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I love salt so much, on everything, even salad.

But I love my tau more. I can see rays of light in the darkness that is my tau carrying case, behold a new beginning!

You sirs have brought me renewed vigor for my Tau army... I want to hear people complain on how my Railgun zooms forward 12" and skewers through 3-4 Chimeras and a Russ (Rhino and Land Raider respectfully).

I want my firewarriors to be able to take special weapons like a space marine can... (Rail Rifles, Plasma Rifle, etc)

I want my Hammerhead to also do more than fire one shot on a 3+, having plasma turrets would be awesome.

I also would like to have power weapons, or at the very least the "veterans" of the army to have BS 4... Every time I roll to shoot, the IG players snicker at me... :(

If more aliens show up in my Tau army, it will be because they are doing a specific job, and they will be doing that job comparatively well. My close combat experts better be experts in close combat, my MEQ hunters better have all the tools to kill squads of MEQs without out spending them.

avantgarde wrote:Vespids will either look amazing but be unplayable or be competitive and look like az. They cannot have both.

Well, now Vespids are both unplayable and look like az.

So going either/or would be an upgrade.

I love the ejected pilot model, I really hope it'll be released.
I can't wait to see new Tau rules, I might start 'em.

Cane wrote:Sounds cool, can't wait. Hopefully the Crisis Suits get some needed updates in their design as well - their shoulders could use some Imperial proportions since they're tiny now and the ankles look pretty weak too.

They are pretty weak. I've had numerous ankle breakages....

Those railgun stats:

cool rumors. grain of salt and all as usual. i do like the idea of a railgun that keeps going until it glances (or rolls a one to wound hopefully!). at least that corresponds to the fluff in the various stories about tau railguns and how they're used. i expect them to at least give tau the other 5th edition standard upgrades like decrease in transport and unit point costs, free grenades for everyone (even IG get frag!), and some force org changes based on unit selection.

on the off chance GW is listening, i'd suggest giving every tau jetpack infantry (i.e. crisis and stealth suits) hit and run. they shouldn't be able to reliably win a close combat (even with a new codex) but they should at least have a chance of escaping it.

I would imagine the Rail Gun rumor would have some sort of balancing factor like it loses one strength every time it comes into contact with the next vehicle.

I can't imagine a Strength 10 AP 1 RAY would exist in this game.

Defiler wrote:I would imagine the Rail Gun rumor would have some sort of balancing factor like it loses one strength every time it comes into contact with the next vehicle.

I can't imagine a Strength 10 AP 1 RAY would exist in this game.

I can. GW has a lacking sense of the word balance, as I see it often complained about in the most recent of Codii.

Defiler wrote: I can't imagine a Strength 10 AP 1 RAY would exist in this game.

*cough* JOWW *cough*
Though not S10 it most decidedly is a ray that can weak havoc....especially vs. Tau.

Tau can't be in the works, we still need 2 more marine codex to come out.

I will be very excited if they bring out more allies. They definitely do need to fix vespid, I would drop fleet and lower the point cost myself.

Bonus points if they add a special charcter that is kinda like an opposite to O'Shovah, I.E. Rearrange army structure to make it possible to do an allies only army.

Lukez

QuietOrkmi wrote:You sirs have brought me renewed vigor for my Tau army... I want to hear people complain on how my Railgun zooms forward 12" and skewers through 3-4 Chimeras and a Russ (Rhino and Land Raider respectfully).

I want my firewarriors to be able to take special weapons like a space marine can... (Rail Rifles, Plasma Rifle, etc)

I want my Hammerhead to also do more than fire one shot on a 3+, having plasma turrets would be awesome.

I also would like to have power weapons, or at the very least the "veterans" of the army to have BS 4... Every time I roll to shoot, the IG players snicker at me... :(

If more aliens show up in my Tau army, it will be because they are doing a specific job, and they will be doing that job comparatively well. My close combat experts better be experts in close combat, my MEQ hunters better have all the tools to kill squads of MEQs without out spending them.

And I'd like to win the lotto, that doesn't mean its going to happen.

All of you with an "in-progress" Tau army need to start playing it now so you can say that you were playing Tau before they got all powerful and stuff.

It's just nice to see that we're actually seeing Tau rumors, false or not.

Hey, I've been playing them since 3rd edition (my first army), although I havent played them in the last 2 years or so.

I did recently come to the realization that I have 15 crisis suits and 9 piranhas though...

I've not played mine for a few months, but they are mostly painted. So I will paint another box of Kroot, taking my total to 3 painted. And the last two crisis suits that need it, a 3rd devil fish, and maybe an etheral since they could be useful, and all the special dewd I don't have, also for the same reason.

