Wood Elf Rumours

[Harry]

In an effort to pull together what few rumours we have …
I have started threads for each of the armies rumoured to be somewhere in the pipeline.
I will do my best to keep the first posts updated as more rumours appear in these threads.
I have tried to remember as much as I can of what has been posted so far.
I will have missed or forgotten some of it ... so, any rumours that have been posted please just remind me ‘who’ said ‘what’ and I will update this first post.

Wood Elves:

Release date: Unknown.
There are rumours there was a draft book that got scrapped for not being up to par. They had to do a re-write and they had shifted it over to someone else.(Scoopdeta)
There are rumours of Wood Elves in 2013 Early to mid 2013 (Scoopdeta)
There is a rumour of Wood Elves in March 2013 (Why) UPDATE :Wood elves have been put back in favour of another army. Apparantly the book is finished and ready to go but they decided to rejig the release schedule. (Why)
Wood Elves have been in development "active playtesting" since 2010 (Meltedwing)

Clam pack artwork/photos for a plastic wood elf spell singer & a plastic wood elf lord had been seen.
Do not know if that was an indication that they would be released any time soon or held for main release later? (Hastings)

Author: Unknown.
Whilst there are rumours the book has been started there are no rumours of who the lead writer might be.

Rules:
There are rumours of darker and more dangerous Wood Elves based on the content of the currently unreleased Black Library Orion novel. Set for release in September? “I'm assuming that the author (Darius Hinks) spoke with the design studio prior to writing the book about the direction they wanted to take them. The guy on the Black Library stand says Darius has spent ages studying Paganism and other similar religions to get ideas, and he has really played up the darker, more capricious nature of the wood elves. One example he gave was elves cutting out the hearts of other elves to replace them with briar hearts" (Jedi)
Coeddil is in the new book as a special character. (Dudely)

Models:
A lot of miniature designs for new woodies already created and approved (scoopdeta)
TreeKin, Treemen and wardancers/warhawks. (Scoopdeta)
A Cavalry unit tha packed some punch but no specifics. (scoopdeta)
There are rumours of a BIG treeman. (Harry and Hastings)
The treeman, however was said to be on the new monster base and about as tall as the Ogre Thundertusk's banner, and that it stylewise is more living brushwood-forest thingy than an actual anthromorphic tree. (Birdy via Darnock)
Both High Elves and Wood Elves may get the Treeman in their updated books. (buzz0783)
Forest Dragon (Strategos)
A plastic wood elf spell singer. (Hastings)
A plastic wood elf lord. (Hastings)

BRING IT ON!

[SkawtheFalconer]

Fantastic work Harry, thank you for doing this.

[Antipathy]

The darker the better...

[Thuggrim]

An army that really deserves a book, you can still get something from them but they were so grounded in the 7th ed rules they suffer in 8th. And bring on the savage elves

Nice to see you doing these round ups Harry cheers

[Lord Cedric]

Being a hobbyist who has recently started collecting some Wood Elves, this is pretty exciting. I don't know of another army that has truly a different style of playing than Wood Elves - being in that they are a skirmish type. I am hoping that GW goes with more of a CC affect and not play "follow the trend" and make them into horde type army. The appeal to me for them is the fact that they are a different playstyle. Let the rumours pile up!

- Lord Cedric

[Why]

Thanks for doing this Harry.

[Strategos]

This is the best news ever in the whole wide world. I have only been collecting for about 18 months but stuck with the WE through all those 20-0's.

I can add a little here as an email was doing the rounds amongst our gaming community a few months back. I didn't see the email myself but a good few people have said it contained a new sculpt for a Forest Dragon.

I canny wait for this release.

[Harry]

This is the best news ever in the whole wide world. I have only been collecting for about 18 months but stuck with the WE through all those 20-0's.

I can add a little here as an email was doing the rounds amongst our gaming community a few months back. I didn't see the email myself but a good few people have said it contained a new sculpt for a Forest Dragon.

I canny wait for this release.

Thanks for that ... i will add it to the first post.

[Strategos]

Thanks for that ... i will add it to the first post.

Nay bother. Will try get my hands on that email and will post pic from it if I can.

[woodster17]

Great work this evening Harry. Count me in with one of those who is investing for the future in Wood Elves. Been working on painting some Dryads tonight but won't move past Glade Guard/Glade Riders/Dryads as i'm fairly sure most of the Wood Elf range is going to be replaced aside from those models so little point picking up stuff that will be outdated and obsolete.

[Ender Shadowkin]

Thanks Harry! Great clean format. I didn't know there was even this much info out there. This is great. I need to get a hold of that new black library book.

[Hochdorf]

Harry, thank you very much for doing these useful rumour round-up threads. I don't want to repeat this post in all the threads, so I'll just say it here. Great work!

It would be especially nice to see Wood Elves and Bretonnians get an update. They're definitely owed a bit of love. Dwarfs too actually.

[En Sabbah Nur]

That is a huge compilation, thanks Harry !
Hope has been renewed for Woodies !!

[kendoka]

...elves cutting out the hearts of other elves to replace them with briar hearts...

I just love the idea of fielding beast-ish zombie elves.
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Forsworn_Briarheart
Looking at the picture http://images.wikia.com/elderscrolls...f/Forsworn.png ...and there are even SKULLZ on it - does this mean the rumor is confirmed

[kendoka]

...elves cutting out the hearts of other elves to replace them with briar hearts...

I just love the idea of fielding beast-ish zombie elves.
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Forsworn_Briarheart
Looking at the picture http://images.wikia.com/elderscrolls...f/Forsworn.png ...and there are even SKULLZ on it - does this mean the rumor is confirmed

[loveless]

I just love the idea of fielding beast-ish zombie elves.
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Forsworn_Briarheart
Looking at the picture http://images.wikia.com/elderscrolls...f/Forsworn.png ...and there are even SKULLZ on it - does this mean the rumor is confirmed

Come to think of it...is there a "briar heart" legend somewhere? Google just brings up Elder Scrolls references - seems like I'm missing something.

[Alebelly_Cragfist]

There was some dodgy film I saw not that long ago where a girls school was run by trees whose hearts had been placed in humans, or something. From what I can remember, many years before a young witch called on the forest to help her against bullies and it worked, only for the souls of the trees to each demand a human body to plant themselves into for freedom.

Complete garbage movie, but that has to be based on some old myth.

[oldWitheredCorpse]

Recently, a wood elf source book for Warhammer FRP (2ed) was released. It's entirely fan-based, but it also hints at more darker and mystical elves. It's a very good book that can be found in strike-to-stun.net.

[Shadow_Steed]

Awesome!

I can't wait for more unique and grimdark Wood Elves. I really love the idea of some pagan inspiration on them. Perhaps they will have a tinge of preroman Britain to them =).

Thanks Harry for the roundup.

[woodster17]

Recently, a wood elf source book for Warhammer FRP (2ed) was released. It's entirely fan-based, but it also hints at more darker and mystical elves. It's a very good book that can be found in strike-to-stun.net.

Got a link? Tried to find it but I struggled.