Tau battlesuits - what about XV3, 4, 5, 6 and 7?

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**Deadshot**

BoomWolf wrote:
Once again proving that the "official" numbering system is impossible.

in a base-8 system, there is no 9. unless the numbers we are shown are not even base 8 but the transulation of base 8 to base 10, and in that case the 109 is actually 155

Other conversions:
15->17
25->31
8->10
81->121
84->124
88->130
89->131
9->11
104->150
107->153
Unfortunately these does not make any more sense. GW can you please shake off the numbering system, or at least remake it to actually follow a system of any sort? right now the numbers are pretty random...

As for the 109, while the triple flamer thingy is quite obvius to be a template weapon of sorts, probably a heavy 3 heavy flamer with torrent, anyone locates anything that resembles the other gun?
I SUSPECT its going to be fusion related, as its the other "you wonna get close" weapon type, and the 109 is like the hazard of riptides by looks of it, just like the 107 was the broadside.

The other gun is clearly some sort of Ion weapon. You can see behind the name the barrel is very much like the Ion Accelerator and nothing like the Fusion weapons.

**13045273**

The new riptide does look awesome but those weapons don't really look like they have titan-killing potential

**Messy0**

Deadshot wrote:
BoomWolf wrote:
Once again proving that the "official" numbering system is impossible.

in a base-8 system, there is no 9. unless the numbers we are shown are not even base 8 but the transulation of base 8 to base 10, and in that case the 109 is actually 155

Other conversions:
15->17
25->31
8->10
81->121
84->124
88->130
89->131
9->11
104->150
107->153
Unfortunately these does not make any more sense. GW can you please shake off the numbering system, or at least remake it to actually follow a system of any sort? right now the numbers are pretty random...

As for the 109, while the triple flamer thingy is quite obvius to be a template weapon of sorts, probably a heavy 3 heavy flamer with torrent, anyone locates anything that resembles the other gun?
I SUSPECT its going to be fusion related, as its the other "you wonna get close" weapon type, and the 109 is like the hazard of riptides by looks of it, just like the 107 was the broadside.

The other gun is clearly some sort of Ion weapon. You can see behind the name the barrel is very much like the Ion Accelerator and nothing like the Fusion weapons.

I agree with boomwolf. The Riptide is a large Crisis, R'Varna a large Broadside and this is a Large XV9. It will be close range with some kind of multi shot torrent flamer and i think a variant of the fusion cascade. None of the riptides available at the moment are any good for anti AV in a meta that is increasingly all about AV 13/14. I think this will be the Tau answer to close range Anti AV with a torrent flamer for cleaning up the masses of infantry that fall out of destroyed transports and landraiders. Close and Deadly

**13045273**

BoomWolf wrote:
Once again proving that the "official" numbering system is impossible.

in a base-8 system, there is no 9. unless the numbers we are shown are not even base 8 but the transulation of base 8 to base 10, and in that case the 109 is actually 155

Other conversions:
15->17
25->31
8->10
81->121
84->124
88->130
89->131
9->11
104->150
107->153
Unfortunately these does not make any more sense. GW can you please shake off the numbering system, or at least remake it to actually follow a system of any sort? right now the numbers are pretty random...

Take your whinging elsewhere, we're not here to discuss that, as I said before.