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 Furyou Miko wrote:

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 SharkoutofWata wrote:
Named characters on the table bug me. 'This is Commander Farsight and he is a single Tau that lived here at this time and yeah three people in the gaming group use him cause his rules are awesome.'

Yeah, I tend to use a counts-as to explain that. With the Dawn Blade just being some sort of Tau plasma lightsabre..

NO. Change your headcanon because only orks are cool enough to be allowed ANY kind of lightsaber.......awesome konversion idea time....

Uh, sorry to break it to you, but the Farsight Tau canonically have lightsabers. Admittedly, they're Fusion/Melta tech, not Plasma tech, though.

Same with the IoM, although that's Black Library fluff.

wot.da.zog.Da stoopid shooty gitz get all da laser choppas!This is an outrage!I demand the taxation of trade routes and for us to take away the tau light sabers!

A little thing i'v noticed is who writes thought of the day?

A little thing i'v noticed is who writes thought of the day?

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There were mention of Skaven and Beastmen in 6th ed appendix. But it was mostly a passing reference.

DontEatRawHagis wrote:
There were mention of Skaven and Beastmen in 6th ed appendix. But it was mostly a passing reference.

Beastmen have been around in 40k for a while.

You can actually take Beastmen in a Forgeworld Renegade and Heretics army. Though they differ from fantasy beastmen in that they're Abhumans in WH40k while beastmen in Fantasy aren't (...or are they?)

Never heard about the skaven thing though

TiamatRoar wrote:
You can actually take Beastmen in a Forgeworld Renegade and Heretics army. Though they differ from fantasy beastmen in that they're Abhumans in WH40k while beastmen in Fantasy aren't (...or are they?)

Never heard about the skaven thing though

Skaven in 40K used to be called the Hrud. This was back in 3rd Edition, in one picture in the core rule book. Then, years later, something happened and now the Hrud aren't rat-men anymore, but they still kind of have a lot of Skaven-ish traits.

A member of my group runs beastmen as Berserkers, Nobody has any problem with this at all

squidhills wrote:

TiamatRoar wrote:
You can actually take Beastmen in a Forgeworld Renegade and Heretics army. Though they differ from fantasy beastmen in that they're Abhumans in WH40k while beastmen in Fantasy aren't (...or are they?)

Never heard about the skaven thing though

Skaven in 40K used to be called the Hrud. This was back in 3rd Edition, in one picture in the core rule book. Then, years later, something happened and now the Hrud aren't rat-men anymore, but they still kind of have a lot of Skaven-ish traits.

The skaven-Hrud was just a crouched Jawa with a ratlike tail coming out from under its robes.

Beastmen in Fantasy are pretty much a kind of abhuman too, but the scale of Fantasy means that the ones who can make it to the North have forged their own culture rather than clinging to their human origins.

Yup, Fantasy Beastmen are mutants who, for whatever reason, "breed true". Just like Ogryns and Ratlings.