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Lionfish?

but their battlesuits have names like crisis, hazard, stealth and broadside

metallifan wrote:

Madman49 wrote:Panther Class

They're Space Fish. Not Space Nazis

You are not up-to-date:
According to most Tau background threads, Tau are Hindu-catholic Victorian Space Nazi-communist fish-cows with Japanese roots

Sarge wrote:This may have been answered earlier, and if so, sorry. Why a quadraped design? No other Tau walker has that shape. Were you worried GW may come after you if you used a bipedal design? Otherwise, it is a neat model.

Actually, no, I haven't been asked that yet.

Honestly there's no reason why. From the moment I conceived the idea it was always a quadruped. Perhaps it's because I found all of the other Tau titan designs that were mega sized crisis suits to be really lame? I just didn't want something humanoid for a mecha of this size.

Also, I believe that technically four legs might provide a more stable firing platform.

metallifan wrote:

Madman49 wrote:Panther Class

They're Space Fish. Not Space Nazis

Yes, the Imperial Guard resents any comparisons to the Tau. Our tanks are superior in every way, standartenfuhrer. My glorious konigstiger... err..Leman Russ Vanquisher will crush these blue skinned untermench!

First, The tau were originally a desert dwelling race. The Fish Names on their Vehicles are Imperium based on their look and movement(The Skimmers glide through the air like dish through water). I would be really happy if the Tau Vehicles received names based upon their fluff and then were translated to the Imperium of Man's language.

Second, This Walker represents a new class of vehicle for the Tau and would call for a new naming structure.

Third, None of the listed names fit, especially the Nautilus.



Now for a few ideas using what I believe is a fairly accurate Tau Lexicon:

Korst'ray-Translates to "Death Walker"

Mont'mal'coar- Translates to "Battle Spider"

Ray'upt- Loosely translates to "Walking Mountain"

Tau'va- Translates to "The Greater Good" (I really like this name, the SXV141 Tau'va)



Then outside of fluff, the Dr. Who fan in me screams for you to Name it the "Dalek"

And the uber-geek from my childhood wants to make a Tron based "Grid Lice" reference.

call it the Goliath!

all I can think of is the Starcraft unit saying "Goliath online"

Phairsto wrote:call it the Goliath!

all I can think of is the Starcraft unit saying "Goliath online"

Sorry, there's already a 40k Goliath, though I think it's called the Cyclops.

think of it from a guardsman POV. A tau titan comes walking onto the field demolishing everything, there is no way they are going to end up calling it the nautilus. They would call it something suitably awe inspiring.

Wow!

asmith wrote:think of it from a guardsman POV. A tau titan comes walking onto the field demolishing everything, there is no way they are going to end up calling it the nautilus. They would call it something suitably awe inspiring.

Man'owar. Simple, fits the scheme, sounds cool, is dangerous, and doesn't use some sort of specific ancient name.

Karkinos is also pretty cool, just because it sounds intimidating.

"Sir, the 5th infantry company has spotted something."
"What is it private?"
"Sir...it's a Man'o'war sir..."

Klawz wrote:"Sir, the 5th infantry company has spotted something."
"What is it private?"
"Sir...it's a Man'o'war sir..."

Man'O'war just doesn't sound tauish enough, sure its a jellyfish but its just to obvious

when will the name be anounced

A quick suggestion about the rules.

Make the single shot part of the railgun STR D and be more specific about the size of the template for the blast (7" or 9"). Also a little more clarification for the Smart missle systems, can you only shoot them 6 times or are there 6 independent ones? The Tachion marker needs a little clean up, are you saying it's only for the railguns to use? Many of the rules just need some clarification.

XV2000 vanilla lightning

First off i LOVE this model looks so epic

Secondly name it something like oh i don't know....


Kopek Balik- turkish for shark

and

Karides- turckish for crab


hope this helps

Still working on the rules, originally I thought the rules were not that important. I have come to find out that people want "official" rules and we are corresponding with Tau players on them.

I like Man'o'war, but we will see what the sculptor says as well.

Nick

I like goliath, or maybe some sort of name for mountain in tau-ese.

What about the Hosea? I know he's christian, not Hindu, but he called for people to come to peace, but he foresaw/brought down doom and punishment on those who did not see "the greater good" of God (sorry to bring religion onto this site...)

I'm sorry, but can anyone else just see that thing dropping onto the battlefield from space or some flying transport?

I´m going to say that Scylla has a nice fishy sound for a Tau Titan.

M.

you know maybe give it a set of body guard gun drones
That would be AWSOME!

bigmek35 wrote: you know maybe give it a set of body guard gun drones
That would be AWSOME!

why not heavy gun drones with plasma weapons

Just add a Tau building and I am happy
(still voting for "Holy Crab" )

TyraelVladinhurst wrote:

bigmek35 wrote: you know maybe give it a set of body guard gun drones
That would be AWSOME!

why not heavy gun drones with plasma weapons

MY GOD your right should always be like that

thought it'd be a good idea

What we need are photos, taken from a suitably low angle, of Imperial Guardsmen watching this thing partially obscured by a large ruin.

Nurglitch wrote:What we need are photos, taken from a suitably low angle, of Imperial Guardsmen watching this thing partially obscured by a large ruin.

this just screams to me to make a drawing of it

Well, keeping in line with the naming of Tau vehicles after apex predators I would say

"Arapaima"

Or with the trend in battlesuit naming,

XV43-S "Linebreaker" mobile artillery battery

Just my thoughts.

Dravenguild wrote:Well, keeping in line with the naming of Tau vehicles after apex predators I would say

"Arapaima"

Or with the trend in battlesuit naming,

XV43-S "Linebreaker" mobile artillery battery

Just my thoughts.

i second linebreaker since mobile oppression palace doesn't seem to be sticking

If you go with battlesuit naming, why not call it "Catastrophe"?

Are names like "Blizzard" or "Avalanche" too far fetched? I could imagine Tau using that kind of a vehicle in an enviroment where their skimmers and battlesuits just couldn't function properly-in this case an iceplanet with dangerous snowstorms!

The men of the 57th Valhallan Army were dug-in heavily in their defence positions around research-base XZ-47. In the forbidding landscape of the Thermis Alpha none were more at home than the battle hardened veterans of Valhalla. Charred remains of the Tau attackers littered the white snow around the defence perimeter promising nothing but death and destruction to the invaders. Three times the Tau had come and three times they had been pushed back. Slowed down by the freezing cold and the snowstorms their advanced grav-tanks and battlesuits had been easy prey for the defenders. It was more than two weeks from the latest attack and the intelligence reports confirmed that the Tau were evacuating their troops from the Thermis Alpha- morale was high on the Imperial side.
"I smell a victory on the way, Vasili"-Vasili Khutov heard a familiar, rasping voice behind him. He turned around to meet the scarred face of the sergeant Vostok. "It's too damn cold to smell anything, Grigori, but I can join you for a toast of victory!"-he replied. Laughing the two men started pouring cheap amasec in their glasses and chatting just like they had done for the last three nights. The Tau were gone and they were happy to be alive.
Suddenly the alarm went on. Both men jumped up and ran to the bunkers fire point. "What is it, another false alarm?"-Vasili hissed. Shaking his head to sober up and clear his vision sergeant Vostok took a second glance in the darkness. The gloomy phosphorous light of the flares lid the snowfields and he could see shapes moving there. Giant forms on four legs striding through blizzard towards them like an avalanche. Then hell broke loose...