Aelderi on pre-order 25/01/2025

[Vassakov]

Via WarComm - all the kits, Codex, and reboxes for the Wave Serpent/Falcon and War Walkers. An elf is never early or late, they arrive exactly when they mean to. And are smug about it.

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/ryr2r2tf/sunday-preview-its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-rhana-dandra/

[-DonCorleone-]

Wow, that’s a quick release. I would have thought it would be announced mid February.

[ZeroWolf]

Now, I wasn't expecting that! And for the first time in a while (maybe since the Necron and Ad mech releases back in 23) there is no army box or battleforce for the eldar.

 

Also 71 datacards...are Eldar giving Space Marines a run for their money? (Expecting 64 actual Units and the rest army rules and combat patrol)

[Borbarad]

6 minutes ago, -DonCorleone- said:

Wow, that’s a quick release. I would have thought it would be announced mid February.

Year of chaos can’t arrive soon enough!

[Kryczek]

Nice one. I wasn't expecting that for a few weeks.  Time to get some stuff on e-bay.

[ZeroWolf]

7 minutes ago, Borbarad said:

Year of chaos can’t arrive soon enough!

Don't know about year, but how about a couple of months instead 

[Bouargh]

11 minutes ago, ZeroWolf said:

Also 71 datacards...are Eldar giving Space Marines a run for their money? (Expecting 64 actual Units and the rest army rules and combat patrol)

 

Wasn't it said in Nov teaser event that some Drukharii units to be aligned as Ynnari would be included into the codex, was it? Might explain these 6. I wonder how it will look like...

[TheArtilleryman]

Would have liked to see a battle box for the Eldar but nice models anyway. I’ve always had a soft spot for the Eldar as they were my first ever army back in 1996… very tempted to get some of the fire dragons and warp spiders, always my two favourite shrines.

 

Particularly nice that they’ve combined the grav tanks into one kit. Buy one, have both at your disposal. Great

[Xirix]

Huh, I figured the Falcon was being reboxed, but not as a dual-kit with the Wave Serpent.

[Marshal Loss]

Smashing through their release schedule. Clearly just eager to get EC out in the wild...

 

Looking at the suite of kits, Eldar have an amazing range, but I do wish they'd redone Dire Avengers to go along with Asurmen.

Edited January 19 by Marshal Loss

[Fire Golem]

4 minutes ago, Marshal Loss said:

Smashing through their release schedule. Clearly just eager to get EC out in the wild...

 

Looking at the suite of kits, Eldar have an amazing range, but I do wish they'd redone Dire Avengers to go along with Asurmen.

Yeah it’s a shame. They’re already plastic but they’re so old and it would be nice to have them all to one standard. 

[Dr. Clock]

Dang - yep, good 4-6 weeks earlier than I'd expected. I guess Eldar was actually done earlier than IG and interesting that this 'dex will be widely available earlier than them.

 

Also surprised there's no 'release bundle', but understandable given the release doesn't have a clear consistent 'theme' in the same way that the Krieg stuff does.

 

I MIGHT be able to resist buying the new Aspects until I finish the Reapers and Scorpions in my queue... But I'll probably try and get Spiders and Lhykis when I get the codex anyway on the off chance they sell out for a few months like Kill Teams have done in the last few years. Presumably they do know that those are gonna be a hot release so they've made enough of them to satisfy initial demand...

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

 

 

[Fire Golem]

Honestly I was hoping for the AoS Gitmob, but tbh I could do with a payday first!

[Exarch Telepse-Ehto]

Yes! Well at least my purchases for the year will be over early on.

[jimbo1701]

Releases are all over the place this edition. Some come with battle forces, some don’t. Some release boxes come with codex and cards, some don’t. Very hard to predict what will be released in what format. Broadly I think can categorise into 3 formats:
 

Release box (with codex and cards in advance of rest of release) 

- Astra Militarum 

- dark angels 

- blood angels 

- emperors children 

- tau (kroot) 

 

Battleforce (everything released same time in 1 or more boxes, no codex/cards in the big release box)

- custodes 

- sisters 

- orks

- genecults 

- chaos marines 

- imperial agents 

 

Normal release (no battle force / release box)

- aeldari

- tyranids*

- space marines*

- admech

- necrons 

 

*Starter armies for the edition. 

 

No obvious pattern to the latter categories as the admech got no more models than say the sisters did but their release formats were different. They do appear to be single new models alongside existing old models for the most part. (2 of the agents ones being the exceptions) Eldar not getting a battleforce despite the quantity of new models is a bit of an oddity, however. New subfactions do seem to be the ones that get a launch box though.

