Super-Heavy Assault Walker for Tau? Chapterhouse Studios is at it again..

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**MeanGreenStompa**

RockLobster!!

Then play the B-52s song every time you put it on the table!

**The Dreadnote**

Damn, why didn't I think of that?

**MeanGreenStompa**

**Erasoketa**

"Zoidberg" SXV-141 Super-heavy Assault Walker

**ProtoClone**

Erasoketa wrote:"Zoidberg" SXV-141 Super-heavy Assault Walker

I think you just won...my vote goes with Zoidberg.

**TyraelVladinhurst**

i like this thing. any possibility of having heavy ion cannon variant?

**Malika2**

Holy crap...

**Gamble**

Fish of Fury?
War Fish?

**Shellfishguy**

SXV-141 "Callinectes" Super-Heavy Assault Walker

But I like the Nautilus designation too.

**Ouze**

OK, I now like Rocklobster or Cave Demon.

**Centurian99**

And GW's IP Lawyers are calculating their fees as we speak...

**Luke_Prowler**

How about "Poseidon"?

**Surtur**

Or Spongebob.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Well I was going to suggest 'Mr Krabs' but that 'Zoidberg' one slaps my poor Spongebob related humour into the dirt.

Very nice model mind.

**chaos0xomega**

I'm seconding/thirding/fourthing Rock Lobster.

The issue I have with a lot of the other proposed names is that they are too fishy/fast, implying something that should be a skimmer or flyer rather than a walker.

Also, someone else brought up the good point that tau suits/walkers are usually named something along the lines of "Hazard" "Crisis" "Broadside" or "Stealth".

So I'm going to have to suggest:
"Siege"
"Havoc"
"Bulwark"
"Redoubt"

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Going on that point, and looking at its head, surely it needs to be 'Shockwave'

**BaronIveagh**

Hmm...

How about "Megalodon"? It follows the tau naming convention, but also gets the idea across.

**Irdiumstern**

First off, that is a beautiful model.

That design doesn't really fit Kraken or Nautilus, imo.
Kraken I would think needs more legs/weapons. Perhaps a later version with multiple small railgun emplacements?
Nautilus is taken by Nemo's ship. You can't take that away from him with a giant death crab!
(Now, if you continued on to make some sort of giant submersible, reminiscent of a Manta but less winglike . . . that would be beautiful)

Behemoth sounds fine.
However, I would suggest either Charybis or Scylla, from the Odyssey. Both are fairly well known, and invoke the image of crab more than the other options, to me at least.

Edit: Also, rules wise, front armor 13 as well looks more reasonable to me . . . It does not seem any more heavily armored on the front

**Commander Endova**

How about "Pisces"? Very much fish themed, and also mythological.

**Defiler**

Commander Endova wrote:How about "Pisces"? Very much fish themed, and also mythological.

Except that nothing within the Pisces myth implies destructive power of immensity.

**Kroothawk**

Another name: Killer Whale.
Or Catfish (walks on substitute limbs during dry times).
But then again, I like "lobster". Doesn't sound like crap

Commander Endova wrote:How about "Pisces"? Very much fish themed, and also mythological.

"Pisces" is Latin for "fishes". Yes, very much fish themed

And just a reminder: All the fish names are Imperial names for Tau vehicles, not Tau names. Tau originate from a desert planet!

**evillsvain**

"Tortuga" or just "Turtle"? Or if seacreature names start to sound boring how about "Centaur"? And yes, I know there's already an Imperial vehicle called Centaur but I think that this looks more like one..

**TyraelVladinhurst**

but it is pretty much a battlesuit design, so personally i'd say something like shockwave would be acceptable or maybe even hammer

**evillsvain**

yeah, a Tau "Math Hammer" class battlesuit

**doubled**

Man o War ?? As in the jellyfish, so the name should be

Tau SXV-141 Man o War Super-Heavy Assault Walker

**Necroman**

Nurglitch wrote:Man'o'War?

I like this one.

Man'o War also brings to mind the ocean going birds and the giant British warships, which would be perfect in keeping with a nautical theme.

Plus, it sounds badass.

**Kroothawk**

Malika2 wrote:Holy crap...

Actually, "Holy Crab" is a fitting name as well

**Chapterhouse**

Hmm I like Man-o-war!

Centurian99 wrote:And GW's IP Lawyers are calculating their fees as we speak...

As a DakkaMod (of some sort) I would think you would be a little more concerned over the validity of your statements. Care to let us all know what your comment is based on?

**AgeOfEgos**

I would stick with something Chinese to befit the Tau (Here comes the Japanese Tau players). Perhaps;

Zhayu V59 (Zhayu was in Chinese mythology as a great beast that devoured evil humans)
Dilong (Dragon that was bound to the earth and fought for good)
Kun (Mythical giant fish)
etc..

**VictorVonTzeentch**

Kinda like the look of it, but if its a Battle Suit shouldn't the name stick with the current theme of Tau Suits? Crisis, Hazard, (insert name).