Aeldari Corsairs (ft. NuVyper)

[Blindhamster]

10 hours ago, Frogian said:

it's a pity GW aren't more lax about their no models/no rules regulations - you could have a pretty cool force if you were allowed to run units of Shade Runners, or heavies, Fate Dealers, Blade Sword.  I suppose a lot of them would be identical models across the unit but there is just so much cool stuff locked inside the voidscarred box. 

see, I was thinking to modelling custom units and using them as warp spiders (shade runners), rangers (fate dealers) and howling banshees (blade swords)

 

model wise, use voidscarred as a base, but convey to fit the loadouts of other units

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

What kind of points range are people expecting this box to be?

 

vyper is currently 65pts

Yriel 100 pts

swoopinghawks 190pts for 10

corsairs 160pts for 10

Eldrad 100pts

 

so based on what’s available as regular eldar it’s about 615pts

 

so I wouldn’t expect more than 800 total, 600-750 seems most likely.

 

[Karhedron]

My guess is Karseth will be a bit cheaper than Eldrad  but otherwise that looks pretty much on the money. 

 

I speculate Karseth will have a standard ranged psychic attack and a special rule to increase enemy stratagem usage by 1CP as the mirror image of Eldrad's ability.

[Dr. Clock]

5 hours ago, Karhedron said:

increase enemy stratagem usage by 1CP

On the stream I believe they said it was a 12" Deep-Strike denial... but psychers and speical characters do seem to sometimes wind up two data-sheet rules plus the mind bullets so could be he gets both I guess. I'm guessing Yriel 90, Kharseth 80 even if that's a bit low just so that people get a slight break on the 0-1 options when the voidscarred remain up there at 160.

 

I have fun with 10 voidscarred from time to time, but they are a 'big risk, medium reward' unit at best, and they suffer from having the cool weirdos locked in the 10-man and thus not allowed in falcons... Regular corsairs in 5s are great chaffe, of course, but overall the army lacks a mite in the 'actual cannon' department, meaning I'm still putting ~500pts into Aspect warriors even if they are gonna end up being converted 'Corsair Void Dragons' and 'Void Reapers' and 'Void Spears' and 'Void Banshees'... Nice thing is the new Aspect kits do contain enough alternate weapons (and the Ynnari heads) that you can at least get well started on a corresponding 'off-brand 5-man', and make up the rest from unused specials and felarch options more or less. For so long, Eldar kits basically just... didn't have unused options. The 5-man Aspect kits are kinda pricy, sure, but you can squeeze extra value out of them if you're prepared to break to kitbash the extras into a guardians kit or whatever (e.g. you could do some cool 'black guardians' that have the extra weapons from a kit as basically unit fillers and just say they 'rejoin their previous temples in battle').

 

Anyway... I'm basically locked in on the battleforce for this exact reason - the foot corsairs are gonna become Corsair Reapers and Dragons.

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

 

 

[Ioldanach]

The only thing that makes me slightly less than 100% thrilled about this is the fact that GW didn't keep the wings from the Forge World kit and didn't include any helmets from that range (and those, in turn, evoked the appearance of some of the images of the "Space Elves" from the Rogue Trader era)...

 

 

The new wings are too close to the Swooping Hawks for my taste. Don't get me wrong, I love them on the aspect warriors. I just loved the Forge World ones for the corsairs and would have been very happy to see them preserved in a mainstream refresh.

 

Still, I'm super excited about this.

 

And I understand the inclusion of Yriel since he's the only way to turn an Aeldari force into an ANHRATHE force. For now?

 

I am now more hopeful than ever that we will see the Anhrathe expanded even more, with alternatives to Yriel for establishing an AHRATHE force and a broader diversity of units to make such a force viable. I won't get into wish-listing for that here, though as I could go on and on (though the Doom of Mymeara provides a solid foundation).

[Karhedron]

45 minutes ago, Ioldanach said:

And I understand the inclusion of Yriel since he's the only way to turn an Aeldari force into an ANHRATHE force. For now?

 

I am now more hopeful than ever that we will see the Anhrathe expanded even more, with alternatives to Yriel for establishing an AHRATHE force and a broader diversity of units to make such a force viable. I won't get into wish-listing for that here, though as I could go on and on (though the Doom of Mymeara provides a solid foundation).

 

I am hoping for a Detachment that can give certain unit like Autarchs the Anhrathe keyword but I might be getting too optimistic. The integration of Ynnari is cumbersome, at best.

