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 Kroothawk wrote:
Hidden in the Black Templar thread but worth reposting here:
Anonymous source on faeit212, probably Stickmonkey wrote:Tau Mercs

another Tau Supplement is in the works, it lines up with a few other rumours I've heard about the Tau before it was released to the world. Vespid and Kroot HQ choices, and the ability to play a non "Tau" Lists.

Stickmonkey on Faeit 212 wrote:I have a little more on the Tau mercs supplement.

First, I was told this wasnt planned be out til Q1.

Second, I was told that either this or one of the eldar supplements would be the first with a model wave to go along with it. I wasnt told which models or which eldar supplement.

warning: what follows is my speculation

My best guesses are a plastic pack kroot hq, which I saw in design before. This would be a slightly bigger kroot than the current troops. Had a tau rifle, not a kroot gun. A bit more armor than a standard kroot. Standing on a rock in a "crossing the Delaware" pose. Caveat that this was still in CAD, lots can change, and it was last fall.

Also a vespid plastic kit thats been ready for a while.

My eldar guess would be the first round of the plastic aspects with beil-tan.

When the tau dex was released I went back to my sources about the allied races not getting support after seeing so much studio work on them, and this was eventually what I was told.



Although I don't like/play Tau, but it's great to see an army getting supplements, which was neglected a bit previously. I can only wish armies I play get some love in the coming years.
   
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I would bet that is a guarantee that there will be another Tau supplement sheerly because on page 88 it stated you can only use one supplement when making an army.

But all in all, a kroon supplement will pretty awesome.

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via Stickmonkey on Faeit 212 wrote:
I'd heard Biel-Tan was being worked on after Iyaden, and Saim-Hann was later. But from what I've heard lately it seems the supplements are pure labors of love, and not necessarily slotting into releases like we've traditionally thought. That they are following a "when it's done" release scheme, and not strict deadlines. Multiple digital supplements in a month would also not be unheard of.

There is a lot going on. I've heard scattered rumors of 2014 seeing many new models introduce to codexes with rules in box, but I haven't confirmed this.

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 pretre wrote:
via Stickmonkey on Faeit 212 wrote:
I'd heard Biel-Tan was being worked on after Iyaden, and Saim-Hann was later. But from what I've heard lately it seems the supplements are pure labors of love, and not necessarily slotting into releases like we've traditionally thought. That they are following a "when it's done" release scheme, and not strict deadlines. Multiple digital supplements in a month would also not be unheard of.

There is a lot going on. I've heard scattered rumors of 2014 seeing many new models introduce to codexes with rules in box, but I haven't confirmed this.
That's acutally not bad. "Labors of love" would, at least partially, ensure that these supplements come out well done, as anyone who wants to do them will do them and do them well, at least I hope they do.
   
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 IXLoiero95XI wrote:
I would bet that is a guarantee that there will be another Tau supplement sheerly because on page 88 it stated you can only use one supplement when making an army.

But all in all, a kroon supplement will pretty awesome.


It also stops stuff like Iyandan + Farsight, which I guess is to keep possibly bizarre rule interactions at a minimum. It also means that the allies matrix never really gets out of control, because you never need to worry if the Black Legion can ally with Farsight Enclave, for instance.
   
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 IXLoiero95XI wrote:
I would bet that is a guarantee that there will be another Tau supplement sheerly because on page 88 it stated you can only use one supplement when making an army.

But all in all, a kroon supplement will pretty awesome.


Kroon Supplement!

With the epic heroes Frah'nk Cen'atra, Jeymes De'en, and Sam'ee Du'vis?

I'm in for that.

 
   
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As a heads up regarding the word "army" throughout the rules. This is the email I got back from the digital guys.

Hi Brad,
I've spoken to our rules guys.
You are correct, use the word 'detachment' in both cases, rather than army.

This will be added to future editions.

Thanks, Eddie

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 pretre wrote:
via Stickmonkey on Faeit 212 wrote:
I'd heard Biel-Tan was being worked on after Iyaden, and Saim-Hann was later. But from what I've heard lately it seems the supplements are pure labors of love, and not necessarily slotting into releases like we've traditionally thought. That they are following a "when it's done" release scheme, and not strict deadlines. Multiple digital supplements in a month would also not be unheard of.

There is a lot going on. I've heard scattered rumors of 2014 seeing many new models introduce to codexes with rules in box, but I haven't confirmed this.


Hey, now maybe those rumored rhino variants will come with rules inserts for codex: blood angels, space wolves, and dark angels. This would make it so a possible Dark Angels supplement wouldn't be giving them common variant units, but instead maybe a fallen angel supplement (rules for cypher, and the fallen D. Angels army special rules, possibly a rule allowing them to ally with chaos).

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 Ironwill13791 wrote:
 pretre wrote:
via Stickmonkey on Faeit 212 wrote:
I'd heard Biel-Tan was being worked on after Iyaden, and Saim-Hann was later. But from what I've heard lately it seems the supplements are pure labors of love, and not necessarily slotting into releases like we've traditionally thought. That they are following a "when it's done" release scheme, and not strict deadlines. Multiple digital supplements in a month would also not be unheard of.

There is a lot going on. I've heard scattered rumors of 2014 seeing many new models introduce to codexes with rules in box, but I haven't confirmed this.


Hey, now maybe those rumored rhino variants will come with rules inserts for codex: blood angels, space wolves, and dark angels. This would make it so a possible Dark Angels supplement wouldn't be giving them common variant units, but instead maybe a fallen angel supplement (rules for cypher, and the fallen D. Angels army special rules, possibly a rule allowing them to ally with chaos).


Long story short they are charging $60 for something that used to be free in WD. Both fluff and additional rules wise.

