TMonkeyGuru wrote:I must remark that i never said "melee" i said close combat, tau units are not designed to stand in the middle of the fight for several turns. My idea was closer to XV8's with vectorial retro trusters included in the cost, shield generator and a)a special short range multiple hardcore assault attacks (some kind of shotgun? flamer template?) or b)Power weapon (before rage against me i know this doesnt fit tau fluff, im just giving the ideas that comes right now to my mind).
The whole idea would be XV8's that jump in, hit hard and IF survive run like hell but only avalible to farsaight enclave and perhaps to be fair XV9's only be avalible to "loyal" taus.
By the way, im not a natural english speaker so if some one finds anything wrong in my writing, please be gentle.
The idea of the XV8s jumping in and hitting hard isn't exclusive to Farsight.
Mounting swords on XV8 or XV9s is just silly though.
nomotog wrote:Ok, you are jumping through all kinds of hoops with wording and such. The original question was about melee equipped battle suits. Farsight knows how important melee combat is in the 40k world. The idea that he would have special close combat suits makes a lot of sense. I guess we can argue whether or not he "believes in melee", but that would be a point less battle of what the word believe means.
And again, you've clearly missed the point. This isn't a case of "he knows how important melee combat is so every Battle Suit gets a free giant sword!". This is a case of "he knows how important and inevitable melee combat is for the
Fire Warriors, and has trained them appropriately".
The other part. I was just going by what it said in my codex, but yes most auxiliaries would come from human planets allied with the tau.
They wouldn't "come from" those planets. That's the only place they would be found.
