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So over on ATT Minionboy decided that the Tau should have a peice of the Dreadknight pie and used the Dreadknight image to create this concept. We've got a discussion going on over there as far as fluff for the suit and a name for it. I thought it was cool so I figured I'd share it here



And one with weapons

I look forward to the end result. Excelsior!

It seems like something you'd use in an apocalypse game. I really like idea. In fact I may try something similar to this one day.

I can't wait to see one he starts getting the actual conversion going, it dosen't even seem that hard to do when you compare the differances between the design and an actual Dreadknight

You may even be able to make a few adjustments and use this as an actual Hammerhead. The footprint of a Tau tank is close to the size of the DK's base, just widen it a bit and have the gun lower and you should have it.

I'm not making it but personally I'd rather come up with my own rules or just use it as a counts as Dreadknight in Apocalypse.

Always wanted to Chaosify this thing to count him as a Blood Slaugtherer...

A bit like a smack to all the GK's players, "hey look!, your new shiny Gundam, still can be corrupted!!! "

Perfect to piss off a few Gk's i know

feet are perfect for tau. lots of potential.

Slayer le boucher wrote:Always wanted to Chaosify this thing to count him as a Blood Slaugtherer...

A bit like a smack to all the GK's players, "hey look!, your new shiny Gundam, still can be corrupted!!! "

Perfect to piss off a few Gk's i know

That's fine and all but what does it have to do with turning a Dreadknight into a Tau battlesuit.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:

Slayer le boucher wrote:Always wanted to Chaosify this thing to count him as a Blood Slaugtherer...

A bit like a smack to all the GK's players, "hey look!, your new shiny Gundam, still can be corrupted!!! "

Perfect to piss off a few Gk's i know

That's fine and all but what does it have to do with turning a Dreadknight into a Tau battlesuit.

Maybe the fact that the DK will be used for something else, then what its intended at the start?...

But to be on topic, this will be easely done when looking at it.

Scrap off all those useless Imperial icons,add a little beefed up tau battle suit torso, for the head maybe using 2 Tau BS's Heads?...

Or a modded Defiler head?

I agree with the defiler "head"definately a techy bit that can take the mod far.

not sure how much sork it needs, the external frame/brace onthe arms is definately imperial, so those would have to go to tauify it. seems like you already thought about that.

Im actually interested to see what you'd do with the back end of the model, because i know its powerplant looks identical to the landraider engine. Beasts of War, lordy I hate them, did an unboxing of a dreadnight, not sure if you saw it but it might give you a head-start for planning with the parts.

also, come to think of it, not just the defiler "head" but the the one from the apocalypse comand frame. It comes with some other tau bits that you might want to consider.

On a side note, this thing is big, so it has me wondering if perhaps the arm braces were used separately to add two more arms, under the control of another pilot? Also made me wonder abot adding platforms for gun-drones.

Seems like there is oodles of fun to be had with tauification of this thing. Looking forward to when you actually lay your hands on it.

I almost don't think you'd have to bulk up the Battlesuit torso, I haven't seen a size compareson between the 2 though. Pretty much you'd just have to remove all the technology aspects associated with the Imperium. So the Servo arms that are attached to the actual arms, the exhaust pipes, cables and such since Tau tech really dosen't have any of that. The head would probably be just a normal battlesuit head minus the aerials, the Tau like armor could be plasticard.

well the battlesuit IS big, but not like a dreadnought. That chest section is big too but the size seems a perfect match.

You can actually just pull up the sprue for it by googleing Dreadknight sprue and I won't be making this. At least not anytime soon but if the creator makes it I'll be sure to post pics

>___<

missed that thing about it being on ATT...

Still, it makes me wonder because it seems to me like it would need at least another piolt, for different weapon systems because the tau are all efficient-like that way, at least from the fluff I've read. Super heavies are not generally in their realm of use. So I'm hinking this would have ooodles of secondary/close support equipment. This feels like a harder thing to do by the minute

I think that's because you're over complicating it I'm not even sure this is considered a super heavy but chances are the suit would probably have a drone A.I hardwired into itself in addition to a Pilot to assist with targeting and secondary systems.

My inclination to dub it a tau superheavy stems from the fact they really dont have anything that comes that size. (technically speaing, the Leman Russ is in and of itself a superheavy tank if you go according to tonnage and scale, because that thing is a beast, GW just shifts everything over to the excessive)

I think Tau are due for an overhaul too, but theyre at the end of a long line up of those who need overhauls more, so im curious to see what other expansions GW will invent to release more stuff from the other lines.


