Let's have a GW rumors and sneak peeks thread!

[Jye Nicolson]

Yeah I will probably just preorder Space Marine 2, I am not in a position to fight the hype here

[The Other Dave]

It looks pretty frickin' cool, I say! My computer couldn't really run SM back in the day so I never played it, but I may give this a go when it comes out.

[The Other Dave]

New Eldar for Saturnalia! All in a battlebox versus chaos marines to start:

An Autarch, which looks pretty sweet, if a bit static:

But then it's probably hard to make a "generic" swoopy pose that allows for everything between a halberd and a missile launcher to look good.

Long-awaited plastic Rangers:

(And I love how they've done that camo pattern.)

Rangers on jetbikes, which rather defeats the purpose:

(Nah, for real, scouts probably do want to rapidly redeploy so that's OK.)

And Chaos gets a warpsmith:

Which I don't know the current lore but it's interesting to me that warpsmiths are not Iron Warriors only.

And some Chosen:

Which echo the Chosen models from Dark Vengeance way back when, which is always cool.

The preview images all month have been eldar-y, so safe money is on this being the first of a few releases in Q1 for 'em, and it looks like a good start t'me!

[Jye Nicolson]

Nearly every mini in that battlebox is new, and the other one is a Forgefiend. Should not be a tough box to split.

[Primarch]

Those all look pretty neat. I'm not 100% sold on the idea of trying to use a sniper rifle from the back of a moving jet bike, but they definitely have some swoosh to them.
I'm pretty sure my Iron Warriors have space for a Warpsmith and some Chosen too.

[me_in_japan]

Nice to see rangers that aren't alaitoc, and the saim hann red works rather well with the greeny camo scheme. Sadly, for me the autarch seems fated to always be the "meh" hq choice for the eldar. Don't want to lean into the psychic side of things? Avatar too melee oriented for ya? Meh - use an autarch. The mini is fine and all, but as Dave says, it's a bit static.

The jetbikers look good, for sure. Lots of swoosh. But I have to agree with Prim that sniper rifles from the back of a super fast jbike seems...improbable, even for eldar. Still, they look cool, and that still counts for something.

Chaos guys are chaos guys. Eh. *Shrug*

[The Other Dave]

Cool Inquisitor model!

...which is available only as 2021's Store Anniversary thing. (For local interested parties, Twitter tells me that our nearest WH store, Nanba in Osaka, has its anniversary on March 3rd. You may assume from the fact that I checked that I really think this model is extremely cool.)

[me_in_japan]

Are the last two letters on his sword blade "fo"?

That's a really nice mini. Very imperial. Very inquisitorial. Much smiting of heresy is embodied. Gets the thumbs up from me.

[Primarch]

Some new Eldar Guardians.

[Jye Nicolson]

I look forward to them popping up in the Combat Patrol.

(I'm not getting into Eldar per se but running a Combat Patrol/Incursion size force alongside the Drukhari I already have sounds like fun. I do have those Wraiths from the auction...)