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It looks like broadsides can be armed with optional "feckload of missile launchers."

The prices are truly insane though. Truly truly insane.
   
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Missouri

You're fething kidding me? They really are just repackaging the old ugly suits?

Wow, they really are that stupid then.

Riptide looks awful, and apparently I was right, $85 just like the slaughterbrute. The new flyer looks awful, like seriously, what the feth is up with that design? Good god. Can't even tell what the broadside got turned into but I'd care to wager it's awful, too...oh yeah, one model per kit, and it went up to $50. lol, speaking of which the crisis suits are $75, and IIRC they currently retail for $25 so by bundling them together in one box you save...nothing.

What have they done to Tau? I was honestly hoping that all my complaining was for nothing and that GW couldn't possible feth up the Tau release this bad but god damn it they fething did. None of this stuff is any good. It's all overpriced and looks like garbage. So that's that, I'm done I guess.

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Wow. $50 for a broadsides and two drones. The FW ones are only $45 at the current exchange rate.

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After waiting for so long...

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Southend-on-Sea

Worrying price points. If this is a standard point for the Monsters/large vehicles then i think we all know which items will be price 'adjusted' this summer to bring everything in line.

Models wise im not prepared to slate them too much till better pictures surface but flyers meh. Crisis now look horribly dated, and Riptide looks kind of cool, plenty of potential from looks of things even if it is a blatant rip of that conversion a while back.

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Crawfordsville Indiana

Notice not a single Kroot unit.

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Missouri

I don't know how to describe what I'm feeling right now. I'm just staring at the screen in awe of how terrible it all is.

I seriously could have scrawled a better design for a Tau flyer on a fething napkin in five minutes. I think I'm gonna go do that right now in fact, just as soon as I can move again. Holy good god damn.

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The riptide doesn't look that bad, althought I was expecting a four legged mech Armored Core style. Kinda a shame the old battlesuits have just been repackaged, that SunShark is pretty ugly, time for conversions me thinks.

Either way not to bad looking so far, or at least nothing I can't fix with conversions/custom bits. At this rate I might finally start that Tau army I've been planning to make for the last 2 or so years.

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I like the fliers, but to each their own. I'll also wait until I get to see something more than blurry pics to decide on the Riptide.

   
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The Broadside looks like it is on a larger base than the Crisis suits. Maybe the cost went up because it is much bigger.

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For true tau players.. the Riptide's numbering is pronounced XV-10 4, not 104.

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My eldest lad will love the Riptide, but looking at those prices I think I might pick up a couple of the Orc Bombers sooner rather than later.

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If you want to imagine how i sound right now, Think a a Highschool girl after just getting asked to the ptom by the head of the Football team.
YES.
first thing i get will be............im not sure. Time to raid my savings

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IMO the flyer isn't bad, it's just unimaginative. It's like they told the designer to play it safe with this one because the last few flyers got such negative reviews, so we get a scaled-up Piranha TX-42. Unless the rules are amazing and I can't do a counts-as model I'll probably just keep my Barracudas.

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Speaking as somebody that has alot, and I mean alot of the old battlesuits and such, in a way I am kinda relieved not to have a huge amount of new minis to buy, yeah I know the old Crisis were blocky and such, but with a little conversion work they can be suped up nicely, i you hate the standard look that much.

The new flyer..hmm well it aint no barracuda, but still has a nice tau look to it.

The Riptide...I have never really like the idea of huge battlesuits, but its not to overly bad from the pics, may pick up 2-3 .

This looks like a first wave release, so hopefully the codex will be full of other stuff. also it looks like the broadside is armed with a single railgun or somesuch, if so I already converted some of my old suits just like that.

could have been better, but could have been much much worse, will need to see more and better pics, or even better get them in my hot hands.

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I think those fliers have been designed by someone watching far too much T2. Still blurry pics, coudl all look a lot better, Id love to see a better pic of the Broadside.

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Hard to tell from the pics, but the flyer is unimpressive. The new Broadside and the Giant Mecha Gundam Suit are actually pretty cool.
   
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 megatrons2nd wrote:
Notice not a single Kroot unit.

I'm going to take back my previous post of "maybe" starting a Tau army if Kroot are gone from the codex.

BTW it kinda looks like the new Broadside has been turned into something like this conversion, its had to tell from the pic.
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I wanna go back to New Jersey

I'm completely content with what I can can make out, so I'll just make an obligatory

YES

YES

YES

(Keeping the old suits is aslo plus)

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I cant read it. Does it say the flyer is 65 or 85 USD?

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Well I guess it's official. Riptide (argh) looks OK, though nothing really special. Pretty pricey.

