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 Crimson wrote:

 Adam LongWalker wrote:
I could care less about the new models.

How much less?

Not this thread too!

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I was wondering if there was any sort of plastic samurais that could be meshed with Tau bitz out there? That drawing really drives that vibe, imho.

That "drawing" is a piece of fan art, not anything from GW proper.

There's nothing in the Tau's background (at least that is leaping out to me in memory and a cursory scan of everything from Xenology and IA3 to Codex: Tau and Codex: Tau Empire) that suggests they are "stocky" or have "shorter legs than the average human".
Considering though that the Tau regularly outfit their Gue'la human auxiliaries with armor and webbing gear made for the Fire Caste, I think that their physiology is fairly close to ours. There are notable differences, but the basic builds are similar when it comes to the Fire Caste and humanity.

Don't forget Urban Mammoth /Metropolis Triad:


Here my senior general in custom crisis suit:

Here's the ole' flyer, the fighter in this case, sans struts:



Edit: Comparison

The Cadre Fireblade has an odd pose, but that is fixable.

Overall, I remain reasonably impressed with this release. Not going to indulge mind.

EDIT - Flier looks soooooo much better without the struts. Another, "what were they thinking?" design decision

The plane actually looks better with the struts.

 TheMind wrote:
I-I did my best s-sempai!

So instead of a big dark blur, it's a big bright blur (/Han Solo).

Nice try though.

Now can you invert the tail and move the guns?

I know i am in the minority but i really quite like the New tau bomber with the weird tail/wing struts.

I would of justified the struts if the engines where bigger like it actually needed the structural rigidity. then again we haven't seen an underside pic yet so we will have to wait.

pingualot wrote:
Here's the ole' flyer, the fighter in this case, sans struts:

Spoiler:

Nice!

I think it looks great like that.

All it needs now is flipping the tail around and it's a pretty nice model.
Still a nasty pricetag, but well, that was to be expected

The guns could simply be put on top, especially if it is meant as a fighter.

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Looks like an angry ET with those little stumpy legs!!!!

I'm guessing it's the angle the pic is taken from but I'll convert a firewarrior or two instead methinks

I always imagined the fireblades to be decorated like the sergeant from hunter prey with a short claok kind of thing hanging straight down the back over one sholder, not quite as much as this guy.

 Kroothawk wrote:
Larger pic of Dark Strider (all by zhongzzw over at ATT):

Oh god, that looks awful.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

pingualot wrote:
Here's the ole' flyer, the fighter in this case, sans struts:

Spoiler:

Nice!

I think it looks great like that.

i love it without the struts. Much better than my initial impression. Here's to hoping they're not too difficult to remove.

Go go gadget dremel!

Sayonara my savings, it was a short relationship, i will treasure it forever.

Come my new shiny toys! let me assemble that so pretty plastic parts.

It seems that I liked it with the struts better too. Well, that's how I'm running mine then. I will be interested in how the new commander? fits in with the rest of the book. I guess Commanders don't need suits anymore?

I wonder if the rails on the flyers are there to hold Crisis suits to drop them into battle.

 Breotan wrote:
The more I look at this, the less I am convinced that it is a good model. I understand what they were going for regarding the aesthetics but I don't think they pulled it off. The front end still looks like the FW Ork Bomba before it was orkified and that ruins the overall look. Also, Tau seem to have been swept wing or delta wing design where this is obvious modern earth tech design.



I'd love to see what FW can do to "fix" this like they did the chibihawk but then I remember that the Storm Eagle is one of the most aggravating kits to assemble in a long time.

Personnaly if i did play a Tau army, i would try to convert it to look like the Aliens Dropship.



The shape is real close when you look at it£.

 Atheos wrote:
I wonder if the rails on the flyers are there to hold Crisis suits to drop them into battle.

That would be pretty awesome. Makes me want to add a few tau slaves to my dark eldar. Well, I wanted to before, but it makes it sound like an even better idea! If it were true, that is.

 ChiliPowderKeg wrote:

"Alright, which one of you took the rest of my leggings!"

Hold still Imperial scum! The Greater Good demands that I throw my ceremonial blade at you!

Nah... Not really impressed with the pix of this release yet. The Broadside looks good, but that flyer is horrid, no redone Crisis suits (and after the great stuff FW's been doing. Really?), and really bad looking characters.

Another seeming swing and a miss. GW just keeps making it easier and easier to keep my wallet shut...

Valete,

JohnS

People keep complaining about the Crisis suits not redone to look more like the FW suits. Yes, I'd have liked that too, but from business perspective it makes sense to not do it. It would kill the sales of FW suits. It is the same reason why they got new flyers instead of plastic Barracuda.

Kind of like how GW never made a plastic Trygon, because it would have killed FW Trygon sales.

Must.. not.. buy... tau...

1. What's up with the retcon of the fire warrior feet between the pathfinder character and the fireblade. Those hoof-toes look nothing like the current FW, a little silly that.

2. Random idea about those provocative struts on the flyer (especially after the Aliens dropship pic), perhaps they are landing struts, unless of course the underside has some sort of landing gear similar to the hammerheads/d-fish. Still an odd design, but perhaps that is the reason for their presence.

So the broadside has skyfire and a double barrelled rifle. Why do I see someone painting it wearing Harris tweed, a kroot hound at its' feet and a Holland & Holland mark on the Railguns?

Cheers

Andrew

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

 Archonate wrote:

They've been pounded by Tyranids, and managed to do what the Ultramarines could not.

I'll just not comment on the other stuff, but what? Did you miss the part where Hive Fleet Leviathan isn't around as a Hive Fleet anymore?

Leviathan is on the other side of the galaxy.
Hive fleet Gorgon started as the remnants of Behemoth. The Ultramarines and Imperial Navy were too busy desperately trying not to get wiped out to bother eliminating the entire hive fleet.
So the remnants, with all they had learned from fighting humans, went off to consume world after world until it was back to the size of a Hive Fleet, (renamed Gorgon) which is when it entered Tau space... And was annihilated.

On Topic:
Something about the Fireblade's face looks off... He looks old, but not in a tough, Clint Eastwood way. More like a grumpy, Walter Matthau way... Looks like he's saying "You damn kids left your knife in my rose bushes again!"

 Crimson wrote:
People keep complaining about the Crisis suits not redone to look more like the FW suits. Yes, I'd have liked that too, but from business perspective it makes sense to not do it. It would kill the sales of FW suits. It is the same reason why they got new flyers instead of plastic Barracuda.

Or, it'd encourage every Tau player -old and new- to "upgrade" their 'Suit force with nice shiny, new, plastics. Especially since the "new" ones would look so much better...

Valete,

JohnS