BREAKING: Dark Elves Wave 2 Glimpses
We were all waiting to see if the Dark Elves were really getting a 2-month release wave. Well get a look at what’s been doing the rounds on the internet!
First up, the kits:
It looks like all new Dark Riders with mean and fast looking horses – along with a semi-Slaanesh daemonic rider unit variant. A huge improvement over the current terrible stuff looking ones with the cartoon horses.
Next up we get a FANTASTIC Black Guard/Har Ganeth Executioner unit. These look characterful, with just a sprinking of Dark Reaper/Incubi design cues for flavor. As anyone who has tried to assemble the swords on the horrid current metal Executioners can tell you – THANK YOU global plastics industry!
The Chariot gets a redo at long last. We get the modern deadly looking Cold Ones who replace the previous fat tubby dinos, pulling an oddly low chariot. Does is float? Is it a sled, maybe a very very low-rider? I’m not sold on this one – yet.
We finally wrap up with a proper evil Dark Elf pirate – so he gets a peg-leg. But of course it’s Warhammer and he’s a Dark Elf, so its’s nasty “sword-leg” HA HA!
So there we have it from a miniatures perspective. It does look like GW felt the Dark Elves needed a Dark Eldar style “full reboot” and gave it to them. I would think that the risk of devoting 2 months to Fantasy was deemed risky, so the is why the probably did right on the heels of guaranteed massive revenue generating Space Marines. Well played bean-counters – well played!
Have at it!
