Harlequins. Holy fuck this is amazing.

Codex leaks for the harlequins are out today - but they're in Italian. Luckily google knows italian, so here's what we've got: rules for the shadow seer and death jester, plus like 6 formations that look more viable than the Masque FoC for allying these bad boys. I'll try to link to the Italian pics as well, if they're still up:

Shadow Seer: 60 points, WS6 BS4 S3 T3 W2 I7 A3 LD10
-holosuit
-hallucinogenic grande launcher
-shuriken pistol
-mist stave
-flip belt

Special rules: 
- fear
- fleet
- furious charge
- hit and run
- IC
- psyker (ML1) - can choose from Phantasmancy (harlie discipline that looks DOPE), sanctic Demonology, Telepathy

Can upgrade to level 2 for 25pts
Can take a neurodisruptor instead of shuriken pistol for 10 pts
Haywire for 5pts
Can take an item from the Enigmas of the Black Library list

Death Jester: 60pts, WS5 BS5 S3 T3 W2 I7 A3 LD10
-holosuit
-shrieker cannon
-flip-belt

Special Rules:
-Fear
-Fleet
-Furious Charge
-hit and run
-IC
-precision shots

Can take haywire for 5, can take an item from the Enigmas of the Black Library list. 

"Death is not enough" - an enemy unit that suffers one or more wounds from the DJ in a shooting phase must immediately take a morale check as though they had taken 25% casualties, at -2 LD. If they fail the test, the DJ chooses in which direction they flee. If they continue to flee in subsequent rounds, they fall back towards their own table edge as usual. 

Up next, formations.

Warlord traits. Death Jesters and Spirit Seers can only ever roll a D3 on the harlequin tables (since 1-3 are the same for all tables, its a bit of a wash) but a D6 on any BRB table. Troupe masters, however, can roll a full D6 on any of the 3 harlequin tables.

“Light” table
1) the warlord reroll all to-hit of 1 (shooting & cc) and all saves of 1
2) 4+ inv for the the warlord
3) the warlord and his unit can add 1″ every time they move (movement, running, charging, fall back, regroup, hit&run, consolidation, sweep etc etc)
4) you can add 4 to any roll to steal the initiative
5) before deployment, choose up to D3 units from your primary detachment. every unit gain one of: deep strike, infiltrate, scout (choose as you like)
6) immediately after deployment and after scout moves, you can remove from the table your warlord and/or up to other D3 friendly units with the Harlequins faction within 12″ of the warlord. Any units removed this way may immediately deployed using normal deploiment rules or put in Reserve

“twilight” table
1)-3) (see Light table)
4) if the mission use variable lenght, you can add or substract 2 to the roll to determine if the game ends
5) any to-wound roll of 6 made by the warlord in close combat (or any to-wound roll of 5+ while making a Kiss of Death attack) gain the Instant Death special rule
6) once per game your warlord and his unit can make a “mirror leap” instead of moving: they can move 24″, moving over other models and terrains like in open terrain but cannon end over other models or in impassable terrains. They cannot charge in the same turn

“darkness” table
1)-3) (see Light table)
4) enemy units in base contact with the warlord or his unit must roll an additional D6 while taking Fear or Morale tests
5) at the end of the game, before declaring the winner, you can move one time only your warlord and his unit like in the movement phase, than they can run or shoot like in the shooting phase, and, next, if you so desire, can charge and fight a single turn of combact like in the assault phase (the adversary can overwath and fight normally). If your warlord is locked in combat at the end of the game, he and his unit can only choose to fight an additional turn of combat. If the warlord unit is embarked, it can disembark but the transport cannot move or shoot. After the warlord and his unit have done this extra action the game end (finally I may say…)
6) if your warlord is removed from play while in a challenge, the players roll out immediately: if you win the roll out or if it is a tie the adversary of your warlord is removed as well

I personally really like the Light table - #5 and 6 are amazing, and unlike some of the other cool warlord traits are always going to be useful. Stealing initiative on a 2+ is pretty dope too, and again is almost always going to be useful. All 3 allow you to make sure you the win the deployment phase, and start off on the right foot. 

Some of the other ones, like Darkness, are cool - but really situational. I guess if you're going to use all the cool fear tests and stuff in the book, getting the +1D6 for fear/morale tests would help guarantee that they fail. But, the challenge one and the "JK the game's not over yet" trait are a bit more situational. I mean, if you're planning on getting your troupe master into a challenge with some terrifying monster just to kill it, I guess you have a slight chance to take him down with you...but if you're planning on having to eek out a win at the bottom of turn End Game + 1, you're probably not going to win in the first place.