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Any ideas on what the tail guns are?

That commander's armor just looks... wrong. And badly proportioned.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Any ideas on what the tail guns are?

Either Ion or some kind of vehicle sized pulse guns.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Looks like GW finally catched up.

This sentence makes my brain want to jump out of my head and run away...

Plus where are you getting that the Skyray kit doesn't include the HH sprue?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Looks like GW finally catched up.

This sentence makes my brain want to jump out of my head and run away...

Plus where are you getting that the Skyray kit doesn't include the HH sprue?

I'm glad you said it and not me. His whole post was full of speculation and awesome sentences.

Sorry, I have a massive headache.
Still glad that the teaser isnt "Shaky cam with concept art"

Well the teaser trailer might have ripped off armored core it has inspired me to get a riptide and paint it up as Hustler One

I think he just missed his "w" to the word "now" and his sentence makes sense.


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If the fireblade is 1-3 as some have speculated... does GW expect us to just buy three kits and field *gasp* the same mini three times? I'd have prefered multi-pose plastic to multi-part plastic, GW...

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
If the fireblade is 1-3 as some have speculated... does GW expect us to just buy three kits and field *gasp* the same mini three times? I'd have prefered multi-pose plastic to multi-part plastic, GW...

Or convert them from firewarriors. Or it may be a multi-pose plastic character kit. Who knows.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:

If the fireblade is 1-3 as some have speculated... does GW expect us to just buy three kits and field *gasp* the same mini three times? I'd have prefered multi-pose plastic to multi-part plastic, GW...

Speaking as someone who is fielding multiples of the plastic Cairn Wraiths...

You can easily do some minor converting to differentiate these mono-pose plastics. Looking at the Fireblade, I'm thinking swapping out the knife arm with a stock Fire Warrior grenade arm on one would be a good way to go. The Cairn Wraiths were a bit easier as a simple trim on the scythe arms and altering the pose/face is enough to make things look different but I think the Fire Blade could see some too.

 buddha wrote:
Well the teaser trailer might have ripped off armored core it has inspired me to get a riptide and paint it up as Hustler One

I 'love' how news and rumors threads turn into a race for everyone to come up with some new thing that GW ripped off or some catchy thing you can say the new models look like.

It's okay. You can just say you don't like it.

 pretre wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
If the fireblade is 1-3 as some have speculated... does GW expect us to just buy three kits and field *gasp* the same mini three times? I'd have prefered multi-pose plastic to multi-part plastic, GW...

Or convert them from firewarriors. Or it may be a multi-pose plastic character kit. Who knows.

Well, given Necrons got 1 Cryptek and it was in fail-cast, a multi-part plastic kit sounds like Xmas.

I still can't get over the whole "Our Conquest Is Inevitable" bit.

That is much darker than the earlier Tau stuff from previous editions where it was all about peace and integration into the Greater Good.

This is more like The Reapers from Mass Effect or The Borg from ST:TNG and their mantras.

I like this very much.

Could the Tau have finally joined the Grim Dark?

Puscifer wrote:
Could the Tau have finally joined the Grim Dark?

Tau are stealth Grimdark.

 pretre wrote:

Puscifer wrote:
Could the Tau have finally joined the Grim Dark?

Tau are stealth Grimdark.

Depends on if you think that FFG is canon or not.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 pretre wrote:

Puscifer wrote:
Could the Tau have finally joined the Grim Dark?

Tau are stealth Grimdark.

Depends on if you think that FFG is canon or not.

Even without it (I am uniformed on most things FFG), I think they've always had a dark secret that made them less happy fluffy than most people think.

It is 40k. There are no good guys.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:


If the fireblade is 1-3 as some have speculated... does GW expect us to just buy three kits and field *gasp* the same mini three times? I'd have prefered multi-pose plastic to multi-part plastic, GW...

It well could be a plastic kit like the Aspiring Champion for Chaos.

There are some elements to the broadside that I like but overall it looks like it's way overloaded and is struggling to keep upright.

Reminds me of the little brother in Christmas Story that's bundled up so thickly that he can't move.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:

If the fireblade is 1-3 as some have speculated... does GW expect us to just buy three kits and field *gasp* the same mini three times? I'd have prefered multi-pose plastic to multi-part plastic, GW...

Speaking as someone who is fielding multiples of the plastic Cairn Wraiths...

You can easily do some minor converting to differentiate these mono-pose plastics. Looking at the Fireblade, I'm thinking swapping out the knife arm with a stock Fire Warrior grenade arm on one would be a good way to go. The Cairn Wraiths were a bit easier as a simple trim on the scythe arms and altering the pose/face is enough to make things look different but I think the Fire Blade could see some too.

A head reposition and grenade swap would look quite cool, as would various simple "right arm pointing" conversions.

Puscifer wrote:
I still can't get over the whole "Our Conquest Is Inevitable" bit.

That is much darker than the earlier Tau stuff from previous editions where it was all about peace and integration into the Greater Good.

