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Worst thing I think GW can do (and has done) is to try and fix something that isn't broken.
Personally, I like the Tau codex just the way it is.

Replace the Kroot with Gunguns or Klingons.

Klingons would be a bonus to them. A decent CC squad.
3 wounds, relentless, rendering.

Ribon Fox wrote:

Sasori wrote:Have Robin Cruddace write the new Tau Codex.

I can think of no worse fate.

Hay, he did the IG codex and thats a pretty well rounded codex, Mat Ward on the other hand.

Well Rounded? The codex that spawned the nickname "Leaf Blower" for a certain list, and is filled with some of the most ridiculously undercosted units in the game (Such as Vendettas). I fail to see how it's "Well rounded" at all.

Cruddace also Wrote Nids and SoB. I would much rather Ward have wrote my Tyranids than Cruddace.

While Ward may have went overboard on the GK codex a bit, Space Marines, Blood Angels, and Necrons are all very solidly written dexes. So I'll take the 3/4 to the 0/3 for Cruddace.

Anyway, if you want to continue this feel free to PM me.

Cut back Tau space significantly in the fluff. Put them right on the knife edge of annihilation, then have the Ultrasmurfs fly in and save them from 'Nids, before they swear allegiance to Emprah, throwing Aun'va down a chasm 300 style.

Thus, Farsight becomes the big bad HQ for Tau.

Damn, that sounds like an improvement!

Take away your precious 4+ cover saves for your vehicles...

Make railguns S7 with Rending
Make pathfinders elite and suits fast attack
Make broadsides a fast attack upgrade for crisis suits similar to necron heavy destroyers for destroyers
Make ethereals a mandatory HQ choice similar to the emperor's champion for black templars
Make pulse weaponry S4
Make all Multi-tracker upgrades only for HQ suits
Make Hammerheads like the Doomsday Ark, if it moves it's railgun drops from S7 to S5 with Rending

Not give them a real update for 12 years..... Dark Eldar much?

Best screw... make suits overcosted (e.g. Tyrannid Carnifex) That will make every Tau have to go out and buy new stuff to compensate.

"To remove hybrid kits, broadsides will no longer be available and will have to made from the normal crisis suit and hammerhead kit. Additionally the hammerhead and skyray kits will be adjusted to combat players simply buying a skyray and having the parts to make all three."

Allow the new "Codex" to be released as a mini dex in White dwarf

Tau armies new slogan: "For the greater profit!"
Tau armies aren't just able to take human auxiliaries, they are required too.
GW recommends purchasing a imperial guardsman box and a tau firewarrior box and gluing them together to make your new units.
Tau markerlights now require a token to mark their use, $10 for 5.
Shield drones are now sold seperatly in their own box, $30 for 5, and have only one random weapon our of the entire codex, per drone.
Meaning outfitting a tank or a squad with the proper weapons would mean you have to buy two boxes.
Firewarriors have a reduction in points cost, meaning you can field more of them! But you have to spend another 30 bucks on another squad to play at whatever point value you army was already at previously.
Or 60, considering they'll need shield drones.
Tau earth, water, and air cast models are designed, and must be placed on the tabel with any reserve units to represent the tau "working together" to solve a problem.
They benefit to having them is being able to deep strike, which is removed in the new codex on most units that previously could naturally.

Ribon Fox wrote:Klingons would be a bonus to them. A decent CC squad.
3 wounds, relentless, rendering.

3 wounds? A good old layzar!!! pistol to the face is enough.

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TheRobotLol wrote:

Ribon Fox wrote:Klingons would be a bonus to them. A decent CC squad.
3 wounds, relentless, rendering.

3 wounds? A good old layzar!!! pistol to the face is enough.

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Fixed.

moom241 wrote:

TheRobotLol wrote:

Ribon Fox wrote:Klingons would be a bonus to them. A decent CC squad.
3 wounds, relentless, rendering.

3 wounds? A good old layzar!!! pistol to the face is enough.

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Fixed.

Mad skillllz!

Also, if we add klingons, we have to add the Worf effect, in which to showcase the power of a character, the kilingon will always get beaten up. If fired upon, or attacked in CC by an IC, all Klingon units become T2, S2, Int2.

moom241 wrote:Also, if we add klingons, we have to add the Worf effect, in which to showcase the power of a character, the kilingon will always get beaten up. If fired upon, or attacked in CC by an IC, all Klingon units become T2, S2, Int2.

Not to mension, ws 2, bs 2, i 2, a 2, ld 2, sv 6, etc.

Ribon Fox wrote:

Sasori wrote:Have Robin Cruddace write the new Tau Codex.

I can think of no worse fate.

Hay, he did the IG codex and thats a pretty well rounded codex, Mat Ward on the other hand.

Actually, if you simply count the number of units that suck and that are actually good you will find that most of the IG codex is pretty rank.

It just has a fething carpload of units in it to where the few that are actually pretty good can make a very competitive army. If you made a spreadsheet of all the possable types of IG army, most builds would suck.


Examples: Rough Riders, Ogryns, Conscripts, Ratlings, about 3/4 of the Lemun Russ varients, Stormtroopers...


Cruddance writes horribly balanced codices, just put enough units in the codex and the law of averages will eventually give you a playable codex.

Make a very well rounded and very good playing codex with no real cheese, and can satisfy everyone.

Let Matt Ward do the codex....lol

downplay the battle suits by giving them the "Gets Hot!!!" Rule.

make all tau troops have a 5+ save...

remove the Kroot part of the codex.. and sell it separatly..

Mat doesn't do that with Codices.


he'd probably give Suits another wound or universal access to Irridium Armor.

Kroot would become INSANE BAMFs like you wouldn't believe.

A'unva would become god.

That's if he likes them, if not prepare for something like the SoB WD dex.

I wouldn't worry about it, Mat doesn't write about any race he doesn't like.

Mat Ward wrote WHFB orks and goblins and outright said he hated them......

DAaddict wrote:Best screw... make suits overcosted (e.g. Tyrannid Carnifex) That will make every Tau have to go out and buy new stuff to compensate.

Thats the most possible, or make the suits 1-3, broadsides 1 unit per army.

Add a 200-point HQ unit with no shooting attacks, mild close combat ability, terrible saves and a rule whereby, if it's killed, your entire army may run off the table... but... it makes your awful units slightly better in combat.

Oh.... wait....

Here's and awesome idea..... Get rid of Tau all together?

Interrogator-Chaplin wrote:remove the Kroot part of the codex.. and sell it separatly..

Making them auxilleries / mercs with their own 'dex that can either be run as their own independant army, or with the Tau would actually be a good thing

Make them more anime.

Make Etherals good. Confusion would reign.