Advice for new corsairs

[Galron]

The youtube podcasters seem to be poo-pooing them pretty hard. I dont think the Starfang is bad especially within the corsairs detachments. Weapons and speed are decent and the stealth bonus thing is a nice perk. As Kar says. the grenade launcher and disintegrator will be great when it zips behind the enemy front line to pop the little 5 man squads hiding in the backfield softening the way for the frail jump guys. Im planning on running two as individuals. 

[Karhedron]

1 hour ago, Galron said:

The youtube podcasters seem to be poo-pooing them pretty hard.

 

Surprising as they have given a shooting profile that is distinct and different from the Vyper. If you want horde clearance, take a Vyper with Scatter Laser. If you want tankbusting, take a Vyper with ML and BL. But if you want to pop MEQs, the Starfang is your baby.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Stayed up to put in my order from war games  portal and it went out of stock while I was filling my name out.

 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

On 2/13/2026 at 11:46 AM, Karhedron said:

 

Surprising as they have given a shooting profile that is distinct and different from the Vyper. If you want horde clearance, take a Vyper with Scatter Laser. If you want tankbusting, take a Vyper with ML and BL. But if you want to pop MEQs, the Starfang is your baby.

Heck I’d argue starfang is a decent anti-horde unit as well.  4-6 shots that won’t be savable for horde models. Hitting on a 3+ most will hit, those that hit will likely wound, and then no saves on those wounds.

 

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i hate how they do preorders. Why were independent stores able to do preorders 10 hours ago, but they still arent available on the GW site?

 

edit numero dos

got my order confirmation. Looking forward to getting my birthday present like 29 days early.

Edited February 14 by Inquisitor_Lensoven

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

If my math is right the box is 575 points.

my plan for expansion currently is 3 more starfangs and 4 vypers.

also thinking of a squad of rangers and shroud runners, and fire dragons.

 

should be about 1500 pts.

 

seems mostly thematic as well as reasonably well balanced.

[Galron]

I need more Corsairs to run my list. I was thinking the Coterie list with a big block of deep striking Voidscarred with Yriel and a couple smaller 5 mans. It also is a good detachment for Wraithguard. I am thinking a 6 man shroud runner squad to use the very nice strat for them and a pair of warwalkers and star fangs plus several warp spiders, and a jump pack corsairs. 

[No Foes Remain]

Managed to get a box from Darksphere, which I'm glad as I am quite looking forward to these. I've always liked the Corsairs and grabbed two boxes to run in Kill-team, just before they were removed so they've sat on my shelf for a bit.

 

I'm planning on basically running Yriel (kitbashed a bit to make my own Prince), Kharseth, 2 Voidreavers (one ranged, one melee), 5 Skyreavers, 10 Voidscarred (with some of the special characters) and the Vyper as my starter army. Then expanding with some more Corsairs of various stripes, Rangers (both foot and bike mounted), more Vypers and transports for the units. Maybe a Fire Prism to tie it all off. The idea being this is the martial 'auxiliary' force of my homebrew craftworld who focus more on aspect warriors and wraithbone constructs than guardians, so this bunch of raiders act as their 'main' force.

 

Biggest downside, I'm struggling to figure out a paint scheme for them, normally have no issue with Space Marine stuff but I can't figure one out for these.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

10 hours ago, No Foes Remain said:

Managed to get a box from Darksphere, which I'm glad as I am quite looking forward to these. I've always liked the Corsairs and grabbed two boxes to run in Kill-team, just before they were removed so they've sat on my shelf for a bit.

 

I'm planning on basically running Yriel (kitbashed a bit to make my own Prince), Kharseth, 2 Voidreavers (one ranged, one melee), 5 Skyreavers, 10 Voidscarred (with some of the special characters) and the Vyper as my starter army. Then expanding with some more Corsairs of various stripes, Rangers (both foot and bike mounted), more Vypers and transports for the units. Maybe a Fire Prism to tie it all off. The idea being this is the martial 'auxiliary' force of my homebrew craftworld who focus more on aspect warriors and wraithbone constructs than guardians, so this bunch of raiders act as their 'main' force.

 

Biggest downside, I'm struggling to figure out a paint scheme for them, normally have no issue with Space Marine stuff but I can't figure one out for these.

If you have a homebrew craftworld, I’d use that as a starting point for the color scheme.

 

Battleforce box can build either starfang or vyper. 

 

I hadn’t thought about it too much before this but I just assumed it would only build the starfang

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Has there been any word on the raiding hook that I’ve missed?

[No Foes Remain]

Got mine this morning, details are very crisp and looking forward to building them (promised myself that I'd finish my 3k SoH list first though). 

 

Looking over the profiles for the skyreavers, the hook isn't shown. Appears in the instructions but there's no profile for it as a weapon in the back of the instructions.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

11 hours ago, No Foes Remain said:

Got mine this morning, details are very crisp and looking forward to building them (promised myself that I'd finish my 3k SoH list first though). 

 

Looking over the profiles for the skyreavers, the hook isn't shown. Appears in the instructions but there's no profile for it as a weapon in the back of the instructions.

Are they any larger scale than the older kits?

 

yeah why would we expect GW to provide rules for all the options?

 

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emailed GW about when that statline will be released 

Edited February 28 by Inquisitor_Lensoven

[No Foes Remain]

1 hour ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

Are they any larger scale than the older kits?

 

yeah why would we expect GW to provide rules for all the options?

 

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emailed GW about when that statline will be released 

Aside from the Vyper which is a little bigger than the old one, the jump dudes are about on par with the foot corsairs. The only other eldar I have are the old Dire Avengers which seem to be about the same scale.

[Galron]

Anyone else notice there was a three week pre-order period? I called my store the weekend before last and they said they had them on their shelf in the back but they could not release them until this past weekend. Plus the individual units are already up for pre-order from a notification I got yesterday. Thats really fast, usually GW waits awhile to try and sell as many big boxes as possible.

 

I put a single sky reaver dude together just to work on a test scheme. I have decided to go Void Dragons like my old old eldar for was when I used to use Towering Warrior Knights and Tempest grav tanks(I had 3 of the tanks and 2 of the knights, sold them a long time ago too along with the Armorcast Phantom). The model went together very easy and looks good next to other more recent eldar models.

 

I probably wont even get my eldar done before the edition change but am really digging the advance and charge detachment. Once I get a little more done I probably will pick up the corsair combat patrol. Every model in there is useful, although the reavers will need some conversion work to make them very acrobatic looking corsairs. I have a day off this week so maybe I will clear my desktop back log and get to start on them.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Built my starfang as the first unit out of the box.

 

it was there was only one or two parts where the directions were a bit confusing, but otherwise it was pretty intuitive.

[The Yncarne]

I’m curious how the star fang/vyper will be packaged given the sprue layout. Packaged like a rhino?