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What do you want whenever the new Tau codex comes around?
What i want:
Stealth Suit Commander
Farsight to either gain EW, or T5, and can take drone upgrades
Farsights sword to go back to the old rules (AP2, ignores invuns)
PLASTIC Kroot Knarlocs
Vespids to have new models and a buff
Battlesuits have a buyable upgrade for 2+ armour (no more limited to 1 2+ in an army)
Better Signature Systems
More customization for ethereals
Paradox if duality to also work in CC
Hammerhead formation
Stealthsuit formation
Battlesuit formation
Sky ray formation
Stealth suits get the 'hard to hit' rule/constantly affected by Invisibility psychic power/ enemies that target them are WS and BS 1

Anything you want added whenever a new Tau codex comes out?

I haven't done Tau yet, but I was going to when the new codex came out. I didn't see any of those Humans in the Tau empire, so I never bothered.

I really want to see a Tau Emperium. Not just Vespids and a Kroot but actual Vespids in more than one role, Kroot in more than one roll, and actual Tauhuman faction.

This is my personal choice. I know for a lot Tau players don't want this, but I would start collecting Tau if they did this.

I would mainly like to see some incentives to bring more infantry and vehicle elements Pathfinders Fire Warriors, and Hammerheads instead of just suit spam. I love crisis suits but I dislike the tend of taking minimum troops and everything else suits. I would lose my mind and most of my money if GW actually expanded more on the while Tau Auxiliary aspect and released Gue'vesa and Tarellians with decent rules for them.

 Vankraken wrote:
I would mainly like to see some incentives to bring more infantry and vehicle elements Pathfinders Fire Warriors, and Hammerheads instead of just suit spam. I love crisis suits but I dislike the tend of taking minimum troops and everything else suits. I would lose my mind and most of my money if GW actually expanded more on the while Tau Auxiliary aspect and released Gue'vesa and Tarellians with decent rules for them.

How about a FW conversion kit to turnfire warriors into Gue'vesa?

My CSMs are about to get tabled in turn 4 fighting a Tau gun line.

I want a nerf.

 ChazSexington wrote:
My CSMs are about to get tabled in turn 4 fighting a Tau gun line.

I want a nerf.

C'mon now, that's not really fair to the Tau at all, considering that a pure Grot army could reliably table a CSM force!

I want it to definitively answer a question that has been tearing gaming groups, fan-clubs and forums apart since the faction was introduced:

Do Tau women have boobs or not?

It's time to stop the madness.

Also... feet, or hooves? Are they space-fish or space-cows? C'mon!

A heavy battlesuit would be cool. Like a crisis terminator.

 Psienesis wrote:
I want it to definitively answer a question that has been tearing gaming groups, fan-clubs and forums apart since the faction was introduced:

Do Tau women have boobs or not?

It's time to stop the madness.

Also... feet, or hooves? Are they space-fish or space-cows? C'mon!

They're clearly Blue Space-Fish-Goat Communists, geez, it's so simple man.

XV9s moved to main codex and made worthwhile.

To do that I would drastically reduce the cost of the weapon upgrades (they aren't much better than the default burst cannons, worse in some cases, and cost a huge amount more) and make them a bit more survivable. T5 is good and all, but for the cost of model it doesn't cut it. Extra wound, default invulnerable save, or 2+ armour, take your pick.

I'm not holding out much hope as it's pretty rare for a model to migrate to main GW from FW, but hey ho! I just love the look of them, but they're never really worth taking over XV8s.

Aside from that:

I wouldn't mind ditching plasma for the whole army and focusing on Tau technology. So Rail Rifles for Crisis suits for example.

More options for firewarriors, such as options for special/heavy weapons, more interesting gear for the shas'ui, and so on.

Incentives to run an Auxilaries based army: kroot, vespid, gue'vesa, any of the others mentioned in the fluff, and tau leaders to control them, almost in a commissar type role.

commander dante wrote:

 Vankraken wrote:
I would mainly like to see some incentives to bring more infantry and vehicle elements Pathfinders Fire Warriors, and Hammerheads instead of just suit spam. I love crisis suits but I dislike the tend of taking minimum troops and everything else suits. I would lose my mind and most of my money if GW actually expanded more on the while Tau Auxiliary aspect and released Gue'vesa and Tarellians with decent rules for them.

How about a FW conversion kit to turnfire warriors into Gue'vesa?

I want to see Gue'vesa as their own unit with their own look, equipment, and rules. Sure FW could make a conversion kit for them but if anything it should be for converting a Cadian kit (ill probably make some Cadian conversion allies for my Tau sometime down the line if GW doesn't release anything). At the very least it would be nice for them to have interesting rules from FW.

Experiment 626 wrote:

 ChazSexington wrote:
My CSMs are about to get tabled in turn 4 fighting a Tau gun line.

I want a nerf.

C'mon now, that's not really fair to the Tau at all, considering that a pure Grot army could reliably table a CSM force!

After seeing three gretchin come within 1 wound of killing a Hive Tyrant.... Yes. Yes, they really could.

Well we have a good idea of what's coming. So wishlisting seems pointless.

So I want one of our rumored new troop options to be one of the following.

1. Jetpack Troopers
2. Heavy Weapons Troops.

We know four new kits are coming. One is likely to be the Crisis Commander/New Crisis Suites model, New Missile focused Riptide, tau fortification, and a new troop kit of some sort. The kit might be new/modified firewarriors that can make a new type of that troop.

Riptide nerf
Firebase support cadre nerf
Remove no-scatter trait to neuter farsight bombs
Make marker light cover point-for-point again.


