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2015/09/16 21:08:45
Subject: Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
Liking the new troops. Interesting that none of them seem to have the long rifles. Makes me wonder if they are a new unit rather than just updated Fire Warriors.
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2015/09/16 21:42:47
Subject: Tau Rumors: XV95 Ghostkeel,XV128 Stormsurge suits and new Pathfinders(?) pg13
Love the look of that Ghostkeel.
The Stormsurge is... ok? The missile pods look a bit stupid with how small they are compared to the absurd size of... well every other part of the model (besides the head). If the missile mods were 1.5-2x bigger they would look less stupid.
2015/09/16 22:45:32
Subject: Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
Yeah this is happening just before my birthday like a few days. So still month of the Tau is my bday month. It's like fate when I picked them as my first army.
2015/09/16 22:55:01
Subject: Re:Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
I'm liking the new Tau stuff. But GW can't seem to figure out what to do these days without going bigger! Each new release seems to have bigger models than the last. I guess they wanted to have something to challenge Imperial Knights more effectively, but I can't imagine what they'll do next time!
2015/09/17 01:08:41
Subject: Re:Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
The new Tau suit doesn't really look bad. It doesn't look like a mobile suit, it looks like a mobile artillery piece on legs. Which is what it's meant to be.
The Tau's worst-designed stuff are still their GW aircraft (the FW ones look great).
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2015/09/17 01:59:35
Subject: Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
Harriticus wrote: The new Tau suit doesn't really look bad. It doesn't look like a mobile suit, it looks like a mobile artillery piece on legs. Which is what it's meant to be.
The Tau's worst-designed stuff are still their GW aircraft (the FW ones look great).
How do you make the MAC II Monster cooler? It transforms!
Although, the shuttle version is very similar in appearance to a hammerhead/devilfish. I certainly would not mind a tau battlesuit that could do that, or taking a hammerhead kit and kitbashing it into a transforming K-139.
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2015/09/17 02:02:49
Subject: Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
How do you make the MAC II Monster cooler? It transforms!
Although, the shuttle version is very similar in appearance to a hammerhead/devilfish. I certainly would not mind a tau battlesuit that could do that, or taking a hammerhead kit and kitbashing it into a transforming K-139.
I actually love both of the new suits. The Stormsurge looks like a mobile artillery battery, which makes perfect sense for the Tau at this point. They already have a shock and awe frontline battlesuit in the Riptide, they don't need another. What they do need is a backfield artillery force, which they really don't have. The Hammerhead is their go to anti-tank vehicle, the Sky Ray is their AA option. Broadsides are probably the closest they have to artillery units, but even those are more pinpoint targeting than area saturation. The Stormsurge, at least from what I am gathering from it's model, fills the same role as the Basilisk or Medusa does for IG; a large scale artillery unit meant to bombard an area with so much firepower nothing is left standing. In that light, the massive missile pods and lack of arms makes sense. If the Stormsurge gets in CC, its already failed its job. (Note that this is all based on speculation from the actual model and what the current Tau codex is lacking in terms of military units).
The Ghostkeel, I actually really like the model. I don't see what everyone is saying about the head being mis-sized, to me it works perfectly, gives it a very underwater diving suit look. Maybe it's just the paint scheme that's throwing people off, since the head is red while the rest of the body is white? Or maybe I'm just insane, who knows. But this suit is by far my favorite Tau model in terms of looks, I can't wait to get my hands on one. (Hopefully the rules are as good as the model!)
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2015/09/17 02:42:38
Subject: Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
Harriticus wrote: The new Tau suit doesn't really look bad. It doesn't look like a mobile suit, it looks like a mobile artillery piece on legs. Which is what it's meant to be.
The Tau's worst-designed stuff are still their GW aircraft (the FW ones look great).
But why put that much firepower on legs.
what benefits could possibly come of it.
The benefit is MC/GMC status.
2015/09/17 02:48:09
Subject: Re:Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
Alright, here's a question, how does the stormsurge melee attacks things that are too big to step on? Does it round house kick them, or merely headbutt them?
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2015/09/17 03:07:44
Subject: Re:Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
Co'tor Shas wrote: Alright, here's a question, how does the stormsurge melee attacks things that are too big to step on? Does it round house kick them, ore merely headbutt them?
Point blank firing of the missiles, before the warheads and tracking systems can engage.
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2015/09/17 03:10:40
Subject: Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
Harriticus wrote: The new Tau suit doesn't really look bad. It doesn't look like a mobile suit, it looks like a mobile artillery piece on legs. Which is what it's meant to be.
The Tau's worst-designed stuff are still their GW aircraft (the FW ones look great).
But why put that much firepower on legs.
what benefits could possibly come of it.
The benefit is MC/GMC status.
I was going to say "powerful squats," but this is definitely the real reason.
2015/09/17 03:30:17
Subject: Re:Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
If they were going to do a stupid missile arms giant suit, they should have put it on a hover tank, like some of the older MS:Gundam stuff, before everything got silly Gatling gun nipples.
