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Changes to Hammerhead Railgun rules. Essentially draws a line across table hitting everything in line. Multiple pen through vehicles, only stopped by a glancing hit.
Changes to markerlights. Point system. 1 Markerlight point = + 1BS, 2 Markerlight points = reroll to wound/hit 3 = Difficult Terrain test (blinded by the lights?). Cannot be stacked. So cant have reroll to wound and reroll to hit at 4 points.
Battle Suits. A plug and play system. Essentially streamlined. Pick two guns and a skill or two skills a gun. New models might have interchangeable arms similar to Killa Kans....


Tau
New Heavy support platform. Basically immobile deep striked! heavy weapon and crew. Rail and Ion Cannon, and missile launcher are all obvious options here, but nothing solid with the rumor.

Assault Skimmer. Something between size of piranha and hammerhead, fast skimmer open topped, assault on disembark.

New Drop ship. Not the FW one, but something new. Holds a boatload of fire warriors, or a few battle suits.

New battle suits. Not sure if these are the "next gen" suits or just heavy suits redone with out metal bits.

And they will be getting a plastic barracuda for the flyers release next year as well as a new unit choice, which will be anew alien race.

I have heard Necrons are still a long way off as they are getting a complete overhaul.


HQ choices are used to unlock units for troops, so a commander in a crisis suit unlocks crisis suits as troops, an etheral unlocks fire warriors, shaper unlocks kroot, demiurg commander for demiurg as troops.

crisis suits-
mostly same stats but now 3 wounds
come with every gun option and you can choose what weapon systems you fire every round. cost (land speeder + extra HB) per model, squad size max 5

broadsides-
can take network markerlights instead of the missiles on their arms


I can vouche for Stinger as we were at Adepticon this weekend together. Also a few things it looks like he missed.

Only the commander can take a shield generator. The shield generator functions exactly like the shadowfield for the dark eldar. 2+ until missed. Also...

Drones are no longer bought as wargear. They are bought as a unit and then divided as you see fit that the start of the match. You can mix your drones when bought for the point cost needed. This addresses the Drone Squadrens etc as an option.

So you could see who your playing and decided if your shield drones are needed more on the crisis or the broadsides.

One markerlight can fire the seekers off one model. Seekers replentish and are no longer one use items. = Skyrays will be the new WIN (only able to fire one model a round.. so no chain firing tons of missiles off a skyray)

He is right, nothing is troops until you unlock it with a HQ or character.

I was a bit stunned to hear the above, and if it wasnt from the same source as the Grey Knight rumors that Stinger had.. I would have called BS. But I would bank on it.



HQ and Troops
HQ choices are used to unlock units for troops, so a commander in a Crisis Suit unlocks Crisis Suits as troops, an Etheral unlocks Fire Warriors, Shaper unlocks Kroot.

Crisis Suits
Mostly same stats but now 3 wounds, come with every gun option and you can choose what weapon systems you fire every round. Max squad size x 5

Broadsides
Can take Network Markerlights instead of the missiles on their arms

Hammerhead Railgun
Draws a line across the table hitting everything under it. Multiple penetration through vehicles, only stopped by a glancing hit.

Shield Generator
Only team leaders can take a shield generator. The shield generator functions exactly like the DE Shadowfield. 2+ invulnerable save until the first failed save at which point it ceases to work.

Drones
No longer bought as Wargear. They are bought as a unit and then divided as you see fit at the start of the match. You can mix your drones when bought for the point cost needed. This caters for Drone Squadrons as an option.

Markerlight
One markerlight can fire the seekers off one model. Seekers replenish and are no longer one use items. Skyrays will only be able to fire one seeker per round.

Wooo! i cant wate for some tau tau gear to come out

I really like these rail gun and makerlight rules.

These are all old rumors that have already been discussed in a previous thread on this form.

As there is nothing new here I'm pretty sure it doesn't constitute news but I guess it is up to the Mods.

These are all new to me so im srry if you already know them

SonicPara wrote:These are all old rumors that have already been discussed in a previous thread on this form.

As there is nothing new here I'm pretty sure it doesn't constitute news but I guess it is up to the Mods.

Sorry, Jordankeeps, these are not new rumors. Except I'm not sure I'd sure I've seen the assault skimmer one previously - not sure what Tau would have jump out of it, unless it's for the Demiurg?

These rumors are discussed for 6 months or longer.

And as a Tau Player i don´t like most of these rumors

bthom37 wrote:

SonicPara wrote:These are all old rumors that have already been discussed in a previous thread on this form.

As there is nothing new here I'm pretty sure it doesn't constitute news but I guess it is up to the Mods.

Sorry, Jordankeeps, these are not new rumors. Except I'm not sure I'd sure I've seen the assault skimmer one previously - not sure what Tau would have jump out of it, unless it's for the Demiurg?

No, we've seen that rumor too.

It was posted as part of that whole joke thread last time.

Locking thread as duplicate.