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metallifan wrote:The Imperium would still try to kill them, whether they worship the Emperor or not. As well, by official rules, they wouldn't be ablee to be fielded as Imperial allies in a multiplayer battle.

Unofficially though (And I hate official junk anyway. More power to the players!), this is pretty cool. Not going to deny that. But they definately need some Imperialization to them. Tau as they are just aren't GRIMDARK enough. Maybe give them all various pieces of Imperial Kit.

Why not model them as Guilla(sp?): humans that went to Tau but have now seen the light and changed alliances once again and work for a Radical Inquisitor...

Would allow you to model them with a mix or IG/Tau parts so that you have IG/humans with bits of tau armour/equipment, etc. Much more interesting modeling project...

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Sounding like a broken record player, but I like the sound of a Tau cadre that strayed from the Greater Good to be led by the Inquisition (the more open minded, we'll screw you later clique) or have hired themselves out as mercenaries (maybe they'll get help from the Imperium in seceding from the Tau Empire ... and the Imperium is going to do that by killing them once their job is done... hoo hoo).

Cadian Torsos with Tau arms and legs and heads sound good!

If you have the time and greenstuff skills you could probably give their left shoulderpads a cloth covering that would fit over the Tau symbol. (TBH you won't need that much GS, just smooth over some areas, and apply enough for 'wrinkles' and 'creases' on the pad). I think the Tau are utilitarian minded enough to make sure that their pads can be taken off (for easy repairs or whatever) and wouldn't spend the extra moolah on getting things engraved on it. So I wouldn't think they would see the point in defacing something so easily replaceable (my fluff, not at all canon). But for sake of easy Imperial markings, they have been issued with the 'blessed by the holy Emperor himself cloth covers' - so as to really make them stand apart. I would think a white cloth with the twin-headed eagle or the Inquisitorial =][= would be sufficient enough to alert Imperial troops their intentions.

It would be interesting to have few Tau tank riders here and there (since they ain't worth putting inside the tanks). If they're getting APCs that is.

It would be also interesting to see liaison officers ... Ordos Xenos militant officials perhaps. With Commissars and Priests in almost every squad available (both human and Tau - just in case). I doubt the Tau need any special equipment to radio communicate with the Imperial officers, but the latter will sure as hell need something to decrypt xenos tech. You wouldn't even need special rules to represent the extra 'liaison' troops and commissars. They're just their for the looks. I don't see a point in restricting yourself to the various army lists.

If you have long time serving Tau troops maybe you can give them Imperial service lasrifles, but with special interfaces with Tau tech. Or Tau Battlesuits with storm bolters instead of plasma rifles, and tank hunter missiles instead of missile pods. But I don't think this is that interesting, it would be better off if the Imperialists and Tau have a very segregated relationship in terms of technology.

In terms of colour scheme, I think you should copy the Cadian 8th colour scheme to the letter (or pigment...). This will make them green and khaki dominant on the tabletop. In contrast you could have your human troopers in khaki and green combination (the reverse of dominant colour scheme). Or ... whatever. I mean, this army is still in early stages, so I don't want to be suggesting anything like painting schemes for now.

Paint them like a space marine chapter, and include some imperial iconography. I would suggest Dark Angels green on the hard armor and a lighter green for the soft.
Add some feathers and aquillas and stuff to your crisis suits.

I havent been on in a while and I hope this isnt a dead thrad but i will imperialise them

It's not a dead thread if we see some pics of the models soon yes?

SUre i will have them soon

for the ethereal emperor!

Do black armour with red cloth , that would be a good rogue trader scheme .

Personally I hate the idea. It's almost like "Yeah I'm making a necron army that serves the emperor b/c the Admec were all like 0110111001110011100011100 and we were all like 0101! Then the rest was history!"

Good luck though.

Nice idea, but put some shiny silver in and find a space marine or imperial guard player to get those bits!
I'm doing the same thing with me friend, who plays eldar.

corpsesarefun wrote:Please run this as a group of tau working for an inquisitor, its the only way my narrow mind could comprehend imperial tau

They're rogue tau working for the emperor and his mighty plans....he just doesn't know it yet...but were really faithful, and hes like omnipresent so he probably already knows anyway, no sense in telling him again right?

neway, I like the green and brown, it has more of an imperial theme, the red and white seems either farsight if the red is on top, or medusa V if the white is on top, both pretty non imperial if you ask me.

