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 Orrus wrote:
Its 7:25 and still no Codex Pre-order in the UK yet......
What time are pre orders usually up in the UK?

10 am.

The softcover for all is wrong as already mentioned. Also it is still unconfirmed if all other - and I still doubt it will be the case with the german and french books - get softcover except for the English book. We have to wait for these preorders to go up in the next two or three hours.

It is scary that BOLS' Rob Baer and Larry Vela are inable to read that

A) the leaks posted by Iuchiban on Warseer are not from Kauyon

B) not the english Codex and

C) that he mentions three times throughout the day it is the spanish Codex.

But they still post their news articles and create lots of confusion especially by insisting the english Codex would be softcover. How can you not get such a quite easy research work done right especially A and B? Do they even read the posts on Warseer before creating their articles?

No, because they get paid to generate clicks, and saying 'tau codex is soft cover' will get you scare clicks.

 Vector Strike wrote:

Gamgee wrote:A cad with 1 Etheral and 54 point minimum FW is a 104 point tax to take the two I regularly take.

I'm not sure they're worth it now. I just friggen bought my second one too damn it. -_-

Fws are 45p now. So for less than 100p you can take 9 Sky Rays. For less than 120 you give those FWs a DS8 turret just for the fun of it and put the Ethereal with breachers

Can you clarify the bit about skyrays? I am new and everyone in store tells me to get the hammerhead. But the rail gun seems to fluffy. 1 shot and that's it!.

Id rather have the tougher marker platform with a 3+ cover save in the open.

That's probably it, CT

 Crazyterran wrote:
No, because they get paid to generate clicks, and saying 'tau codex is soft cover' will get you scare clicks.

That. Journalism is basically dead.

I guess I missed it. What were the WD hints in 91 for what's coming in 92?

Holy gak, pre-orders up in the EU, 145,- euro for the LE codex lol.

I just looked it up, the previous LE was 80 euros and that was hardly worth it (imho), this is just silly, it is basically 100 euros for a map, 6 tokens and the data cards. The LE codex even uses the same frikkin cover art, albeit with a fancy graphic overlayed. At least the previous LE had a unique cover art. I do like the look of the box though, but not 100 euro worth of like.

Spencley wrote:
Id rather have the tougher marker platform with a 3+ cover save in the open.

Sky Rays and Hammerheads can be taken ins squadrons now. So you can field your Heavy Support slots with Sky Rays and get 9 instead of 3 of them.

Any chat about kroot & vespid? Are they getting a supplement or any new rules ?

AFAIK, Farsight is still the same. Iuchuban didn't mention any change to him.

I wonder if the Finecast Farsight is staying?

I assume it's roughly the same size as the old finecast commander model so will be roughly the same size as this new commander?

Went into my FLGS today - preordered the new 'Dex, the Kauyon Campaign Supplement, the new crisis battlesuits, the new commander, and the datacards. I also ordered a stormsurge, a ghostkeel, two more broadsides, and a unit of FW breachers.

I...uhh...I may have a problem.

Kirby: You're only problem is that you didn't buy more!

Normal person: Just maybe.

 Dr. Delorean wrote:
Went into my FLGS today - preordered the new 'Dex, the Kauyon Campaign Supplement, the new crisis battlesuits, the new commander, and the datacards. I also ordered a stormsurge, a ghostkeel, two more broadsides, and a unit of FW breachers.

I...uhh...I may have a problem.

S'alright. I ordered two of the Tau fortress thingies... and I don't even play Tau!

If your in NA/Canada preorders will likely go up at 1pm exactly and a shared stock for the two countries.

Be ready to order than. I'm not getting the collectors edition because I think meh. I have so many cool video game collectors editions the GW one's simply pale in comparison. My Witcher 3 statue sits proudly in our gaming area.

At this price I'd expect the LE codex to at least come with a LE miniature or something... seriously, someone lost their mind.

Kahnawake

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Dr. Delorean wrote:
Went into my FLGS today - preordered the new 'Dex, the Kauyon Campaign Supplement, the new crisis battlesuits, the new commander, and the datacards. I also ordered a stormsurge, a ghostkeel, two more broadsides, and a unit of FW breachers.

I...uhh...I may have a problem.

S'alright. I ordered two of the Tau fortress thingies... and I don't even play Tau!

Good grief - I was going to get one of those too, but a guy in front bought THREE before I had a chance.

That man really liked his Tidewalls.

 Medium of Death wrote:
I wonder if the Finecast Farsight is staying?

I assume it's roughly the same size as the old finecast commander model so will be roughly the same size as this new commander?

I think the new commander is a fair bit bigger than the old one.

I ordered a Commander, Crisis box, Ghostkeel, Fire Warriors, the Tau campaign box and the campaign book.

Wouldn't be too difficult to make your own Farsight with that lovely new plastic kit for the commander.

I've been thinking of the +1 BS and the mandatory 3 FW squads in the basic detachment.

It's pretty cheap to get 3 minimum squads (45pts each), but by buying a drone turret with SMS as well, you can get a lot of mileage out of the +1 BS rule.

Just fire at a unit (doesn't have to be in LOS) with the SMS, doesn't have to be able to harm the unit at all, but you only need to do this with 2 FW units and the 3rd unit gets +1 BS.

The FWs will probably be camping on an objective in your deployment zone anyway, so it seems like a good and simple strategy to give your more potent units a boost, plus getting some utility out of those objective campers.

Just noticed that Gift for Geeks seem to be listing the Tidewall in stock, if anyone missed out.

Also just preordered the iBook codex, noticed a couple of things; 1) they've dropped the price back down to the same as the regular codex and 2) as well as the standard eBook version for £21.99 they are also doing a mobile formatted iBook at that price, which is handy if you want a really portable version.

Dr. Delorean wrote:Went into my FLGS today - preordered the new 'Dex, the Kauyon Campaign Supplement, the new crisis battlesuits, the new commander, and the datacards. I also ordered a stormsurge, a ghostkeel, two more broadsides, and a unit of FW breachers.

I...uhh...I may have a problem.

I know what you don't have after all that.

New Crisis suit models look pretty, and no price increase, so that's okay.

They were pretty much all I ever bought from GW, any more. Might actually pick a box up when I'm not completely broke

 Crazyterran wrote:
No, because they get paid to generate clicks, and saying 'tau codex is soft cover' will get you scare clicks.

Haha, Wow....

I think the ITC is going to have to reconsider letting squads of these thingfs roam around now. GW is awesome for answering this question. This makes it even better. I know it's WD, but still it is something official. Reduces the amount of ML needed to support it.

 troy_tempest wrote:
Any chat about kroot & vespid? Are they getting a supplement or any new rules ?

Same rules. There's a Formation that uses them that is on the first page of this thread.

 troy_tempest wrote:
Any chat about kroot & vespid? Are they getting a supplement or any new rules ?

They get a mixed Formation (made up of 4 Kroot and 2 Vespid units) which confers some special rules. That's about it.

Almost all units of the previous Codex are exactly the same or only with very small changes.

Anyone ask if there's any small auxiliaries? The "Take one X" type earlier Decurions had.

 Gamgee wrote:
I think the ITC is going to have to reconsider letting squads of these thingfs roam around now. GW is awesome for answering this question. This makes it even better. I know it's WD, but still it is something official. Reduces the amount of ML needed to support it.

It's also only an email & you get different answers from those guys all the time so that's why itc create their own errata.