[ThePenitentOne]

I'm hoping that the 500 Worlds book that lets you build your own hero will let you build "Generic Corsair Prince" and "Generic Ynarri Archon/ Succubus" as Warlords so that we can finally cure GW of its "You MUST take this named character to run this detachment, even if you're playing Crusade and named characters suck in Crusade sinece they can't grow."

[The Yncarne]

I’m looking forward to getting the new models as gliders in my GrimDark Future lists. I’m already using the existing corsairs as multiple units for HEF and DER depending on the loadout. 

[TheMawr]

2 hours ago, ThePenitentOne said:

I'm hoping that the 500 Worlds book that lets you build your own hero will let you build "Generic Corsair Prince" and "Generic Ynarri Archon/ Succubus" as Warlords so that we can finally cure GW of its "You MUST take this named character to run this detachment, even if you're playing Crusade and named characters suck in Crusade sinece they can't grow."

 

It would be great but I think its highly unlikely the rules will be as broad as people expect, im usually the more naive optimistic one, but in this case I fear the character creation is specifically for the raid and ruin campaign system and only meant for that.. no crusade, matched play or legends.. but a self contained game mode where you built your leader in book A to play the notoriety points game from book B.

 

A big reason for me thinking this is because of the limited nature of the book they'd need to put the entire character creation book downloadable if it is also usable in other game modes, especially matched play, and I just don't see that happening.

 

but allowing only those that could get their hand on a limited book to use completely self made characters in any envoriment against people who cannot and do not have access to any of it, is the kind of thing GW constantly evades ( same with LE models and oop models getting legends rules etc )

 

At best I think your selfmade character will count as a legends character. And I fear of all my wild speculations out there, this one has the biggest chance of being spot on.

 

However I haven't seen the live preview to know if there has been better info.

 

[ThaneOfTas]

1 hour ago, TheMawr said:

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I understand the fear, however I think that it is at least as likely that this system will find its way into the Crusade rules for 11th. GW are certainly willing to allow things like this in narrative game modes, seeing as these are likely a 40k version of AoS's Anvil of Apotheosis. Its possible that it's not intended for wider use in 10th, but seeing as all signs point to 11th being a continuation rather than a reset, i do think that the rules will become more widely available.

[Timberley]

On 1/20/2026 at 4:50 PM, Ioldanach said:

The only thing that makes me slightly less than 100% thrilled about this is the fact that GW didn't keep the wings from the Forge World kit and didn't include any helmets from that range (and those, in turn, evoked the appearance of some of the images of the "Space Elves" from the Rogue Trader era)...

 

 

The new wings are too close to the Swooping Hawks for my taste. Don't get me wrong, I love them on the aspect warriors. I just loved the Forge World ones for the corsairs and would have been very happy to see them preserved in a mainstream refresh.

 

Still, I'm super excited about this.

 

And I understand the inclusion of Yriel since he's the only way to turn an Aeldari force into an ANHRATHE force. For now?

 

I am now more hopeful than ever that we will see the Anhrathe expanded even more, with alternatives to Yriel for establishing an AHRATHE force and a broader diversity of units to make such a force viable. I won't get into wish-listing for that here, though as I could go on and on (though the Doom of Mymeara provides a solid foundation).

Amusingly, I'd say that the new Swooping Hawk heads are a very close replacement for the OG Corsair heads, and were I to get some Skyreavers I'd probably see if I could get some Swooping Hawk heads to swap in.  And yes, I'm with you when it comes to the wings for the new Corsairs.  The old Corsair look was very close to the old Eldar Mercenary look from Rogue Trader, and these guys look a little bit too Craftworld-y.  However, I might get them as the Eldar Corsairs appeals as an army (Eldar complexity notwithstanding), and I've already got the Kill Team (which is a beautiful collection of models).

[Dr. Clock]

While I liked the old ones, I'm not angry about the distance they've made between craftworld and corsair gear. Those fw kits were basically designed to 'totally fit' with craftworlds, which I agree they did; even though there was consideration for some drukhari gear, the actual model line was pretty staunchly 'fancier Guardians' rather than 'actually yea just pirates'.

 

I'll always come down on the side of the eyepatches and peg legs on this one... Can I get just a wee arr matey? 

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

[Nephaston]

2 hours ago, Dr. Clock said:

arr matey

 

In eldar language/GW lingo this would end up being "aerr maethae"

[Captain Coolpants]

On second look, I agree with what a few have said, I do wish they kept the sleeker look of the old jetpack wings. Wonder if it'll be hard/worth it to just fill and file them? So they're smooth like before? 