I've had sooo many delays and now I have to get more tau. I am making a mercinary tau army whose commander left the Tau when the Etheral's sent his contingent on a scuicidal mission to whipe out an entire space marine chapter, the young commander went to O'Shova for help and followed him on his conquest, he became his pupil and finnally went on his own way.He is a stand in for farsight. The army is mostly made up of battle suits, and it is 2000 pts. They will be painted by a freind of mine. BUT I STILL NEED A SCHEME, one that stands out; my fellow Dakkites will you help me?(can ya give me some ideas, caus now they don't have to look imperial)

I think that a quartered color scheme would be cool. Maybe red and black or red and tan(something to match farsight, but not at the same time). It would really look the best on battlesuits, so if that is what you mainly have, then more power to you.

SMURF blue... and they can be led by an Inquisitor with a retinue of xeno hating Ultra SMURFS

have to admit, this is a bit of an odd thread.

It has been 6 months, and there are no pictures yet.

I suppose it can stay open, but really, you ought to get something together to show everyone...

Captain Shrike wrote:I am starting to make a rogue tau army who have fallen into the Emperor's guiding light(more fluff to come), what should be their color scheme?

that being said... i like iron's idea. like it so much i am gonna use it on my tau and see if they look good diped

I know it's been a while scince i last posted, but life got in the way, anyhoo yesterday I got really lucky when I found out one of my flgs's employee's does commision painting, so I should have pics posted by next weekend. the models being painted are just for a test scheme(two actually) one is the eavy metal crimsonfist blue fade out for the carpace, white cloth and red straps, the other one is salamanders green fade to black for the carapace, and black cloth with red straps.

cheers

Doesn't really mean much unless you have some pictures man... next time you update, it would probably be best to have some, lest the mods lock this thread in the name of the Holy Emperor...

Captain Shrike wrote:How bout this

That white with sharp red looks awesome, imo. If you do not use it, then I am going to steal it.

I really think that although both of those color schemes will look cool, they aren't really imperial enough, i would just paint them in normal cadian colors.

Majesticgoat wrote:

Captain Shrike wrote:How bout this

That white with sharp red looks awesome, imo. If you do not use it, then I am going to steal it.

They can be called Sept Ca'nad'a

As a Tau player, I have have to call blasphemy on this one! That out of the way, I agree with the others that a duller color palette would be best. I also agree that they would need to be Imperialised somewhere. Maybe file off the tau symbol on the fire warrior should pads and replace with squad markings ala Guard squads.

Alrightieieie, to clear up sumpin, my Tau are no longer impierial, alhough they do study space marine chapters, and from this they have learned to incorperate static defences and heavy weaponry in most cadre's and squads. Team leaders are always expierienced shas'ui and have two shoulderpads instead of one as seen here

I know i promised painted tau but my painter didn't show up at work so i'll get them this week, but i did pick up an O'shova model so I made him into my commander (pic below)

and fer now......army list!!!

total: 1994

HQ: 366
Commander Wrath: 162
(irridium armour, missile pod, afp, multi tracker, multi tracker, marker drone
Gaurds(3): 204
(multi-tracker, missile pod, plasma rifle)

Troops: 980
Fire warrior squads(4): 560
(10 warrior squads, shas'ui leader, marker drones)
Devilfish(1 per squad): 420
(smart missile system, targeting array)

Fast attack: 130
Pirahna team: 130
(targeting array)

Heavy support: 520
Hammerheads(2): 320
(railgun, smart missile system)
Broadside team: 200
(3 broadsides, targeting arrays)

PAINTED MINI's
which one do you guys like better?

Green.

Green
The blue just seems sorta meh to me it doesnt pop.

Green all the way

Agreed, green looked good, but that was maybe because of the jungle (or your back garden) he was stalking through

Green, the blue is too Tau sacea sept, and using farsight as a leader could be a good idea as they are already a rogue sept?