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well... maybe not for a codex overhaul, but sprue/model overhaul. I've painted those buggers before, and the armor plates were frustrating as hell.

Hmm.. you would need to alter some of the details substantially. Tau legs are digitigrade so you would have to alter the legs and feet. Tau have fewer fingers than Humans so the stupid-fists would need to be de-stupefied.

Tau also rely on movement and maneuver so you would probably have to fit the beast with some kind of jump capability. I guess it could be converted but I think that people buying the thing for any purpose sends the wrong message to the model designers (i.e. they might start thinking that they made a good model)

And next week, we will see how to make a killa can out of a stompa

poda_t wrote:My inclination to dub it a tau superheavy stems from the fact they really dont have anything that comes that size. (technically speaing, the Leman Russ is in and of itself a superheavy tank if you go according to tonnage and scale, because that thing is a beast, GW just shifts everything over to the excessive)

I think Tau are due for an overhaul too, but theyre at the end of a long line up of those who need overhauls more, so im curious to see what other expansions GW will invent to release more stuff from the other lines.


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well... maybe not for a codex overhaul, but sprue/model overhaul. I've painted those buggers before, and the armor plates were frustrating as hell.

If you look into the Tau fluff in the Imperial Armor books, it says quite clearly that the Tau are against slow walking suits of armor... In my opionon a suit on this scale would be very unfluffy for the tau.

I'll be following this thread with interest...

I am kinda ruptured to see this made it to dakkadakka. My friend is making this not as some heavy walker as it will have a modified jump pack on the pack. He is making his full army based on the heavy gear style. Him and I have talked alot about how thus would work in game settings.

I think it looks better that way than it does on its own. Seriously, who is leading the modelling department at GW now? First the "new" IG tanks, then the Storm Raven, now this thing? If it were not for the Dark Eldar stuff looking pretty decent I would think GW lost some of its last screws.

Skinnattittar wrote:I think it looks better that way than it does on its own. Seriously, who is leading the modelling department at GW now? First the "new" IG tanks, then the Storm Raven, now this thing? If it were not for the Dark Eldar stuff looking pretty decent I would think GW lost some of its last screws.

I think everything that has come out recently had been great.

@Poda_t:: The Tau do have a super heavy, it's the Manta Missle Destroyer.

@Flinty: Tau themselves may be digitigrade but that dosen't mean that the battlesuit needs to be. Even Crisis suits aren't modeled after Tau anatomy.

@Catyrpelius: You have heard of the slow moving, walking battlesuit called a Broadside right?

@cgage00: You're ruptured? I'm not sure what you mean by your statement?

Keeping my eye on this one.

What would it count as?

You coulda at least credited me or linked to the original post.

I'll be using this as a Hammerhead counts as, like someone mentioned before the big base is about the same footprint as the actual tank, so i don't think people will raise issue with it. There are also plans on making a skyray variant.

I've had a chance to examine the sprues, the cockpit will most likely have to be scratch built, which is no problem for me.

You can find my original post here: http://advancedtautactica.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17185

I'll probably be updating it on ATT as soon as i get my grubby fingers on the sprues. Thanks for the feedback and support!

snake wrote:Keeping my eye on this one.

What would it count as?

Oops there ya go Minionboy answered it but that dosen't mean anyone else would have to do the same. I'd just have it be a counts as Dreadknight in Apocalypse games.


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I did credit you Minionboy sorry I didn't do it earlier but I coulden't remember who had the idea last night when I made the thread, but I just did it and then the screen re-loaded it showed your post. All credit to Minionboy on the concept

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:@Poda_t:: The Tau do have a super heavy, it's the Manta Missle Destroyer.

@Flinty: Tau themselves may be digitigrade but that dosen't mean that the battlesuit needs to be. Even Crisis suits aren't modeled after Tau anatomy.

@Catyrpelius: You have heard of the slow moving, walking battlesuit called a Broadside right?

@cgage00: You're ruptured? I'm not sure what you mean by your statement?

It was supposed to say surprised my phone corrected it to that some how.

i'd say go with the shaso rymr chest if you can afford it as the armor actually matches the more curvy look that the dreadknight already has instead of the boxy regular crisis suit chest.