New Dark Eldar Models

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

SssssssssssssSSSSSsssssssssssssssSSSSssssSssssssss ssSsssssssssssssslyth

Let's see, I'll get 14 or so of them and have 2 squads of 4, one leader and 4 as some elite squad and 1 as a "slave master" and ebay some of those old warhammer fantasy snakemen for Slaves...

Yeah. Gotta love me some Snake Xenosforms!

[archimbald]

snake dude looks class, may get one online cheAper just to paint...

[GrenAcid]

Lady Malys!

I mean... Lhamean... yeah.

Seriously why do those things exist? XD
Ooh, my Archon's splinter pistol shot is poisoned!

Ow yeshhhh...Lady Malys with bit of convertion you will have her ;] Cant wait.

Snake looks v good....but I still dont see usefull side of court.

[Padfoot]

Regarding the Lhemaean, however, I thought she had a pistol and CC weapon? It looks like 2 CC weapons in the pic.

The right hand is holding a scabbard. Probably to keep the toxins from dripping everywhere!

[MajorWesJanson]

Nope, they toyed with the idea of a Razorwing/Void Raven kit but that was scrapped ages ago. Voidraven bomber was just too much bigger. MajorWesJansen speculates, based on his conversation with Jes Goodwin at GD Chicago, that the Voidraven will be released anytime between October and early next year.

Void Raven has 4 engines, canards, angular crystal canopy in the nose.

My reasoning for the potential release is as follows:
Jes won't know release "until he holds the sprues in his hands"
Discussion of how it breaks down on the sprue (fun for me, that is a hobby of mine) seems like it is at least at that point in the process.
concept art was available to see, just like for the court. Court came out in following two months, so I doubt the art would be made public if the kit was too far along.
Fantasy Seahammer box set seems like a standalone product, so there seems like there should be room in October for a few other kits to be released. A single bomber (3 tank sprues) seems like not too much of a production burden, and would keep 40K going until Necrons (likely)come out in Nov.
December is a month for scenery and bundles, not really new kits.
January is a release month, and Void Raven, even with a few SCs, is not enough to push a whole month itself. They would have to really pair it with something else to make up a decent month's release.

Take in mind that I am trying not to read too much into what Jes told me, as he finds it both amusing and annoying when people read too much into what he says and then cites him as the source of a rumor.

Taking the fact that the art was made public to mean the release is soon, the fact that it is not enough to release on it's own for a month, and that the Seahammer box set in October is a standalone, I'm going to place even odds on it coming out in October, alongside 5-8 more metal-finecast kits and another pair of plastic fantasy mini-sprues (maybe a Slaanesh or Khorne champion and something else). If I am wrong, blame me, since there was nothing from Jes to indicate a release date.


Price wise, I expect the Void Raven to be at the USD $62-66, like the Land Raider or Storm Raven.

[Settra301]

Wow !! Lhemean is one of the prettiest model in 40k universe !!! (Next to Swarmolrd) :P

[Gir]

Nice! I must say that I'm impressed with the CoA minis. Regarding the Lhemaean, however, I thought she had a pistol and CC weapon? It looks like 2 CC weapons in the pic.

Sheaths make pretty crappy close combat weapons.

They did the same thing with the succubus - two close combat weapons, which you had to convert to get an actual, useable variant of the model. If you've already got the bits (and most likely you do) it's a relatively simple "fix," but ultimately the model is not worth its price. If you've been in the hobby for any length of time you could either build your own from spare parts or else find someone to do it for you ... and yours will be ten times cheaper and probably 10 times better than the corporate spew you're expected to chew.

Except she's only carrying one close combat weapon.

[darthken]

sooo cool can't wait pity about the price tag

[Anggul]

Anggul, for twenty points you get three 2+ poisoned shots and 3+ CC attacks which wound on 2+, not to mention that the ony lacklustre unit in the Court is the Ur-Ghul. I've had a lot of success with the Court, people underestimate it a lot. With maxxed out Sslyths, Medusae and Lahamaens is can rip tough units up in shooting and then assault it to finish it off, with a considerable number of high (for DE) S attacks from the Sslyths.

At no point did I say that I think Courts are bad. What I don't like is that they gave Lhameans a rule which is pretty much useless, and then force you to take at least one. Yes the Lhameans are good without the rule anyway, for very little points you get a lot of poisoned attacks, but I still don't like the fact that you don't have a choice as to whether you take one or not. It's my Archon's court, why should I have to have something if I don't want it? That's sort of the point of being an Archon. If it affected the Sslyths too, then that would be really good, but as it is it's just splinter pistol shots, seeing as the Archon's only other poison weapon is the venom blade which is 2+ anyway.

In the end, while the Court is cool and I'll probably use one at some point, it tries to do too many different things, and seeing as I'm more of an Incubus guy anyway, I'd rather have them as my Archon's bodyguard. They know what they want to do and what they want to do is combat, which they do better than the Court, albeit not with the extra toughness of the Sslyths which you have to be careful with to utilise anyway. Probably the best thing it has going for it is that, as you said, people underestimate it as they will see the more specialised units as more of a threat, and while the Court isn't great at anything, it's still pretty damned good at most things.

[eldargal]

Well, fair enough, I think being able to tailor the Court a bit more would be nice also, itwould also be nice if ur-ghul were a little better.