This is more like The Reapers from Mass Effect or The Borg from ST:TNG and their mantras.

I like this very much.

Could the Tau have finally joined the Grim Dark?

This isn't really that new, though. I wonder how many people actually read Tau fluff because I personally always interpreted it this way. Maybe I'm wrong because it's been so long since I read my Tau codices but I remember there always being a "this is our destiny, join us or die" kinda thing going on. They weren't immediately hostile to races they encountered and would try to get you to join their Empire, but it was always with a "resistance is futile" take on it.

It would explain why so many people still think Tau don't "belong" in 40k.

 Sidstyler wrote:

Puscifer wrote:
I still can't get over the whole "Our Conquest Is Inevitable" bit.

That is much darker than the earlier Tau stuff from previous editions where it was all about peace and integration into the Greater Good.

This is more like The Reapers from Mass Effect or The Borg from ST:TNG and their mantras.

I like this very much.

Could the Tau have finally joined the Grim Dark?

This isn't really that new, though. I wonder how many people actually read Tau fluff because I personally always interpreted it this way. Maybe I'm wrong because it's been so long since I read my Tau codices but I remember there always being a "this is our destiny, join us or die" kinda thing going on. They weren't immediately hostile to races they encountered and would try to get you to join their Empire, but it was always with a "resistance is futile" take on it.

It would explain why so many people still think Tau don't "belong" in 40k.

Maybe they've had enough of a Peaceful approach and will just annihilate anyone who doesn't comply first time to the Greater Good.



Double post and then no double post - This has been happening too often MODs - is there a reason why?

 paulson games wrote:
There are some elements to the broadside that I like but overall it looks like it's way overloaded and is struggling to keep upright.

Reminds me of the little brother in Christmas Story that's bundled up so thickly that he can't move.

That sounds about right, and fits with most military developments

It's typical for manufacturers/designers to be asked to develop a new vehical,

then the requirements are changed and modified, so they keep adding armour, weapons etc until it's too overloaded to increase it's 'usefulness'.
The faster it's out the door, the less chance there is for this to happen

(my guess as to why it's in the field with a dangerous reactor, if they'd deleyed long enough to make it safe it would have ended up with so many new guns & extra armour it would be effectivly immobile)

 Kingsley wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:

If the fireblade is 1-3 as some have speculated... does GW expect us to just buy three kits and field *gasp* the same mini three times? I'd have prefered multi-pose plastic to multi-part plastic, GW...

Speaking as someone who is fielding multiples of the plastic Cairn Wraiths...

You can easily do some minor converting to differentiate these mono-pose plastics. Looking at the Fireblade, I'm thinking swapping out the knife arm with a stock Fire Warrior grenade arm on one would be a good way to go. The Cairn Wraiths were a bit easier as a simple trim on the scythe arms and altering the pose/face is enough to make things look different but I think the Fire Blade could see some too.

A head reposition and grenade swap would look quite cool, as would various simple "right arm pointing" conversions.

Something else would be a spare helmeted head used in lieu of the bare head.

Ooh, or the binoculars from the stock Devilfish/Hammerhead/Skyray tank commander kit! Or the scanner hand from a Fire Warrior box!

Finally the blue communists gets an update.

Its about time. Now all they need to do is update SoB...

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Kingsley wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:

If the fireblade is 1-3 as some have speculated... does GW expect us to just buy three kits and field *gasp* the same mini three times? I'd have prefered multi-pose plastic to multi-part plastic, GW...

Speaking as someone who is fielding multiples of the plastic Cairn Wraiths...

You can easily do some minor converting to differentiate these mono-pose plastics. Looking at the Fireblade, I'm thinking swapping out the knife arm with a stock Fire Warrior grenade arm on one would be a good way to go. The Cairn Wraiths were a bit easier as a simple trim on the scythe arms and altering the pose/face is enough to make things look different but I think the Fire Blade could see some too.

A head reposition and grenade swap would look quite cool, as would various simple "right arm pointing" conversions.

Something else would be a spare helmeted head used in lieu of the bare head.

Ooh, or the binoculars from the stock Devilfish/Hammerhead/Skyray tank commander kit! Or the scanner hand from a Fire Warrior box!

At least of the options you guys have given do not require the purchase of multiple kits that one wouldn't need. No bitz sales soon, after all... At least with what you guys just came up with, you're done with a single Fire Warriors box.

Building off of our earlier conversation about how the Tau aren't actually anime but get billed as such because they're different, I went into that trailer expecting some cringe-worthy bamboo flute/gong music while some second-rate actor voice-overs with an "Asian" accent. Pleasantly surprised that a modicum of taste was displayed instead.

New pics of the disappointing kits do nothing to increase my interest. Still unimpressed with the Broadside, still unimpressed with the flyers. That Pathfinder character was pretty cool though.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

Its about time. Now all they need to do is update SoB...

That riptide scares me.

I think I need more Tesla.

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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
That riptide scares me.

I think I need more Tesla.

Nah, just aim for its ankles.