After years of rumors and frustrated hobbyists joking about DE being the "Duke Nukem of 40k" GW finally put and end to all of this and made of official statement on their homepage.
Now I don't want to bore the hell out of you with repeated rumors you can read on a couple of sites like warseer, dakka and even Bols. I only want to talk about the consequences of the GW announcement in regard to my army projects.
First thing is that I will collect them for sure, pushing my ww2 themed Ork army even further down on my priority list. And with my Eldar being themed as a corsair army, I will stop converting further infantry models, except for those those few models I need for a team tournament next month and then spent the time until DE are relaunched with painting the tanks and doing one or two troop sized test models
Let me explain the reasons for those decisions. The main idea behind building a corsair themed eldar force was to create a stock of models suitable to work with both pointy-ears codices. Add those iconic units like lords or grav tanks and you end up with two armies but only a miniature stock of one and a half compared to collecting two really different armies. The fact that such a corsair force is kind of rare is a nice bonus, but having models which may be either used as (Storm)Guardians or DE warriors cuts down on overall painting time, which is the part of the hobby I regard as some kind of necessary evil after all. On top of that I save some money, which is a nice thing if you're a student with a single part-time job.
DE should give me a proper tournament army to bridge the time until GW redoes the eldar codex too. I'm not part of the "ork suck" crowd you can find on the web, but in my opinion they are like eldar not a top tier army anymore, unless the tournament uses some funky house rules or special missions. I simply hate the "fly around and don't do much" mecheldar style, which is the result of having crappy troop choices and paying through your nose for everything in your army rooster.
I think that orks can still kick ass, but with my special theme I just can't glue them together in a couple of days and start painting. Compared with the corsair themed eldar orks are more a kind of showcase army. I'm not saying that I aim for a fantastic paintjob, at least not on the infantry models (I may try to use some weathering techniques from the DVD I own). But just compare the kind of conversions I run with both armies: The Eldar/Dark Eldar hybrid force runs unmodified tanks and kitbashed infantry units using bits from various (Dark)Eldar/High&Dark Elves models. The ww2 themed ork army on the other hands uses mainly 40k orks with a micro art studio head swap and basic stock weapons. But I also aim for DIY stormboys (making the jump packs looking like ww2 rockets), lootas with ww2 themed machine guns and tankbustas with panzerschreck AT weapons. On top of that all the tanks and walkers will be build using a mixture of 1:35 ww2 tanks, ork bits and a lot of plastic card. So that whole army is on a different level then the eldar force, because kitbashing some DE and eldar models for corsair cloak wearing storm guardians with a wild mixture of DE and eldar pistols/cc weapons is quit easy compared to building a whole tank mostly from the scratch.
The only units I need to build before the tournament starts are two small squads of jetbikes, a single squad of storm guardians and a both a yriel and a farseer conversions. After that I stop converting further models I originally intended to build in fall. No banshee conversions (waiting for female plastic DE heads and torsos), no further DA models (so no boring 3x5 DAVU lists anymore) and no further jetbike based units. Only playing with the stuff I build so far and finally starting to paint the tanks and walkers.
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