New Dark Eldar Characters Spotted! [Updated!]
September 24, 2014 by brennon
The Dark Eldar Voidraven has been spotted out in the wild, so thanks for passing this one onto us Gavin Townsend! See what you think of this initial image of the new bomber that will be screaming across the skies...
Update: Building on what we've seen taking to the skies we also have some more images of some character miniatures that we'll be seeing soon...
The first of the characters is someone entirely new to the roster it seems and we don't have much news on a name or anything more. It does look decidedly more Dark Elf which is very cool and has a helmet much like those worn by the Reaver Jetbike pilots. Maybe he is tied to them in some way.
The second character could potentially be the Vect miniature folks have been waiting for but it could also just be someone new or indeed a plastic Archon kit. We shall see!
Some more details came in surrounding the Dark Eldar releases for the next week. The codex will be coming out with some snazzy new artwork done by Raymond Swanland once again and the Voidraven itself will of course be appearing on shelves.
This will be accompanied by the new 'Datacards' and both a Kabalite Skysplinter and Wych Cult Swiftshard combo-box. These don't appear to be new vehicles, just collections putting a unit with a vehicle much like the Armoured Fist Squad for the Astra Militarum.
The Datacards are going to include a series of different objectives for the game and then information on the various combat drugs you can bring to the battlefield during a game.
Some more images have popped up for the Voidraven and the various transport options as well as a snippet of the Limited Edition Codex that will be available for you real hardcore lovers of Dark Eldar.
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Oh my. It actually looks cool and somewhat functional, unlike the previous flying brick and deep space dog sled. And the price…
Those Dark Eldar – they may be brutally sadistic, decadent, murderous pirates, but by golly, they are stylish brutally sadistic, decadent, murderous pirates.
I actually don’t like the Dark Eldar and Eldar flyers at all, not because they are bad models (they’re not) but because of just how un-alien they look. This doesn’t look too dissimilar to a modern 21st century military aircraft to me, not the product of an alien culture.
On the upside, they at least look like they might be vaguely aerodynamic. As for not being very alien, I suppose that sort of comes with the territory of being the evil flavour of space elf – they are still essentially based upon a mythology dominated in the modern era by the notion of a longer lived, prettier (in the case of Dark Eldar, aesthetics as to what exactly constitutes ‘pretty’ may admittedly vary somewhat) and more agile human. Really alien aliens are sadly few and far between even in harder SF, let alone sci fantasy, where the infamous star… Read more »
You’re lucky it didn’t end up as some kind of giant sledge being pulled by bats or flying worms or something! 🙂
This is perhaps one of the only fliers I have ever seen that, from a mechanics/engineering perspective, you could imagine having even a chance of remaining airborne. But, I suppose it’s a bit of a subjective thing and will depend on where you see 40k in respect to the sci-fi/fantasy divide
Oh, I don’t think 40k should worry about things like aerodynamics. It doesn’t make any sense to me to rely on wings and jet engines when you have to operate on a range of planets with varying gravities, atmospheric pressures etc. saying it should look like it ought to be able to fly begs the question; on what planet? On the other hand, in a universe of immortal super humans, demons and psychic powers the rule of cool trumps everything IMHO. Having said that, this is a real disappointment. I love the look of the dark eldar, in all of… Read more »
OK, so if they never operate on a planet with an atmosphere, why aren’t all the Dark Eldar in environment suits with helmets?
The vehicle should be able to operate in any environment, and for me that means something aerodynamically sound would only make sense, even with anti-grav technology. An atmosphere still offers resistance. Of course, if you’re in a vacuum you can always pull it with wolves.
I honestly don’t care weather the model makes sense or not, it’s just not important to me. I want my scary, evil aliens to fly something scary, evil and alien, not something that looks like the Batplane.
May I then direct your attention to the space Viking flying boxcar :-).
You most certainly may not! 😉
lol
The weird thing about modern military jets is that they aren’t actually very aerodynamic or useful as far as handling goes and have a lot of external systems in place to assist the pilot. I kinda think a giant hellion board being pulled by flying razorworms from DZC would be sweet…
Wrong. You’re confusing aerodynamics with stability. Atmospheres offer resistance, especially at high speeds, so much so that the leading edges of wings can glow red. If you’re not aerodynamic at high speed, you become a fireball. The latest generation of fighters is computer stabilized (F-22 for example), but they are still aerodynamic.
That why the SR71 Blackbird is made of titanium other materials would just melt.
This might be my first 40k army…
Thats it, i give up. I cant resist building an army any longer.
That Voidraven is too pretty not to own.
Evil futuristic elves in space that look not bad? Must be the dark eldar hehe
Good god, that is really rather nice. A bit baroque and fiddle in details but they are eldar after all.
Hmm, not sold on this one. I’m quite partial to the Dark Eldar fighter on it’s own but this looks like a bit of a bodge job to me, strap a cockpit (hurr hurr) onto the nosec of the fighter and call it a day. Waited a bit long for ‘just’ that tbh. I’d have gone for a wider profile again and maybe have said cockpits side by side or merged into one canopy and then modify the front of the aircraft somewhat with a sensory array or something but then that’s just me. I reckon I could modify an… Read more »
Looks good but gonna be pricey 🙂
I hope they have more coming out than this…..
It looks like a cobra nightraven.
Buying it! I love my Dark Eldar and don’t care about the price- I’ve already got my wallet hanging on the torture racks.
I was never really fond of the Dark Eldar but this looks nice and I could see myself getting one just to paint. Plenty of space for freehand work.
Now this is new flyer from GW that I can get behind. It’s sleek and aerodynamic, just the way I like my flyers to be. Sure it’s some what stylished but that does fit very well for Dark Eldar that are sadistic alien pirates that have more sense when it comes to designs that humans.
Actually, this reminds me of a Star Trek Bird of Prey in the overall shape… I like it. Pray for a good price.
Interesting comparison. Klingon Bird of Prey is my favorite from all ST ships so I kinda like that.
They stole some dude idea!
http://s650.photobucket.com/user/gobsmakkd/media/Dark%20Eldar/DarkEldarVoidravenC.jpg.html
That fella’s just built a ship from the description of the voidraven which has been around for a while now, he’s not the only one to do it either. That said I much prefer the custom built ones I’ve seen over the new official model which looks uninspiring to me.
Seriously?
That guy just build a conversion to fit the description in the old Dark Eldar Codex, which in turn likely came from early concept sketches, etc…, which eventually turned into the official model.
Here’s what the 5-year-old Codex says.
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At the fore of each Voidraven is a crystal pod housing a saddle much like that upon a Reaver’s jetbike, surrounded by targeting holographs and crosshair runes that flicker and dance over the gunner’s unwitting prey. From this lavishly appointed cocoon the Voidraven’s gunner will unleash searing fusillades from the craft’s voide lances.
But you’ve once again proved, why it probably was a wise decision by GW to pull the plug on Codex-entries without modes, as much as it hurt the creativity/scratch-build/kit-bash niche of the hobby.
I was beginning to wonder what was going to take all my money at warhammer fest and now I know. dark eldar it is!