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 lord_blackfang wrote:


But can you enhance them?

Sure. Here's an enhanced pic of the Tau flyer:



It's true, it looks so much better now!

Interesting, that looks like a barracuda.
But it also is good they they release models in the codex now.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Interesting, that looks like a barracuda. .

Because it is Barracuda. Best way to enhance new flyer is to replace it with some other flyer.

Are kroot confirmed as still being a troop option by any chance? Haven't seen any kroot love yet

Lovepug13 wrote:
Haven't seen any kroot love yet

This is a family friendly forum, so you won't see it here.

 Kroothawk wrote:

Lovepug13 wrote:
Haven't seen any kroot love yet

This is a family friendly forum, so you won't see it here.

Lol

Holy crap, a release I'm actually excited for!

I will be re-starting my Tau army. I have a ton of bits and unbuilt models, so all I gotta do is grab some of the new stuff and I'm set.

Anyone know the deal with the Broadside yet? is it going to stay with the s10 ap1 railgun or is it going the route of the s8 ap1 skyfire? just wondering because of the first pic with the Riptide cause there is a Broadside behind it (you can see the SMS) and it has a seeker missle on its shoulder instead of the rail gun.

... I am deeply disturbed by that image, yet oddly intrigued....

And im totally digging these new minis. Not the prices mind you, but the minis...

Left Hand of the Pheonix wrote:
Hmm, all this panicing about crap pictures. We need to wait until we see the proper white dwarf pics. Only then we will see what they look like. i mean everyone is panicing like with the burning chariot and the plague flies, and they are fantastic models, and if I remember correctly, when the pics were first shown, everyone hated them, not me though, I like anything that GW releases, I just don't buy it.

I love this. Because you like the models you can't possibly fathom that people are complaining because they don't like them. It's as if you're stating it as a fact, "The models are amazing, period.", and everyone who disgrees is just ignorant or making premature judgments based on bad pics.

We had pretty good pics for the plague drones and the other Daemons models, and I thought they were ugly. When the pics hit the website and I had HD pics and 360* rotations, I still thought they were ugly. So, what, am I just wrong, then, if I'm not "overreacting" to blurry pics and still hate them post-release?

 JOHIRA wrote:


Sunshark/Razorshark - Competent execution, but there's not much to execute. Instead of borrowing inspiration from the existing Tau fliers which follow a well-designed aesthetic, we get this rubbish. I think the thing that bothers me most are the wings. Nothing else in the Tau army has wings like that. No thanks.

Sorry mate, but the manta disagrees. Actually if you flip the wings around they look very much like the mantas wings


Edit: Oh, suffice to say I'll try and use my beloved Barracuda as a stand in. It does indeed look nicer.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

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 Kroothawk wrote:
For convenience, I updoaded and enlarged the pics:

But can you enhance them?

Tau Flyer:

Oh look, another over reaction based on crappy leaked pics. Oh wait, I forgot which forum we are talking about.

I think everything looks fine.

Samurai_Eduh wrote:
Oh look, another over reaction based on crappy leaked pics. Oh wait, I forgot which forum we are talking about.

I think everything looks fine.

I don't.

And I think you need to stop dismissing my opinion as merely an "overreaction" just because I fething disagree with you.

 taudau wrote:

 JOHIRA wrote:


Sunshark/Razorshark - Competent execution, but there's not much to execute. Instead of borrowing inspiration from the existing Tau fliers which follow a well-designed aesthetic, we get this rubbish. I think the thing that bothers me most are the wings. Nothing else in the Tau army has wings like that. No thanks.

Sorry mate, but the manta disagrees. Actually if you flip the wings around they look very much like the mantas wings

Please read my post. I did not say "nothing has wings". I said, "nothing has wings like that."

Existing Tau aircraft almost have a flying wing design, or a modified delta wing configuration. The wings are swept toward the back of the vehicle, and this makes Tau aircraft resemble modern-day stealth bombers and other cutting-edge technologies.

The sunshark/razorshark has forward-positioned, essentially straight wings that look like nothing that currently exists in the Tau army. The effect is to call to mind less of a cutting edge stealth weapon designed to work with combined arms, but a middle-of-the-last-century fighter craft.

 JOHIRA wrote:

 taudau wrote:

 JOHIRA wrote:


Sunshark/Razorshark - Competent execution, but there's not much to execute. Instead of borrowing inspiration from the existing Tau fliers which follow a well-designed aesthetic, we get this rubbish. I think the thing that bothers me most are the wings. Nothing else in the Tau army has wings like that. No thanks.

Sorry mate, but the manta disagrees. Actually if you flip the wings around they look very much like the mantas wings

Please read my post. I did not say "nothing has wings". I said, "nothing has wings like that."

Existing Tau aircraft almost have a flying wing design, or a modified delta wing configuration. The wings are swept toward the back of the vehicle, and this makes Tau aircraft resemble modern-day stealth bombers and other cutting-edge technologies.

The sunshark/razorshark has forward-positioned, essentially straight wings that look like nothing that currently exists in the Tau army. The effect is to call to mind less of a cutting edge stealth weapon designed to work with combined arms, but a middle-of-the-last-century fighter craft.

Not all modern aircraft have sweeping back wings. Some, like the above Reaper drone, have wings that are straight out. The drone aesthetic could have been what the designers were going for.

