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I'm guessing this is another female Tau judging by the Y shaped head markings. (Just like in the Ghostkeel)



Kudos to them for not going with the overtly sexy alien route. I hope this means there is hope for female heads in future updated kits like Guard infantry.

@Vinehart01 It's not facepalm worthy lol, just weird. I legitimately had to check my White Dwarf again to make sure there wasn't some price hike I was unaware of! Their new webstore does that randomly and it is really annoying.

@Hive City Dweller That is indeed a female Tau. I've gotta say that GW are really kicking it out of the park with this release model-wise.

Bobug wrote:
Look on the bright side, scratch building a tidewall should be pretty easy, there have been plenty of official GW instructions on making incredibly effective and cheap tau terrain. Now the tidewall is OOP (lol) we have "no choice" but to save our £90 and build our own. Unfortunately I have no railguns left.... to ebay!

Yeah, I am pretty positive that I can build an exact copy of the tidewall easily. I plan to sculpt it in clay and then cast the elements using plaster. I won't use it for gaming though, only for decorational purposes - I guess most people wouldn't play against a scratch build tidewall.

Cheers
Kahnawake

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
I'm guessing this is another female Tau judging by the Y shaped head markings. (Just like in the Ghostkeel)



Kudos to them for not going with the overtly sexy alien route. I hope this means there is hope for female heads in future updated kits like Guard infantry.

I'm glad for the head but I do wish we got one or two female torsos. I know some people don't like pin up style and that's fine. I just think you could cater to both.

Im doing mine in the white scheme. Im really digging that.

Too be fair, under hard body armor the female bits just disappear.

Triszin wrote:Well, the have a little camera on their gun, they could use that to peek around corners.

I dont think its supposed to be a camera, It looks like a Barrel Stabilizer to me. I think it looks better painted as a stabilizer, a camera right there would get broken way to fast, either internally or externally.

The fluff on Pulse Blasters, if you roll aaaaaaaaalll the way back to the WD88 Stormsurge details and captions, is that A.R.C. tech shoots out a stream of negatively charged particles milliseconds before the plasma blast itself, to act as a sort of "path primer" for the primary weapon effect. It's a sci-fi concept for energy weapons and a few realworld ballistic ones that I've heard a couple times in the past, but, it'd make sense if the Pulse Baster and the Pulse Blast Cannon are both ARC tech.

Long story short, I think the gun lens is that extra particle emitter. I think it's the same story for the third barrel of the Stormsurge Pulse Blastcannon.


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migooo wrote:
I'm glad for the head but I do wish we got one or two female torsos. I know some people don't like pin up style and that's fine. I just think you could cater to both.

Wargames Exclusives have you covered for pin-up Tau, and Zealot Miniatures has some Female Kadesh heads and torsos that would work fine for a less-pin-up-but-still-kinda-boob-armor look.

The terrain is selling out everywhere.

vitae_drinker wrote:
Too be fair, under hard body armor the female bits just disappear.

Actually, not true

There are bullet proof body armor IRL that is designed to contour to the female body because the normal flat plate one is incredibly uncomfortable and depending on bust size painful to wear. Its lost with all the gear the armed forces strap to their chest (i was in the Air Force for 6 years, first time i saw that armor i was like "whaaa?" lol) but its not lost by the armor itself

However its pretty much accepted, whether its true or not i dunno, that female Tau dont really have a physical difference to male Tau other than the Y on their forehead. I mean, look at Shadowsun. Yeah shes wearing heavier armor than firewarriors but you can still see she has no real feminine features, even her face isnt very feminine.
That being said, i still wish it was a bit more different from males. The Y is easily lost at a distance or covered up in paint. Heck, the | on my males tends to vanish because i dont usually think to blacken it and it vanishes as i paint the skin. Last model i painted with his face visible was my cadre fireblade and it looks like one hell of an exaggeration between his eyebrows not a | lol.

Problem with female torsos is they generally give them virtually no armor, which just looks silly even if it is appealing to us guys. I bought some Zealot Miniatures Kadesh heads because those heads actually look feminine, im not worried about the torsos because they dont really fit with the firewarrior body armor to me.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The terrain is selling out everywhere.

The question is, will it be back?

 Medium of Death wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The terrain is selling out everywhere.

The question is, will it be back?

This is GW were talking about, money grabbers. Even if its a limited edition, if it sold out THAT fast even their dense sales market people will notice and mention it.
Its bound to be restocked.

Find it funny it sold out that fast though. There cant be THAT many tau players, and we dont know if this is cross-faction. I mean, you could want it for normal terrain i guess but thats some pricy trench-style terrain lol

 Vineheart01 wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The terrain is selling out everywhere.

The question is, will it be back?

This is GW were talking about, money grabbers. Even if its a limited edition, if it sold out THAT fast even their dense sales market people will notice and mention it.
Its bound to be restocked.

Find it funny it sold out that fast though. There cant be THAT many tau players, and we dont know if this is cross-faction. I mean, you could want it for normal terrain i guess but thats some pricy trench-style terrain lol

Odds are it's being bought up by ebay scalpers trying to turn a quick profit, just like the data cards for different codices. I want a set of this terrain, but I'd prefer to buy it through one of the 20-25% off online retailers than pay full price for it.

vitae_drinker wrote:
Too be fair, under hard body armor the female bits just disappear.

Your correct there. There's this very iconic picture of a Ukrainian MP in body armour. I think I'd like to do a tau similar to that.




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 Vineheart01 wrote:

vitae_drinker wrote:
Too be fair, under hard body armor the female bits just disappear.