BTW. I would pay handsomly for that kroot shaper.

Sweet, love the Railgun idea.

New Allies is awesome hopefully some Demiurg and Nicassar!

All they have to do is expand the FW line into the standard codex and then allow for troops choice Suits and I will be happier than I am now.

I just started playing Tau. Good to know I beat the bandwagon this time. (I tried with Guard, but I didn't have the resources to start before the new codex).

The Hammerhead thing sounds exciting, but op. I would love to see a Kroot HQ so the can be used as an army within the Tau army. Maybe some human allies so I can use my Guard models. Stealth suits need some upgrades/options. love the idea of them, but they don't fit thier role.

The railgun stats sounds really, really playtesty - like that's definitely an idea from a playtest codex. It actually makes sense to me though. Would hopefully have an appropriate cost though. To be fair, how often do you really have vehicles lined up like that?

These seem more plausible than a lot of the rumors that float around. I don't see plastic Vespid happening though. Pathfinders, sure. Krootox, maybe. A new alien race sounds about right. I like the idea of making the Tau more coalition-like.

Woah...that Kroot Shaper model is fantastic. I want one and I don't even play Tau.

as for allies, i'd like more in the next codex but not too many. personally, one non-tau allied race entry per slot (hq, elite, troop, FA, heavy) feels about right.

The railgun-ray doesn't sound too bad. Shouldn't be too hard to ensure your vehicles aren't all bunched up, and few infantry units would be hurt more by the ray than they would a submunition.

Granted, if the railgun platform can survive long enough and run down a flank for enfilade shots, that's a different story, but seems a fair reward for successfully maneuvering.

Unless it can deepstrike on turn 2 and blast your gunline.....

I saw this over on ATT.

Personally I'll wait untill the new book is in my hands before getting excited. But some of the rumors do sound cool.

I'm not sure if I should keep it up with my re-haul on my Tau right now or not. I don't want to finish them and it turns out that there is a whole bunch of new goodies I'd rather have.

I do like the idea of more aliens I mean that is what the Tau are all about. And for those who say that the Tau would be phased out of their own armies that's the players choice. If the new dex has a ton load of new aliens and players want to use them they can, if you want to stick with mostly Tau and lesser auxiliaries I'm sure you'll be able to. I highly doubt they are going to put the Tau on the back step in their own codex. And to be honest in all my time playing I've only ever seen 1 army that was mostly Tau, all the others had counts (yeah I know they're counts as) auxiliaries or home grown auxiliaries so I don't see much changing on that end.

Only time will tell

Does this mean its possible ill get to use my hazard suits?
If not, then keep thier tau.
FW suits have allways looked better, so i rather not have to replace them all with new ones if/when they get released.


Railgun wise: I see it as possible, but maybe a slight catch on it?
Before people scream over-powered, think back to JOWW on release.
People were up in arms about it, now its just part of the game.
and lets face it, atleast the rail cant skewer multiple fex's


Well, guess i better get my daemons and BA finished up so i can start something new

Brother SRM wrote:The railgun stats sounds really, really playtesty - like that's definitely an idea from a playtest codex. It actually makes sense to me though. Would hopefully have an appropriate cost though. To be fair, how often do you really have vehicles lined up like that?

These seem more plausible than a lot of the rumors that float around. I don't see plastic Vespid happening though. Pathfinders, sure. Krootox, maybe. A new alien race sounds about right. I like the idea of making the Tau more coalition-like.

If they still have the upgrade that allows you to fire as a fast vehicle, that will leave a lot of maneuverability to get the shot off.

Hastings answered this to questions about possible new Crisis Suit sculpts:

I have been all but assured that they are not getting redone, which is a massive shame as the FW ones are fantastic and the GW ones crap!

Even when this points at the other direction than the rumours in the first post.
Good thing that all my Crisis Suits and Broadsides already ARE by FW

@Kroothawk: Who is dante76, and does he have any history of being credible? As this could just be another fake, like the Tomb Stalker debacle, I'm gonna call Evelynn



on this one.

Kroothawk wrote:Hastings answered this to questions about possible new Crisis Suit sculpts:

I have been all but assured that they are not getting redone, which is a massive shame as the FW ones are fantastic and the GW ones crap!

Even when this points at the other direction than the rumours in the first post.
Good thing that all my Crisis Suits and Broadsides already ARE by FW

Fine then! Keep your promiscuously curvy suits, I like the boxbot better