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I like it, and as for the tracks I've seen IRL Lard Rovers with tracks like that, so they would work.
I'm not getting one, as I have no plans to start a new army, but I do like the model.

 scottmmmm wrote:

Also the name....Tau Rox. Is someone having a laugh at GW HQ? That's almost as bad as "A Bad 'Un".

Maybe you're joking, but I can't stand it when people spout this sort of thing as a criticism. Taurox is the usual bad latin sort of name 40k has already featured (taurus=a bull) and Abaddon is a demon from the old testament. They're not actually puns.

 scottmmmm wrote:
That's almost as bad as "A Bad 'Un".

Abaddon is named after a fallen angel, it isn't a pun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaddon

Taurox is derived from the latin word for bull. Why would an Imperial vehicle be praising Tau? Your interpretation doesn't make sense.

They normally reserve terrible puns for Lizardmen

See: Tiktak'to

I think it's ok.
I do agree that it needs to be a tad longer (way too squat and compact) and that the fender guns are idiotic (provided they are meant to be fired)

I love it. It is absolutely adorable.
Altough I do not think it really fits in with the Guard. Maybe with these new Scion guys?

I have no idea what they were thinking with those treads, would replace with wheels. Then it wouldn't be so bad.

 scottmmmm wrote:


Also the name....Tau Rox. Is someone having a laugh at GW HQ? That's almost as bad as "A Bad 'Un".

Abaddon isn't supposed to be a pun, the name comes from an angel in Revelation and roughly translates from Hebrew as "place of destruction". Although it is technically pronounced "A Bad 'Un", most people I've heard pronounce it Ab-ba-DON in 40k.

The reason they named the 40k character after this angel is probably because the Abaddon in the Bible is a complete badass who takes part in destroying Terra... I mean earth. Plenty of other franchises spam this name as the obligatory "deep" Bible reference.

EDIT: Looks like I'm late to the party, lol.

I hate it with a passion and I'm not even a guard player, does not look like a 40k vehicle to me.

This is the first time I've seen or heard of it and before reading any replies here, my reaction was quite negative. The colour-scheme / paint job doesn't help but even allowing for that, it is ugly and for some reason feels it doesn't fit the 40K Imperium aesthetic. It reminds me of an Edwardian omnibus:



Not sure why, just something about the proportions. Of course I'm an elitist Eldar snob so all human vehicles are supposed to look ugly to me, but most Imperial vehicles have a certain sort of mental over the top feel to them - oversized, overarmoured, (overpriced. *snicker*). Whereas this looks indefinably flimsy. I think it's the way it's too tall for a "tank" and looks like it might tip over in exactly the way that a Leman Russ wouldn't. And it just doesn't feel very Imperium to me. Maybe it is the grills or something. But "steampunk" as others have said. It's the tank that Mr. Toad of Toad Hall would drive. *beep beep*



What's it for and where did it come from? I'm assuming it's a new toy for the Imperial Guard from somewhere. Not to tangent but is it rules-effective? Will we be seeing many of these things?

It has more firepower than a chimera and it can reroll dangerous terrain tests, but it has weak armor. It's only AV11/10/10 with 3 HP.

Think of it as a trukk that sacrifices speed for fire power.
Though the Taurox Prime is a fast vehicle.

It's comparable to the space marine razorback.

When I first saw a leak of it I thought it was a joke, too bad it's not. It's weird because GW has been doing a pretty good job with their models lately up until this thing. Looks like it should be stopping by the local grocery store to pick up the cash deposit. Might look ok as an ork truck, those things are supposed to be poorly designed.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Think of it as a trukk that sacrifices speed for fire power.
Though the Taurox Prime is a fast vehicle.

I think the best way to think of it is the Prime is a Chimera that has given up a point of armour to be faster and carry more bang bangs for 25pts more. The regular Taurox is like a Chimera that gives up a point of armour AND some bang bangs just to be fast at 5pt discount.

The regular Taurox isn't any more shooty than a Chimera. It has a Twin Linked autocannon, so 2 S7 AP4 TL shots vs the Chimera which is 6 S6 AP6 and 3 S5 AP4. Against most targets the Chimera is going to do more damage than the Taurox (the exception being armour 13 vehicles which the multilaser can't hurt and you probably aren't wasting autocannon shots on to begin with).

I personally think it looks ridiculous (in an awesome way), but as Imperial Guard seems to be the faction for more "realistic" models, perhaps designed to appeal to miniature hobbyists of a different stripe, I can see it being a big miss.

I'd love to see Blood Axes driving this thing around, though.

I guess they're going for an MRPV feeling, but in my eyes its too tall for use as a serious battlefield vehicle. As noted above, maybe a non-combat transport or Arbites thingy. its like they took all the bad bits from all previous imperial vehicles and kludged them together.

The model looks out of place in 40k. It doesn't look like it belongs with any of the 40k vehicles at all. The tracks look weird on the model and the color scheme is pretty meh too. I'm sure this thing is Rhino sized or smaller as well so it's over priced IMO.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Think of it as a trukk that sacrifices speed for fire power.
Though the Taurox Prime is a fast vehicle.