[Dr. Clock]

1 hour ago, Captain Coolpants said:

Wonder if it'll be hard/worth it to just fill and file them? So they're smooth like before?

I think the previous version's 'thinness' rather than smoothness was where the juice was.

 

Rather than filling in and smothing out the detail on the wing, my first approach would be to just cut off the 'row of feathers' so it's just the two main long flat surfaces. Then maybe reshape the lower one a bit to make it more... triangular?

 

It'd take a bit of time and deft cutting, but could be worth it for those of a mind. 

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

[Captain Coolpants]

 

 

My super epic high level editing skills. I do prefer this look and think it'll be worth doing! 

 

 

 

Really don't know why my pen isn't the same colour as the background though... Its colour matched on my phone, but not when uploaded haha

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

What do you guys think the Corsair detachment rule will be?

 

An army wide or most of the army move shoot move would see thematic/appropriate.

[Xenith]

On 1/22/2026 at 7:45 PM, Captain Coolpants said:

 

 

My super epic high level editing skills. I do prefer this look and think it'll be worth doing! 

 

 

 

Really don't know why my pen isn't the same colour as the background though... Its colour matched on my phone, but not when uploaded haha

These go look good, though I'm wondering if they corsairs wouldn't benefit from just having those feathers painting in a single colour instead of red and white - the overall shape of the wings seems fine to me. 

 

While I love the idea of a jump pack melee unit, I'm wondering if these will actually be useful - Eldar with power swords generally are still pretty bad in melee - if these are effectively storm guardians with wings, their role will still be objective talking/roadblock. They would have to be Obsec2 deep strike to be useful, and would fill a niche in the army.

Edited Sunday at 09:09 AM by Xenith

[Flaherty]

Fingers crossed that a DE refresh in 11th gets us a plastic Tantalus that can be used with these guys to get the full swashbuckling effect!

[Dr. Clock]

7 hours ago, Xenith said:

While I love the idea of a jump pack melee unit, I'm wondering if these will actually be useful - Eldar with power swords generally are dull pretty bad in melee - if these are effectively storm guardians with wings, their role will still be objective talking/roadblock. They would have to be Obsec2 deep strike to be useful, and would fill a niche in the army.

I would have agreed with you before I started using Yaegirs with power knives. The thing about taking objectives is that you often have to charge something to do it, so having 5 basic infantry with just a respectable fast or infiltrating charge is perfect for trading, secondaries, and keeping enemies honest with their early positioning. We're Eldar - the plan should usually be to shoot first and then charge only the remaining bits you know you can swallow.

 

I agree that they're not guaranteed to be 'actually good' by any means, but I don't actually expect them to be quite aspect level points either, unless they pick up a really good data sheet rule. I'm gonna guess 2x5 of Skyreavers will do good work in almost any list, but more than that remains to be seen, especially since they've no character support that we know of. If GW was clever they'd just say 'Autarchs can take the Anhrathe Keyword and then join Corsair units', but I don't think we're there this edition... 

 

I guess what I'm saying is that early trade slap fights do still happen, and I appreciate the units that slap just enough that I can charge a few survivors with confidence. It really will come down to the datasheet rule, because I agree that a few power swords alone ain't gonna do much to actual targets.  

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor. 

[Karhedron]

14 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

An army wide or most of the army move shoot move would see thematic/appropriate.

 

It would be very cool but when tied to Agile Manoeuvres, it might make an army too frustrating to play against.

[HeadlessCross]

On 1/23/2026 at 5:31 AM, Flaherty said:

Fingers crossed that a DE refresh in 11th gets us a plastic Tantalus that can be used with these guys to get the full swashbuckling effect!

I thought the Tantalus had non-Legend rules like the Custodes stuff or that one Marine vehicle with the big Autocannons. If that's not the case, super lame. 

[Evil Eye]

On 1/23/2026 at 1:31 PM, Flaherty said:

Fingers crossed that a DE refresh in 11th gets us a plastic Tantalus that can be used with these guys to get the full swashbuckling effect!

A plastic Tantalus would be amazing, always loved that design.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

1 hour ago, Evil Eye said:

A plastic Tantalus would be amazing, always loved that design.

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

[Magos Takatus]

12 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

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

B...but... that's like taking the hungry out of Tyranids....