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Hi all

Just painting up some tau and I wanted to know the purpose of the fire warror back pack, is it a fuel cell, hold kit etc. I not a tau player so have no clue.

Thanks guys.

I am not 100 percent certain but I think it provides limited life support. I know the helmets have air quality monitors so I only assume that the backpack could supply some amount of whatever tau breathe in. Other than that I doubt it is to power anything except maybe the hud display in the armor along with the sensor mentioned above. Their armor is lightweight and wouldn't need energy like power armor does. My vote goes life support/food.

Vittles, power packs for their pulse rifles, deck of cards... you know, soldier stuff.

Two spare magazines for pulse weapons are clearly visible on the backpack.

Tau strike me as pretty gear heavy troops, so I expect a lot of high tech and drone augmented versions of modern soldiering gear plus the usual rations, water and clean underwear.

There's probably a lot they DON'T carry, as Tau seem to have their gak together when it comes to logistics. Probably just ammo/power packs, and emergency equipment. For example, they almost certainly don't carry entrenching tools. That's drone work.

Jefffar wrote:
Two spare magazines for pulse weapons are clearly visible on the backpack.quote]

You metion the spare mags, are these the two raised lines off center?

Vittles, power packs for their pulse rifles, deck of cards... you know, soldier stuff.

You forgot a couple cans of dip, proly like a 6 pack of Rip-Its, 550 cord, 100mph tape, extra batteries......more batteries........proly some more batteries......and then the special batteries for the new radio that has to have some new high speed light weight battery that will only charge the radio for 3 hours so even though the indevidual battery is lighter you are now carrying like 30 of them......

But since the Tau aren't really big on holding terrain, I don't see them bringing stuff to dig in or stay for extended periods of time in austere locations. So I would guess extra ammo, life support systems, commo equipment and proly some protine based food pouches....and batteries

 Godeth wrote:

Jefffar wrote:
Two spare magazines for pulse weapons are clearly visible on the backpack.

You metion the spare mags, are these the two raised lines off center?

That's my interpretation of those, yes.

taurising wrote:

Vittles, power packs for their pulse rifles, deck of cards... you know, soldier stuff.

You forgot a couple cans of dip, proly like a 6 pack of Rip-Its, 550 cord, 100mph tape, extra batteries......more batteries........proly some more batteries......and then the special batteries for the new radio that has to have some new high speed light weight battery that will only charge the radio for 3 hours so even though the indevidual battery is lighter you are now carrying like 30 of them......

But since the Tau aren't really big on holding terrain, I don't see them bringing stuff to dig in or stay for extended periods of time in austere locations. So I would guess extra ammo, life support systems, commo equipment and proly some protine based food pouches....and batteries

I would argue that being able to dig in is still valuable, even if you don't plant to hold a strip of land forever. Otherwise i fully agree with you.

And water. They probably have their water supply in there.

I would argue that being able to dig in is still valuable, even if you don't plant to hold a strip of land forever. Otherwise i fully agree with you.

I would agree that it is extremely valuable. So maybe we will throw a light shovel in the bag too.

Anyone have a reference of a good book from the tau perspective that could shine some light on this?

 TheCustomLime wrote:
And water. They probably have their water supply in there.

Nah, they're camels, so that's probably internal.

It wouldn't be for vitals, because you can swap helmets for heads in the kit. It would be ammo, food and liquid.

Ammunition.

Uniform, poor weather gear, rucksack, basic tools, mess kit and water canteen, blanket and sleep bag, rechargeable lamp pack, grooming kit, ID tags, four weeks combat sustenance rations, Pulse Rifle and six charge packs, deck of cards, 3 packs of lho sticks and of course Aun'va's Guide to the Greater Good.

A portable kroot for close combat.

In all seriousness though, probably run of the mill soldier stuff, like, as previously mentioned, batteries, ammo, food and water, etc.

Jefffar wrote:

 Godeth wrote:

Jefffar wrote:
Two spare magazines for pulse weapons are clearly visible on the backpack.

You metion the spare mags, are these the two raised lines off center?

That's my interpretation of those, yes.

I don't think they're magazines, I think they're battery packs, with the tiny knobs underneath them being a light indicating the charge. Not sure what's "canon" really but I always liked to think of the Tau weapons as having near limitless ammunition but with the gun requiring power, so you'd swap out the battery now and then like a mag.

 Sidstyler wrote:

Jefffar wrote:

 Godeth wrote:

Jefffar wrote:
Two spare magazines for pulse weapons are clearly visible on the backpack.

You metion the spare mags, are these the two raised lines off center?

That's my interpretation of those, yes.

I don't think they're magazines, I think they're battery packs, with the tiny knobs underneath them being a light indicating the charge. Not sure what's "canon" really but I always liked to think of the Tau weapons as having near limitless ammunition but with the gun requiring power, so you'd swap out the battery now and then like a mag.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Pulse_Rifle

They are technically powercells, but I still think of them as magazines since they are what gives the Pulse Rifle the resources to shoot.

Typical soldier kit I imagine.

Rations for a period of time(a week or so), spare ammo, emergency communication equipment, maintenance kit for their weapons, and any personal items.


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 Sidstyler wrote:

Jefffar wrote:

 Godeth wrote:

Jefffar wrote:
Two spare magazines for pulse weapons are clearly visible on the backpack.

You metion the spare mags, are these the two raised lines off center?

That's my interpretation of those, yes.

I don't think they're magazines, I think they're battery packs, with the tiny knobs underneath them being a light indicating the charge. Not sure what's "canon" really but I always liked to think of the Tau weapons as having near limitless ammunition but with the gun requiring power, so you'd swap out the battery now and then like a mag.

Functionally identical. When your gun shoots energy, its magazine is whatever holds that energy.

 Happyjew wrote:
Uniform, poor weather gear, rucksack, basic tools, mess kit and water canteen, blanket and sleep bag, rechargeable lamp pack, grooming kit, ID tags, four weeks combat sustenance rations, Pulse Rifle and six charge packs, deck of cards, 3 packs of lho sticks and of course Aun'va's Guide to the Greater Good.

This is really the best answer, haha.

 j31c3n wrote:

 Happyjew wrote:
Uniform, poor weather gear, rucksack, basic tools, mess kit and water canteen, blanket and sleep bag, rechargeable lamp pack, grooming kit, ID tags, four weeks combat sustenance rations, Pulse Rifle and six charge packs, deck of cards, 3 packs of lho sticks and of course Aun'va's Guide to the Greater Good.

This is really the best answer, haha.

No. The best answer would be the latest issue of "Kroot Gone Wild- vol12 The greatest 'Goods' around"

Kroot reproduction is weirder than Ork reproduction, so I doubt it.

Don't they just asexually cough up eggs?

I believe it's a back rub, where the male passes on his genes to the female via something on the palms of his hands, and then the eggs get coughed up

taurising wrote:

Vittles, power packs for their pulse rifles, deck of cards... you know, soldier stuff.

You forgot a couple cans of dip, proly like a 6 pack of Rip-Its, 550 cord, 100mph tape, extra batteries......more batteries........proly some more batteries......and then the special batteries for the new radio that has to have some new high speed light weight battery that will only charge the radio for 3 hours so even though the indevidual battery is lighter you are now carrying like 30 of them......

You're my favorite person on the Internet now

So in all its just kit bag. Nothing speacil, Thanks guys that will help with I paint it.