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SGASheppard wrote:Well im looking forward to dark angels so let's hope there sooner rather then later

This right here. I'm tired of having the best astartes terminators in the fluff and yet they cost more than grey knights...

Kanluwen wrote:If it's written as a Daemon Blade, I'm gonna personally take a Sharpie and redact it from every copy of the book I come across.

Since the Tau's release, the Dawn Blade has been hinted at as either an Eldar relic or a Necrontyr relic.

Boo hoo, you're acting as if retcons in 40k aren't as common as nerds who don't shower at tabletop wargaming tournaments.

Kanluwen wrote:If it's written as a Daemon Blade, I'm gonna personally take a Sharpie and redact it from every copy of the book I come across.

Since the Tau's release, the Dawn Blade has been hinted at as either an Eldar relic or a Necrontyr relic.

Really Kan? After all the externally and internally contradictory fluff we've had throughout all of 5th Ed, and all the crap Matt Ward has shovelled all over us this - the idea that the Dawn Blade might be Chaos related - that sets of your bs meter?

A-fething-mazing.

CpatTom wrote:Could that Dark Millenium business have plans to be coinciding with something else in 2013? Or am I giving someone to much credit.

GW? Cross-promote? I don't think they even know how to. It'll get a paragraph mention in that month's WD. That'll be about it.

They can keep all the Nid waves I don't want them I will take a new codex written by someone that is not a complete moron like Crudace. How about Phil Kelly!

MDizzle wrote:They can keep all the Nid waves I don't want them I will take a new codex written by someone that is not a complete moron like Crudace. How about Phil Kelly!

Sorry I already started the campaign to chain him to a desk to write the Eldar and DA ones first. Also a campaign to force Ward to be chained to a desk and write out "I will think before I write" for 8 hours each day for each person he ruined an army for, even if he didn't play it. With no pay.

On topic, having some FAQ's in the rule book is a good idea for starting off 6th edition. Armour save modifiers been mentioned yet or am I putting too much hope up that balance can return to 40k?

Cruddace isn't a complete moron, the guard codex was decent.

Decent yes, but also dull and completely arbitrary.

4oursword wrote:Cruddace isn't a complete moron, the guard codex was decent.

Isn't IG, still consistently considered the top Codex of 40k?

It seems Cruddance either writes a codex too strong, or too weak.

I heard someware that Cruddance was the one writing the new Tau dex. It can't be ward anyway. He wrote greay knights and now crons, two in a row. One of the others would write it. I have high expectations.

I sort of like the good vs bad/order vs chaos idea. It resonates with the general faction war setting. Reminds me a bit to much of LOTR though.

I call the new blood reach to be Tau vs Chaos. My wild ghessing said it first, and I so called the Tau dex in feb. God help me find the post though.

Sasori wrote:

4oursword wrote:Cruddace isn't a complete moron, the guard codex was decent.

Isn't IG, still consistently considered the top Codex of 40k?

It seems Cruddance either writes a codex too strong, or too weak.

IG and Space Wolves are usually up there as the two bestest best best codices of bestiness.

Kroothawk wrote:

Totalwar1402 wrote:Tau aren't immune, in old codex daemonhunters it was perfectly acceptable to have allied daemons (inc leaders inhabited by greater daemons) in Tau armies.

Not in my Daemonhunter Codex, or do you have a page and quote? Even the scenarios avoided any hint on Chaos corruption in Tau.

If a tau army fought the old daemonhunters it states that any army can select a greater daemon (that has possesed a HQ choice) as a free HQ choice with stats included. This is provided that the army is not necrons or tyranids; by process of elimination that includes the Tau. They also have a book with lists of why the two factions could fight and Iam fairly certain that daemonic corruption is one of them.

They also did a White Dwarf article that went into more detail over the process for orks, eldar, Imperial Guard and Tau. They stated that it was difficult but they are far from immune. In fact it states that their unawareness of chaos, coupled with their faith in reason (not shying away from places that give you a bad feeling) means they put themselves in greater risk of being corrupted.

I sold my daemonhunters a while back, but the contents should point you to the allied daemons.

CpatTom wrote:If these rumors are true, I'm thinking Farsight is going to Chaos.

Expanded Reach of Chaos, (possible) Daemon Blade wielding commander of Tau Forces far exceeding his expected lifetime. Excellent mix for Chaos right there. (All the little Dark Tau children will be so happy).

Should be fun to see how things shake out anyway that they do.

So we're talking a little bit of Frostmourne making it's way into a Games Workshop army?

peebzguy wrote:

CpatTom wrote:If these rumors are true, I'm thinking Farsight is going to Chaos.

Expanded Reach of Chaos, (possible) Daemon Blade wielding commander of Tau Forces far exceeding his expected lifetime. Excellent mix for Chaos right there. (All the little Dark Tau children will be so happy).

Should be fun to see how things shake out anyway that they do.

So we're talking a little bit of Frostmourne making it's way into a Games Workshop army?

I'm pretty sure Corrupted Daemon blades have been around longer than Frostmourne.

poontangler wrote:I Digress; I remember reading several Canon quotes and one basically states "No Tau has ever fallen to Chaos"

The backgrounds open enough that you could quite easily imply Farsight as having to fallen to chaos.

