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Well the Eisenhorn show for instance (I know moving away from the animation) is very low cost until it gets picked up for a show. With pilot costs at most (Though some do get optioned without one depending on the idea/story etc) and just the cost of scripting and deals getting put into place and such.
Still obviously a waste if no one did, but x files guy did say they’d had interest and I’m guessing where this article mentions Arnesen was glad to see tentative deals already being reached out about, its most likely for that.

 Overread wrote:
Freaking heck it would be the first official Exodite anything from GW since what 20-30 years ago? Besides the odd mention in codex and articles we've not had art or model in decades for them.

If it's any consolation, the recent(ish) necron story "The Infinite and The Divine", featured the exodites pretty heavily in the first few chapters. Gotta love them dino riders. Much like with kroot, I don't know why GW hasn't given them their own faction

 GaroRobe wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Freaking heck it would be the first official Exodite anything from GW since what 20-30 years ago? Besides the odd mention in codex and articles we've not had art or model in decades for them.

If it's any consolation, the recent(ish) necron story "The Infinite and The Divine", featured the exodites pretty heavily in the first few chapters. Gotta love them dino riders. Much like with kroot, I don't know why GW hasn't given them their own faction

Tau should split like Tyranids and Genestealers have. Let Tau be the core race with their mecha-suits and a few support factions. Then have a Tau Auxiliaries or something which is formed around Kroot being the core of the army, but then adding in a lot of other alien races in specific roles. Basically representing the united xenos forces of the Tau.

It's something I think Tau were originally going to be; both a lore and creative outlet for different races and designs that basically can't compete with the Imperium on their own. However the mecha suits took off on their own and dominated. That's not bad, but I think its time for the army to split along those two lines.


Just like splitting Genestealer Cults into their own army gave them room to add loads of fancy new models and units and their own design approach, whilst not overloading Tyranids or ending up with two armies in the same army trying to compete for space. Now both forces can take the other as allies if you want to merge them or you can go pure with either one.