 Happygrunt wrote:

Not all modern aircraft have sweeping back wings. Some, like the above Reaper drone, have wings that are straight out. The drone aesthetic could have been what the designers were going for.

Even if that is exactly what they were going for it doesn't change the fact that it doesn't fit with the rest of the tau line at all, which seems to be a pretty big problem with releases these days, I'd have loved for basic chaos marines to get updated so they fit in with the raptors and DV chosen, instead we got dinobots for no reason.

 Sidstyler wrote:

Samurai_Eduh wrote:
Oh look, another over reaction based on crappy leaked pics. Oh wait, I forgot which forum we are talking about.

I think everything looks fine.

I don't.

And I think you need to stop dismissing my opinion as merely an "overreaction" just because I fething disagree with you.

I don't think I will, until clear pictures come out. Until then, people whining about fuzzy, low res pictures is over reaction. If you want to bash them once we get a real look at the models, more power to you. Until then any opinion, even ones throwing heaps of praise are uninformed.

Awesome the new battleforce looks great (pricey), might pick up one of those and a riptide just to covert/model-up. I just thought of a great way to make the riptide look better, just add thicker legs and back stabilizers for "Hunkering Down" into firing mode and you've got a winner, pretty simple conversion too.

Example pic of my idea, Z.O.E Earth Lev:


But I'm getting ahead of myself again, need to stay focused and finish my eldar harliquin army first, tau are next.

 Snrub wrote:

 Superscope wrote:
I'm expecting the XV104 to be Australian Land Raider prices (ie, 119+ dollars)

No don't say that. People say things like that then they come true.

Land raider price is crappy price

When the plague drones showed up last month I made a joke they were taking Crisis Suits down to rebundle them as a pack of 3 for $75.

And now that joke is true...

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Happygrunt wrote:

Not all modern aircraft have sweeping back wings. Some, like the above Reaper drone, have wings that are straight out. The drone aesthetic could have been what the designers were going for.

Even if that is exactly what they were going for it doesn't change the fact that it doesn't fit with the rest of the tau line at all, which seems to be a pretty big problem with releases these days, I'd have loved for basic chaos marines to get updated so they fit in with the raptors and DV chosen, instead we got dinobots for no reason.

It looks a lot like the Piranha and Devilfish to me...

I agree, it looks a lot like an up-scaled version of a Piranha with a Devilfish cockpit. The rails are the only thing that looks out of place to me.

 Kingsley wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Happygrunt wrote:

Not all modern aircraft have sweeping back wings. Some, like the above Reaper drone, have wings that are straight out. The drone aesthetic could have been what the designers were going for.

Even if that is exactly what they were going for it doesn't change the fact that it doesn't fit with the rest of the tau line at all, which seems to be a pretty big problem with releases these days, I'd have loved for basic chaos marines to get updated so they fit in with the raptors and DV chosen, instead we got dinobots for no reason.

It looks a lot like the Piranha and Devilfish to me...

That's the same impression I got as well.

Samurai_Eduh wrote:

 Sidstyler wrote:

Samurai_Eduh wrote:
Oh look, another over reaction based on crappy leaked pics. Oh wait, I forgot which forum we are talking about.

I think everything looks fine.

I don't.

And I think you need to stop dismissing my opinion as merely an "overreaction" just because I fething disagree with you.

I don't think I will, until clear pictures come out. Until then, people whining about fuzzy, low res pictures is over reaction. If you want to bash them once we get a real look at the models, more power to you. Until then any opinion, even ones throwing heaps of praise are uninformed.

So in other words we should just lock the topic until they go up for advanced order and not have any kind of discussion? Because I don't see what the feth else there is to talk about if we can't talk about the pics and rumors we have so far.

I'm hoping for some Kroot love somewhere, but the Tau stuff looks solid, none of it really looks out of place with the current models, which is the first release that's been that way for a while? A little uninspired in places, but pretty averagedly solid.

Waiting for sprue pics, maybe I'll finally get around to casting up some Heavy Gear style legs for suit conversions.

 Earthbeard wrote:
but the Tau stuff looks solid, none of it really looks out of place with the current models

Except all of it, but yeah, otherwise all solid.

Well, not literally all, the plastic pathfinders might be nice.

 Sidstyler wrote:

 Earthbeard wrote:
but the Tau stuff looks solid, none of it really looks out of place with the current models

Except all of it, but yeah, otherwise all solid.

Well, not literally all, the plastic pathfinders might be nice.

While I dislike the looks of most of the stuff and find the lack of new Crisis Suits lacking in logic...saying that it "looks out of place" is a bit silly.

You do know that that drone is not built to survive a direct attack and was never even designed with direct enemy combat in mind, right?

The Tau aircraft in question are designed to go toe to toe with the enemy. Designing something like that drone, even just the wing structure, for air to air combat or maneuver would be a horrible idea.


Edit: When I get my Tau flyers, I will probably convert them to look less silly. Depending on their size, I might just get something from FW.

 Kwosge wrote:
You do know that that drone is not built to survive a direct attack and was never even designed with direct enemy combat in mind, right?

The Tau aircraft in question are designed to go toe to toe with the enemy. Designing something like that drone, even just the wing structure, would be a horrible idea.

"Gunships" and "Bombers" are not designed to go toe to toe with the enemy.

If they were "Fighters" or "Interceptors", you would have a point.

Gunships are actually designed to be exposed to enemy fire.

And I hope the Riptide turns out to be a flying monstrous creature just to screw with people.