Flyer looks absolutely horrible. What they were thinking? Straight wings & boom tail give it a WW2 feel, which is completely unsuitable for Tau. I won't buy one, regardless of how great its rules are. I was really expecting this one, looking how great Barracuda looks, and this was a huge disappointment.

No new XV-8 model. Mega-disappointment. What is a point of bundle box? It won't increase sales, quite the contrary since more people need just 1 suit, than 3, so instead of buying box of three suits, they end up buying zero.

Pathfinders, can't tell, at least they are reasonably priced. Too bad I don't need any more Pathfinders.

Broadside, again picture is too bad. Price is _really_ high, though at least it comes with two Shield drones.

Well, doesn't look good so far, but maybe the Codex is really good...

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I quite like the look of the Riptide but the price is absolutely horrendous.

As for paying £30 for one Broadside...maybe it's time to head over to GW's site and order those Broadside upgrade sprues (which are also pricy, but I do have some unassembled Crisis Suits I can use them on).

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Fayetteville

hotsauceman1 wrote:I cant read it. Does it say the flyer is 65 or 85 USD?


It's 65.


Fezman wrote: maybe it's time to head over to GW's site and order those Broadside upgrade sprues (which are also pricy, but I do have some unassembled Crisis Suits I can use them on).



If you're going to do it, do it now. Those sprues won't be available much longer.

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It looks like $65 for the flyer and $85 for the Riptide.

The flyer comes with 2 of something, it almost looks like it says objectives, but that can't be right.

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The Riptide blows me away model-wise. I'll probably pick one up as a centerpiece even if the rules are mediocre. From the group photo, it looks to have more than double the height of a Crisis suit-- and that's with the Riptide further back. This definitely hits the "big huge centerpiece kit" model and price point square on. I expect to see lots of these, and I can't wait to see what converters can turn out.

Not a big fan of the flyer, but I expect that, as with every other recent flyer release, the model will look a lot better in person. A little surprised this one wasn't 75 USD like the Dark Angel ones were, but maybe GW learned from their mistake there. Hopefully the rules support the kit as well, though-- that's where the DA flyer really fell down. People are fine with buying expensive Heldrakes if they're at least good in game. Lastly, it looks like the flyer comes with drones, which is interesting to me.

The new Broadside looks sick, but it's competing with Forge World at that price, so it better have the options to make up for it. That said, when you consider Broadsides are currently 40something and the kit sucks and doesn't have any real options, it seems more reasonable.

Somewhat disappointed with the Crisis repackage rather than redo. Rumor has it the repackage comes with the Command Suit upgrade sprues, so that would be cool and add some value, but ultimately I was hoping there would be a new model and they'd drop to three for 50 like the new Killa Kanz.

The last plastic release, though-- the new Pathfinders-- is awesome. New kit, probably new options, and a huge price cut to boot? I like the old Pathfinder models, but they're 20 bucks for three. 35 for ten Pathfinders plus three drones is a hell of a lot better, especially when you consider how fundamental Pathfinders are to the Tau playstyle.

Right now this release gets a solid B from me. The Riptide is completely awesome, the Broadside revamp looks very cool as well, and the huge Pathfinder price cut will be a boon for many players. However, I think GW dropped the ball a little on this when they kept the old Crisis suits. Those models are pretty dated IMO and a revamp could easily have pushed this into Dark Eldar "A" release territory.

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Well thats 85 dollars GW aint getting from me

the riptide (looks cool (i like the astetics) but at that price point no way.

edit: then again il reserve my judgment until i see it in the store.

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And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.

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 megatrons2nd wrote:

The flyer comes with 2 of something, it almost looks like it says objectives, but that can't be right.


I think it says Drones like the rest. But I can't see the drones on the model in the pics.

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 megatrons2nd wrote:
It looks like $65 for the flyer and $85 for the Riptide.

The flyer comes with 2 of something, it almost looks like it says objectives, but that can't be right.


I think it says "Drones", it seems like everything comes with at least two of them.

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Well, The Riptide looks Cluttered, but that may be the pics.
I wish i can tell what kind of weapons are on the Flyers.
I cant see the broadside(Really dont care)
And no new crisis suits if fine by me TBH, I like them.
Still means i have to build more though. And 3 at a time.

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Riptide looks great IMO. I think it really captures a nice look to Tau. The feet are a bit tiny, but oh well. I'll be happy to take one or two as a project.

The Broadsides look like the one in the 5th BRB where they showed how conversions can look. The spread shot is hard to tell, but it looks like lots of missiles on them.

Can't see drones that well and really disappointed they didn't make a new Crisis suit.

Oh and the flyer looks unsalvageable. It looks just a Piranha with some extra crud tacted on to make it look even less Aerodynamic. I don't even know how I could convert it to look presentable. If the rules are as bad as speculated then this will never get my money. I won't even ask them to shut up.

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