Kosmion Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Yo! as the title says, does anyone know? It seems like a wierd move, remove one unit from an army because...it sold bad? Its kinda frustrating cus i wanna start an HE army, but i dont wanna go spend money on ebay on old minis if theyre gonna get updated or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daedalus81 Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Bet money on them getting new models. Maybe not spearmen, but something. Not for a while though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someone2040 Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 The models are quite old now, and they don't I guess fit into GW's faction re-imagining as they don't have a generic 'High Elf' faction anymore. It's just something you have to deal with for AoS, as GW decided to split up the High Elf faction into lots of little subfactions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnoldrew Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 It seems like a "weird move" for a business to stop selling a product they don't make money off of? Does someone need to explain to you how commerce works? Then again, do you know they discontinued it because they didn't sell well? Perhaps Games Workshop is planning a rerelease of replacement model? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricPaladin Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 They're really generic Tolkensian elves-with-tall-helms-and-bright-spears BS. GW finally figured out that they need to have a brand if they want to stay competitive - there are too many generic fantasy games on the market for them to remain Business-As-Usual-Fantasy - and apparently they decided to reimagine their Aelfs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bottle Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 GW needed to cut some of the range (as we saw, AoS bought in so so many new kits), and when push came to shove it made the most sense to drop the boring infantry kit and keep the Phoenix Guard, the White Lions etc etc. They'll never get a direct replacement to. The whole point of AoS was to move away from the codex cycle and having nothing to add but updating old plastic kits. I think you would be better suited collecting one of the surviving factions like the Phoenix Temple and then adding whatever new cool stuff the Aelfs get down the line (which is no doubt going to be AoS' biggest release so far, there's already so much hype about it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkazim Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 An alternative possibility is that they sold out. Being a part of the older line, it's probably not set for another production run. If they do another run, they'd update the box art, the AoS logo, and include round bases. Considering all that, it's not worth it on a unit that they're intending to replace. I wouldn't be surprised if this problem gets worse. The game itself appears to be growing, and it's possible that the growth might happen faster than they can update the armies. I know I chose to get into Dark Elves knowing that it might be difficult to expand the army the long ne'er imtake to collect it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Meads Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Theres 'aelf' spears of the dark and wood variety isn't there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 It's a tricky thing. I would love to start man collection of the new sylvaneth or the reimagined seraphon. But to me it seems more viable to expand my existing armies with the units I would miss if they were discontinued. Mainly dark elves because my gut feeling tells me all the elves will be lumped together in a new bigger faction. Maybe the daughters of kaine will end up in the chaos section but who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfhead Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 I've collectief high elves since 5th ed. but never bought the spearelves kit. Mainly because I allready own a lot of older single-pose spearmen, and because the elves in the kit looked ugly... I won't miss them. This is my unit of spearmen: http://www.coolminiornot.com/384142?browseid=17071555 if you really want spear elves you could use the dark elves dreadspears, wood elf eternal guard or Phoenix guard with the halberd piece clipped off. Or go with the gorgeous sea guard from island of blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamopower Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 I've been thinking about using the eternal guard, when I eventually get back to elves. I used to have ~30 of the multipart high elf spearmen, but I sold them as a part of the force, and they are the part that I don't miss. The metal infantry in that sold lot though... I think it's just bbecause they don't want to have two different types of elves with spears and bows and repeater bolt throwers etc. so they have discontinued the less interesting units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 1 hour ago, elfhead said: Or go with the gorgeous sea guard from island of blood. They're getting rarer to find on e-bay. 28 minutes ago, Jamopower said: I think it's just bbecause they don't want to have two different types of elves with spears and bows and repeater bolt throwers etc. It's rather bizarre. Skycutter model for instance has scaled down HE bolt thrower, however both DE and HE bolt throwers were discounted. White Lions can't be fielded on their own, although the same argument could be said for the rest of the aelf forces. There's something we're missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 4 minutes ago, Tiger said: There's something we're missing. I think we are missing the plans for the future by GW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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