I think the best way to think of it is the Prime is a Chimera that has given up a point of armour to be faster and carry more bang bangs for 25pts more. The regular Taurox is like a Chimera that gives up a point of armour AND some bang bangs just to be fast at 5pt discount.

The regular Taurox isn't any more shooty than a Chimera. It has a Twin Linked autocannon, so 2 S7 AP4 TL shots vs the Chimera which is 6 S6 AP6 and 3 S5 AP4. Against most targets the Chimera is going to do more damage than the Taurox (the exception being armour 13 vehicles which the multilaser can't hurt and you probably aren't wasting autocannon shots on to begin with).

The multilaser is Heavy 3, not heavy 6.

We don't know the new price of the chimera either.

It is true though that the standard taurox has less dakka than a chimera. I was thinking of the prime when I typed that.

I don't like it very much, but that's just my opinion. It seems to me there are two schools of thought at GW when it comes to models. Some are very 'realistic', for lack of a better word, and some are more 'cartoony', again for lack of a better word. I am more in the realistic camp. I like models like the Valkyrie and Chimera. Models like this and the Storm Raven, Storm Talon and such I don't like. It's a matter of what astetic you prefer.

It has potential, but it sucks that I would have to convert it just to have it feel "right" on the tabletop. Moving the side guns to the front fenders would have to be the first thing I would have to do.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
It has potential, but it sucks that I would have to convert it just to have it feel "right" on the tabletop. Moving the side guns to the front fenders would have to be the first thing I would have to do.

Ugh, yeah. At first I thought those are for storage, but according to the white dwarf entry, those are in, fact usable weapons

The Buffalo MRAP that the Taurox is based on. While it looks okay, the biggest problem IMHO is that it breaks the theme of the IG vehicles all being based on the Chimera chassis.

The more I look at it, the more in grows on me. Overall, I think it's the paint jobs they've given them that I don't like; more so than the models themselves.

Really love the hull but hate the tracks.
I like the way it looks quite pugnacious, that pic of the green paintjob does make it look better too.

Same as Ratius: love the hull, hate the tracks. With wheels it would be OK.

And the Tauros looks far better: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Guard/Elysian_Drop_Troops/ELYSIAN-TAUROS-VENATOR.html

Personally I like it and may well get it if I can justify it in my army. It looks dreadful in some pics but with a decent paintjob and when you see it mixed in with other models I think it works. IMO, of course.

Also, wouldn't those fender guns hit those pipes?
Seriously GW, wtf?
I mean, I want to like this model, but there's silly things like that.
I can forgive the nightscythe having an exposed pilot, but the fender guns are just too much.



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 da001 wrote:
Same as Ratius: love the hull, hate the tracks. With wheels it would be OK.

And the Tauros looks far better: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Guard/Elysian_Drop_Troops/ELYSIAN-TAUROS-VENATOR.html

Yeah, it's funny. You'd think the side company wouldn't be better at designing models than the parent.

I don't like the tracks either. It really takes away from the mini to me.

It looks like the really old Armorcast stuff and thus goofy. The Scion minis themselves look good, but the Taurox and leaked Ogryn models might be the ugliest thing GW has released in quite some time.

The first thing I said when I saw the leaked pictures of the taurox was, "Why are those storm troopers falling back into an ork trukk?" this is really not a good looking model. It's way too tall. imperial vehicles are usually so squat, and this is a tower of fail propelled by little tracked arby's potato cakes.

I dunno about that, the Leman Russ is one of the least squat tanks I have ever seen.

I don't like the vanilla model but I think that it's got some good potential for conversion.

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
I don't like the vanilla model but I think that it's got some good potential for conversion.

Agree.

There's a lot of conversion potential in it but the model itself really doesn't do it for me. I think I'd like it if it were an ork vehicle.

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:

 scottmmmm wrote:

Also the name....Tau Rox. Is someone having a laugh at GW HQ? That's almost as bad as "A Bad 'Un".

Maybe you're joking, but I can't stand it when people spout this sort of thing as a criticism. Taurox is the usual bad latin sort of name 40k has already featured (taurus=a bull) and Abaddon is a demon from the old testament. They're not actually puns.

Yeahhhh I was joking. I can't stand it when people can't take a joke. Also, do you know the designers personally? If not, how can you know whether they enjoyed the double entendre that comes with that name. I'm aware of Abaddon from the Bible, and of course it's a good fit because of that, but it could also be a terrible pun. In the north of England this is how people would say "A bad one". Even if it wasn't intentional, there's still a pun there.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 scottmmmm wrote:
That's almost as bad as "A Bad 'Un".

Abaddon is named after a fallen angel, it isn't a pun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaddon

Taurox is derived from the latin word for bull. Why would an Imperial vehicle be praising Tau? Your interpretation doesn't make sense.

I wasn't actually implying that they'd name an imperial vehicle praising the Tau race because I'm not stupid. It was a joke. You would think that they would avoid the Tau prefix like the plague because it's used elsewhere in their range.

As it stands it's both an unfortunate pun and a terrible model.