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Basically what the subject says. with all these new codexes coming out it is getting harder to play Tau. We really need some kind of boost. i am just wondering is anybody knows what the release order is.

Sometime before Dark Eldar.

They'll get about 5 more revisions before the dark eldar and necrons.

Some time after BAs, but before any other 40k codii....

So next year, probably 3rd quarter given how woefully slow GW is at the moment.

Before Duke Nukem Forever comes out.

Maybe next year. Maybe the year after that. Or the year after that.

Games Workshop wrote:Soon ™

Well, to be fair...there's not really that much that needs to be done for the Tau compared to say, Necrons.

New Battlesuits would be fantastic and tempt me into a Tau army quite quickly, provided they just scan in the XV-89s.

I suspect they will be released late 2010. I know they are coming some time not too far off and September-December '10 seems right. But remember, just a guess.

My guess is after BA. Since we can go by the SM release, non SM release, SM release, BA are rumoured after Tyranids next year, Necrons, DE, Inquisitors are ruled out, who is left?

Eldar have a fairly new release, so I don't expect them to be released next year. So who is left? Chaos? Same as Tau, don't see that happening either. Since GW said they will not be making any new SM chapters or new races, that would leave Tau left.

So that is my guess, some time next year in the Fall or 2010.

Brother SRM wrote:Before Duke Nukem Forever comes out.

lol.

Warboss Niblet wrote:Basically what the subject says. with all these new codexes coming out it is getting harder to play Tau. We really need some kind of boost. i am just wondering is anybody knows what the release order is.

Those Tau got one of the first codex for the new game. Why would they need a new one so soon?

metallifan wrote:

Games Workshop wrote:Soon ™

QFT.

This is the answer to the question "What's the meaning of life?"

If you think it's 42, you shall be burned for heresy.

If I had to guess I'd say first half of 2011.

Grot 6 wrote:

Warboss Niblet wrote:Basically what the subject says. with all these new codexes coming out it is getting harder to play Tau. We really need some kind of boost. i am just wondering is anybody knows what the release order is.

Those Tau got one of the first codex for the new game. Why would they need a new one so soon?

Because it wasn't a full development cycle for the Tau. They realized that Tau would be "good" with just a quick patchup and a couple new units thrown in, so they basically rushed through the process, in effect giving tau a "3.5 edition" codex rather than a 4th edition codex.

Grot 6 wrote:

Warboss Niblet wrote:Basically what the subject says. with all these new codexes coming out it is getting harder to play Tau. We really need some kind of boost. i am just wondering is anybody knows what the release order is.

Those Tau got one of the first codex for the new game. Why would they need a new one so soon?

Complete and utter BS, they did not get a 5th edition codex. The Eldar codex is supposedly when they started writing for 5th edition and they came out after Tau. Not only that but a lot of Eldar, CSM, and Ork players would probably tell you their respective codices aren't real 5th edition updates anyway.

2010 will be the 5th year since Tau Empire came out and they usually do these on a 5 year schedule (usually). That and it was a really crappy "patchup" job as it was said, it wasn't built to last the test of time. A lot of the new units we got sucked, our characters are worthless, our codex is still one of the few that has FOC restrictions (mandatory commander and fire warrior squad), and our standard troop choice sucks so bad the only reason anyone uses them is because we have to.

is there any news or rumor in the OP's post? i could swear it was posting in the news or rumors forum.

anyways, to answer the OP's fishing expedition, i have it on good authority that the Tau WILL NOT be released in 2009.

That's good to know.

That was going to be bothering me all year I tell you.

i play against tau fairly regularly and have to say they could use a frw "patches" but they dont need a new codex there's s only a year or two old. firewarriors dont suck they consistently earn there points back imho especially with marker light support to raise there bs to 5 and eat away at cover saves

If you read between the lines of a recent reds8n post, 2011.

warboss wrote:is there any news or rumor in the OP's post? i could swear it was posting in the news or rumors forum.
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Quite. Best indications would indeed appear to be late 2010 at earliest, maybe even 2011.