Eldar Triumvirate

Does every unit gets this soul blaze thing that allows you to move or shoot if someone is destroyed within 7 inches?
That could make a MSU army super effective. Nearly twice as much.

Were do you read this first turn drop pod stuff?

Archon_91 wrote:

... Did the eldar race just get a first turn drop pod alpha strike type rule? Am I reading "attack of the swordwind"right? And a rule that is only really effective when fighting non-believer Aelidari ... So we might be able to take that as a sign (with salt) that the true kin will still get an update later on

There is also 'Into the Fray', which does the same thing. Also there is 'Webway Assault', which appears to do the same thing for a unit that having a webway portal does.

I also noticed a 'Mission of Murder' rule which appears to only apply to haemonculus covens.

Cant say if it is bit op,surely quite fun,if you don't like playing the commorragh flotilla as i do

Guys, I'm getting too excited.

"The combos, the combos..."
-Archon Kurtz of the kabal of the Heart of Darkness

Scoring a victory point just for harnessing a psychic power, that all your psykers can have access to. Seems a bit excessive.

Because of the formating, it's hard to tell if these are unit, formation, or evens special mission rules, so salt required obviously.

"Freakshow players, to me! The day is ours!" --the Visarch.

We could go through and sort through by formatting and probably get a very clear picture of which is which or we could just wait until it leaks in the next week. I think I'll take the later.

Draco wrote:

Because of the formating, it's hard to tell if these are unit, formation, or evens special mission rules, so salt required obviously.

Some of these are clearly Mission rules, and some are definitely formation rules. Still, there's LOTS of cool stuff here.

Jim, I was thinking the same thing. Freakshow might be a power house now.

Don't be so sure! for all we know they treat covens as come the apocalypse!

If they do I'll be sad, but Corsairs, Craftworlds, and Commorrites can pick up the slack.

It would be disappointing if Covens are come the apocalypse (at worst I'd hope for desperate allies, at best we're all Eldar here, I mean in 7th the Truekin and Craftworlders are battle brothers and aren't exactly on good terms) Has anyone else noticed the rule where covens get to reroll charge distances? Any idea on what that'll mean?

A lot of these rules have my giddy in anticipation but one has me worried. Look at the perils chart for us. When we perils we roll 2 die and apply both... We will certainly be dying quite a bit (but that'll help us out too xD)

As for freakshow, I'm excited to play it with Ynnari, it seems like the perfect army for it (Although tbf it's now the #2 Army of the Dead in 40k so it BETTER be scary) @Jimsolo how do you feel about the Revenant tree for Freakshow?

EDIT: You know with all the character dying bonuses taking sergeants will be a lot more profitable now (especially with the Visarch)

Warden of forgotten wisdom could be ridiculously good. Allows your warlord to pick psychic powers instead of generating them normally. It appears to be a warlord trait.

The biggest take away is that, for good or ill, Aethermancy is definitely a pick what you want discipline now, no two ways about that.

amorrowlyday wrote:

The biggest take away is that, for good or ill, Aethermancy is definitely a pick what you want discipline now, no two ways about that.

How do you come to that conclusion?

I actually want to amend my previous statement to include ALL corsairs characters when they pull from Aethermancy, Divination, or Telekinesis and when a Profane Powers Prince takes malefic powers.

The entire argument, both ways, hinged around what "select" means in GW parlance. That warlord trait lends precedent that select means choose freely. If they used any other synonym I'd still have mixed feelings, hence my good or ill comment. It may be unintended but It's definitely raw.

While I agree that the word "select" seems to indicate that you can freely choose powers, I don't agree that this use of select sets a precedent for the other. They were written by different companies. One is forgeworld, the other is GW. So I think the people who argued against that interpretation before would still be able to make the same arguments, despite me believing they were wrong to begin with.

Oh no, check your binding it is absolutely a GW product. While I agree that there may be some arm twisting I'm making this argument of the perspective of someone who vehemently argued against it. In this analogy I am Saul/StPaul.

The Covens rule is almost certainly a mission rule.

Any word on a price for the triumvirate models?

45 pounds; 75 usd

Rhivan wrote:

It would be disappointing if Covens are come the apocalypse (at worst I'd hope for desperate allies, at best we're all Eldar here, I mean in 7th the Truekin and Craftworlders are battle brothers and aren't exactly on good terms) Has anyone else noticed the rule where covens get to reroll charge distances? Any idea on what that'll mean?

A lot of these rules have my giddy in anticipation but one has me worried. Look at the perils chart for us. When we perils we roll 2 die and apply both... We will certainly be dying quite a bit (but that'll help us out too xD)

As for freakshow, I'm excited to play it with Ynnari, it seems like the perfect army for it (Although tbf it's now the #2 Army of the Dead in 40k so it BETTER be scary) @Jimsolo how do you feel about the Revenant tree for Freakshow?

EDIT: You know with all the character dying bonuses taking sergeants will be a lot more profitable now (especially with the Visarch)

I can't see why Covens units would be Come the Apocalypse. Haemonculus Covens is not a codex but a supplement, all covens units are still going to be faction Dark Eldar and I really doubt the Ynnari will be CtA with Dark Eldar, or any other Eldar either.

folks I'm kidding, I was simply pointing out an extrapolation from how little we know: Only concrete evidence we have right now is that GW enjoys going over the top, and that the haemonculus covens, and vect though seperately, detest the Ynnari cults.

Anyway it's up for pre-release in the US so I dare say that means it's available everywhere?

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/The-Gathering-Storm-Fracture-of-Biel-Tan-Collection-ENG

Draco wrote:

http://m.imgur.com/a/dbR41

Found this!

This alone has stirred back life in me. I'm not sure who has which special rule, but the fact alone that the enemy killing my units (that all seem to have access to FnP 6+) is a good thing due to Soulburst, well, that's quite impressive. Imagine that, Wych Cults will actually make the perfect foundation of a frenzied death cult.

I will have to blow the dust off my DE. The Ynnari theme and rules hits all the sweet spots for me.