Rumor: New Harlequin Flyer

[mattblowers]

***RUMOR***

At a tournament last weekend a store owner was saying he had called GW corporate to complain about the lack of availability of necron models and the Harelquin codex delay. While discussing the GW person started talking about the new Harlequin flyer that was stuck in customs because of some unknown reason (maybe related to US west coast longshoreman work stoppage?). The gist was that it's an open topped flyer with some sort of "escape hatch" mechanic you can drop out of after a full movement and assault from. GW person realized he was speaking out of turn and then shut up about it and wouldn't answer anymore questions, or so the story went. I have no idea of the reliability of the rumor, but the man has been pretty honest in the past and had no reason to make it up. I like the sound of it. It sounds in keeping with the new harlequins.

It's a rumor after all so...

[forteh]

Surely it would be in the codex then would it not?

[gigasnail]

^this.

[raatha]

i love the idea of someone answering the phones at GW just making things up willy-nilly to set folks on Fire talking crazy about units that don't exist~

[mattblowers]

OK, I agree that it seems odd however... If you remember correctly there were rumors before the tyranid codex dropped that there was a tentacled thingy that could assault flyers (mucolid), a giant zoanthrope that mind fried things (maleceptor which would have been OK in 6th being a warp charge 2 and all), and a giant ymargl bug (toxicrene with feeder tendrils), and the return of the micetic spore (tyranocyte). These all turned out to be true even though none of them were in our codex when it dropped. I have no idea if these rumors are true, but I'll for darn sure necro this thread if it is.

This is not a rumor, but a guess on my part: the EPIC return rumors of a few months back and the 30K rumors are actually both leaked from the same thing that's coming: Epic 40K!! You heard it hear first.

[gigasnail]

eh. chapter house was the cause of the nid delay. but hey, with GW, you can't ever tell.

[asmodas]

Eh, Matt, I have to agree with giga and co. This flyer would be in the codex, which is already available outside of the US, and it is not in there. If GW was really going to introduce a flyer and it got delayed for some reason, I think it's more likely they would have held the printing of the codex rather than print something that's obsolete within weeks of its publication (and before it even hit shelves in the US). Maybe something from Forge World is possible, but I'm not going to get my hopes up.

[mattblowers]

Mar 10, 2015 15:46:22 GMT asmodas said:

Eh, Matt, I have to agree with giga and co. This flyer would be in the codex, which is already available outside of the US, and it is not in there. If GW was really going to introduce a flyer and it got delayed for some reason, I think it's more likely they would have held the printing of the codex rather than print something that's obsolete within weeks of its publication (and before it even hit shelves in the US). Maybe something from Forge World is possible, but I'm not going to get my hopes up.

Not sure what to make of the rumor, I just reported what I heard. Not sure how much an opened top flier would help the codex anyhow unless it had the capacity for more than just 6.

[asmodas]

Well, thanks for reporting it anyway.