Actually I do have my hunters dex, I got rid of witchhunters.

p49 On daemon allies everyone canp pick them except 'Necron and Tyranid players also cannot use these rules as the concept of chaos wroship is totally alien to these races.'

p50 Stats for allied greater daemon that begins play 'inside' the Tau HQ choice and reveals itself at some point in the game.

p53 Daemonhunters would fight Tau because a Tau commander will commit some great evil and must be stopped 'thought all manner of nastiness will no doubt occur as the battle unfolds.' This crptic statement is a joke that the Tau commander is possessed and will reveal himself during the fight.

Sasori wrote:

peebzguy wrote:

CpatTom wrote:If these rumors are true, I'm thinking Farsight is going to Chaos.

Expanded Reach of Chaos, (possible) Daemon Blade wielding commander of Tau Forces far exceeding his expected lifetime. Excellent mix for Chaos right there. (All the little Dark Tau children will be so happy).

Should be fun to see how things shake out anyway that they do.

So we're talking a little bit of Frostmourne making it's way into a Games Workshop army?

I'm pretty sure Corrupted Daemon blades have been around longer than Frostmourne.

Ah, forgive me then, I've only been around the 40k verse since about 2001.

Sasori wrote:

4oursword wrote:Cruddace isn't a complete moron, the guard codex was decent.

Isn't IG, still consistently considered the top Codex of 40k?

It seems Cruddance either writes a codex too strong, or too weak.

People are hitting themselves with sticks over the matter wether IG, SW, BA or GK is the most OP book, and then sometimes the DE come in and rain on their parade...

Either case, IG has lost a lot of steam without the Allies.

kenshin620 wrote:

peebzguy wrote:

Absolutionis wrote:It's actually hard to believe that Codex Tau would come right after Codex: Necrons. There needs to be a Space Marine codex in between.

Why is this so hard to believe? They're literally playing with rules and models that haven't changed much over the last, oh, 8 years?

This IS Games Workshop we're talking about. They love space marines over xenos because of the many 10-year olds that buy a box a day from them.

EDIT: fixed it for you.

I hope chaos comes a little later after 6Th ed so that I will have mass overpowered units AND a codex that is in time with the rule book ('nids Need To Pay for the many losses over them be a crappy codex...).

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:If it's written as a Daemon Blade, I'm gonna personally take a Sharpie and redact it from every copy of the book I come across.

Since the Tau's release, the Dawn Blade has been hinted at as either an Eldar relic or a Necrontyr relic.

Really Kan? After all the externally and internally contradictory fluff we've had throughout all of 5th Ed, and all the crap Matt Ward has shovelled all over us this - the idea that the Dawn Blade might be Chaos related - that sets of your bs meter?

A-fething-mazing.

Notice how the dawn blade looks... Khopesh-like? Who uses those? Tomb Kings? Necrons?

My money's that its a crazy C'Tan weapon. Farsight's just embracing the machine is all...

Farquestor wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:If it's written as a Daemon Blade, I'm gonna personally take a Sharpie and redact it from every copy of the book I come across.

Since the Tau's release, the Dawn Blade has been hinted at as either an Eldar relic or a Necrontyr relic.

Really Kan? After all the externally and internally contradictory fluff we've had throughout all of 5th Ed, and all the crap Matt Ward has shovelled all over us this - the idea that the Dawn Blade might be Chaos related - that sets of your bs meter?

A-fething-mazing.

Notice how the dawn blade looks... Khopesh-like? Who uses those? Tomb Kings? Necrons?

My money's that its a crazy C'Tan weapon. Farsight's just embracing the machine is all...

Thousand Sons. Especially Crusade Era.

Mid 2012? I still haven't gotten the hang of the current edition... At least Chaos is getting a new book... actually... when they say Legions are they talking about the CSM too or is it just stuff like rogue psykers and renegade guardsman?

Legions is presumably about the original 9 traitor legions of CSM.

When is the second wave of nids coming out?,also isn't there meant to be a summer of flyers,im hoping this means a harpy.

-Loki- wrote:

it goes against their usual release process, which is Marine/Non-Marine/Marine.

Which is absolutely obscene. Curse you GW!!!!!!!!!

imark789 wrote:

-Loki- wrote:

it goes against their usual release process, which is Marine/Non-Marine/Marine.

Which is absolutely obscene. Curse you GW!!!!!!!!!

At the end of 4th edition, they had 4 xenos dexs in a row, how do you explain that?

Ledabot wrote:

imark789 wrote:

-Loki- wrote:

it goes against their usual release process, which is Marine/Non-Marine/Marine.

Which is absolutely obscene. Curse you GW!!!!!!!!!

At the end of 4th edition, they had 4 xenos dexs in a row, how do you explain that?

Heresy

Ledabot wrote:

imark789 wrote:

-Loki- wrote:

it goes against their usual release process, which is Marine/Non-Marine/Marine.

Which is absolutely obscene. Curse you GW!!!!!!!!!

At the end of 4th edition, they had 4 xenos dexs in a row, how do you explain that?

That was then, this is now.

Ok so far your source was right about necrons, since it comes in next week.

New source:1 - 0

So now all we have to wait for is the new tau codex, if they are right about this then...well they're a good source i suppose.