Stammend von Portent, allerdings nicht 100% abgesichert:..

- They will be a core choice, but won't count towards any of the minimum core allowance
- They will be lowed in cost to 13 points.
- They will lose all aspects. The rule completely dropped.
- Their states are staying the same as they are now but with one change. They will only be strength 3.
- For some reason they are going to basically be demons. They will get the 5+ demonic ward save, they will cause fear, and be immune to pyschology. (I didn't here a mention about them going pop out of existance if they lose combat, like demons can. And I didn't think to ask at the time.

M5 WS4 S3 T4 A2. Skirmishing infanty


Sind das good news für Waldelfen oder Bad News

herzlich
Markus

Die da wären, oh Großmeisterin geheimnissvoller Anspielungen ?

und ein weiteres, ebenso vom selben Autor über die "Winter Guard" (wollte keinen eigenen Thread aufmachen )


The Winter Guard.

When the king and the queen are sleeping in the middle of winter, ready to be reborn the spring. Well this is when Athel Loren is at its weakest, so a new unit is formed just for this time, from the elite of the wood elven warriors, the Winter Guard.

Statswise they are just basically elite elfs, Ws5 and perhaps higher I or LD

What is interesting about them, is their equipment.
Firstly they will get heavy armour and shield. Making them most heavily armoured of all elven elite infantry (heavy armour itself is super rare for woodies) and then we get their melee weapon.

Sword Staffs
They can basically be used in 3 different ways.
The second rank of the unit may else them as spears.
In the front rank they can be used one of 2 ways, firstly as a hand weapon, to get the hand weapon/shield bonus. Or they may be used as additional hand weapons. (Its also possible this is the new weapon of the glade guard as well, as the plastics look as if they are armed with this item).
All in all, I believe that this unit could be pretty cool, they can either have an excellent armour save (exspecially for an elven elite infantry unit) or throw a hell of a lot of low strength attacks and if they are stubborn as well, they would be an excellent unit to take a charge.

Gerüchteweise ja... aber Fotos leider noch nicht....

und noch was, diesmal aus Nürnberg...nein, kein Lebkuchen



Im August ist es soweit und die Waldelfen halten Einzug!!! (bis Oktober)
-Armeebuch (80 Seiten stark) wird die zwei Hauparmeen enthalten (einmal Elfen, einmal Waldgeister, die man aber auch mischen kann)
-Die Dryaden werden Kerneinheiten und wir haben Bilder gesehen von, mit lianenartigem Greenstuff behangenen, alten "Weibern", die geisterartige, knorrige Hände nach dem Gegner austrecken. (Wunderbar, muss ich haben!!!!! )
-Die Einheiten-Box wird sowohl Bogenschützen, als auch Speerträger in einem sein. Man kann sie zusammenbauen wie man will. Die Bogenschützen sind die ganze Zeit als Scouts benannt worden, ob das was heissen soll? Herrliche Modelle in sehr bewegten Posen.
-Die Waldreiter erhalten neue Pferde, denen das Grinsen endlich vergangen ist. Das gezeigte Pferd wiehert und hatte eine Art kurzen Harnisch um Kopf und Hals. Der Reiter hatte einen Bogen und sah sehr gelungen aus. Es werden 8 von ihnen in einer Box vertreten sein.
-Ein Wardancer wurde auch gezeigt. Eines der schönsten Modelle die ich in letzter Zeit gesehn habe. Er steht in einer ruhenden Pose, mit einem Fuß auf einem Baumstamm und das Schwert vor sich gezückt!
-Die Falkenreiter sind auch wieder mit von der Partie, allerdings auf überdimensionierten Tauben. Diese werden aber nicht geritten, sondern der Elf surft da, mehr oder weniger, drauf rum!
-Der Walddrache wird nicht neu gestaltet, wohl aber der Reiter. Besser gesagt: Die Reiter, den es standen zwei zur Auswahl. Einer davon mit einem gespannten Bogen und einer, auf dem Hals des Viehs reitend, mit einem Speer!
Die gezeigt Waldelfenmodelle sind, in meinen Augen, die besten die GW je gemacht hat. Ob das durchgehend sein wird weiß ich nicht, aber wir waren nur noch im Schwärmen. (ich fang schonmal an zu sparen! )

..und weiter gehts..kudos an die Herren von asur.org.


--bitte zu bedenken---das sind nicht "harte Fakten", sondern zusammengetragene Informationen---Fehler vorbehalten--

1: they are definately getting their own spell law

2: They'll lose no -1 at long range but get no -1 for moving and will get bonuses for closer range (unspecified) the idea is to get WE to perform more hit and run rather than standing on the opposite table edge and shooting.

3: There will be lord, hero, core, special and rare non-elf units i.e. a lord tree spirit etc. allowing WE to take all elf, all tree sprits or a mixture of the two.

4: The models are going to be much more dynamic to look like they're jumping out of the woods for a few shots before running away.

-The spure includes many poses uncommon to plastic since WE will skirmish, such as kneeling archers, no single pose bret archers.
-The guys mentioned foliage and stuff also on the sprue.
-Likely 16 per box.
-Killing blow at short range, lack 36" range


There will be a Lord choice called Great Spirit of the forest that will be something like a daemonic greater daemon for a matter of stats(and rules..they in fact have a WS5+ just like daemons).Could be a spellcaster
The hero choice will be a hero-level Treeman
For core units WE will get:dryads..different from the ones we use today,but already skermishers,cause fear unit.No word about aspects however
The second core choice will be tree sprites..they will work out as gnoblars for ogres,thus being something like an upgrade for WE troops
Special choice:ucorn...ogre size treeman
Rare Choice:great treeman

So this list will be something like a Daemonic legion for the forces of Light

WE archers will get St4 shots at close range.Waywatchers will get killing blow with arrows!!
Fact 1: Alex Hedström is one of the main guys in charge of the miniatures

Fact 2: The miniatures are very savage in apperance, and their hairstyles much more celtic and ornate than that of the high elves or dark elves.

Fact 3: Wood Elf women participate much more in the new army than before, they are now to be found both as charachters and as as rank and file units

Fact 4: The fluff is undergoing a mayor haul...the wood elves are now a race bordering on extinction, savagely fighting anyone and resorting to massive purges of their sorrounding lands, as well as migrating a lot to ensure their survival. This means their armies are not only restricted to guerrilla warfare but also capable of full size head to head engagements, though their numbers are few and they rely heavily on allied troops and special units (sylvan spirits and animal kindreds are amongst these).

Fact 5: First wood elves should hit the stores around nov-dec 2005

Fact 6: Chariots will not be reappearing, neither will glade riders (they are to be replaced by another option)

Facy 7: Wood elves will have the same rules as Beastmen herds when it comes to formations, except they have better chances of appearing as they do not suffer from the Unruly rule

Fact 8: The only miniatures I saw were somebasic archers and waywatchers, the archers had somesort of organic armour that was a mix of pieces of wood and rope and leaves, some had more heavier type of armour than others and the Waywatchers were really stunning, looked like present day waywatchers but in very dynamic poses (one seems to be jumping down shooting in mid air)