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It will probably be cheaper to buy Valkyries and kit bash them 1 for 1 into battle-suits.... ha ha

@chaosomega
lets hope that if this stupid idea comes true tau players stack and mix their own vehicles with their opponents so they can deal with the same silliness.

@Eidelon
I couldn't agree with your diagram more, terrain cover and elevation alone makes the rumor stupid, they will have to print a FAQ bigger then a Shanghai phone book to clear up the plethora of issues.

Or not release a FAQ at all, and watch us squirm from atop their pyle of (our)money.

Well if there are new suits, and the look close the the FW ones, I'll be ebaying my suits asap after I know. Fully magnetized and painted suits sold will at least help lessen the blow of buying more of them.

Oh, and I use vespid. As in right now. I takes some work, but wow are they my best flank defense against meq units, you can also deep strike them into difficult terrain, one of the few units that can actually do so viably.

Sadly, I haven't built or painted any of the piles of Tau stuff I bought during the Apocalypse bundle deals, but considering what I got the stuff for and what new stuff will likely cost I don't think I'll be parting with it or replacing it except for some of the metal models. I'll simply add a few of the newer ones to it if they look great without breaking the bank trying to replace all the older stuff. I am waiting to build my Tau till they get a new Codex. With all the other armies I have to work on it just makes sense at this point, especially if it's not all that far away. And with the piles of stuff I got cheapish a few years ago it will be a massive army as soon as I jump on that project.

Honestly I am suprised i haven't seen anything about making select Tau BS4.

I did, someone suggested the Shas'ui get it, so thats all them suits and squad leaders.

Well this is a rumor page and not the rule proposal section.

Tau shouldn't be BS4, not as basic stat anyway, maybe an upgrade. They'll likely just be made cheaper and see some upgrade options that will simplify how the synergy between them and their other units work.

If Tau are getting done anytime soon its because GW doesn't see many areas of their book that need "fixing."

aka_mythos wrote:Well this is a rumor page and not the rule proposal section.

Tau shouldn't be BS4, not as basic stat anyway, maybe an upgrade. They'll likely just be made cheaper and see some upgrade options that will simplify how the synergy between them and their other units work.

If Tau are getting done anytime soon its because GW doesn't see many areas of their book that need "fixing."

Surely an army based entirely around shooting should at least be as skilled with ranged weapons as the mighty Spess Muhreens? Especially given that they are useless in close combat.

That or be able to field lots of bodies... oh wait that spot is taken.

If you want BS 4 FW, then use markerlights. Yes, Marker drones are way overpriced, and yes, for some reason they take up room in a devilfish, despite beint the size of two large frisbees. And so sorry about that math, I was very, very tired at the time.

personally i'd hope for the BS 4 thing, plus the additional hammerhead turrets, plus heavy gun drones... but i'm only hoping

Markerlights are there for BS4. I think they could stand to be assault 1 instead of heavy 1 though, so Tau units can effectively fire on the move.

Tau suits should be able to combine to form Voltron.

We should take a look to the guns prototypes we got like CiB and AFP and all others support systems and wargear, they sure come back in the next codex more powerfull and deadly, like the rail rifles in the first codex was.
The Tau gave Vespid an armor,no? Why not do the same to kroots? And who will like their gun drones going kamikaze in a sm squad to see the last drone explode and kill extra sm (failsafe detonator)? For the vespids everything (and more) have been said.
Just thinking how a burst cannon or 2 in a fw squad can do. In the next codex, they MUST lower the cost of stealth suit, i did touch them since 1998. Tau special characters are no match over every others specials in every others army,no? And what about the ethereal as an anti psychic (psyker)? Just think what they can do with all the special issue.

Reecius wrote:Tau suits should be able to combine to form Voltron.

Or transform into cars. WYSIWYG all over that, Tau players.

Devilfish that can transform into iron clad type walkers, but with more shooty. So when the troops are not inside you can have an av 13 13 11 walker with two twin linked railguns walking around

Eidolon wrote:Devilfish that can transform into iron clad type walkers, but with more shooty. So when the troops are not inside you can have an av 13 13 11 walker with two twin linked railguns walking around

Could not stop laughing... You are forgetting beam swords and teenage angst...

Ha ha....seriously though, i am not opposed to the tau getting a BS buff except that i thought....and correct me if im wrong, that the tau were somewhat vision impaired as a race.

Red Corsair wrote:Ha ha....seriously though, i am not opposed to the tau getting a BS buff except that i thought....and correct me if im wrong, that the tau were somewhat vision impaired as a race.

That's something I've heard used by players to justify Tau BS 3 ever since the codex went to print, but seeing as how Imperial Guardsmen are BS 3 it doesn't exactly sound like they're impaired, does it. I can't recall reading anything in any codex that says Tau have inferior vision to humans.

If I remember right they just have trouble focusing on things up close, it takes longer than it would for a human, but at a distance their vision is just fine. Or at least that's what I've heard from others who read more of the background than I do.

Sidstyler wrote:If I remember right they just have trouble focusing on things up close, it takes longer than it would for a human, but at a distance their vision is just fine. Or at least that's what I've heard from others who read more of the background than I do.

If I recall correctly the longer they try to see the more distorted it becomes. However, their helmets and battlesuits auto-senses compensate for this.

Sidstyler wrote:If I remember right they just have trouble focusing on things up close, it takes longer than it would for a human, but at a distance their vision is just fine. Or at least that's what I've heard from others who read more of the background than I do.

This tidbit was dropped from the current Codex, as it was an obvious racist joke on Japanese. BTW they should have enough technological gubbins to compensate that, not only markerlights.

This is Tau-riffic news!

I dunno, only having one lens to look out of their helmets with must really screw up their depth perception.

Tau having BS3 is fine - they're trained soldiers, but not super elite. Don't their honor guard equivalent have BS4? Markerlights are there to balance that out.

All we really need is markerlights being able to shoot on the move, maybe have a double profile where the assault version has shorter range, 24" maybe, oh and some sort of stealth granting upgrade for finders.

We've moved past "potential rumors" and into "rampant wishlisting".

We'll start a new thread when we hear more.