest of the codex releases this year will not get any new models. I figure the reason for that thought is that Death Guard and Primaris releases will be dominating the remainder of this calendar year, but is there any sort of concrete evidence to support that idea? For example, would you expect to see rumor leaks in regard to these models at this point in time if they were going to be released in about a month or two, or is this idea of no more new models this year total speculation?

I am new to the whole rumor chasing thing, so I really don't know; however, it seems to me that an updated Eldar model release makes perfect sense going into the holiday season. If they would release new Eldar models that would put new chaos models(Death Guard), new marine models(Primaris), and new xenos models all out for the holidays. That seems like a good mix to me.

That being said, I could be missing something totally obvious that says my idea is not happening, so what are the chances Eldar get some new stuff this year?

They can't be played as Ultramarines so low. GW does not follow logic as we do.

I'm gonna say 0.

They have an existing plastic sculpt that doesn't have a clampack so they can pretend it's a release, so Eldar are hosed.

Eldrad in a clampack like Voldus or Cawl seems likely, but I'd be surprised to see more.
And if I had to guess, I'd say that new Ynnari models are more likely than CWE ones in 2018. But with GW we never know.

Death Guard releases will dry up in another couple weeks. Necromunda will release over a week or two. Chapter Approved could take up a week. That probably does leave another couple of weeks open for 40k stuff, unless I'm missing something, but I'm not sure how historically committed GW has been to always have something coming out.

I agree with fresus that this seems pretty unlikely. Plastic Aspects strike me as a lot of work for something that people don't need many of. And surely they're more likely to want to expand the Ynnari line than come up with a lot of new units for Craftworlds.

fresus wrote:
Eldrad in a clampack like Voldus or Cawl seems likely, but I'd be surprised to see more.
And if I had to guess, I'd say that new Ynnari models are more likely than CWE ones in 2018. But with GW we never know.

What would you even release for Ynnari.... And why release the new Eldrad now?

The late November early December stretch could see another codex release with new models. It's just that new eldar models haven't really had and rumors go around. It'd also be odd to see any larger xenos release this year.

Personally, I'm inclined to think demons, tsons, or possibly dark angels could see something late this year. All have been hinted at to varying degrees.

After that, we've got rumors of something big for tau from GW on the horizon. Probably expanding either their auxiliary races or farsight into a full subfaction. We've also got a few hints of new xenos races and even chaos tainted eldar that may coincide with the eventual EC release (being the tzaangors/poxwalkers for said army potentially).

So all in all, if eldar are getting major model releases, it's flown totally under the radar compared to everything else.

pm713 wrote:

fresus wrote:
Eldrad in a clampack like Voldus or Cawl seems likely, but I'd be surprised to see more.
And if I had to guess, I'd say that new Ynnari models are more likely than CWE ones in 2018. But with GW we never know.

What would you even release for Ynnari.... And why release the new Eldrad now?

Because they released Voldus and Cawl with the GK and Mechanicus books
A single named character, previously only available in a bigger box. That sounds a lot like Eldrad. And Eldrad is currently OOP (the plastic version), so they have a plastic mold sitting on a shelf that's not making them any money.

As for Ynnari, there's a million things they could release. In Gathering Storm Ynnaris were just standard Eldar converted to the new faith. But over the years they should have developed their own culture. So we could have a model line with a new, distinct look. Basically anything that would look coherent with Yvraine and the Visarch.

I think GW has been signaling what to expect with each release.

Death Guard got a big run up. Spoilers contained images of new models months before they came out. Same with Primaris Marines, there were no surprises about what came out.

OTOH, the AM Codex was announced pretty close to the release date.The pics I have seen of AM models are conversions, taking bits from many other packages and painting them up to look nice.

I expect Craftworld Eldar will have a similar treatment. If new models were coming for them or Tyranids at the time the Codex is released, we would have heard about it by now.

EDIT: For that matter, I can't think of any other unreleased model leaks. Around the holidays, GW has been ramping up for sales of Battleforce boxes, which are just repacks of multiple other kits. I imagine they would want to avoid having anything compete with those.

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ad mech is in dire need of more models for cult and more hq for both factions, yet all they got was cawl as a stand alone.


only brand new armies gets new models this year it seems.

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
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ad mech is in dire need of more models for cult and more hq for both factions, yet all they got was cawl as a stand alone.


only brand new armies gets new models this year it seems.

Brand new armies like the Space Marines!... oh wait.

There's a limit to how much new plastic GW can produce at a single time. As a pure AdMech player, I'm not bitter in the least. Do I think they could have made a named character or two able to be built from the Sicarian sprue? Sure. That would have been cool. But no new models was entirely expected, and what we got in rules was amazing. Let's not complain that others got more when we got plenty.

 Purifier wrote:

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
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ad mech is in dire need of more models for cult and more hq for both factions, yet all they got was cawl as a stand alone.


only brand new armies gets new models this year it seems.

Brand new armies like the Space Marines!... oh wait.

There's a limit to how much new plastic GW can produce at a single time. As a pure AdMech player, I'm not bitter in the least. Do I think they could have made a named character or two able to be built from the Sicarian sprue? Sure. That would have been cool. But no new models was entirely expected, and what we got in rules was amazing. Let's not complain that others got more when we got plenty.

Pretty much this. And if you need a pick me up, just thing of all the SoB players looking at the release schedule as shown and sighing sadly, willing themselves not to cry.

They'll probably release new Dire Avenger models, 2.5 for £20.50.

fresus wrote:

pm713 wrote:

fresus wrote:
Eldrad in a clampack like Voldus or Cawl seems likely, but I'd be surprised to see more.
And if I had to guess, I'd say that new Ynnari models are more likely than CWE ones in 2018. But with GW we never know.

What would you even release for Ynnari.... And why release the new Eldrad now?

Because they released Voldus and Cawl with the GK and Mechanicus books
A single named character, previously only available in a bigger box. That sounds a lot like Eldrad. And Eldrad is currently OOP (the plastic version), so they have a plastic mold sitting on a shelf that's not making them any money.

As for Ynnari, there's a million things they could release. In Gathering Storm Ynnaris were just standard Eldar converted to the new faith. But over the years they should have developed their own culture. So we could have a model line with a new, distinct look. Basically anything that would look coherent with Yvraine and the Visarch.

They also had a lot longer to release Eldrad and Eldrad isn't part of their "LOOK AT THESE" Factions.

And they can magic up somewhere to make it too... What am I saying? GW don't care about their lore quality.

With a few exceptions it looks like the push is to get new codexes out first. At the moment were looking at a 1/3 chance of a box getting a serious miniature release (SM & DG vs GK, CSM, AdMec & AM) so CW and DE probably won't get anything that's actually new but they may make the Ynnari a full factions (DG scale)