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 Talys wrote:
Hmmm.. I really like those Tau decals

They're not bad, but kinda dull and lack something distinctive imo.

Cheers
Kahnawake

 Kahnawake wrote:

 Talys wrote:
Hmmm.. I really like those Tau decals

They're not bad, but kinda dull and lack something distinctive imo.

Cheers
Kahnawake

They're not meant to be hugely distinctive?

They're generic transfers for a specific Sept.

Okay Tau players, is this a new Crisis suit silluette? I can't tell..

From the Stormsurge box, on the back.

Wait what, where did this "Coldstar" "Strike Team" and "Breacher Team" stuff come from? What are they? any more details than just "Crisis Suits for space"? Keep in mind im workblocked from viewing images

chaos0xomega wrote:
Wait what, where did this "Coldstar" "Strike Team" and "Breacher Team" stuff come from? What are they? any more details than just "Crisis Suits for space"? Keep in mind im workblocked from viewing images

It's from a decal sheet which has titles for what each lot of decals are for, and it says Coldstar, Strike team and Breacher team on it.

Breachers may very well be a variant of the standard Fire Warriors for all we know.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Wait what, where did this "Coldstar" "Strike Team" and "Breacher Team" stuff come from? What are they? any more details than just "Crisis Suits for space"? Keep in mind im workblocked from viewing images

Striker and Breacher will be the 2 units from the new Fire Warriors box. Striker is the Fw team we now, Breachers will have new rules.
Coldstart looks like a new kind of Commander suit.

Hope that decal pic is legit....

 Vector Strike wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Wait what, where did this "Coldstar" "Strike Team" and "Breacher Team" stuff come from? What are they? any more details than just "Crisis Suits for space"? Keep in mind im workblocked from viewing images

Striker and Breacher will be the 2 units from the new Fire Warriors box. Striker is the Fw team we now, Breachers will have new rules.
Coldstart looks like a new kind of Commander suit.

does that mean the pathfinder box is going?

migooo wrote:

 Vector Strike wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Wait what, where did this "Coldstar" "Strike Team" and "Breacher Team" stuff come from? What are they? any more details than just "Crisis Suits for space"? Keep in mind im workblocked from viewing images

Striker and Breacher will be the 2 units from the new Fire Warriors box. Striker is the Fw team we now, Breachers will have new rules.
Coldstart looks like a new kind of Commander suit.

does that mean the pathfinder box is going?

Why would it mean that?

migooo wrote:

 Vector Strike wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Wait what, where did this "Coldstar" "Strike Team" and "Breacher Team" stuff come from? What are they? any more details than just "Crisis Suits for space"? Keep in mind im workblocked from viewing images

Striker and Breacher will be the 2 units from the new Fire Warriors box. Striker is the Fw team we now, Breachers will have new rules.
Coldstart looks like a new kind of Commander suit.

does that mean the pathfinder box is going?

Pathfinders were redone when the last codex was released a couple of years ago, it's extremely unlikely they'll get any changes.

Plus we've seen the pathfinder models on a lot of the new model pictures.

Iuchiban on Warseer is unboxing the Stormsurge

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?413252-Tau-in-september&p=7546558&viewfull=1#post7546558

That's where the pics are from, aren't they?


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 krazynadechukr wrote:
Hope that decal pic is legit....

It is

Maybe they'll make carbines worth taking.

 Kanluwen wrote:


They're generic transfers for a specific Sept.

So, we will get more of these for different septs?

Cheers
Kahnawake

EDIT: Didn't notice the sheet's description!

A few more of Iuchiban's photos:



Link: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?413252-Tau-in-september&p=7546558&viewfull=1#post7546558

That size is a bit reassuring. Thanks warseer ichiban!

At least it looks like the legs are poseable! Somewhat at least, those built ones look in a different pose. Probably gonna pick one up in that case.

 ImAGeek wrote:
At least it looks like the legs are poseable!

Most likely, it's the same pegged semi-ball joint design as the Wraithknight. Standard ball-and-socket, with a peg on the ball, and a hole in the socket.
a) Put the peg in the hole, and you have a rock-solid joint that will never break, but a mono-pose leg.
b) cut off the peg, and you gain some posability, limited entirely by how much interference GW designed around the joint.

