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 Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
There may be a plethora of drone types in the codex, and the more i look at the riptide the more it resembles the Havoc suits from FW, just super sized.

Yeah, the drone on the right in the broadside box pic looks like it has a missile pod attached to the bottom.

If this is april that's an insane release schedule for this year. We're looking at 4 40k Codexes since 6th dropped in 8 months.....And 2 Fantasy books (I think it's 2).

I like the Riptide. I'm sad about the crisis teams but I like the Pathfinders from what I can see and since I hated the old broadside this looks good to me. I'm excited even if the rate stuff is coming out means I'm having to control my spending for the first time in year since I haven't had the time to build up a store credit...

I don't think the flyers look horrible, they do look a bit "recycled" and they are no barracuda, which is probably what GW should have really borrowed the aesthetics from, but the models look decent enough. What really concerns me is the only two weapons I can identify on these models are a burst cannon and a missile pod. I sure hope the flyers are better equipped than that, otherwise I am just going to use Necron allies for air support. Come on GW, give the fliers real freaking weapons.

I hope Shadowsun gets some cool rules. If she does, she is up right adter the flyer(I might save the riptide for summer)

The crisis team for $75 seems expensive but that is only because they're currently $25 each now anyhow. I think the reboxing bodes well for a 5-man crisis team max size, unless something in the tau'va prohibits it.

That new mega suit (a MC no doubt) looks sick! Broadside pictures are too grainy for me to make a call yet. FLyer looks okay, but I've never been a fan of Tau Vehicle designs to begin with...

Phanixis wrote:
What really concerns me is the only two weapons I can identify on these models are a burst cannon and a missile pod. I sure hope the flyers are better equipped than that, otherwise I am just going to use Necron allies for air support. Come on GW, give the fliers real freaking weapons.

Yeah, this is the biggest problem. We don't need another DA-style flyer where they forget to put any decent guns on it.

Well Bigger Burst cannons. I wonder if we hav different rules for them now.

I was thinking of selling my Tau, but the new broadside, the Riptide and the new flyer (I like it, alright) will at least have me building a small Tau army. Not until after Adepticon, of course.

I just which the prices were not so high.

Can anybody identify if it's 50 or 60€ for the Crisis pack? If it's 50€ we would actually save money

I'm not that convinced by the flier yet but I'll wait till I see it live. As there is way enough stuff on my Tau to-buy list, even without the new stuff (I'll definitely get a Riptide tough, it just looks awesome) and I'm not that interested in fliers at all, imho it's not that important.

Anyone else notice how perfectly a devilfish would fit underneath the new flyer?

Well it is a transport.

Well, I think the Riptide looks good enough that it will work with the rest of the tau army. It appears to have a bunch of weapons on it, so it might be a versital unit and cover many rolls. I will probably get one.

The flyers look about what I expected. I was hoping the Tau estetics would move it into the #1 place on my favorite list, but no. That spot will still be held by the DE flyer for the time being. However, its hands and hoof better than anything that has been released since the Ork Flyer kit. I can see myself getting one, maybe two (depending on rules).

I'm totally split on the lack of Crisis suit redesign. I'm really happy that they will look exactly the same as the ones I already have, but a part of me was hoping for something new.

I already have 8 pathfinders so I will not be buying this box, however the different drones on the cover give me hope for how the drones have been expanded.

As for the Broadsides, I already have two (I love the design of the Hammerhead too much) and the most I'd ever field anyway is 3 so I'm very indifferent to how they look.

Someone REALLY needs to update the first post with all the pics and rumors...

And with that my Tau army is started anew... Time to dig out those firewarriors and get painting.

The Riptide suit is just excellent in my opinion. I just hope the ankles can take the strain.

Come on April 5!

Well...there goes my tax return money.

Im going to bum money off my parents.

On the bright side, there's no need to buy any extra Crisis Suits. Well, not unless they some how make them scoring.

Feels like I have been waiting forever. So looking forward to a new Codex.

And if the XV8s are the same models, I am totally buying more FW suits.

Well, Im retiring my old codex.
Should I bury it, Or give it a viking funeral?

The commander suit in the first pic's left page fold sorta reminds me of the suit from The Last Stand

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Well, Im retiring my old codex.
Should I bury it, Or give it a viking funeral?

Model rocket aimed at the sun should do.

That might do(I wont really, Im shelfing it)
Also, is the broadside on a bigger base?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
That might do(I wont really, Im shelfing it)
Also, is the broadside on a bigger base?

Yep, it's on the MC base

This was posted on my local forum by packadurm

http://www.gamesummit.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11316&p=121564#p121564

"I hate to post about rumor type stuff but I happened to get a box from GW today and inside they had used a shredded up box for packing the contents. this shredded box had a label..."

"It's hard to read but It says "Tau Sunshark / Razorfish Frame 1", there were 50 in the box and the pallet had 1500 apparently."

Wow... putting together a shreaded label. That's dedication for you.

I am honestly wondering if the re molded the Crisis suits like they did with the speeders a couple years back. Maybe they have joints or something now for more possiblity. Kinda like what the rumors said early on. It would make them a bit better as far as that goes. I personally never had a problem with the look of them, just the lack of possibility.

I can say that the prices are ridiculous as always from GW.

I was excited to see the Dreadknight sized Suit. Its interesting from what I can see. But again that price just makes me want to throw up.

I don't really care about fliers anyways so I am not to concerned with it. It looks Tau to me.

REALLY going to be dissapointed if XV-8's stayed the same.

I can't believe the Broadside is $50. That's insane. Now I apparently need to get bigger bas.... Wait... It's on the MC base? So I can't fit it onto a Bastion anymore?