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cool, you made more units. Cant wait to see those on the table top.

I think some of the Fire Warriors went to New Orleans during Mardi Gras.

If you guys would like to see this army in action, my gaming buddy Morehammer just posted up a battle report with my army battling Tyranids.
check it out!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/403879.page#3447142

. LOVe this. I applaud you for seeing your theme out, clean and well done. I dont care what you freehanded or whatever, the theme in this army is strong and well done, and very unique. And im sure many of us seeing a tau army have thought about gundam. Well done

I think you missed a golden opportunity when you made the broadside into Strike Freedom. Should've been a Wing Zero Custom. Twin Buster Rifles, angelic wings, the whole nine yards. Then you could've made a Farsight Strike Freedom. The weapon loadouts just strike me as more accurate that way... huge cannons for Zero, plasma rifle, Shield, and beam saber for Strike Freedom.

I suppose if you wanted to stay in SEED universe, you could've ran Strike Freedom alongside Launcher Strike for the huge gun. But tossing twin railguns on Strike Freedom just strikes me as a missed opportunity...

Whenever they release a new Tau codex, I may just shamelessly copy your paint scheme... except I like me some Gundam 00, so I'd be running along those lines...
(hmm... Exia/OO as a Farsight/other HQ suit, Seravee or Cherudim for a Broadside... Arios for an Elite 'vre suit, then run seperate units of Enact's (from Katharon) for burst cannon 'ui suits... yesss....)

I've never been a big Tau fan, but I'm a huge fan of this. The army is one big Crayola box of awesome. Between the Gundam suits and the extreme-anime what's not to love? Great job.

Those tau look great! and ofcourse the theme as well!

Didn't really know what to expect but I must say, I am impressed.

I actually really like the added big heads. Really gives the whole army a custom feel.

That Devilfish is truly awesome. Even made the wife go wow! (And that is good)

Keep it coming!

I like your army. The gundam colors were great and having squads colored like the vocaloids is amazing! Love the Miku on the vehicle! Awesome job!

Astroman wrote:what's not to love?

The extreme-anime. I was going to start a Tau army, but now... now...



Tbh the suits by themselves aren't bad, kinda fun in fact. But by god the HEADS.

Very nice!

I love the work! You know something funny is that my tau army is based off of Zeon with Char as the current hq. But your army is very well detailed and converted, especially the strike freedom

darkcloud92 wrote:I love the work! You know something funny is that my tau army is based off of Zeon with Char as the current hq. But your army is very well detailed and converted, especially the strike freedom

Pics! Pics man!

darkcloud92 wrote:I love the work! You know something funny is that my tau army is based off of Zeon with Char as the current hq. But your army is very well detailed and converted, especially the strike freedom

Put this up! Just look at my screen name! Its all I've got to say!

Wow those stealth suits look really nice.
Keep it up

Red Comet wrote:

darkcloud92 wrote:I love the work! You know something funny is that my tau army is based off of Zeon with Char as the current hq. But your army is very well detailed and converted, especially the strike freedom

Put this up! Just look at my screen name! Its all I've got to say!

haha I am for sure! Im starting a painting blog here on friday that shows my tau armies background and what I've got done so far. The char suit is most of the way done.

But back to the OP, do you have a gundam themed background for your tau forces at all, or perhaps some special weapons you might think of implementing into the game just for fun? Like a beam saber or the transam that gundams from 00 can do?

darkcloud92 wrote:
But back to the OP, do you have a gundam themed background for your tau forces at all, or perhaps some special weapons you might think of implementing into the game just for fun? Like a beam saber or the transam that gundams from 00 can do?

You know, I never really thought of any 'fluff or background story for my army. I kind of just started it with the suits, then it just started to get bigger from there.

As far as using them in-game. I keep them as how they are: Tau. No close combat units (Kroot being the exception), no special weapons from the anime or idea they are based from.
I know, kind of boring. But, I'm still trying to learn the fundamentals of the game and system. After I understand the rules a little better, watch out, that's when the crazy ideas start!

7yler wrote:

darkcloud92 wrote:
But back to the OP, do you have a gundam themed background for your tau forces at all, or perhaps some special weapons you might think of implementing into the game just for fun? Like a beam saber or the transam that gundams from 00 can do?

You know, I never really thought of any 'fluff or background story for my army. I kind of just started it with the suits, then it just started to get bigger from there.

As far as using them in-game. I keep them as how they are: Tau. No close combat units (Kroot being the exception), no special weapons from the anime or idea they are based from.
I know, kind of boring. But, I'm still trying to learn the fundamentals of the game and system. After I understand the rules a little better, watch out, that's when the crazy ideas start!

Oh that makes sense.lol I am still relatively new to playing the table top as well so I havn't added any special rules in or anything. But I am currently working on a background for my army, including adding in some of the characters like Char. It is posted here on dakka, but my painting abilities are no where near as good as yours are. But if you ever find yourself on the U.S. mainland with your 40k army we could have a pretty cool nemesis battle!

AMAZING!
I love the idea (even if i was a bit affraid when i saw the topics) and the painting make it very nice!
Congratulation it's really cool

For one thing, give devilfish flechette dischargers if you're playing against kids. Pinoypower is still stinging from that one.

Um?

Grimtuff wrote:Very very nice until we got to the Fire Warrior squads. Why? Why? Why? Those Chibi heads or whatever they are just ruin it for me, if it was a whole army like that, then fine. But just plonking them on there in place of a FW helmet just does not do it for me. Sorry.

I agree. While the custom paintjobs work, the Chibi heads take away form the feel of the army.

Agreed with some posts above. The heads absolutely ruin it for me. They just seem there to say "Hey check this out!". Might as well have Naruto headbands on.

Thanks for the comments everyone!

I just had an epic battle with the KARMANS who dare to intrude into the 40K Universe!
Check it out!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/410790.page

We're back! This time with Magical Girls! They are my Pathfinder Team.
The OP has been updated with new pictures! Check it out.

This has been a while - as creepy as they may be, it's good to see you're still at it.

Consistently impressive work.

What do you use to get such glossy black paint?

Dear lord.....at least you paint well.

Thats a lot of nice work for the bottom of your vehicle. Very impressive commitment you've made, and really great looking

 7yler wrote:

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NEW: The Magical Girl Markerlight Team! (Pathfinders)
(Kyubey's Contractors)

I want these sooooooooooo much :'D

awesome job, really love what you've done with this army. it's really refreshing to see more fun armies out there ^.^




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also, could link me to where you got the madoka magica figures :? my life isn't complete till I own them XD

So when're you making the Nanoha broadsides?