I did a lot of rework on my WK legs to get a different pose, but you can see that GW designed the knee joint and calf armor to prevent a deeply bent pose. FOR NO GOOD REASON. With the pieces in "normal" orientation, you can't get much more than a 90-degree bend. Despite the double-jointed knee, which would normally allow for really tight angles. Instead, cutting the peg supports a reverse bend in the knee. WTF?
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/724928-WraithKnight%20WiP%206%252F27%20s.html?m=2

Anyhow, hope the Tau suit got better knees & calf armor.

Still, it can do more than an Imperial Knight.

ocTAUber is gonna be awsome!

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
At least it looks like the legs are poseable!

Most likely, it's the same pegged semi-ball joint design as the Wraithknight. Standard ball-and-socket, with a peg on the ball, and a hole in the socket.
a) Put the peg in the hole, and you have a rock-solid joint that will never break, but a mono-pose leg.
b) cut off the peg, and you gain some posability, limited entirely by how much interference GW designed around the joint.

I did a lot of rework on my WK legs to get a different pose, but you can see that GW designed the knee joint and calf armor to prevent a deeply bent pose. FOR NO GOOD REASON. With the pieces in "normal" orientation, you can't get much more than a 90-degree bend. Despite the double-jointed knee, which would normally allow for really tight angles. Instead, cutting the peg supports a reverse bend in the knee. WTF?
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/724928-WraithKnight%20WiP%206%252F27%20s.html?m=2

Anyhow, hope the Tau suit got better knees & calf armor.

Yeah the Riptides the same, it's just they're all posed the same in the GW photos so far where as the Riptide they showed a couple of different ways so I didn't know how posable this was gonna be. But the guy from Warseer's legs already look better.

 BrookM wrote:
Still, it can do more than an Imperial Knight.

That'd only be the case if the IK didn't even have separate upper and lower leg parts with any knee joints... Oh, wait.

For how pathetically little plastic you get in a WK kit compared the the obscenely large amount of money you spend, it should have far better engineering than what it displays.

It's passable that the WK is somewhat poseable.
It's inexcusable that the IK legs are fixed.
It's laughable that the Ork Stompa doesn't even have legs to pose.

Can't wait to see the Tau SS instructions.

Havent you seen them? Workblocked, JHDD?


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These are the leg parts:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=220861&d=1443807773

http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=220862&d=1443807784

http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=220863&d=1443807798

From Iuchiban http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?413252-Tau-in-september&p=7546561&viewfull=1#post7546561

I have to say, I'm quite liking the upcoming Tau stuff. Price is pretty damn high, but that's typical.

Thanks very much for the links.

The Tau SS legs are significantly *better* than the WL legs, simply because they were designed with a maximum bend as one of the static poses. Those legs and feet will straighten and extend for some really nice dynamic poses.

The anchors are goofy, and would not work in the real world...

I knew it would be that big. Yay for having good perspective.

Too bad it looks so good but I just don't like the rules. The Ghostkeel on a second thought could be useful. Assuming the rules are correct. Useful but not amazing.

So far our only amazingly mind blowing unit is the Ta'unar. Which is what it seems I'm getting first.

 Gamgee wrote:
I knew it would be that big. Yay for having good perspective.

Too bad it looks so good but I just don't like the rules. The Ghostkeel on a second thought could be useful. Assuming the rules are correct. Useful but not amazing.

So far our only amazingly mind blowing unit is the Ta'unar. Which is what it seems I'm getting first.

I have to agree, the new big suits don't really bring a lot to the table - or fill any role in a dramatic way - (we have plenty of S7, S5 etc. A 10" D is not very impressive, and requires multiple markers, etc.) - none of them are bad - they just don't do a lot. (as opposed to say a tetra - a mobile markerlight that is not T3 5+ save or require a command slot...).

The FW suit - it is indeed nice, and does bring a ton of survive-ability - it also brings a lot of S8/9 ....not that we strongly needed it, but its not bad.
Overall, a decent unit - I would rather have it a bit under powered (well, compared to other D class titans - don't compare it to nids...but they are just terrible) than OP.

Now if it were not crazy expensive....

NZ Preorder is online: http://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Home

The site has a new 360° banner... and all that white...

BTW, have you guys seen this on the GW site