New High Elves book rumour

[Sir Theobold the Lame]

Nice fluff change there GW. The Dragon Princes rode friggin' DRAGONS, none of that 'lesser' stuff. Way to go changing the fluff to meet the rules...
Besides, why to the dragons (drakes, whatever) decide to wake up now, WHEN THEY HAVEN'T BEEN IN ANY EDITIONS BEFORE THIS, or even mess with in ANY EDITIONS BEFORE THIS??!

i seem to remember they were in 3rd edition? but then again so many things were.....

[Fat_Badger]

Dragon baby boom perhaps?

[King Ulrik Flamebeard]

Nice fluff change there GW. The Dragon Princes rode friggin' DRAGONS, none of that 'lesser' stuff. Way to go changing the fluff to meet the rules...
Besides, why to the dragons (drakes, whatever) decide to wake up now, WHEN THEY HAVEN'T BEEN IN ANY EDITIONS BEFORE THIS, or even mess with in ANY EDITIONS BEFORE THIS??!

I take it you've never seen the War of the Beard rules from the 6th edition? Drakes are a viable mount there, three er unit I believe; just smaller, younger dragons. There is no background changing, only the most powerful and eldest Dragon Riders would actually rider dragons; that and after a short while very few could be waken to go to war.

Personally.. I hope the elves suck! Dress wearing androgynous gits that they are. -__^

*hefts axe and strokes his beard*

KU

[Ulrion]

Hi 1st post aswell, i was in my GW today and to be honest the manager there wasnt really that sure what the high elf changes where going to be, i got back into the hobby (why o why..) about a month ago since a 4-5 year exile and started high eleves now finding there are going to be redone!

i am seriously hoping for
-Better uses for the Phoneix Guard
- Str 4 for Dragon Princes (O how i dream!)
- Swordmasters removed as 0-1 (Empire got their Greatsword 0-1 removed)

[The Paint Monkey]

Well if High Elves are getting formidable reptile cavalry then I hope, as a Dark Elf player, that their's suffer Stupidity, too.

[Manu_Forti]

Well if High Elves are getting formidable reptile cavalry then I hope, as a Dark Elf player, that their's suffer Stupidity, too.

pft.. Knowing High Elves, Im sure theyll be 'intelligent' not 'stupid', flying, and shoot S10 lightning bolts from their asses *rolls eyes*.. lol

Here's a link to a thread on the same subject in the HE forum. Theres a decent rumours list quoted in there..
http://209.200.246.44/~librariu/foru...ad.php?t=86102

KU, move those little meat-sacks you call legs & go back into whatever hole you crawled out of. It takes COURAGE to wear a dress!! Cant say the same for thick armour, coward ;o)

Cheers

[CaptainSarathai]

Well if High Elves are getting formidable reptile cavalry then I hope, as a Dark Elf player, that their's suffer Stupidity, too.

Nah, our won't suffer stupidity, but purchasing the unit will run you $100 for 3 models, and each model will cost about 60+ points. End result, not stupid- just wasteful.

[Dark Lioness]

Dark Elves do have their own flying reptile cavalry that's smaller and more numerous than Drakes (about the size of a Cold One) the Darkblade comic calls them Doom-Wings.

[laughingman]

Actually according to reliable sources, "Harry, nakedfisherman", from warseer. There will be no drake riders at all,

The resoning about this is that Gw learned its leson from the travesty that is bretonian flying calvary, and dont want to repeat the same mistake twice.

I do knw that there will be a new unit, and "major revision" to the current rules for some of the units. Im looking at you pheonix guard, and swordmasters.

A really cool theory is that spear elves will get a special rule wen theyare charged, sorry I dont know what.

Well thats all i know.

[CaptainSarathai]

It would be good for all you foot sloggers if you got a special anti-charge rule, but I'll bet that it's actually the reason the spearmen are cheaper. They probably only get the three-ranks on the turn that they get charged. It wouldn't surprise me at all. Kinda like the changes made to the Empire Pistoliers- no more shooting on first round of CC.