Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

i kinda wish news of the next official codex would come out. i've been toying with the idea of making my own codex for the tau updating them to 5th edition but i won't go through the hassle of converting my models and making a document for my FLGS opponents to approve if they're getting an official update by the fall.

Somebody did an indie codex and posted it on here in a similar thread but I can't find it now...

If anything, kroot need better options (grenades! or better synergy with pulse carbines) but they aren't going to give the tau better melee options. It's just not their thing. The tau use auxiliaries to fill in gaps in their strategies, kroot for melee, vespid for speed, auxiliaries need to follow this pattern. The tau basically are fewer in number than the guard, but have better weapons to compensate (or at least that is the idea)

A lot of the units are under used. Ethereals, kroot, krootox, kroot hounds, piranhas, skyrays, sniper drone teams, vespid and to a lesser degree stealth teams.

Markerlights don't cut it anymore and are too expensive, tau units are small in number and too few in shots to really get the job done most of the time against anything but tanks. Then again we can only field a maximum of 9 railguns, were as a guard player can easily have 9 lascannons in one unit.

Some people have suggested giving a railgun the JOTWW ability to damage everything in a line, first target 10 1, second 9 2, third 8 3, ect ect. Others have said vehicle squadrons. Suggestions have been to give the ethereal support abilities while leaving the crisis HQ suits to shooting duty, and kroot/vespid/whatever HQ options as more melee based.

While we can easily just go on and on about what should be changed to what, all we can really do is hope GW won't f-up the tau's next codex.




And yes vespid do work in the current codex, they are just not assault units nor should they be anywere in the front of your army. If you can't use them well, your tactics are mostly to blame. That's all there is to it.

I would be most happy with Kroot with Assault weapons. I think it is stupid to have the only assault unit having rapid fire weapons.

And krootox should be relentless.
both krootox and hounds should have rending...look at those teeth!

Given how bad the Tau are in hand to hand combat, and the prevalence of objective based games, Tau need some method of capturing and securing objectives - and since there are always objectives outside your deployment zone, the Tau really need SOME method to either a: engage in hand to hand combat or b: some way AROUND engaging in hand to hand combat.

When I got back into 40k I thought about starting Tau, until I read their mess of a codex. The format is just awful. I find them as one of the most dynamic races in 40k. I would definitely jump at the chance to start them if they came out with a new dex.

agnosto wrote:Somebody did an indie codex and posted it on here in a similar thread but I can't find it now...

I'd love to see this as well, if anyone remembers where it is.

It's in one of a bunch of similar threads to this one; if I find it, I'll post a linky.

This thread has moved off-topic onto wishlisting. Since there's no real information to be had, I'm locking the thread.