I wouldn't mind virtually everything else in the codex getting better if those things were fixed. Make farsight a boss, decrease cost of crisis suit weapons, buff the vespid, etc etc. anything that will actually promote seeing more of the codex than "here's my allied firebase cadre," or "here's my riptides and farsight bomb with some sprinkled markerlights."

Davor wrote:
This is my personal choice. I know for a lot Tau players don't want this, but I would start collecting Tau if they did this.

I want to see more auxiliaries, but I don't want it to get to the point where it overshadows the Tau themselves. Sadly I think that's exactly what everyone else wants; a Tau army with no actual Tau in it.

 ChazSexington wrote:
My CSMs are about to get tabled in turn 4 fighting a Tau gun line.

I want a nerf.

No, Chaos needs a buff.

 Hawkeye888 wrote:
A heavy battlesuit would be cool. Like a crisis terminator.

We have that, they're called broadsides. XV9's from FW, too.

I want More battlesuits, which have been redesigned from looking like they were built from 57 Chevy Bel-Airs to more sleek suits reminiscent of the Japanese samurai armor they are taken from.

A Skyray with (broadside) smart missile systems instead of the seeker missiles.

A modified Devilfish that replaces the crew compartment with a drone carrier array.

Upgrading a fire warrior Shas'ui to be equipped in a non-jump capable battlesuit (something a little larger than a Stealth suit)

Camo-cloaks for Pathfinders that grant cover save bonuses.

Remove ability for marker lights to affect overwatch, make marker lights remove cover on a point-for-point cost.

Regarding talk of a terminator type suit:

In the fluff there exists an XV46, which similarly to Terminator armour is a compact, heavily armoured suit designed for space combat and boarding. It needs to be small enough to fit through standard space ship corridors, and is fitted with close range weaponry suited for combat in such spaces.

More here: http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Battlesuit#XV46_Vanguard_Void_Suit

That could be cool right?

I personally would rather have a new XV8 kit, instead of yet another new battlesuit unit that we don't really need...like the riptide.

New XV8 kits are near as confirmed as a rumour can be, based on reputable sources.

We don't need a ton of riptide variants, essentially allowing cheesier and cheesier lists. I'd say from a competitive standpoint, certainly post Necrons, we do need Riptides in their basic form to have a fighting chance.

We may not strictly NEED other new suits to have a functional army, but having some other viable builds than riptide spam or crisis deathstars would be nice.

A unit designed to lock enemy units in CC and hold them until other threats are dealt with, simply due to being very durable, could be useful, a fluffy way of dealing with enemy CC units, and open up new tactical options. I'm thinking TEQ bodies with wargear that triggers in assault with blinding/concussive effects, and flechette dischargers, plus vectored retro thrusters for when it gets too hot. The XV46 could totally fulfil that role, and their fluff says they have escape ejectors which makes it more plausible that Tau would allow them to get in to melee in the first place.

What I would like is some more of the races who are part of the Tau in the fluff to show up in the codex.. They have what, 12 races in the fluff as part of their army, Thats not in the codex..? Give us more of those!

I really want a point reduction on devil fish. I love the models and I love the idea of running some good old fish of furry, but devil fish are just so pricey they hardly ever feel worth it.

Also being able to switch out the gun drones for marker light drones on vehicles would be awesome. Maybe even shield drones if you had some kind of void shield like rule where the drones took the hits first.

Things that need to happen:


Changes to riptide to make IA less absurd.

Total revamp of rail weapons (especially on broadsides)

Broadsides getting tougher to kill to fit the model (and recosted appropriately)

Devilfish being less useless.

Vespid, just... Vespid....

New alien auxiliary would be nice.

 BoomWolf wrote:
Things that need to happen:


Changes to riptide to make IA less absurd.

Total revamp of rail weapons (especially on broadsides)

Broadsides getting tougher to kill to fit the model (and recosted appropriately)

Devilfish being less useless.

Vespid, just... Vespid....

New alien auxiliary would be nice.

These things are all fine and warranted. Some of the other treatments that sm got would be nice. Squadrons of hammerheads and skyrays. Formations that give you some bonuses to weaker units to give them a reason to be taken over more riptides.

I said these need to happen. Not "just do that and nothing else"

Here's what I would like to see in the new Tau codex:

1. More expensive Riptide
2. More expensive missilesides
3. Markerlights reducing cover by 1 for each Markerlight spent

Also:
-New formations/Decurion for Tau
-More xenos mercenaries besides Kroot, make Vespid useable
-Crisis suit model update so they don't look like rejected designs from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.

You know what's actually going to happen?

Riptide squads if you take a formation.

Give in to your inner cheese. You know this to be true. /muahahah

I would just like to have the Broadsides be able to move and not snap fire. They are currenly only infantry so every time I need to move them all my missles are snap firing. Bring back the stabilizers from last edition as an upgrade even. or based on size, make them MCs so they are relentless.

 redleger wrote:
I would just like to have the Broadsides be able to move and not snap fire. They are currenly only infantry so every time I need to move them all my missles are snap firing. Bring back the stabilizers from last edition as an upgrade even. or based on size, make them MCs so they are relentless.

Id be fine with that - they would need point increase though.

 redleger wrote:
I would just like to have the Broadsides be able to move and not snap fire. They are currenly only infantry so every time I need to move them all my missles are snap firing. Bring back the stabilizers from last edition as an upgrade even. or based on size, make them MCs so they are relentless.

Or just... make them Relentless, without giving them a massive close-combat buff?

On one hand i want a nerd to there shooting. nothing specific but seriously they have way too much shooting. or maybe an armor nerf.

Also some rules for gue vesa