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Urg that torso makes me cry. everything else awesome.. but just the torso. long slender tau, then suddenly BAM box top.

Bomber:
1: the pulse generator is bombs under the fuselage, and produces powerful energy explosives

2: UAVs interceptors arrived wings and can detach in the sun to defend against the enemy shark

Riptide:

1: Induction heavy barrel is a terrible antipersonnel weapon fire rate high. located under the mantle of the weapon can accommodate a secondary system armament, or even a support system if you wish.

2: the ion accelerator is a terrible weapon, particularly when the driver thanks to the supercharges reactor Nova shelters in its exo-armor Riptide.

3: Two drone missile defense are included in the kit. they protect the exo-armor enemy fire and answers has the aggressor with their own weapons.

Two massive repulsors confer riptide has a speed and agility exceptional on the field of battle.

the reactor nova the riptide (which you can see on the left image) is considerably larger than a conventional model, which earned him his status as experimental immense amount of energy that can generate

ok......for what its worth....

Sun Shark Bomber......has a pulse bomb generator and interceptor drones which can detach from the sun shark to defend it from attack.

Razorshark Strike Fighter......capable of engaging aircraft or ground targets, quad ion turret that can fire at ground or air. Has hidden seeker missile arrays in the wings above engines.

Riptide - Five support systems - heavy burst cannon or ion accelerator (Charged using the reactor). 2 shielded missile drones. Jet pack. Nova reactor

XV88 Broadside - Twin linked Heavy Rail Rifle or high yield missile pods.

XV8 Battlesuit Commander - experimental armour suit, experimental weapon systems, bonding knif in box, ion blaster / airbursting frag projector.

Pathfinder Team - armed with experimental ion rifle, pulse pistol - 6 types of drone including a grav inhibitor drone and the pulse accelerator drone. recon drone links with devilfish to provide comms relay and fire support.

CAdre fireblade - 3w IC with split fire a marker light and +1 shot to all fire warriors if they stood still.

Darkstrider - comes with a structural analyser to target weak points of enemy armour

Longstrike - wears XV02 battlesuit

Sky Ray - can target land or air targets

Firewarriors - Supporting fire special rule

Prices (UK)

Riptide - £50
Flyer - £40
Hammerhead / Skyray £35
Battleforce £80
Pathfinders £20
Broadside £30
Battlesuits £45
Cadre Fireblade £12
Tau Battlesuit Commander £25
Farsight £30
Darkstrider £11
Longstrike £9.50

Battle Report in WD - Tau vs Nids

Speaks about a puretide engram neurochip for HQ suit
repulser impact fields for crisis suits
Firewarriors now able to take target lock
stealth suits with counterfire defence systems
stealth suits with velocity tracker

seems all ion weapons can be overcharged - interceptor drones boosted ion rifles to strength 8.

thats about all at the moment....

Wow the commander suit looks great, I want to paint that!

Sounding good !

Thanks for that !

I think just rotating the head to look in the other direction would change him from having a surprised stance to a more aggressive stance. But that's just an inital guess. I'm in the same boat as others, if he's not posable, I'm not interested.

So does this mean the firewarrior box is the same?

On those bullet points for the commander armor (again, roughly translated. Still better than google though )

1: The commander carries a bonding knife, signifying that he is ready to support is comrades in the most dire of circumstances.

2: Tau Exo-suits have retractable hands, which are normally folded into their fore-arms. The tau commander in this case is sculpted with both hands exposed.

3: The ionic cylic burster (forgot real name) deliverers formidable salvos at a high rate of fire.

4: The dispersion charge launcher (insert proper name here) fires a projectile directly into an enemy where it explodes, causing maximum damage.

5: Escorted by a team of Crisis Exo-suits, the Commander brings the fight to the enemy.

Oh wow, I didn't expect the new Commander suit to be so large. He looks about twice the height of the XV8s. In any case I think he looks fantastic.
I always wished those hands would retract. I love the collar, the lowered hips, the big shoulder shield, and the knee knobs somewhat like the XV9s have.
I always thought Crisis suits would look so much better with a little more space between their hips and chest.

Lovepug13 wrote:
Darkstrider - comes with a structural analyser to target weak points of enemy

A sniper character who joins the Tau scout unit - you could call him a kind of....Tau-rios Tau-lion character?

...

Sorry...

