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I want to see a 72" ""Death Ray"" Rail Gun

Yet they felt the Rail Gun too week. And so it was the Death Rail Gun was born.

Learing from previos wardtrocities the tau will probaly be knocking on terra's door in 6th Ed.

Just look on the bright side
*Looks at title again*
Wait a minute.Matt Ward's writing it.Then there is no bright side. Only sorrow.

Actually, as someone else pointed out in another thread, Matt Ward is a subtractive army author. Because he's pretty good at giving an army overwhelming power in every area before making damn sure they have a glaring weakness which shoehorns the army in question into a set of unique, and as a result, interesting tactical options he's actually perfect for the Tau.

This is assuming you like how the Necron turned out of course, because that's exactly what he'll do with the tau: they'll probably suck up close, but be jaw-droppingly awesome at long range with some interesting methods of keeping opponents away from them. Necrons, by contrast, are good at mid-range shooting, have some strong clean-up units, and can protect themselves from long-ranged fire.

And say what you will, I love the new necron fluff. Of course, there's also the GKs so I think if Tau are done by ward they've got a 50/50 shot on that side.

But they'll get some rock-solid rules and well-enforced play-style options.

I doubt they'll give Tau the Death Ray, much less a 72" Death Ray. However I could see some more suppressive stuff.

Ex. Heard a rumor about a Large crisis suit called the extinction suit or extermination suit from a Red Shirt (okay, I know utterly unreliable, but I'll post anyway) that has a rule that gives it pretty much Monstrous creature, has S6 and either 2 Ion cannons or Twin Linked Ion Cannons, so either 6 S8 AP3 shots or 3 TL S8 AP3 shots, either way I think that's pretty good.

They need to make the larger suits have higher toughness

X8 Chassis - T5
X1 and X2 Chassis - T4

If Chaos can run around with 23pt T5 FNP models, Im sure its not going to be overpowering for Tau to have a couple of 50-80 pt T5 models

Don't recall Chaos having railguns , but yeah...

Tau could use something a bit burlier than the current suits.

T4/5 as well, not T5. BIG difference

I look forward to it, and shall be happy whatever comes out as I will just play it like I want it. Sure the rules MAY suck but I shall still play for the greater good.

Hasn't Ward confirmed he's not working on the Tau?

Last I heard, it was Cruddace. So have fun either being super-powerful or terrible, Tau players.

He'll give them LD 10 Tau Ethereal Psychers with better Psychic Powers than Eldar Space Wolves, Blood Angels and Chaos combined.

No I'm not joking, I'm really expecting this and have barricaded my home in hopes that the 'Kill Matt Ward riots' that will mark the end of 40K in 2012 on December 21st. They'll probably lynch the guy or something nasty.

Cerebrium wrote:Hasn't Ward confirmed he's not working on the Tau?

Last I heard, it was Cruddace. So have fun either being super-powerful or terrible, Tau players.

Cruddace?

This is the guy that should get the ward hate.

At least we know the Tau Fluff will be the same as it was in the 4th edition codex.

The problem is that the Tau have a lot of subtly to them. The dark secrets under their naive and kind nature

Matt Ward thinks subtle is a type of pastry

Cerebrium wrote:Hasn't Ward confirmed he's not working on the Tau?

Last I heard, it was Cruddace. So have fun either being super-powerful or terrible, Tau players.

Oh

Guess I might *not* be starting a Tau army after their new codex comes out...

Kroothawk said it is Ward flat out denied writing the Tau codex.

Cerebrium wrote:Hasn't Ward confirmed he's not working on the Tau?

Last I heard, it was Cruddace. So have fun either being super-powerful or terrible, Tau players.

Well we're used to being terrible, so no loss their... and super powerful will only last until the next dex after that

Huh, cruddace, I feel sorry for Tau

cause a 60" str 10 shot isint "death ray enough"..... yeesh

Luke_Prowler wrote:The problem is that the Tau have a lot of subtly to them. The dark secrets under their naive and kind nature

Matt Ward thinks subtle is a type of pastry

Yeah, but i have a fear that annoying ambiguity is going to stay

Throne of Terra no.....no just, no.

Etherials help them.

Would have preferred Ward over Cruddace. But as long as it isn't Phail Kelly, I can probably live with it and continue looking forward to the new Tau book.

I'd like Tau to be written by kelly, he does some very interesting things imo. just look at the ork codex, its still competitive after all these years

I'd like to see a difference between Broadside and Hammerhead Railguns, the laters is HUGE in comparrison (especially when you remember the HH is 1/3rd the size it should be).

If ward does it, expect the following line:

And so the T'au were victorious against the enemies of the greater good at *Insert planet name*, but then the T'au cried because they wished they were Ultramarines

Matt Ward wouldn't able to write a Tau dex sufficiently. Their fluff requires a lot of shades of grey and politics, if Ward understands these things he certainly doesn't care about them. Farsight Enclaves becomes Farsight and his honor guard rampaging through the Warp slaying Bloodthirsters and Primarchs

Hells, he can't even write a SM codex competently, even when their outlook and beliefs are rock solid in the fluff.

We really need a new crop of codex writers, i think.

<thread terminated; while there are certain posters who enjoy pillorying Mr. Ward, there are adequate threads to do so; no need to invent topics>