Things just got official people

[Admiral-Badruck]

Guess I will give this a look when I am not trying to learn the rules to FB 8th ed...

[Admiral-Badruck]

40K Radio jsut had their first Dark Eldar review and for any of you that like a good pod cast and want to here about Dark Eldar this is a good one... they also has some guy for the Black libary on for an interview.. http://www.40kradio.com/ looks like a picture of Mike the pike... sorry man but it really does look like you man... CARP

[Primarch]

Thats Dan Abnett you illiterate ork . Seriously, read some of his books, they're really really really good.

To be honest, I never bother with podcasts. I like to form my own opinions about books/units and figure out what works for myself. Learning to play an army is half the fun of collecting it. The only thing I'm looking for on the web about DE is what conversions people are using to make the units currently unavailable.

[Admiral-Badruck]

I like to listen to what everyone thinks about an army and they see for my self if they are right or wrong... they talked about somethings that gave my Orks a bit of scare... I am not sure what I will do to counter them but I am very keen to see what you all start playing with....

[me_in_japan]

While one could call this crass commercialism, it is laudably well-timed crass commercialism...

For all you Dark Eldar chappies out there.

http://www.voodooworx.co.uk/Product%20P ... i_Pack.htm

[Primarch]

Yeah, I saw them and I was tempted until I thought "Why are the Dark Eldar fighting on their home turf? They're supposed to be going out and raiding other people!" The bases do look cool though.

[Admiral-Badruck]

Cuz Me orks iz gon'a WAAAARGH in and bust up da spikeyPanzzy

[Colonel Voss]

Mysteriously enough, your waaghs always end up against the Imperium.

[Primarch]

Rumours are floating around the web that most of the remaining DE models will be coming out by June next year. This comes from Bell of Lost Souls

Not sure if this is the best place to post but the Dark Eldar rumours thread was closed and this seemed the next best place.

I had a chance to have a chat with Jes Goodwin today and got some more info regarding DE release schedule.

He said that they will have 90% of the Dark Eldar models in the Codex released by June next year, so no more than 7 months.

Basically people have waited so long for this release and as it looks set to be so popular he wanted to get everything out quickly.

There are 4 new plastic kits coming next year, he wouldn't say exactly what they were but that the Venom is definitely coming soon and they have models for both flyers listed in the Dex on ready to go (but he wouldn't confirm if these were part of the 90%).

He said that the models which would take longer were the special characters, so these may form the missing 10% which means we have a lot of new models coming soon.

He is still working on a few bits, something he wants to do is have Haemonculi passengers/hangers on the Raider but isn't sure how best to do that.

The Wych passengers/hangers on for the Raider will be included in the plastic Venom kit, but there isn't another suitabe release to make up Haemonculi equivalents.

He also said that now that rapid prototyping and CAD technology has progressed the design team can use 2 ups instead of 3 ups which means that making larger apocolypse style kits (Stompa and Baneblade) in plastic is now more possible.

This means that they are currently working on one of these types of kits as the sales for the Stompa etc were very good, but wouldn't say whether they had decided on what this would be, although I got the impression he wanted it to be Eldar.

Talking of Eldar he said that producing the Dark Eldar had fired up his enthusiasm for a new Craftworld Eldar Codex and models, and he has lots of ideas for this. However this hasn't even started yet so a new Eldar Codex is a long way off.

He is still trying to work out how best to tackle plastic Sisters of Battle but they are still being problematic.

He also mentioned that he would love to produce an Ad Mech Codex but said it would be very unlikely for GW to produce it as there isn't room in the range for them at the moment. However he said it was possible that Forge World would do them at some point, and his take on the concept was "Vampire Counts in space". In other words Necromancers and zombies, which sounds cool.

Anyway, that's pretty much it, also wanted to say that Jes was a lovely guy, very approachable and it was nice to see how passionate he was about everything he does.

Cheers.

[Admiral-Badruck]

cool as can be... for those that love spikeyPanzzy