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At least a sign of a new character with Garro ... but I have the feeling with Edgar gone they have problems to keep up with the former speed of releasing special characters ,,,

Everyone else reads that as "Scat-Hatch" too, right? With appropriate visualizations to go with it?

Images via Andrew Asquith on one of the Tau facebook groups.

The whole fam is here.

And some close ups on Garro: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/313540-warhammer-40k-open-days-2015-fw-seminar-page-11/?p=4199415

So will it be the actual BA/DA book or just a stop-gap army list?

Seems more like something used as filler for now.

 Iechine wrote:
Everyone else reads that as "Scat-Hatch" too, right? With appropriate visualizations to go with it?

No, just you

So glad they are deciding to make upgrades/conversions of the wraithknight. Been too long looking at imperial stuff and my big stompy robot was left out.

Any word on Bran Redmaw and his great company?

Thanks!

Glad to see remoras and barracuda coming in!

 Crazyterran wrote:
Now I want to know what a contemptor cortus is...

Contemptor #151 with a single new weapon option?

Knights Errant, Black shields and the shattered legions? Oh hells yeah

What are the Knights Errant?

The knights errant are space marines from loyalist and traitor legions recruited by Malcador, they're similar to the deathwatch in some respects.

 sierra 1247 wrote:
The knights errant are space marines from loyalist and traitor legions recruited by Malcador, they're similar to the deathwatch in some respects.

Well, I missed that one. I thought that was what the Black Shields were. So what are the Black Shields? And are these covered in the HH novels? I haven't read one in several years so I'm WAY behind in that.

 Thanatos73 wrote:

 sierra 1247 wrote:
The knights errant are space marines from loyalist and traitor legions recruited by Malcador, they're similar to the deathwatch in some respects.

Well, I missed that one. I thought that was what the Black Shields were. So what are the Black Shields? And are these covered in the HH novels? I haven't read one in several years so I'm WAY behind in that.

Maybe the Blackshields are the forerunners of the Death Company? The Chymerae designation does make them sound abberrant.

The siege dread is pretty much what I've felt dreadnoughts should have been from the beginning: nigh-unstoppable, half-mad killing machines; AV13, 4 HPs, armored ceramite, meltas and heavy flamers; fething beastmode!

 Thanatos73 wrote:

 sierra 1247 wrote:
The knights errant are space marines from loyalist and traitor legions recruited by Malcador, they're similar to the deathwatch in some respects.

Well, I missed that one. I thought that was what the Black Shields were. So what are the Black Shields? And are these covered in the HH novels? I haven't read one in several years so I'm WAY behind in that.

The only Black Shields I know of are the Deathwatch variant.

And I really wouldn't say that the Knights Errant were like the Deathwatch--with the exception of them being drawn from different Legions(or in the Deathwatch's case, Chapters). Their purpose is to act as the trusted hand of Malcador, that's basically all.

Thought black shields were members of the traitor legions who stayed loyal and purged all former associations, legion markings, heraldry, etc.

Sorry guys, we got there before opening, but by the time we reached the door, all the talks were booked up.
Looks like that's pretty well covered though.

Got some pretty pics of the new night, I'll save you the spam and get them onto one post when I'm home in about an hour.

The new dread is awesome. My only disappointment is with the grav-flux bombard. 3D6 for penetration is very weak. The storm cannon has exactly the same average penetration roll, but with a re-roll to penetrate, 50% more range, 6 shots, and half the points cost.

Also, why would you replace both claws with drills? If you have one of each you get to choose which one to use with no downside right? I really like the claw.

That RG strike squad is awesome.

Hulkbuster Contemptor
Salamanders transfer sheet
New Wraithknights
Garro
Shattered Legions
And so much more want even beyond those.

I'll be in my bunk.

 the_Armyman wrote:

 Thanatos73 wrote:

 sierra 1247 wrote:
The knights errant are space marines from loyalist and traitor legions recruited by Malcador, they're similar to the deathwatch in some respects.

Well, I missed that one. I thought that was what the Black Shields were. So what are the Black Shields? And are these covered in the HH novels? I haven't read one in several years so I'm WAY behind in that.

Maybe the Blackshields are the forerunners of the Death Company? The Chymerae designation does make them sound abberrant.

