Tau soon.....probably

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**wyomingfox**

The Drop ship happens to be a much older rumor first spoken by Stickmonkey back in September of last year:

Stickmonkey wrote:Tau
New Heavy support platform. Basically immobile deep striked! heavy weapon and crew. Rail and Ion Cannon, and missile launcher are all obvious options here, but nothing solid with the rumor.

Assault Skimmer. Something between size of piranha and hammerhead, fast skimmer open topped, assault on disembark.
Update: Yes, its assault after a flat out move, and has the "drop troops along path" option similar to the storm raven. its supposedly a dedicated transport option for one new unit. (I dont place faith in this last bit, its very rare in current GW systems to see a vehicle kit limited to one unit/role...if GW is trying to sell them they will be available to more than one unit, or be a separate entry unto itself.)

New Drop ship. Not the FW one, but something new. Holds a boatload of fire warriors, or a few battle suits.

New battle suits. Not sure if these are the "next gen" suits or just heavy suits redone with out metal bits.

**IPS**

chaos0xomega wrote:Wow, you can cut the bs coming from ghost with a knife. Almost everything he is saying is so generic ('snipersuit' 'dropship' 'ubersuit' etc.) that they can be almost anything. When he is getting 'specific' ("Demiurg guy kills a 'nid"), he's going out on a limb for something that seems it could come true, but if it doesn't he can later say "Sorry guys, it was an early draft, he got cut".

/does not believe

True,
then again if he would be more specific (leaking pics and stats etc) gw would kick his ass and we wouldn't get any more rumors at all.

The rumors on Demiurg and Vespids are allready pretty detailed. (look, weapons, game mechanics)

About Tau units there is not much to rumor about...
The transport is probably something orcaish (as said not FW model but similar style), the fighter something barracudaish.
And the last hint about the mega suit beeing mechwarriorish, yea well, we'll see if that one is true.

Also nobody asked him really about those things, and he only reveals details that are asked for.

**Kroothawk**

I agree, it is difficult to believe the flood of rumours coming from that one person, esp. as he has been wrong about Sororitas.

Anyway, another bit from him (refering to battletech obviously, but there are many mechs named after ancient weapons):

The ubersuit I'll well give a cryptic clue (as I really don't want to be in any trouble on this one). Theres a game about giant robots that's had an anniversary. In this game, there's a robot that's named after an ancient weapon.

**wyomingfox**

Kroothawk wrote:I agree, it is difficult to believe the flood of rumours coming from that one person, esp. as he has been wrong about Sororitas.

Mehh, he is probably Jervis Johnson in the flesh and is simply playing us all like a fiddle

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Kroothawk wrote:Anyway, another bit from him (refering to battletech obviously, but there are many mechs named after ancient weapons):

The ubersuit I'll well give a cryptic clue (as I really don't want to be in any trouble on this one). Theres a game about giant robots that's had an anniversary. In this game, there's a robot that's named after an ancient weapon.

Ghost21 wrote:
Charistoph wrote:Well that narrows it down to only how many possibilities now?
mechwarrior

**CpatTom**

Off the top of my head Mechwarrior does sound right.

Other considerations metal gear (24 years now, and I've always thought the aestheic was pretty close)

Supreme commander (extremely not likely)

gundam?

I dunnot, Im out of robots.

**Darkness**

Im guessing Battletech and the suit is the Warhammer

**chaos0xomega**

I don't know mechwarrior/battletech, etc. but I was thinking it was probably called "Excalibur"

**KplKeegan**

Ragnarok... *Cough*...

**agnosto**

I like this look better.

**Jefffar**

Tomhawk is Robotech. In Battletech it was the Warhammer and FASA got their butts handed to them in a lawsuit about it.

I doubt GW would be silly enough to test those legal waters and I really hope they don't because it will put three of the companies that produce products I enjoy (GW, Harmony Gold and Palladium Books) into a fight.

Still, the clue that is referred to can include the following other mechs

Battleaxe
Catapult
Crossbow
Cudgel
Daishi
Dart
Flamberge
Hachiwara
Javelin
Longbow
etc . . .

**docbrown**

sadly these are not the kinds of mechs i hope for
JSJ is a really nice thing and those really dont suuport it
though i have been bugged by how unspecial jsj is when you compare it to any walker
yes walkers are more expensive but they are way more durable

tau need something new thatsets them appart

my suggestions are markerlight spam and free multitrackers across the board

**Ledabot**

Yea. theres a large range of mechs that have anchient weapons for names. don't don't know but Im thinking that the catapult or Trebuchet are the most likey. I dont really know so dont flame me.

**Kroothawk**

KplKeegan wrote:Ragnarok... *Cough*...

*cough* Raknarök is not a weapon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k *cough*

**g0atmilk**

Too drunk to read other posts, but ohhhh god please let something new and exiting happen to the tau!! They have so much potential...

**Jefffar**

docbrown wrote:sadly these are not the kinds of mechs i hope for
JSJ is a really nice thing and those really dont suuport it
though i have been bugged by how unspecial jsj is when you compare it to any walker
yes walkers are more expensive but they are way more durable

tau need something new thatsets them appart

my suggestions are markerlight spam and free multitrackers across the board

Yeah, maybe get rid of the stupid networked/non-networked designation on Markerlights and let them all work for the units carry them. Then you'll actually see people spending money on the markerlight for the leaders of the crisis suits, broadsides and firewarrior teams.

**Necron123**

NO

**Emperors_Champion**

Any chance of a summary in OP?

As a newbie Tau collector I don't really have much to add.

But as a well seasoned BA player who is very familiar with DA, GK, Nid and Ork armies I am rather excited about getting an updated 'dex for my 'shooty' army!

From looking through the current book I can appreciate where most of your requests/complaints come from.

The few tweaks I can think of that I would like would be;

Uprated BS.

Kroot to have Furious Charge and/or Fleet.

Battle suits to have Multi-tracker as std.

Some wish listing would prob be;

A decent close combat unit!

But as I said, Tau newbie here so if i've struck a nerve with anyone then apologees, that was not my intention!

Here's hoping for an early 2012 release!

**acekevin8412**

Furious Charge might be a bit much since their already S4, though I4 would be useful. Also, from the Apoc Formation they get Fleet, but it's for 20pts per unit.

Mult-trackers default would be nice.

**Medium of Death**

This is the worst rumour thread going at the moment.

No summary in the first post?

Can we not just lock this and have Kroothawk, or somebody equally as sensible, start a new one?

**MajorTom11**

Kroot, if you are down for that, let me know via PM and I will lock this one up to start a cleaner version -

**Dysartes**

g0atmilk wrote:Too drunk to read other posts, but ohhhh god please let something new and exiting happen to the tau!! They have so much potential...

Tau exiting would be nice, yes.

**SonicPara**

Dysartes wrote:Tau exiting would be nice, yes.

Way to dump on a bunch of your fellow hobbyists for absolutely no reason; I'll never understand all of the Tau hate.

As for this thread, it seems like it really has run its course. That re-make with the summary in the OP would be really nice. Please Kroothawk? Pleeeeeeeeease!

**Brother SRM**

Necron123 wrote:NO

What a great post, the Dakka Dakka poster of the year award goes to Necron123 for his intelligent, well thought-out, and well-constructed posting. Well done!

**MajorTom11**

Alright, shutting this one down so Kroot can put together a more organized and comprehensive thread -