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Well its been a little while since my last update. Updating at school again ><

I haven't gotten any new models. I have finished paitning everything now. For my first battleforce I think I did pretty good on it. I'll post pictures later on after work.

I also won't have much time for painting anymore. I got a job at my local walmart. A tip to anyone who need a job. Don't work for walmart, at least not the one where i live. They will screw you over. Still in school, and I'm working till 10-10:30 tonight, and then I have thursday, friday same times, then saturday and sunday late shifts. It sucks horribly, and isn't worht the money.

I'll be buying a hammer head soon. Hopefully I'll have it sometime next week. I have a list of what I want to buy which will be posted later. 300-400 dollars of Tau will be bought soon though.

If you arent having them deepstrike, kit them out w/ Plasma rifles, missile pods and multi trackers, that way you have some nice long range fire power that can give any enemy a headache.
Ouch, i feel for you, bad pay and bad hours, still it is money and that is helps with this hobby

DaemonJellybaby wrote:If you arent having them deepstrike, kit them out w/ Plasma rifles, missile pods and multi trackers, that way you have some nice long range fire power that can give any enemy a headache.
Ouch, i feel for you, bad pay and bad hours, still it is money and that is helps with this hobby

That was the plan

The pay is bad. Hours are pretty good so far. For a first job its alright. Hopefully i cant find something better though.

also, you might want to sand off or cover up the more chaos-ey details on the bodies,
http://bit.ly/fVG1Bn
Ebay provides 36" of GS for slightly more than GW charges for 10"

Make sure you have pathfinders on your shopping list!
pathfinders are the best way to get marker lights into your army,
i take two units cos people like to kill them
and two units will give you enough markerlight support to light up any targets that get too close and dish out some serious pain

and dont slate Kroot! they are solid if you kit them out properly, shaper=wound sink, hounds=damage, krootox=
use them as an annoying flank unit, 10 kroot and 5 hounds can give most enemies a nasty shock, granted it wont last long
and they are troops so you can use them to sneak on and hold objectives

DaemonJellybaby wrote:also, you might want to sand off or cover up the more chaos-ey details on the bodies,
http://bit.ly/fVG1Bn
Ebay provides 36" of GS for slightly more than GW charges for 10"

Make sure you have pathfinders on your shopping list!
pathfinders are the best way to get marker lights into your army,
i take two units cos people like to kill them
and two units will give you enough markerlight support to light up any targets that get too close and dish out some serious pain

and dont slate Kroot! they are solid if you kit them out properly, shaper=wound sink, hounds=damage, krootox=
use them as an annoying flank unit, 10 kroot and 5 hounds can give most enemies a nasty shock, granted it wont last long
and they are troops so you can use them to sneak on and hold objectives

hmm 17 dollars us.. Thats like.... 17 dollars canadian >.> CHEAP! Ill be sure to get that once I have money xD (3 days away ><

I wasn't planning on any path finders really. Though now that you mention it, they might be a good idea. I might get a squad.

And I wont slate them completely. I just won't use them >< I'm not a kroot fan, and wiht my current plan I have no room for them. I'll be using O'Shovah as a commander, and his rules state that I can't have kroot. If anything Ill use kroot for small skirmishes.

dont forget snipers

I wasn't planning on any path finders really.

Pathfinders are perhaps the greatest force multiplier in the game, effectively improving everything tau are good at: lots of shooting
after a few medium games you will see how useful they are,
pathfinders point and FW make up their points much faster
just use FW but don't stick on the backpack and give them carbines leaving you with 4 spare FW

O'Shovah, hmm, not my kinda character, provided you don't want him and his bodyguard to act as an assault squad you should be fine
personally i think the 0-1 of pathfinders, broadsides, piranhas, etc is not worth the 8 man crisis unit he can give, since they become 1st priority target and will be unlikely to return all their points.

HHmm I'll proxy a squad of pathfinders in next battle and see how I do. Ill probably end up buying them in the end. Just I thought they needed a devil fish to be played. Not that I am complaining, but I really hate the devil fish xD

He is my type just because I can go CQB with him and win. As most of my friends are Long ranged tank support. The dawn blade is perfect against them. I'm going to buy a regular BS commander so that I can field the full squad of Piranhas I want. If I can find my planning book I'll post my full army list of what I want to buy.

Hmm its been a long long long time since i actually logged in xP

Life caught up, now i am relaxing, and vlogging alot. (Today's vlog has army updates in it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF3RuPJDNMw )

I got ahammer head today from West Edmonton Mall. Sooo happy. Its 100% done modelling. Now to paint. *Extremely happy face*

Hmm its been a little bit since I updated.. So here is new hammer head pictures





My painting area:



So in the next month or so (After diplomas) I am going to make a purchase of a Stealth team, Firewarriors, and a piranha. OR a stealth team and a few battle suits. I need one pair of stealth legs to complete my custom HQ, and some fast attack.

Right now my army is locked in combat with my friend's legion of the damned. Which he is making up rules for as we play it seems. >< (Must do research into their abilities).

But yeah a quick update.

I have invented a new Tau!!



