Tau rumour summary

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**Oaka**

I just hope the new Tau codex gives Kroot some actual close combat ability. I've been running my Kroot Mercenaries as Dark Eldar for the past few months, using Kroot as Wyches. Last weekend, I fought a Tau opponent in a tournament, and when my 15-Wych (Kroot) unit assaulted his actual 20-model Kroot unit, I killed all of them at initiative 6. We both had to reflect on how pathetic Kroot actually are.

**Brother SRM**

Kroothawk wrote:Yes, it would be totally unrealistic to pour some resin into this ready form and make instant profit:
http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Tau_-_Unreleased

Better make a 10000$ plastic mould for a rare choice of a rare army (beastmen) in a rare game (Warhammer Fantasy): Cygor/Ghorgon

In resin I think that's a great investment. Plastic still seems too expensive to produce though. However, a rare choice in a rare army is often a new thing to add to your army. This will usually make people buy a few, especially if it's considered powerful. Let's say a new Tau elite unit is released. Almost every Tau player will buy one or more. If a piece of Tau terrain is released, only people who own terrain boards are going to buy them, and even then it will only be people who own terrain boards and play Tau.

**Kroothawk**

Charistoph wrote:I was talking with someone yesterday about some of the rumors HE heard, and sadly, my memory fails me on all the specifics, but one thing he brought up was a Centauroid race being a new race. I forgot to ask him the source of his rumors, as he was just another joe in the LGS, but he had a lot of rumors under his belt that diverted wildly from what has been posted here.

ghost21 wrote:Hate to burst people's bubble, but Zoats are a fantasy race again.
All I know about the other race is: they MAY have 6 limbs.

PaperStraw wrote:Ghost, is this one of the new species? This was a piece of unseen concept art for the Tau auxillaries that I got ahold of. I don't think it's ever been posted on the internet before.

Well seeing how Roberto Cirillo told me first hand that all the art he wants to sell me is unrelated to the vespid, I'd have to disagree.
This page is from when he was doing the concept art for a new auxillary force for the tau though, which in the end was decided to be the vespid.
I will also say that I was distinctly told these two concepts were independent from the vespid concepts, not early vespid art:

So this is another possibility for a 6-limbed Tau Auxillary. Though I doubt they would induct another insectoid auxillary.
I will also also say that there is another centauroid race, similar to the above posted links, though it is a bit more reptilian in appearance.

As a last little gift for the day. Here is another six-limbed xenos concept.

**Ledabot**

I like the art, but if they'e not vespid, what are they?!

**Nagashek**

:looks at the link:

Tau Defensive complex? Yes. I'll take 2.

WHY does GW not do these?!? (Yes, I know. The money. But good god let FW do them then!)

**spiraleddie**

When ghost21 mentions zoats being a fantasy race, does he mean WFB only race or that zoats being revised is a fantasy.
If its the former id dispute that because a being called "Zoat" is clearly mentioned in the Space Marine novel by Ian Watson, it was inside a tyranid hive ship.

**Ventusgermany**

OH MY GOD, whats wrong with their faces?

They look horrible.
Especialy the first one. Resembles a car accident.

I don´t like where this is going and don´t even play Tau..

**Kroothawk**

ghost21 wrote:One of those is close to the vespid heavy.

**Jefffar**

Interesting, yet also disappointing.

I was kinda hoping for a Vespid Heavy that was like the queen vespid or something, big honking MC that moved like jump infantry.

**Sidstyler**

Okay, what the hell is this?

**agnosto**

Sidstyler wrote:

Okay, what the hell is this?

What, you've never played Bioshock?

Imagine, GW ripping off someone else's IP....the HORROR!!

**Jefffar**

Actually Copyright on the picture shows 2005, Bioshock was released 2007.

So if the image is derivative, wasn't from Bioshock.

**agnosto**

Humor check....failed.

**Jefffar**

I play Tau, that uses up all the humour I have.

**Sidstyler**

Jefffar wrote:I play Tau, that uses up all the humour I have.

lol

But no, the design doesn't make me think Big Daddy, just...wtf?

**Jefffar**

4 arms and a claw dagger - perhaps this will turn into some sort of melee monster.

**Bluetau**

Jefffar wrote:4 arms and a claw dagger - perhaps this will turn into some sort of melee monster.

I wouldnt complain about a CC unit that had high initiative and multiple attacks, its definitely a sore spot in the Tau

**Jefffar**

Or a unit that can sit on an objective.

**SabrX**

4 arms to hold 4 pulse rifles?

**chaos0xomega**

It looks like a way old-school retro-futuristic "raygun gothic" style sci-fi design, not at all fitting with the Tau's streamlined high-tech stylings.

**Sidstyler**

Yeah, something like that. I don't like it, lol.

**spiraleddie**

Why does it have to match the Tau aesthetic, if they are a co-opded race they will have their own style just as the kroot does.
This adds more variety to the codex and thats a good thing.

**Sidstyler**

spiraleddie wrote:Why does it have to match the Tau aesthetic, if they are a co-opded race they will have their own style just as the kroot does.
This adds more variety to the codex and thats a good thing.

It doesn't. Kroot and Vespid don't match and they're fine.

Variety is a good thing, but personally I just don't find this design all that interesting. So if it doesn't make me want to buy models then in my opinion no, it's not a good thing.

**Pen≥Sword**

Really, I kind of dig the diver suit look. While I'm sure that's a side effect from playing Bioshock, I'd be awfully tempted to buy one.

Though I wouldn't be surprised at all if they didn't use this design almost 7 years later.

**chaos0xomega**

spiraleddie wrote:Why does it have to match the Tau aesthetic, if they are a co-opded race they will have their own style just as the kroot does.
This adds more variety to the codex and thats a good thing.

Hate to break it to you but both the Kroot and Vespid fall into the Tau's overall aesthetic, the vespid more so than the kroot, but the Kroot are not so alien that they will stick out like a sore thumb. That concept there is so foreign and alien, that it would appear to be a model co-opted from a completely different game.

**Sentinel**

chaos0xomega wrote:
spiraleddie wrote:Why does it have to match the Tau aesthetic, if they are a co-opded race they will have their own style just as the kroot does.
This adds more variety to the codex and thats a good thing.

Hate to break it to you but both the Kroot and Vespid fall into the Tau's overall aesthetic, the vespid more so than the kroot, but the Kroot are not so alien that they will stick out like a sore thumb. That concept there is so foreign and alien, that it would appear to be a model co-opted from a completely different game.

Please explain how the Kroot fall into the Tau aesthetic? I can't think of one way in which they match. Sure the Vespid use Tau tech, but the Kroot? Savage, tribal, CC oriented? Almost opposites, except that they fight for the greater good.

**chaos0xomega**

They fit in because they don't clash visually with everything else in the Tau army. They feel at home. If you look at the armor of those minis, they look like they are from a completely different universe and a completely different time period. They do not blend at all with anything else out there, neither Tau nor any other Xenos species.

**ZeroSamurai**

You probably don't consider them clashing that much visually because you've gotten used to seeing kroot in a Tau army, I think the aesthetic of these MC's are very similar to vespids so will fit in to a Tau army with time. I quite like how the concept looks personally.

Also, is that diver suit specifically a Tau concept or just a random concept he decided to post as a treat?

**chaos0xomega**

Errr, I was referring specifically to the diver suit (as being the one that clashes), which I assume is a Tau concept...

**MoD_Legion**

Tau dont have 4 arms, hence the diver suit thing is probably not Tau.