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My only gripe is that the ultra super missile pods are only S5 AP5. There is no reason that the tau need more S5 AP5 in their ranks. If it were AP4 or something I'd be perfectly happy with it. Or even AP6, or S4, or whatever. Just not the exact same stat that we've been seeing forever in this army. Well, I guess I should wait for the codex and see all the rules before making any final calls.

So... Thoughts on the new tau stuff?

Ah Boss, you never cease to amaze me - step away from your thread for a month and come back to find it's brimming with awesome and sexiness.

Can't wait to see what you do with the Stormsurge XVNoArms.

Ih my god dont get me started on the fething stubsurge.

The more I look at it the more I start to think the Stormsurge is a disappointment. Yes, it has all those weapons. But they could have been better. The giant shotgun is really disappointing with its pitiful range.

AND IT'S SO DERPY!

Reminds me of a low level enemy from Xenogears on PS1. It was actually a boat with legs and I think every few turns some sand people guys would jump out and attack.

The Griffen is looking good. It almost looks like it could assume a quadrapedal form. How hard do you think it would be to make it a quadraped?

 Barzam wrote:
The Griffen is looking good. It almost looks like it could assume a quadrapedal form. How hard do you think it would be to make it a quadraped?

I suppose it's not impossible. But at the same time, I don't think it would look right. I could disassemble the claws on the auxiliary limbs and turn them into skids like a snowmobile's, and that would give it more of a "bracing" look. What I really wish is that I could figure out how to make guns look right in the claws' positions. Flamers would be awesome on those things.

Though it would probably be prohibitively expensive, now I want to see you make a centipede-style mecha from those kits.

Anvildude wrote:
Though it would probably be prohibitively expensive, now I want to see you make a centipede-style mecha from those kits.

And that would probably also mean Boss going to war against the Japanese postal service ^^ !
Now since we are discussing the StormSurge, I am pretty sure that the hate its design is receiving is just caused by the fact that GW did not assemble it properly. If you look at is from that angle :

But yeah, It could also use better guns imho.

The stormsurge is a giant mech with a hot tub up top. Where have we heard that before?

It wouldn't also be a time machine by any chance?

 Nevelon wrote:
The stormsurge is a giant mech with a hot tub up top. Where have we heard that before?

Exalt.... and wasnt it... ohh, about page 5 or so?

If Boss had the money, I'd suggest he go to war with GW over this clear infringement of his artistic rights