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 Rented Tritium wrote:

Snufflesms wrote:

 Rented Tritium wrote:

 IPS wrote:
It would be intersting if they actually include a drone squad into the battleforce.
I personally think it would be cool to see them used on the battlefield
(maybe the speculations about drone troops are true? *hopes*)

If the existing drone squad counted as jetbikes, people might play them.

Actually there is no drone squad. The original battleforce pic was deleted, but 6 drones come with the crisis suits, and 2 with the firewarriors, so that is just all the drones from the battleforce clumped together/

Read your codex again. It's in fast attack.

I meant that there is no drone squad in the battle force. It is just a group of all the drones. Obviously I know there is a drone squad in the codex.

If I get the Battleforce, I might have to squad up the Drones.

I've seen people in 4th and 5th ed use them for mobile cover.

Hopefully they are cheap enough and faster so they can be effective. BS3 would be good too.

Snufflesms wrote:

 Rented Tritium wrote:

Snufflesms wrote:

 Rented Tritium wrote:

 IPS wrote:
It would be intersting if they actually include a drone squad into the battleforce.
I personally think it would be cool to see them used on the battlefield
(maybe the speculations about drone troops are true? *hopes*)

If the existing drone squad counted as jetbikes, people might play them.

Actually there is no drone squad. The original battleforce pic was deleted, but 6 drones come with the crisis suits, and 2 with the firewarriors, so that is just all the drones from the battleforce clumped together/

Read your codex again. It's in fast attack.

I meant that there is no drone squad in the battle force. It is just a group of all the drones. Obviously I know there is a drone squad in the codex.

The drones in the battleforce aren't specifically for one entry or another. They're models.

Snufflesms wrote:

 Rented Tritium wrote:

Snufflesms wrote:

 Rented Tritium wrote:

 IPS wrote:
It would be intersting if they actually include a drone squad into the battleforce.
I personally think it would be cool to see them used on the battlefield
(maybe the speculations about drone troops are true? *hopes*)

If the existing drone squad counted as jetbikes, people might play them.

Actually there is no drone squad. The original battleforce pic was deleted, but 6 drones come with the crisis suits, and 2 with the firewarriors, so that is just all the drones from the battleforce clumped together/

Read your codex again. It's in fast attack.

I meant that there is no drone squad in the battle force. It is just a group of all the drones. Obviously I know there is a drone squad in the codex.

by that logic there would also have to be the stealth suit drones in there

Love the cover art! Looking at the Battleforce picture, has the Pirhana changed? Doesnt look like it.

 mh_mini wrote:


Prices are steep. Most things went up in price compared to last codex. Though suits in box of 3 actually saves some money.
30x3=90 vs $75. NOT BAD,

Farsight... steep.

Flier -- Valkyrie $80 Doomsythe $55. It's in the middle of the pack.

As for the holes, a second transport would be nice, but not really mandatory. If Devilfish go down in points and depending on the upgrades it can fill different roles.
Jetbike, the Piranha kinda has this covered (going down in points)? Not a jetbike and in the Fast slot to compete with the flier and pathfinders. But I dont really think Tau are a jetbike type of army.

Antitank would be the Hammerhead

and we'll see if anything new shows up in the troops. I was thinking the possibility of Stealsuits going to troops.


EDIT. i screwed up my formatting and fixed it.

Hate to break it to you, but these prices are US amounts. Or as Kroothawk pointed out, Euro prices converted to US prices. The Canadian price for a box of three Crisis suits is $90, which is a $0.75 increase.

Here there are some new pictures for the new Tau;
pages from wd are in french, but there are some new.

There's also the cover (and yes, it is the image shown earlier here)

A couple of things I figured out (which I think I didn't read here)
- commander has the bit for the bonding knife
- tau suits have retractable hands, normally folded into the arms, the commander is sculpted with hands deployed (or something like this)
- Missile drone option for the broadsides
- Additional big-size shoulder-mount guidance missile (broadside)
- Sunshark has a "pulse bombs generator" (i think... never studied french) --> with photo of part of the underside.
- Interceptor drones of the Sunshark are detachable
- Riptide has (options for): induction cannon, ion accelerator, two defense drones (w/ missiles), three head choices, two repulsor/jet engines (and, of course, the Nova reactor)

Hm.. I acutally like the standart krisis suit better
The new one has some nice design elemtents to it, but just looks too fragile and blocky, dunno, it kinda seems to lack proper proportions.

also: there i was hoping for independant interceptor drones.. another sadface^^

on a side note:
I want roberto cirillo back as tau designer :(

Ok... there is something about the XV8 Crisis Commander that I don't like.

I can't quite put my finger on it.

I like the fact that he has multiple weapon options including a new type of weapon, but the pose is just a little off putting.

I hope he is easily poseable.

Nice cover

Just a head up the Tau 'dex was just taken off the GW site. I'm counting the days till I can get new one. Buddy of mine has em and I play em sometimes but I wanted a more modern codex. Looks like my waiting has paid off

I can confirm that the Codex was indeed written by Jeremy Vetock (that is, he is credited, while many others of the design team contributed as well, as is usual nowadays)

 Rented Tritium wrote:
The drones in the battleforce aren't specifically for one entry or another. They're models.

You are slow today. Snufflesms is correct that 6 drones come from the Crisis Suit sprues and 2 from the Fire Warrior sprue. There are no extra drones not contained in one of the listed kits.

