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How about the 'Goodinator suit'

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
Does anyone know if we'll be seeing a plastic character?

The interview with Matt Holland specifically mentions "The Tau Commander's Enforcer Armor". so I would assume there's going to be a new plastic suit for the Commanders.

Enforcer armor sounds very good. very good indeed.

I hope the commander enforcer armor has the Matt Holland high collar armor like his crisis conversions.

The bodyguards legs and torso's look slightly different from the standard suits so maybe the new crisis is a recut sprue. The arms and weapons look exactly the same though so I could be crazy.

Overall I'm excited for anything that gets another xenos on the table. It's not a great time to be a loyalist MEQ player anyway and this is only going to make it worse

Dont know if these have been posted but oh well:

I for one am ridiculously excited for the Tau update. They've always been my favorite and every time i saw my cousin get a new codex for his armies i was always so jealous! Now its our turn. Honestly im hoping its so evenly balanced that only tau players really start picking em up. i dont wanna see a bunch of bandwagon donkey-caves picking up the codex because its broken. we'll see right?

as far as the new models? i dont like the flyer but i dont really like ANY tau vehicles or any vehicles for any army for that matter actually. hopefully its not a must have.

riptide is cool. needs a better name but its not too terrible. i was always surprised tau didnt have a big walker type thing in the army.

i hope the Aun'shi rumors are true because his fluff has always been my fav. i hope hes actually useable.

the broadsides stats are kinda lame decreasing in strength. i just kind of hope it has an upgrade to either make it S9 or 10. either would make me very happy.

overall though im looking forward to this release more than ive looked forward to just about any release in anything. i hope GW doesnt destroy the best freakin army out there lol

WOW!

A new Farsight model?! Seems like the Tau flyers have drones. The Riptide's is absolutely amazing, but I wish the head was bigger.

Thanks for the update!

Thoughts:

Flyer: I like it for a bomber, not so much for a fighter. Mine will probably end up being a mildly converted Barracuda. The primary thing that kills it for me is not the rails but the profile, FIGHTER WINGS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. The sheer forces put on a modern air superiority fighter, let alone one from the 41st millenium, would snap those wings like so many pretzels. But for a bomber the stability they give is perfect.

Riptide: I fething love it. My only complaint is with the head, and even then It kinda works. The apparent ability to customize sounds awesome. Hopefully either Farsight makes Battlesuits troops, or the Riptide can be taken as an additional part of the FOC choice.

Broadside Resculpt: After having gotten a better look at it with some of the more recent pictures, I like it. My only complaint with the forge world XV-8x suits has been that they use the crisis suit torso, which looks like crap and this looks like an alternative torso for them. I would have liked to see them remain S10 AP1 and gain skyfire but we can't have everything we want.

Pathfinders: Not too much to say, apart from the new drones sound interesting.

Farsight: This is what the crisis suit re sculpts should have been if they had happened. I like his apparent posability, I like his torso and I like his arms. Most likely what I will end up doing is getting his torso and the XV-89 and doing a lil' bit of kitbashing.

Overall I definitely want a Riptide, everything else, I'm waiting to see the Codex.

I just realized something. Farsight's suit is now right-handed!

 ceorron wrote:
I have only one complaint I hate the name Riptide. When did anyone ever think that sounds like a Tau sort of a name. really anything else could have been better.

From this point on I think I'll be calling it Supasuit, sounds better than Riptide!

I have said something like this in the thread before, but since how it looks like a mix of Gundam and Evangelion mostly to me, I was just gonna convert the heads and bodies of it maybe and just call it Tauvangelion,

 ChiliPowderKeg wrote:
I just realized something. Farsight's suit is now right-handed!

Might or might not - they often mirror image shots for better compostion or other reasons.

I have seen some of the riptide shots mirrored already...

Regardless, I think that it will be cool to see how usable he is. I have been playing tau a long time (and did not retire mine, thank you very much) and have to say that I never had a lot of desire to run him - this might be a fun new build...

Sigh.. do we really need to repost the same pics EVERY page as if it were the first time and then quoting ALL the pics just to say one line of commentary? We're all obviously web savvy enough to post on the internet.. turning back one or two pages shouldn't be that difficult nor should pruning posts.

 TheMind wrote:

Flyer: I like it for a bomber, not so much for a fighter. Mine will probably end up being a mildly converted Barracuda. The primary thing that kills it for me is not the rails but the profile, FIGHTER WINGS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. The sheer forces put on a modern air superiority fighter, let alone one from the 41st millenium, would snap those wings like so many pretzels. But for a bomber the stability they give is perfect.

You're awfully confident about the aerodynamics and structural strength of a fictional airplane designed to fly on other planets with unknown atmospheres using technology that doesn't exist currently made out of entirely fictional materials.


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 TheMind wrote:

Broadside Resculpt: After having gotten a better look at it with some of the more recent pictures, I like it. My only complaint with the forge world XV-8x suits has been that they use the crisis suit torso, which looks like crap

Forgeworld broadsides do not use the standard torso, only the forgeworld crisis suits do that.

Bobug wrote:
Stoked I like the riptide, I completely hated the idea of the them at first but after seeing the model im going to get one, I just wonder what the fluff explanation will be since they clearly cant fit into a manta, possibly bundles into an orca? :s

Also not sure if anyone noticed but the pathfinder "mystery weapon" looks like a miniature ion cannon, experimental kit for pathfinders maybe?

The Riptide is made when five Crisis suits lock together in the right configuration.

Hell my next wage packet is going straight towards a broadside, some pathfinders and a riptide

 Kilkrazy wrote:
The Riptide is made when five Crisis suits lock together in the right configuration.

Which is funny, because I had been planning to do that for years now... and now I actually have an excuse

They must be five different colours: pink, yellow, red, blue and green.

Everytime i visit this thread, tim slows down.

@Killkrazy

You disappoint me. Here I was thinking you went with a Voltron joke only for it to turn into a Power Ranger joke. tsk tsk....

Anyone notice the twin fusion blasters on the shield?

 Hulksmash wrote:
@Killkrazy

You disappoint me. Here I was thinking you went with a Voltron joke only for it to turn into a Power Ranger joke. tsk tsk....

Power Rangers? Oh. I thought he was talking about Captain Planet.


(NSFW)

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Everytime i visit this thread, tim slows down.

Poor Tim.

So, why does the Riptide have giant speakers mounted on its nipples?

Also, am I the only one who wants to take off Farsight's sword and replace it with a picnic basket?

To broadcast propaganda.

 kronk wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
@Killkrazy

You disappoint me. Here I was thinking you went with a Voltron joke only for it to turn into a Power Ranger joke. tsk tsk....

Power Rangers? Oh. I thought he was talking about Captain Planet.

Spoiler:

(NSFW)

I didn't think there was a pink ring for captain planet....Could be wrong, it's been a decade and a half and my brain wasn't swift even at that age

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Everytime i visit this thread, tim slows down.

Who is Tim?

I've been follwing this thread for a while, lurking in wait. My buddy plays Tau (and the gf has picked up my Eldar as her first army). Man, I'm going to have to buy the Riptide just for the model. Fething sweet. But seriously, I'm a little excited for the updated codex and I don't even PLAY Tau.

Lol,, I mean "Time"
the 5th cant come soon enough.

With that pose, Farsight is going to get a beam scythe conversion

I gotta be honest, those Riptides look amazing...


just...wow....