Aeldari Corsairs (ft. NuVyper)

[Timberley]

15 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

If they toned down the mall ninja knife blade aesthetic I’d like it a lot more.

I know the Tantalus has been around forever, by current standards, but I have to agree.  I think if one magically came out today, I'd drop the keel-mounted knife things (they could be some sort of anti-grav?) for a pair of big guns (like you'd get on a Wraithknight), or just have nothing there at all.  In the same way, if I were to create a Corsairs army and get some Reavers, I'd leave off the knife blade in front of the engine grille and paint the wing blades so they looked like ailerons rather than knives.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

1 hour ago, Timberley said:

I know the Tantalus has been around forever, by current standards, but I have to agree.  I think if one magically came out today, I'd drop the keel-mounted knife things (they could be some sort of anti-grav?) for a pair of big guns (like you'd get on a Wraithknight), or just have nothing there at all.  In the same way, if I were to create a Corsairs army and get some Reavers, I'd leave off the knife blade in front of the engine grille and paint the wing blades so they looked like ailerons rather than knives.

Yeah a pair of underslung bright lances, and a bow mounted star cannon and either a shuriken cannon or scatter laser on either side would be a nice bit of armament.

[Ming the Merciless]

The Pulse Disintegrators are already pretty tasty. Its an assault vehicle (mw's on the charge and not bad in melee) not a gunship.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

1 hour ago, Ming the Merciless said:

The Pulse Disintegrators are already pretty tasty. Its an assault vehicle (mw's on the charge and not bad in melee) not a gunship.

An assault vehicle without guns to support the assaulting infantry and fight its way to the assault point is pretty useless as an assault vehicle. A good assault vehicle is an IFV, not an APC.

[Mogger351]

56 minutes ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

An assault vehicle without guns to support the assaulting infantry and fight its way to the assault point is pretty useless as an assault vehicle. A good assault vehicle is an IFV, not an APC.

Out the gates it's neither, it's a fast moving platform more akin to a naval vessel, notably an old one. It's designed to get there fast, soften things with it and it's passengers lending fire, then ram something for the crew to disembark onto the target in essence.

 

Beyond that are 12 bs 3+ S10 AP-2 d2 shots not enough to count as supporting its crew?

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

6 hours ago, Mogger351 said:

Out the gates it's neither, it's a fast moving platform more akin to a naval vessel, notably an old one. It's designed to get there fast, soften things with it and it's passengers lending fire, then ram something for the crew to disembark onto the target in essence.

 

Beyond that are 12 bs 3+ S10 AP-2 d2 shots not enough to count as supporting its crew?

Sure never said it wasn’t.

[TheArtilleryman]

I love the psyker and the vyper is … ok. Not quite sure what I expected from it but yeah it does the job. I have an old one unbuilt and I can’t say the new one is enough to make me get one instead. 
 

Not sure at all about the flying guys. They seem a bit like they came out of someone’s bits box.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Corsair kill team is no longer shown on the kill team page

 

im assuming reboxing for 40K.

 

should be expecting the big box to release in another week or two right?

[Bouargh]

9 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

Corsair kill team is no longer shown on the kill team page

 

im assuming reboxing for 40K.

 

It has been the case for a couple of months already. I guess your assumption is correct, and reboxing is likely without the cards of KT... Unless there is a recut too?

I wonder how the "almost characters" from the Voidscarred will be treated in the global Corsair release: will it stay like it is or will they be removable from the VoidScarred unit organization, allowing building of these minor characters out of the box (Sniper, Psyker, pseudo medic with waystones, Assassin, Ranger like with bird) and acting/behaving in solo?

 

I would tend to say thta no recut is to be foreseen, but rulewise I would welcome some flexibility on the matter...

 

 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

8 hours ago, Bouargh said:

 

It has been the case for a couple of months already. I guess your assumption is correct, and reboxing is likely without the cards of KT... Unless there is a recut too?

I wonder how the "almost characters" from the Voidscarred will be treated in the global Corsair release: will it stay like it is or will they be removable from the VoidScarred unit organization, allowing building of these minor characters out of the box (Sniper, Psyker, pseudo medic with waystones, Assassin, Ranger like with bird) and acting/behaving in solo?

 

I would tend to say thta no recut is to be foreseen, but rulewise I would welcome some flexibility on the matter...

 

 

Going by waha they currently include  those models in the squad, I see no reason to change that.

Edited 1 hour ago by Inquisitor_Lensoven

[Karhedron]

I agree. GW likes selling complete units, I can't see them breaking up the Corsairs. Look at the Masters of the Maelstrom unit.