And just for convenience, here the repost of the pics in the above link, showing the generic commander suit (the last model we haven't seen yet):

The new commander is kind of... strange. It's not inherently bad, but unless those joints can be articulated, that pose looks somewhat confused. The fire warrior shoulder plate is quite hilarious to me, as are the silly hands. He looks like he's prancing around like he gives all of 0 feths about what's going on around him. But hey, don't ask, don't tell - he's a good soldier most of the time.

-edit- -edit- comp fail...

But I think he meant that the drones could be put into a squad of their own, regardless of what sprues they came from.

He looks kind of stretched out, like taffy.

Or like he was taken completely off-guard by somebody jumping out from behind a knarloc.

"What the --"

 IPS wrote:

by that logic there would also have to be the stealth suit drones in there

Stealth suits don't come with Gun drones, only a Marker Drone.

 Kroothawk wrote:
I can confirm that the Codex was indeed written by Jeremy Vetock (that is, he is credited, while many others of the design team contributed as well, as is usual nowadays)

 Rented Tritium wrote:
The drones in the battleforce aren't specifically for one entry or another. They're models.

You are slow today. Snufflesms is correct that 6 drones come from the Crisis Suit sprues and 2 from the Fire Warrior sprue. There are no extra drones not contained in one of the listed kits.

And there's two from the stealth suits as well as two in the piranha. 14 drones in the box in total (of which 12 are separate sprues, if I'm not mistaken).

 Kerrathyr wrote:
Here there are some new pictures for the new Tau;
pages from wd are in french, but there are some new.

There's also the cover (and yes, it is the image shown earlier here)

A couple of things I figured out (which I think I didn't read here)
- commander has the bit for the bonding knife
- tau suits have retractable hands, normally folded into the arms, the commander is sculpted with hands deployed (or something like this)
- Missile drone option for the broadsides
- Additional big-size shoulder-mount guidance missile (broadside)
- Sunshark has a "pulse bombs generator" (i think... never studied french) --> with photo of part of the underside.
- Interceptor drones of the Sunshark are detachable
- Riptide has (options for): induction cannon, ion accelerator, two defense drones (w/ missiles), three head choices, two repulsor/jet engines (and, of course, the Nova reactor)

Boy, do I wish I could speak french to see what these pages say. Guess it's just a few days away until I can read them in English though. Any French-speakers care to translate the juicy bits? Google Translate doesn't work on pictures...

Trasvi wrote:
Cover looks great.
Honestly though, it's no more different to the current suits than the current codex cover is.

Also, I don't like the new barefoot Tau look. Someone must have decided to emphasise that Tau are aliens and have hooves... but why the frack would you go to battle clad head to *ankle* in body armour?

Just paint the hooves boot leather colour.

Though it must be said that various indicators make it plain that GW never decided about the foot anatomy of Tau.

All of my money... Gone..... *sob*

On a more serious note, that commander looks awesome. A little tall, but awesome. I would of actually liked if they changed all Crisis suits to look like that, honestly.

Lucarikx

 Manchu wrote:
He looks kind of stretched out, like taffy.

Or like he was taken completely off-guard by somebody jumping out from behind a knarloc.

"What the --"

It roughly says: Tau commanders are fire warriors who have proven their worth on battlefield. Sealed (Add better word here) in the imposing XV8-05 exo-suit, they fight on the front lines and slaughter their enemies, thanks to the most advanced weapons the Empire has to offer.

I personally like the Commander suit (it's obviously what's on the cover too). I like that he's got some movement in the model and it's interesting to see the hands extended.

 Manchu wrote:
He looks kind of stretched out, like taffy.

Or like he was taken completely off-guard by somebody jumping out from behind a knarloc.

"What the --"

Thats a mini-Ion Cannon/CIB, isnt it? Were going for Ion-Tau then, i like the model on Enforcer amor, but i hope its posable, he looks more scared than anything, no will to fight with that pose :/ and even taking it like "Hey, i just get here, whats goin on?" not good enough

Did anyone else see the flyers and think of Tron: Legacy?

Interceptor drones... nice!

Translations from the page to english (via Google

1: Commander has a ritual knife to his side, ready to sign that oath to support his companions even in the worst circumstances.

2: exo-armor tau retractable usually have hands folded in their forearms. The exo-armor commander was sculpted with both hands outstretched.

3: The spark gap was cyclo-ion bursts [cyclic ion blaster?] may issue a formidable high rate of fire

4: The launcher loads a dispersion propels a projectile directly at the enemy. then it explodes cauant maximum damage.

5: Escorted by a team of exo-armor crisis, a tau commander brings the fight to the enemy

It's not hard (just a little time consuming) to type into google translate, though most of it is legible with just a little knowledge of French.

So I guess "suit" doesn't localize to french well.

Love that new armor. Like others have said though I hope it's posable. I also wonder how compatible it would be with the FW XV-89 bits, I've always loved the look of those.

Broadsides:
2: Kit includes two broadside drones that can be equipped in various ways. It bears a pod of missiles, found exclusively in this kit.

3: the broadside possesses a particle accelerator goes behind his back to feed its formidable guns, heavy rail.

4: guide a missile can be mounted large as an additional weapon on the shoulder of the broadside

5: nacelles missiles are high yielding no less deadly alternative to heavy rail-guns are arming TWIN standard exo-armor XV88