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http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m3130063a_Tau_Empire_v1.0_APRIL13.pdf

Only broadsides can take missile drones.

This is the time when we understand that GW never reads its codex before launching, and never makes clear what can be taken or not on it

"Johnson! We nerfed the Broadside into mediocre-land at the same time we gave it an expensive new model kit! We gotta make people want to buy tons of them, what do we do?"

"Give them exclusive access to Missile Drones?"

"...good enough!"

"Actually, that severely limits the capabilities of every unit that can take drones so we better not do someth-"

"Too late, I already hit upload so we can't make a better change for at least a few months!"

Well there goes the deathrain squade with a ccnode loaded with miasile drones

Why is the footer for chaos space marines?

RIP: Missile Drone FTW

 Melcavuk wrote:
Why is the footer for chaos space marines?

Because they copied that FAQ for the layout and fonts but forgot to change the footer?

Sigh.

Yes, GW we get it! Xenos are not allowed to customize their units in the same logical way that non-xenos are.
It would of course be utterly broken if non-Imperium units could take some kind of special/heavy weapons (whatever kind they may be) on our units.

On the plus side, it does mean that Broadsides can have missiles on their missiles while they missile.

And here is the erata i was wondering about yesterday right on que....

 Melcavuk wrote:
Why is the footer for chaos space marines?

Because quality™.

 n0t_u wrote:

 Melcavuk wrote:
Why is the footer for chaos space marines?

Because quality™.

FineFAQ?

 Kilkrazy wrote:
On the plus side, it does mean that Broadsides can have missiles on their missiles while they missile.

That proves it; Xbizit works for GW. It all makes sense!

What the FAQ? That's just silly. Really silly.

It's annoying that it's only broadsides, but the idea that we could have taken missile drones on basically every unit for just ungodly numbers of high BS missile shots with drone controllers does seem like perhaps it's broken.

They could have let us keep it on 1 more unit, though. Like, just stealth and broadsides for instance. That would have been reasonable.

 AduroT wrote:

 n0t_u wrote:

 Melcavuk wrote:
Why is the footer for chaos space marines?

Because quality™.

FineFAQ?

Wait for the Tau FAQ To be FAQ'd

Now that was a fast update.

 Byte wrote:
Now that was a fast update.

About what I expect from most companies, be it for video games or tabletop games, these days.

The previous Tau codex also suffered from cut'n'paste-itis.

 Rented Tritium wrote:
It's annoying that it's only broadsides, but the idea that we could have taken missile drones on basically every unit for just ungodly numbers of high BS missile shots with drone controllers does seem like perhaps it's broken.

They could have let us keep it on 1 more unit, though. Like, just stealth and broadsides for instance. That would have been reasonable.

You couldn't, Missile Drones don't benefit from Drone Controllers, of course, who knows if that's intended or not now...

My question is, why does a fun unit that might have seen widespread use get FAQ'd into being artificially restricted on day 1, and yet utterly broken things like the Tzeentch Chariot are still, well... broken, a month down the track.

While a bummer, the fact that apparently every poster in this thread was leaning towards missile drone spam makes me think this might not be the worst thing for the codex as far as making a variety of builds similarly powerful. It's only been out a day, right...? Give it a little time to percolate

Oh... Well I should have known that firewarriors wouldn't get a nice special weapon in the squad.

And here I was hoping that we could see suit builds without missiles, just using drone back up. I was fine with them at BS2 because I was just going to take a crap load.

As long as I can still take my markerdrone cloud around my HQ, I'll be fine.

 Savageconvoy wrote:
Oh... Well I should have known that firewarriors wouldn't get a nice special weapon in the squad.

Of course not?
The whole point of Tau (fluffwise) is that each piece of the army works in harmony with another, synergizing to have the best effect possible.

I'm glad they didn't just slap special weapons into Fire Warrior squads and make a Xenos Guard army.

It's not about fluff, it's about table top performance. Giving them some special weapons at a reasonable cost just means that they become more adaptable to handle problems. Fluff also changes, like with Necrons and the addition of Tesla weapons.

Tau function so completely different from guard it's not even funny. Adding special weapons to the main troop just makes them versatile, instead of being forced to bring down units with flat out volume of fire. In fact the new HQs are actually making the army more of a gunline since they reward firewarriors for not moving. Tau vehicles are all skimmers and hard to hide due to their size so they are constantly going to be on the move and have notoriously limited weaponry (Hammerheads losing 2 burst cannon shots and only having a single shot, Devilfish getting only S5 weapons still, and Skyrays still not really justifiable)

Still no Daemon FAQ?

Guess it's a good thing I hadn't yet found all my spare Crisis suit missile pods, and started gluing them to spare drone hulls.

What's better than an editor halfassing the proof process for a codex? Doing it again on the FAQ

What gets me is that they'll still proof it completely later and we'll have more corrections then.

I have a question, is there really two different ranges for the Pulse Rifle in the rulebook? Or was that an innacurate rumour. Because if there is that error and they didn't faq it...

 motyak wrote:
I have a question, is there really two different ranges for the Pulse Rifle in the rulebook? Or was that an innacurate rumour. Because if there is that error and they didn't faq it...

If course not. You're assuming this FAQ is because they caught an error in the book, which, of course, they didn't. What most likely happened is that either

A) Ward played a game against a shop Tau player and got missile reamed and due to his butthurt took the nerf bat out ASAP.
B) using the one day that GW design team is allowed to surf the interwebz, one of them saw a net list and had to preserve SM dominance over Tau.

There is no way I'll believe this was a correction instead of a post release nerf. Looking at the codex, you can see the intent for MDs being widely available all over the place.

At least they could have given kroot their attack back in the same document.

If every SM Chapter is so brokenly overpowered, why are Imperial Guard and Necrons the top performers? Blaming everything on some sort of percieved bias towards Space Marines is getting old, get over it.