High Elf Wave 3

[Anduil of Elithis]

Skycutter prices can finally come down - wave 3 will go on preorder next Saturday:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/en- ... d-knights/

[Griffon Prince]

No Silver helms or made to order. Reddit thinks there will be another wave coming and there really should be considering the Unicorn Weaver is a thing.

[NightHawk45]

I'm very excited to see Sky cutters for sale. The used market is absurd. I have plenty of foot mages but the mounted mage will be nice.

[Prince of Spires]

I do want to get one of each of the chariots, so it's a good release. Then again, I still have plenty to assemble first, so there's no rush. I'm guessing these kits will be around for a while, so I can just get them in a few months

I'm very excited to see Sky cutters for sale. The used market is absurd. I have plenty of foot mages but the mounted mage will be nice.

The mounted mage is accompanied by a mage on foot It's a dual kit that lets you make both a mage on foot and a mounted one, with a whole bunch of accessories.

No Silver helms or made to order. Reddit thinks there will be another wave coming and there really should be considering the Unicorn Weaver is a thing.

I think they already announced that we would be getting made to order models (especially the unicorn weaver) when they first announced HE were coming. So yes, we're definitely getting another wave. The question just is when.

[Jedra]

Interesting that they appear to be releasing a skycutter with too few crew. I wondered why they upped it to 3 and i had to mod the model: i reckon it might be due an errata soon as that's easier than redoing the model

[Anduil of Elithis]

Interesting that they appear to be releasing a skycutter with too few crew. I wondered why they upped it to 3 and i had to mod the model: i reckon it might be due an errata soon as that's easier than redoing the model

If you don't build it with the bolt thrower, there actually is a build with three crew models available in the kit.

[Serathail]

Yeah unless they changed the sprue (which they definitely did not) there's 3 guys in there, it just gets really difficult to fit all of them on the chariot (especially when you also put a BT and a sea helm who no longer replaces any crew on there). I had to kitbash one of the seaguard to ride & direct the Roc to make space on the skycutter itself.

[Jedra]

Ah cool.. the one i have was 2nd hand and only came with 2 crew, so i kit bashed an extra crew abs magnetised some heroes i can swap in/out- its definitely crowded with 4 crew!

[Matzerella]

Apart from the Silverhelms and a Hero on the Griffin, which models are still missing?

[Prince of Spires]

The Loremaster, the dual plastic Mage kit (mounted and on foot), archers and spearmen (not in the battalion box), and the made to order stuff.

[Hakatri]

I'd really like the loremaster, fits so well in a swordmaster unit (duh). The dual mage and both boxes of 32 spearmen and archers are in that preview, unless we're talking some different pack?

I'm getting a Skycutter for sure, and I'm personally not worried about silver helms since I have plenty and seems there's always on sale on secondary markets at decent prices. But them being left for last is weird to say the least. Dare I to dream about the much needed redesign?

[Prince of Spires]

The dual mage and both boxes of 32 spearmen and archers are in that preview, unless we're talking some different pack?

Good point. I couldn't find the blog post about this wave, so I was going off memory. They're indeed included in this wave.

Silver Helms are indeed weird to be the only unit remaining. They're nice to have in a list, but the models aren't great (they're showing their age), and there are enough good alternatives I think. Maybe it's simply down to production capacity. If they're creating as many other HE sets as they can (plenty of stuff is more or less permanently out of stock...), then they can't be making enough SH to be worth putting on sale. And I'm guessing they don't have enough capacity to make everything at the same time. That would be a waste after all.

I don't think they're getting a redesign yet. The old plastic sculpts were included in the release preview. If they were working on newer models they would have teased them. And I think most GW models have a leadtime of a year or so from initial concept to being released, so it's not like they could have suddenly decided to create one and put it out there. I don't think we're getting more or new models until all Old World stuff has been released and we head into a new release cycle.