(Large?) Seeker Missile on Broadsides is very interesting.

Trasvi wrote:
(Large?) Seeker Missile on Broadsides is very interesting.

they are called high yield missile pods....and it can add a seeker missile as well

and the drones can 100% detach to allow the bomber to complete it's bombing run

"High yield missile pods"

oh goody i wonder just how many missiles it will fire

velocity trackers give skyfire as far as we can make out

and the tank commander kills 28 (tyranid) models and they comment on how useful he is and was the "man of the match so to speak"

hmm. I've got some old unassembled gundam models - wonder if they're the right size to kit-bash as riptides?

The bomb generator on the flyer looks like something you would blow bubbles with...

 airmang wrote:
The bomb generator on the flyer looks like something you would blow bubbles with...

bubbles.... OF PLASMA-y DEATH

Small tidbits:
There is a mail order set of Farsight Enclave shoulder pads for Fire Warriors.
Darkstrider is male.
Kroot are in.
Farsight is a rebel but still loyal.
You see the heightened field on top of the bomber wings? You can push them open and see the seeker missiles underneath.
The missile Broadside is really full of missiles

 Archonate wrote:
Oh wow, I didn't expect the new Commander suit to be so large. He looks about twice the height of the XV8s. In any case I think he looks fantastic.
I always wished those hands would retract. I love the collar, the lowered hips, the big shoulder shield, and the knee knobs somewhat like the XV9s have.
I always thought Crisis suits would look so much better with a little more space between their hips and chest.

look at the photo, they have him standing on a box.

And it appears the Cyclic Ion Blaster looks dramatically different.

davou wrote:

 Archonate wrote:
Oh wow, I didn't expect the new Commander suit to be so large. He looks about twice the height of the XV8s. In any case I think he looks fantastic.
I always wished those hands would retract. I love the collar, the lowered hips, the big shoulder shield, and the knee knobs somewhat like the XV9s have.
I always thought Crisis suits would look so much better with a little more space between their hips and chest.

look at the photo, they have him standing on a box.

One: glue a base on a box.
Two: Put your tau on that box
Three: maker her look at that box
and that's the way you do it

It's my Tau on a box!

From what I can tell, there's really only one new weapon in that kit, the others are just new models of the old experimental weapons (thankfully) so I'm not required to buy the new stuff, just convert a custom version of the new cold plasma or whatever it is.

If the arms and legs on that tau commander are poseable, I can see me buying a lot of those parts from bits providers.

If not...I'll go back to petitioning 3rd party companies to make arms and legs of a similar scale that just happen to be compatible with XV8s.

Will only really rush to buy a Riptide and one of the set of pathfinders. Flyers don't tickle my fancy enough and I prefer the old shoulder-mounted railgun XV88s.

Darkstrider will probably get purchased eventually.

Trasvi wrote:
(Large?) Seeker Missile on Broadsides is very interesting.

Seeker Missiles are always that large, (about as tall as a Firewarrior) but the one on the Broadsides is a much fancier sculpt.

For all those asking if the Commander has posable arms, ask youself this question. How many finecast models are posable?

Sigh, if Lovepug's price list of UK is correct, then the Riptide is the same cost as a Hellbrute from Warriors of Chaos: which translates to $85 USD. I know Kroot said not to get doom and gloom on the US prices yet because they probably weren't completely accurate, but now we have 2 sources for $85. As a non-Tau player, I wanted the Riptide. I think it's gorgeous. But I'm not paying $85 for one plastic model. I do play WoC, and I didn't buy the Hellbrute. Why would I buy an $85 model for an army I don't even play? It's an amazing model, but it's not worth the value. Make it $65 (retail price before discount), GW, and I'll pick one up.

UltraPrime wrote:
For all those asking if the Commander has posable arms, ask youself this question. How many finecast models are posable?

Has it been confirmed as finecast? (genuine question, not being snarky.)

EDIT: Ah yes it has. Balls.

 airmang wrote:
The bomb generator on the flyer looks like something you would blow bubbles with...

That's basically how the fluff is going to be. The circle creates bubbles or blobs of plasma that it spits downward with magnetic fields or whatever.

 airmang wrote:
The bomb generator on the flyer looks like something you would blow bubbles with...

Does anyone else think that it looks vaguely necron-esque?

Note that Hammerheads go up from £31 to £35.