 

From this I would predict that the armies this edition that will get boxes pack with new goodies (based on existing rumours) will be Eldar corsairs and space wolves. 

 

We likely won’t get launch boxes with books in for the rest of the missing factions (thousand sons, death guard, world eaters, grey knights, templars, votann, drukhari) but it’s not impossible we will get battleforces on release containing a single new model alongside existing as before. Of those releases I dare say grey knight and death guard are guaranteed single new model, but the others remain to be seen if they will get more than one. 
 

Chaos knights and imperial knights a bit trickier to predict given the scale / price point of the models. The space marine wave 2 that is rumoured is also tricky to predict as they may release multiple battle forces for different chapters at the same time as before. Chaos daemons are likely being rolled into the csm cult books. 

[Dark Shepherd]

This could be 2 + 2 = 5 but could it be GWs logic that theres too much Eldar for a launch box but not enough for box plus second wave (cos of the way they value characters)?

 

And or not enough room in the warehouse for 25k Eldar boxes with everything else coming soon esp EC

[Dark_Master]

Just had a thought & wanted to put to paper (as such), is GW moving the story forward?

 

What if the new phoenix lord is to replace 

Karandras (hence no new model) as Drazhar has finally got his man and ended the 2nd scorpion 

 

Just a Sunday evening thought.

 

DM

[Wormwoods]

The reboxed Falcon probably means we're not getting a new Eldar tank hull for a while, which is a shame because I put one of those kits together recently and it was a real chore. Starting to think we'll still be building Eldar and Tau vehicles from their 3rd ed sculpts 20 years from now.

[Mogger351]

2 minutes ago, Wormwoods said:

The reboxed Falcon probably means we're not getting a new Eldar tank hull for a while, which is a shame because I put one of those kits together recently and it was a real chore. Starting to think we'll still be building Eldar and Tau vehicles from their 3rd ed sculpts 20 years from now.

2nd ed in the case of the falcon isn't it I think?

[ThePenitentOne]

So if I pick up Maugan Ra before the preorder and pick-up Asurmen right away, I'll have 3 aspects with their Lords and one without (Scorpions, who aren't getting a new PL yet).

 

Thereafter, I can purchase each Aspect and its Lord together, starting with those fabulous new spiders.

[01RTB01]

41 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

2nd ed in the case of the falcon isn't it I think?

White dwarf 217 December 1997.

[TheArtilleryman]

22 minutes ago, 01RTB01 said:

White dwarf 217 December 1997.

Wow can’t believe it’s that old - that’s almost as long as I’ve been collecting. For a kit that old though it still looks perfect imo and I don’t think it really needs changing.

[Tastyfish]

I'm guessing this means the Corsair rumours probably aren't going to pan out.

 

Unless...dun dun DUN! They're for Heresy...

Edited January 19 by Tastyfish

[Evil Eye]

Yeah, the Falcon's base design is perfect (as I said in the other thread) and with a bit of TLC it can be made to look gorgeous. The issue is, the moulds are only a year younger than me and are REALLY getting worn out. It could honestly do with a new kit, provided the base design was kept essentially the same but with crisper details and maybe some more options (vibro-cannon or D-cannon as an option to replace the pulse laser maybe?).

 

The Tau vehicles are IMO at least perfectly fine for what they need to be, though a new Hammerhead that again just refreshed the details and added in the FW turret options would be fun. To be honest the main non-Eldar vehicle kit I can think of that needs a refresh is the Land Raider, mostly on account of the fit of the parts being atrocious. I'd be willing to see some slight creative liberty with it, but only with the caveat that it should still be fully interchangeable with the current model rather than being much bigger or with a totally different loadout or whatever.

[TheArtilleryman]

3 minutes ago, Evil Eye said:

Yeah, the Falcon's base design is perfect (as I said in the other thread) and with a bit of TLC it can be made to look gorgeous. The issue is, the moulds are only a year younger than me and are REALLY getting worn out. It could honestly do with a new kit, provided the base design was kept essentially the same but with crisper details and maybe some more options (vibro-cannon or D-cannon as an option to replace the pulse laser maybe?).

 

The Tau vehicles are IMO at least perfectly fine for what they need to be, though a new Hammerhead that again just refreshed the details and added in the FW turret options would be fun. To be honest the main non-Eldar vehicle kit I can think of that needs a refresh is the Land Raider, mostly on account of the fit of the parts being atrocious. I'd be willing to see some slight creative liberty with it, but only with the caveat that it should still be fully interchangeable with the current model rather than being much bigger or with a totally different loadout or whatever.

Yeah I could get behind this. Something similar to what they did with the Leman Russ (although with that one they annoyingly made it impossible to swap turrets from the old kit for some reason).