By the way, a little birdie told me that the giant missile arms pod is going to be a bank of 30x seeker missiles.
Spoiler:
By little birdie I mean bullcrap I made up to drive the rumor mill crazy with people who don't read whole posts.
2015/09/17 04:35:49
Subject: Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
1. Some sort of Jetpack/Carbine troops I predicted awhile ago.
2. Some sort of Pulse Carbine/Shotgun and Katana troops.
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maceria wrote: If they were going to do a stupid missile arms giant suit, they should have put it on a hover tank, like some of the older MS:Gundam stuff, before everything got silly Gatling gun nipples.
By the way, a little birdie told me that the giant missile arms pod is going to be a bank of 30x seeker missiles.
Spoiler:
By little birdie I mean bullcrap I made up to drive the rumor mill crazy with people who don't read whole posts.
I've never really cared for birdies or Varis, I'm more of a Littlefinger fan.
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2015/09/17 04:50:21
Subject: Re:Tau Rumors: XV95 Ghostkeel,XV128 Stormsurge suits and new Pathfinders(?) pg13
whoah - that's bigger than I thought. I was hoping it about the size of a riptide.
Speaking of which, has anyone ever considered using the Crimson Typhoon from Pacific Rim as a Farside Enclave riptide? Perhaps armed with swords in the two right hands?
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2015/09/17 06:42:59
Subject: Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
Just a few things I wanted to post here so others could observer (and because ATT's mods hate free conversation more than North Korea), I spent some time looking carefully at the picture of the presumptive 'new' crisis suits and the Master-kitbashes found in the Farsight Enclaves book.
Firstly:Goddamnit they both look amazing, but IF the ones in the background of the leaked pics we have received are NOT new, they were probably made by the same guy, but not at the same time.
Secondly: I will probably have to replace all my crisis suits because of this. Goodbye wallet.
I am actually leaning towards them being their own new kit, here are my reasonings behind this.
Firstly, look closely at the picture of the Stormsurge, in the background you can see a Crisis Suit with what looks like two fusion blasters, primarily white paint scheme with a bright red right antennae. Two things jump out at me from this mini, first is the large "firewarrior" like shoulder armor on the left arm. This, to me, is just too clean(and more importantly, uniform) to be a kitbash, and the sort of thing that would nicely fit them in with the fire warrior aesthetic.
Second thing of note is the mystery system on his shoulder. No current bit looks like this AND it looks too clean (yes, i know, blurry image), to be a kitbash.
IF they are real though, they were heavily influenced by the FSE codex suits, right down to the paint scheme. I am personally willing to be optimistic, considering how badly we need a new crisis suit kit.
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2015/09/17 07:00:43
Subject: Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
Zelnik wrote: Just a few things I wanted to post here so others could observer (and because ATT's mods hate free conversation more than North Korea), I spent some time looking carefully at the picture of the presumptive 'new' crisis suits and the Master-kitbashes found in the Farsight Enclaves book.
Firstly:Goddamnit they both look amazing, but IF the ones in the background of the leaked pics we have received are NOT new, they were probably made by the same guy, but not at the same time.
Secondly: I will probably have to replace all my crisis suits because of this. Goodbye wallet.
I am actually leaning towards them being their own new kit, here are my reasonings behind this.
Firstly, look closely at the picture of the Stormsurge, in the background you can see a Crisis Suit with what looks like two fusion blasters, primarily white paint scheme with a bright red right antennae. Two things jump out at me from this mini, first is the large "firewarrior" like shoulder armor on the left arm. This, to me, is just too clean(and more importantly, uniform) to be a kitbash, and the sort of thing that would nicely fit them in with the fire warrior aesthetic.
Second thing of note is the mystery system on his shoulder. No current bit looks like this AND it looks too clean (yes, i know, blurry image), to be a kitbash.
IF they are real though, they were heavily influenced by the FSE codex suits, right down to the paint scheme. I am personally willing to be optimistic, considering how badly we need a new crisis suit kit.
Welcome brother. Seriously feth those ATT guys. Dumb as gak and don't see the value of you know. Talking. Farsight Enclaves where you can speak free and yet still be dedicated to the GG.
2015/09/17 07:10:47
Subject: Re:Tau Rumors: New Crisis Suits? Maybe?. New FireW and 2 Giant Suits? Yep yep yep P13 for Pics
Stormonu wrote: whoah - that's bigger than I thought. I was hoping it about the size of a riptide.
Speaking of which, has anyone ever considered using the Crimson Typhoon from Pacific Rim as a Farside Enclave riptide? Perhaps armed with swords in the two right hands?
That's the Yamato (Arcadia, now) VB-6. It's bigger than the Bandai one that was posted earlier. You can tell it apart at a glance because the Yamato one has a darker color scheme and no nose art. Bandai's version probably is about the size of a Riptide though.
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