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A friend of mind has told me about a rumor that asssualt and combat will be better and more tactical, this may advantage the Tyrinids he concluded.
If this is true will it over power the nids?

This is insubstantial and pointless.
Nids don't have issues in combat. In fact nod players often use conga lines to avoid attacking full force so the combat lasts a turn.
It's vehicles they have trouble with.

Agreed, but this rumor could mean an increase in all races' combat abilities and potential a further decrease for the tau.

But increase in shooting hence helping to balance it out... But there allways have been op armies and allways will...

Ah yes op armies, sometimes the funest, GO Guards!

A friend of mine told me to ignore rumor threads until the edition comes out. Turns out to be true!

juraigamer wrote:A friend of mine told me to ignore rumor threads until the edition comes out. Turns out to be true!

Thank you!

If you don't have anything better than to wonder what's going to happen, just don't bother posting at all. We have three weeks until its released, learn patience, because these threads only set up your inevitable disappointment with tue new rules, having not been at all what you wanted.

True. Eric Cantina once stated. "Dreams are better than reality"
But this isn't for wondering what will happen but for discusion on what might be a result of these rumored new rulls if they are true so no-one should really get their hopes up. Just saying.

Gaunt32 wrote:Agreed, but this rumor could mean an increase in all races' combat abilities and potential a further decrease for the tau.

Oh. Oh no! Not the Tau! Wait, they're one of the shootiest armies in 40k, so getting them into CC is a death sentence anyway.

Yes but who said it wasn't fun to watch them crash and burn in combat. Besides personally I would like to see them do well in cc for once, you know.

Tau are far away from the shipboard army. They are an army that shoots, and then they decided to take away all CC ability to make them focus on shooting.

But yeah, we all know that it's all speculation and guess work. But why try and kill people's fun. I personally want to know what 6th Ed rumors are saying because my army is about to be too many editions behind for me to take interest in them if there isn't a glimmer of hope that they will be able to stand on the table for more than a round.

I take it you play Tau then. If so then don't worry about being behind. The tau are definitly due for a codex update and they are a good army, but you should already know that. Their like guard, shoot to kill and stick together. Put some Kroot in front of the FW and use them as meat sheild. Do you have Tanks?

I've heard a couple of rumours myself. Apparently they're bringing in charge reactions such as stand and shoot when you are charged. Also I've heard that they're changing the wound allocation to the models in the unit closest to the firing unit will be the first to take wounds. If these are true, Tau will gain a bit more of an advantage.

If they do then that will be great as we all know they desperatly need it.

In before lock.

lol @ op. Anyway, when consolidation into combat returns, trygons will be uber more.