His name is Shas-Knob. xD I thought it was so comical I just had to do it so Idid. Just so randomly funny to see him among all the tau xD

So some real updates now. I have doubled my entire army now. I bought my friend's Tau army for 60 dollars. A whole battle force 8D So I have alot of painting to do. Hopefully I remember to take the pictures.

Im also planning on buying some Pathfinders and piranhas soon too. So I am slowly creating the army i wanted to. And I decided to go with a custom battlesuit commander other than Farsight Seems like a more strategic and logical choice now that I have done more research into it.

Sp yeah a quick update.

So a few updates now.

I bought a Piranha for my army the other day. Just one to see how they are built and how well I can integrate them into my army. So far I have yet to actually use it, but painting it and building it is going to be fun. I think I'll field a squad of 3-4 of them in my entire army.

The current one I have is configured with a fusion blaster, I don't know if this was a mistake, or a good idea. Any suggestions for the other 2-3 I buy?


I also finished my custom commander. I don't know what to call him, if anything, but I do know he looks more awesome than I ever thought. I have pics of his upper body, but I don't have any of him fully completed yet. Ill get to posting them soon once I get the pictures onto my computer.

My commander is configured with a Missile Pod, Plasma Rifle, Multitracker, along with a drone controller for a shield drone. I also custom built the shield drone too. But Ill get to that in a little bit.

I also started painting some fire warriors. Nothing really new there. ><

The shield drone is my favorite thing i have built so far, next to my commander.

It originally was a marker drone that came with stealthsuits that I bought along side my Piranha. So i took the little objective marker thingy they come with, cut off the antenni of that about the same length I thought the marker done's was ,and glued it onto the marker drone xP I cut off the little pegs to attach things to and presto easy and almost free shield drone No conversion kits for me

So now my army totals 1,776 points in all the way I have it configured. I still have a lot of painting to do, and a lot of models to buy to complete it. I still plan on buying

5 battles suits
Commander Shadowsun
3 skyray gunships
2 hammerheads
2 broadsides
5 piranhas
1 squad of firewarriors
1 squad of pathfinders
squad of drones
shield drone conversion kit.

All that in the end will give me the sized tau force I want, and keep me busy for a long long time once I buy it. But right now I have to save for a car, drivers training, and college. So it might not be any time soon that I finish my force the way I want to. And at the rate my shelf is being taken up, I'll also need more shelf space.

So yes, any suggestions, criticism, or donations? Joking about the donations.. Kind of Jk Jk

Edit: Pictures will be edited in soon

Its been a while since I last updated I think it is time for an update. A friend and I did a battle a few weekends ago. I lost horridly (Never let the baneblade shoot first turn, before you even have your turn. 10 inch of blast is very bad for FW..)

So here is my current army list and point values. Totalling 2,342 points.



That is my total army list as of now (Without Kroot, as I hate those cannon fodder). I currently want to expand it with 3 sniper drone teams (Phasing out the Broadside), buff it up with enough firewarriors to have 12 man squads. And introduce 2 squads of Pathfinders. Along with adding onto the Piranha squad with 2 more Piranhas.

I am planning on starting a conversion once my funds become somewhat more abundant. I am going to convert a Dreadknight (Yes everyone is doing this) into a heavy railgun platform for appoc battles. Since sadly I am the only one out of my group that doesn't have some sort of Appoc specific tank/ walker. (Stupid baneblades)

Currently I haven't had much painting done. Ill post some pictures later, once I get a proper lighting source, and it isn't 1:50 in the morning (><.

I changed my scheme somewhat a little. All troops are now Spacewolf Grey, all Battle Suits and Vehicles are Spacewolf grey and boltgun silver. It looks quite nice, and works extremely well. Though I am in need of new paintbrushes. Gamesworkshop stuff doesn't cut it lately. If anyone has suggestions for good quality items I could get a Michael's Craft Store, it would be greatly appreciated.

I think that is mostly everything for now...

Edit: Re reading on the kroot. I'll integrate them into my appoc army. a full squad or two..

Seems lately I haven't posted anything. At all. Almost a year since my last update. So where to begin...

First off- I have Tyranids now. Quite a sizable force. given to me by several friends, I've actually spent 80 dollars on it. I intend to build and paint it further, but I am missing 20 or so bases, so the current army is missing 9 Termagants and 11 or so Spore Mines. But looks intimidating none the less. (Consists of 1 Trygon Prime, 10 Gargoyles, 21 Termagants, 20 hormagants, 14 Genestealers, and 3 warriors. 9 Termagants remain unbuilt.)








Second off- I am slowly expanding my tau to the sizes I want it to be. Currently working on making the 6 6 man squads of Fire Warriors 12 man squads. I have 1 squad of kroot, and I intend to add one more squad of battle suits. I have 2 squads of stealth suits (One unbuilt) and with the new finecast stuff, Im going to work on building more Broadsides.

Though I really don't know how i want to structure my army. Seems I'm more going for the Mont'ka style army. Straight for the kill, but oh well. I will see what happens with it.

Just a quick update. A battle report will probably be coming soon, as a game will be played with my friends next week.