Grotesques, Wracks and other Finecast leaks...

Some pictures have found their merry way from the 'secret' pile into the 'leaked' pile yet again...

Grotesques.

Wracks.

Haemonculus.

Citadel Finecast.

Credit goes to Natfka for these pics by the way just in case he thinks I'm stealing his stuff rather than just borrowing it ;-)

New Razorwing Jetfighter Pic

A few more Pics of the new Dark Eldar Razorwing Jetfighter have emerged.

Release Date is apparently June 18th.

Dark Eldar - New Models including the Razorwing Jetfighter?

I'm not sure if 'new release' articles are of any interest to people as the information is usually readily available everywhere on the internet by the time I get around to posting anything about them but here it comes anyway ;-)

The Dark Eldar Cronos/Talos.

Despite having separate entries on the pre-order page these are apparently one kit.

The Cronos Parasite.

The Talos Pain Engine.

And for those of you (like me) who'll be buying one purely to use as a bitz resource here's some pictures of the sprues,

Expect to see a lot more of these bastards on the gaming tables now as they look fucking ace (in a hideous sort of way). In addition expect to see some of the spares from the sprue appearing on the models of every other evil race in the 40K universe as I for one would love to see a Chaos Dreadnought conversion using these bitz.....

Also, In addition we have the long anticipated Venom,

It has been noted in several places that this kit looks very close in style to the conversions people have been making anyway. I think this has a lot to do with the overall style of the Dark Eldar being very distinct. The good thing about the release of this model is that it opens up a lot of new builds for Dark Eldar players who didn't have the time or resources to make their own Venoms and have been using other units because of it.

and of course there's the eagerly awaited Scourges,

Again these are beautiful models though I was hoping the helmets would be a bit more avian than they actually are. Still, that's a relatively minor gripe. My Daemon Princesses of Slaanesh will most likely be getting a wing upgrade courtesy of this kits bat wings ;-)

I also got e-mailed this picture a few minutes ago,

Not sure where it originates from but it's allegedly a Razorwing?

Feel free to comment if you have some brilliant idea for using these kits that you'd like to share with the world*

*by which I mean the few hundred people in it who check my blog, lol.

Dark Eldar - Not the end of the world.

Its the end of the world as we know it apparently...

Yes, you guessed it Dark Eldar are going to appear and ruin 40K for everyone by being unbeatable...

Just like Blood Angels were, Oh and Space Wolves and Imperial Guard and...

Here's my take on a few things that seem to be bothering a good portion of the Internet and why I think they're full of shit maybe overreacting.

So, in no particular order,

They have lots of Lance weapons.

So your armour 12 Chimera is treated exactly the same, your Rhino is about as scared of Strength 8 weapons as it was before. Land Raiders may be slightly concerned but they can be killed by an average roll from a 10 point (or less) Meltagun anyway...

On that note they've still got to hit, penetrate and get a good vehicle damage roll so it's not like they auto destroy things is it?

They can Turbo-Boost really far.

Unless your playing from short table edge to short table edge anything that can turbo boost and has an anti-tank weapon can be ready to shoot you in the face on turn 2. Never faced an army with Skimmers in it before? find better opponents then.

Imperial Guard Hydras don't give a fuck about turbo-boost cover saves anyway.

Vect can seize the Initiative on a 4+

If you can't win a game if your opponent goes first then your going to be fucked by everybody you play half of the time anyway.

Learn to deploy properly, get some bubblewrap and laugh your ass of when the Dark Eldar player gets first turn and you steal the initiative and blow up his cardboard transports by the handful.

Poison kills Tyranid Monstrous Creature lists with ease.

You've got 6 wounds, a decent armour save and most Tyranid players can dish out at least 2 lots of 'Feel No Pain' from their 2 Tervigons anyway. On the upside, a unit of 10 Termagants now have an almost 10% chance of blowing a Raider out of the sky with their Fleshborers even if it's Turbo-Boosted and has Flicker Fields so it's not all bad for the Nid players.

They can give Feel no Pain to their units/ Pain tokens are broken.

They can give Feel no Pain to (for the most part) T3 guys with a shit armour save. For starters Assault Cannons, Autocannons, Scatter Lasers, Multi-lasers and various other S6+ weapons don't care.

Admittedly they can also give that same Feel no Pain to tougher units. But if you have trouble killing T4 units, with a decent Armour save, Furious Charge and Feel no Pain that also have access to Fast vehicles then I'd avoid playing against any Blood Angel players you might know ;-)

They can spam 20 million transport vehicles.

So can a great many armies and their vehicles aren't made of fucking cardboard.

They can put 4 blasters in a single unit.

So they have an equivalent to Eldar Fire Dragon units. Ask the average Eldar player how long those guys usually last...

I could go on but you'll be glad to hear that I'm not going to.

In Conclusion.

Dark Eldar have a good mix of anti-infantry and anti-tank and a well organised set of units that can be spread across the FOC in ways that make both Tyranid and Chaos players quite envious.

However many of the 'tricks' that people are worried about require expensive special characters to make work, their transports still fall apart if you throw a sharp rock at them and their troops are mostly T3 with crap armour that might get Feel no Pain if all the decent units already have it.

It appears that GW may have released another balanced codex...good for them ;-)

As a consolation to any Dark Eldar players I may have offended here's a picture of Lelith Hesperax to keep you happy,

Sorry wrong picture,
That's the one...

Thoughts, Comments and Death Threats from Dark Eldar players are (as usual) most welcome.

Dark Eldar News

I'll post some content that's actually mine tomorrow...honest ;-)

The Games Workshop Newsletter 26.09.2010 In this issue: Incoming: Dark Eldar

Incoming! Dark Eldar Today at UK Games Day we announced the re-launch of the Dark Eldar and unveiled a wicked host of new Dark Eldar miniatures. Jes Goodwin, lead Dark Eldar designer, was there to answer questions about his latest creations and show off the cover art from the new Codex. As newsletter subscribers we felt that you should be the first to hear the news and catch a glimpse of Jes and his team's stunning work. Make sure you check out the 'What's New Today' section on games-workshop.com every day next week, as we'll be showing more of the Dark Eldar, including some of Jes' concept sketches and early design work. The new Dark Eldar will be available to advance order from Tuesday 5th October. Brace yourself, gaming in the 41st Millennium is about to become a lot more frightening.

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