Actually, not true

There are bullet proof body armor IRL that is designed to contour to the female body because the normal flat plate one is incredibly uncomfortable and depending on bust size painful to wear. Its lost with all the gear the armed forces strap to their chest (i was in the Air Force for 6 years, first time i saw that armor i was like "whaaa?" lol) but its not lost by the armor itself

However its pretty much accepted, whether its true or not i dunno, that female Tau dont really have a physical difference to male Tau other than the Y on their forehead. I mean, look at Shadowsun. Yeah shes wearing heavier armor than firewarriors but you can still see she has no real feminine features, even her face isnt very feminine.
That being said, i still wish it was a bit more different from males. The Y is easily lost at a distance or covered up in paint. Heck, the | on my males tends to vanish because i dont usually think to blacken it and it vanishes as i paint the skin. Last model i painted with his face visible was my cadre fireblade and it looks like one hell of an exaggeration between his eyebrows not a | lol.

Problem with female torsos is they generally give them virtually no armor, which just looks silly even if it is appealing to us guys. I bought some Zealot Miniatures Kadesh heads because those heads actually look feminine, im not worried about the torsos because they dont really fit with the firewarrior body armor to me.

The zealot torsos are longer too

I found that Ghostkneel and steath suits got something in common - that bits at left hand of ghost and at round base at steath suits. Is this that holothing?

 Kahnawake wrote:

Bobug wrote:
Look on the bright side, scratch building a tidewall should be pretty easy, there have been plenty of official GW instructions on making incredibly effective and cheap tau terrain. Now the tidewall is OOP (lol) we have "no choice" but to save our £90 and build our own. Unfortunately I have no railguns left.... to ebay!

Yeah, I am pretty positive that I can build an exact copy of the tidewall easily. I plan to sculpt it in clay and then cast the elements using plaster. I won't use it for gaming though, only for decorational purposes - I guess most people wouldn't play against a scratch build tidewall.

Cheers
Kahnawake

Most people totally would my friend, especially if you did it well. How do you think Ork players even get to play?

migooo wrote:
I'm glad for the head but I do wish we got one or two female torsos.

That is a female torso.

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
I'm guessing this is another female Tau judging by the Y shaped head markings. (Just like in the Ghostkeel)



Kudos to them for not going with the overtly sexy alien route. I hope this means there is hope for female heads in future updated kits like Guard infantry.

I like how the armor has the Japanese flag on it :3

 Mr.T wrote:
I found that Ghostkneel and steath suits got something in common - that bits at left hand of ghost and at round base at steath suits. Is this that holothing?

I think the bit in the stealth suit kit is called the "Shroud Emitter" while the Ghostkeel arm part is the "Stealth Suite"

I could be wrong but I imagine in game terms they serve the same purpose.

I'm not sure why that piece is on a base in the Tau kit. It seems kind of redundant/stupid that it would be its own individual model rather than being attached to one of the suits or drones.

Not sure if it has any function in game. It might function as a deep strike marker?

 Vineheart01 wrote:

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Find it funny it sold out that fast though. There cant be THAT many tau players, and we dont know if this is cross-faction. I mean, you could want it for normal terrain i guess but thats some pricy trench-style terrain lol

Say what you want about the Tau, many people think their general design and looks are great. This terrain simply looks really nice, a cool sci-fi design that will look great on the battlefield even as a neutral objective/terrain element. Maybe that's why it sold out that fast?

Kahnawake

When will preorders go live on the Canadian site? Same time as the US site?

I want my Tidewall super much so. If I don't get it I'll just have to grab the Ta'unar instead. Oh woes is me.

Preorders are up now on both US and Canada.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preorders are up now on both US and Canada.

Let us see how long it takes to sell out...

U.S. Preorders are up, snagged the rampart and the Tau campaign box!

And after spending all the cash tooling the mould, the kit will only be costing a matter of pence in plastic to make, yet GW feel flush enough to not bother making enough for all the customers that want one. Fething idiots.

 Mulletdude wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preorders are up now on both US and Canada.

Let us see how long it takes to sell out...

Don't know, but I snagged mine.

Got mine! Yes!

 Mulletdude wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preorders are up now on both US and Canada.

Let us see how long it takes to sell out...

haha sold out already.

Less than 10 minutes

Aaaand, it's gone.

 Medium of Death wrote:

 Mr.T wrote:
I found that Ghostkneel and steath suits got something in common - that bits at left hand of ghost and at round base at steath suits. Is this that holothing?

I think the bit in the stealth suit kit is called the "Shroud Emitter" while the Ghostkeel arm part is the "Stealth Suite"

Those aren't the same parts he's referring to I believe. There is, on the Ghostkeel Wing photo, a small rounded bit with an antennae. You can see it on a Stealth Suit Shas'vre(and only the Shas'vre as IIRC it includes just one on the sprue) in this photo:


On a Ghostkeel in this photo, but it is present on all three built examples for the Ghostkeel Wing:


It leads me to believe that is meant to be the "Homing Beacon" as currently the Shas'vre of a Stealth Suit team can take one, but otherwise it does not exist except in certain places(Recon Drones for example)

I could be wrong but I imagine in game terms they serve the same purpose.
I'm not sure why that piece is on a base in the Tau kit. It seems kind of redundant/stupid that it would be its own individual model rather than being attached to one of the suits or drones.

Not sure if it has any function in game. It might function as a deep strike marker?

It has no function in-game. It's no different than the little Teleport Homer that comes with the Loyalist Terminator kits.

And, ugh. I'll definitely be swapping out the overgrown rail rifle for a Hammerhead's railgun, so long as the sizes are right.