The siege dread is pretty much what I've felt dreadnoughts should have been from the beginning: nigh-unstoppable, half-mad killing machines; AV13, 4 HPs, armored ceramite, meltas and heavy flamers; fething beastmode!

The Blackshields are legionairs that have left their parent legion and renounced it, removing all legion iconography, they are directly tied to the deathwatch, as the same practice exists within the deathwatch, and it's the exact same name.

I do doubt they are precursors to the deathwatch however.

 Thanatos73 wrote:

 sierra 1247 wrote:
The knights errant are space marines from loyalist and traitor legions recruited by Malcador, they're similar to the deathwatch in some respects.

Well, I missed that one. I thought that was what the Black Shields were. So what are the Black Shields? And are these covered in the HH novels? I haven't read one in several years so I'm WAY behind in that.

This is what Battle Bunnies say:

Black Shields - turncoat marines (mad, revenge, experiments, space pirates) neither good or bad alien weapons and mutations- genetically changed
Don't use stuff which is disposable
Marauder squad 15 man loads of different weapons

Battle bunnies is wrong, we have only seen a single picture of a black shield, and it has 4 lines of text, none of which goes with anything battle bunnies are saying.

 Formosa wrote:

 the_Armyman wrote:

 Thanatos73 wrote:

 sierra 1247 wrote:
The knights errant are space marines from loyalist and traitor legions recruited by Malcador, they're similar to the deathwatch in some respects.

Well, I missed that one. I thought that was what the Black Shields were. So what are the Black Shields? And are these covered in the HH novels? I haven't read one in several years so I'm WAY behind in that.

Maybe the Blackshields are the forerunners of the Death Company? The Chymerae designation does make them sound abberrant.

The siege dread is pretty much what I've felt dreadnoughts should have been from the beginning: nigh-unstoppable, half-mad killing machines; AV13, 4 HPs, armored ceramite, meltas and heavy flamers; fething beastmode!

The Blackshields are legionairs that have left their parent legion and renounced it, removing all legion iconography, they are directly tied to the deathwatch, as the same practice exists within the deathwatch, and it's the exact same name.

I do doubt they are precursors to the deathwatch however.

No, I didn't misspeak. I actually meant "forerunners of the Death Company" since they're in black armor and displayed next to a Blood Angels SM. It's the "Chymeriae" bit of their description that makes me think abberrant geneseed. But I could be completely wrong there.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Sorry guys, we got there before opening, but by the time we reached the door, all the talks were booked up.
Looks like that's pretty well covered though.

Got some pretty pics of the new night, I'll save you the spam and get them onto one post when I'm home in about an hour.

It was pretty terrible I thought, not a patch on what it used to be.
I was there early and all the seminars were booked up by the time I got inside, I was back home by midday.

 zedmeister wrote:

Event t-shirt

Spoiler:

Damn you FW and your exclusives, that shirt looks awsome.

 Formosa wrote:
Battle bunnies is wrong, we have only seen a single picture of a black shield, and it has 4 lines of text, none of which goes with anything battle bunnies are saying.

From the FW Open Day Amsterdam:

there're 'Black Shields' in the book (Andy Hoare and Alan Bligh created them for Deathwatch). Here they're Marines who left their Legion and fight just for themselves

Source was Arac from Tabletopwelt.de

Any word on new Tau stuff from FW? Either the rumored Tau vs. admech book, or new models?

The marines from book 6 look awesome so far, I particularly like the White Scar and the Blood Angels stuff.

 Rayvon wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Sorry guys, we got there before opening, but by the time we reached the door, all the talks were booked up.
Looks like that's pretty well covered though.

Got some pretty pics of the new night, I'll save you the spam and get them onto one post when I'm home in about an hour.

It was pretty terrible I thought, not a patch on what it used to be.
I was there early and all the seminars were booked up by the time I got inside, I was back home by midday.

Yeah, it was badly handled. Also, the publicity made a big thing about black library and there were no talks on that, nor was it particularly clear what was going on with it.
If you've never seen WHW, it would be worth the trip. But being a store and having a few figures you can only buy on the day is not an event.

The reopening was much the same, except we were trapped until 2pm due to stupidly times museum slots.


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One thing I did find fun was the short talks. There was an interesting insight into timescale, speaking with one of the designers. Some if the Tau stuff released recently was conceptualised in late 2013... This may not always be the case, but I do like the idea of continuous rolling ideas.