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People were saying you couldn't take normal signature systems in armies were either primary with enclave allies or allied in standard tau. People were also saying you couldn't include Aun'va or Shadowsun even in a Tau Empire army with allied Enclave. Or several other "army" issues.

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 Ravenous D wrote:
 Ironwill13791 wrote:
 pretre wrote:
via Stickmonkey on Faeit 212 wrote:
I'd heard Biel-Tan was being worked on after Iyaden, and Saim-Hann was later. But from what I've heard lately it seems the supplements are pure labors of love, and not necessarily slotting into releases like we've traditionally thought. That they are following a "when it's done" release scheme, and not strict deadlines. Multiple digital supplements in a month would also not be unheard of.

There is a lot going on. I've heard scattered rumors of 2014 seeing many new models introduce to codexes with rules in box, but I haven't confirmed this.


Hey, now maybe those rumored rhino variants will come with rules inserts for codex: blood angels, space wolves, and dark angels. This would make it so a possible Dark Angels supplement wouldn't be giving them common variant units, but instead maybe a fallen angel supplement (rules for cypher, and the fallen D. Angels army special rules, possibly a rule allowing them to ally with chaos).


Long story short they are charging $60 for something that used to be free in WD. Both fluff and additional rules wise.


Who paid $60 for it? I paid $30.

 
   
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 cincydooley wrote:
 Ravenous D wrote:
 Ironwill13791 wrote:
 pretre wrote:
via Stickmonkey on Faeit 212 wrote:
I'd heard Biel-Tan was being worked on after Iyaden, and Saim-Hann was later. But from what I've heard lately it seems the supplements are pure labors of love, and not necessarily slotting into releases like we've traditionally thought. That they are following a "when it's done" release scheme, and not strict deadlines. Multiple digital supplements in a month would also not be unheard of.

There is a lot going on. I've heard scattered rumors of 2014 seeing many new models introduce to codexes with rules in box, but I haven't confirmed this.


Hey, now maybe those rumored rhino variants will come with rules inserts for codex: blood angels, space wolves, and dark angels. This would make it so a possible Dark Angels supplement wouldn't be giving them common variant units, but instead maybe a fallen angel supplement (rules for cypher, and the fallen D. Angels army special rules, possibly a rule allowing them to ally with chaos).


Long story short they are charging $60 for something that used to be free in WD. Both fluff and additional rules wise.


Who paid $60 for it? I paid $30.


Nobody, he's just sandy it isn't free.

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 cincydooley wrote:


Who paid $60 for it? I paid $30.


Iyanden was $50 and $100 for the LE version, so I assumed all the supplements were the same price. Just checked, its $45 Canadian

 BladeTX wrote:


Nobody, he's just sandy it isn't free.


Putting it in white dwarf wouldn't be a bad idea either, considering what you get and little difference it has from the old Chapter approved articles charging 450% more for a digital copy seems like a good reason not to be impressed.

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 McNinja wrote:
 pretre wrote:
via Stickmonkey on Faeit 212 wrote:
I'd heard Biel-Tan was being worked on after Iyaden, and Saim-Hann was later. But from what I've heard lately it seems the supplements are pure labors of love, and not necessarily slotting into releases like we've traditionally thought. That they are following a "when it's done" release scheme, and not strict deadlines. Multiple digital supplements in a month would also not be unheard of.

There is a lot going on. I've heard scattered rumors of 2014 seeing many new models introduce to codexes with rules in box, but I haven't confirmed this.
That's acutally not bad. "Labors of love" would, at least partially, ensure that these supplements come out well done, as anyone who wants to do them will do them and do them well, at least I hope they do.


At the same time, it also means people who's preferred factions don't have an advocate in the design team don't get a look in, which is a bit crap since there's significant overlap between "no design-team advocate" and "most suited for the Supplement treatment".

At this point, I'm seriously considering giving regular GW the finger and just using whatever Iron Hands rules are in Massacre for regular 40K games.

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I know for sure I lot of people will be paying the Iron price instead.

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Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! The modern studio isn’t a studio in the same way; it isn’t a collection of artists and creatives sharing ideas and driving each other on. It’s become the promotions department of a toy company – things move on!
 
   
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Anonymous source on faeit212 wrote:Tau have two more books; one for kroot and one for "the rest" of the expanded empire.

And according to another source, the printed version of the Farsight Supplement might be released as early as 17th August.

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Printed version now officially announced for October:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440286a&prodId=prod2160087a

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It'd be just smashing if GW came out with a compilation Codex: Supplements 2013 sometime next year. Of course, it'd also be nice if beautiful women sprouted up from my garden each time it rained and I could alchemically create nuggets of gold with nothing but greenstuff and my unpainted Empire wizard... I'd say they're all just about as likely to happen.

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 warboss wrote:
It's be just smashing if GW came out with a compilation Codex: Supplements 2013 sometime next year. Of course, it'd also be nice if beautiful women sprouted up from my garden each time it rained and I could alchemically create nuggets of gold with nothing but greenstuff and my unpainted Empire wizard... I'd say they're all just about as likely to happen.


You sir, win the internet.

I will be curious to see if the printed version has corrections/updates in it from the earlier versions of the online one.

I know I will be picking it up.

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Thanks. I'm just hoping for an old style 3rd edition Chapter Approved compilation with just the rules for the same price as just one with the fluff. Obviously, that won't happen.
   
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Just a short reminder that Friday night (after midnight in UK), the printed version of the Farsight supplement will be available to order.
Natfka says, it will be preorder only, but he seems not to understand what his own quote says.

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I totally forgot about this supplement being released in print format. I'm not sure it's good marketing to have a digital release so far ahead so that everyone can read it, accept it, and forget about it.

   
 
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