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In my opinion the new stealth suit looks awesome! Makes me consider buying tao lol

Dman137 wrote:

And do really well with all of them, even in the current meta

Given your record of honesty, I'm not putting much faith on that.

 Bookwrack wrote:

Dman137 wrote:

And do really well with all of them, even in the current meta

Given your record of honesty, I'm not putting much faith on that.

ill let my awards speak for them selves haha

Dman137 wrote:

 Bookwrack wrote:

Dman137 wrote:

And do really well with all of them, even in the current meta

Given your record of honesty, I'm not putting much faith on that.

ill let my awards speak for them selves haha

I got a sportsmanship award once.

Anyone that knows me will say I'm a dick.

Awards don't mean gak.

 kronk wrote:

Dman137 wrote:

 Bookwrack wrote:

Dman137 wrote:

And do really well with all of them, even in the current meta

Given your record of honesty, I'm not putting much faith on that.

ill let my awards speak for them selves haha

I got a sportsmanship award once.

Anyone that knows me will say I'm a dick.

Awards don't mean gak.

so my multiple best general awards and best over all awards mean nothing.? Clearly lol

From you? Of course they don't.

As I recall, you bragged about them, but never showed any proof in the same thread you got caught lying about 'your amazing sportsmanship score,' in whatever tournament that was

Quit while you're ahead, kid.

 Sidstyler wrote:
If you're suggesting it's my army specifically then you're wrong. I never ran a "cheesebuild" so that's not the issue. The problem is that people have viewed Tau in general as a cheese army, and assume that you're an donkey-cave if you bring them to the table at all. And that's an attitude that will only get worse if GW doesn't make some attempt to reign the bullgak back in and not try to make every codex like Craftworlds.

Which is always pretty funny when you're running an army that was bulit in fourth edition with good, chunky metal models and none of the new stuff, and someone gets their panties in a bunch about you being 'oh, another flavor of the month player.'

Dman137 wrote:

so my multiple best general awards and best over all awards mean nothing.? Clearly lol

What you and 8 of your best friends do on the weekend aren't impressive to me, no. I have a "2nd Place in a Baby Beauty Contest" that has yet to get me laid.

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Dman137 wrote:
so my multiple best general awards and best over all awards mean nothing.? Clearly lol

Can't top my million bazillion award. They mean squat... seriously.

You can't say a codex is bad till it's leaked or released.
Now go back to your place under the bridge you troll

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:

Dman137 wrote:
so my multiple best general awards and best over all awards mean nothing.? Clearly lol

Can't top my million bazillion award. They mean squat... seriously.

You can't say a codex is bad till it's leaked or released.
Now go back to your place under the bridge you troll

so then anyone that has ever won a award means nothing.? Clearly you have never won anything so I guess you have nothing to make yourself feel good about. As for the tau, I have clearly stated that "if the new you it's that have been leaked are any indication of what's to come" the. Yes tau will be crap

Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year, 1938

 kronk wrote:
Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year, 1938

he won that award every year after, until 1945, he lost do to a technicality

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C'mon dude, holy gak. Super not cool.

How is there honestly any room for discussion on new Tau when there is no codex? Seeing a few new unit leaks leaves little to hypothesize off of, just be patient and wait for the release. No need for any more "the sky is falling" rhetoric that seems so popular these days.

 clamclaw wrote:
How is there honestly any room for discussion on new Tau when there is no codex? Seeing a few new unit leaks leaves little to hypothesize off of, just be patient and wait for the release. No need for any more "the sky is falling" rhetoric that seems so popular these days.

Agreed, but it's been posted 4+ times and Dmin7 isn't the type to listen to reasonably reasonable reasons.

Dman137 wrote:I have about 6 different army's and play with all of them.
SM
Tau
Eldar
Orks
CSM
IG
Necrons
And do really well with all of them, even in the current meta

And yet somehow, you're always complaining about Eldar not doing well. Funny that we never hear about your Orks/IG/CSM winning tournaments; it shouldn't be such a problem if you're the great general that you say you are.

Based on what you've said in the past, I get the impression that you simply bandwagoned onto those armies when they were the current flavor-of-the-month in terms of the meta.

Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Vryce wrote:
Odd you started this thread OP. Considering a little over a week ago you started the thread talking about how awesome the Ghostkeel is.

Tell me, how does it feel to be the living embodiment of contradiction?

Hes secretly Malal

Incorrect. Dman137 is secretly Morgoth!

Dman137 wrote:

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:

Dman137 wrote:
so my multiple best general awards and best over all awards mean nothing.? Clearly lol

Can't top my million bazillion award. They mean squat... seriously.

You can't say a codex is bad till it's leaked or released.
Now go back to your place under the bridge you troll

so then anyone that has ever won a award means nothing.? Clearly you have never won anything so I guess you have nothing to make yourself feel good about. As for the tau, I have clearly stated that "if the new you it's that have been leaked are any indication of what's to come" the. Yes tau will be crap

For all we know, the Riptide got buffed to high heaven and Markerlights got turned to solid cheddar. It's far too early for anyone to start making predictions about the power level of the upcoming Tau codex.

Also, bit of a PSA: if Dman137 says something really offensive again, make sure to quote him in your response. The Mods can remove the original text, but to my knowledge they can't do the same to quoted text. Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the use or abuse of this technique. Use at your own discretion. Please don't get mad at me mods.

@OP - This is what people said about Space Marines before the codex drop. And Necron. And Skitarii....

I wouldnt be suprised if the new stealth suit can use the invisiblity psychic power lolol GG

 Sidstyler wrote:

 Tinkrr wrote:
That's like saying "Hey, we can try to make balanced rules for all of these cool models, although we might not always get it right, so we're not even going to try..."

Bingo. You just described exactly the GW design studio's attitude.

That just shouldn't ever be the case. Especially when they have access to so many great community resources that will happily provide them with data and input, such as the ITC guys.

And I know they tried doing FAQ sticker things in the past and it failed, but that was way back before we had as much technology as we do now. I feel like with digital codices and the majority of people having smart phones, it's not unreasonable to do an FAQ update once every three months or so to try to balance things a little.

Oh Dman, evidence that trolls troll

Back on topic... GW needs a shake up. I don't know what it would be. Buy out? Top management replaced? Jervis retiring?

But I really think a panel of 3 top tournament players and 3 top TOs could make a 2 page errata document that after a couple months of playtesting would bring the game into a very close approximation of balance... how does GW not have 2 paid rules design guys with 4 interns/volunteers that playtest constantly to see how rules interact on the table?! And if they do, FIRE THESE GUYS, because they are horrible at their job.

It would be nice to see some consistency between the rule sets, we have 3/4 books in one style 3/4 books in another all in the same release set... But on topic the new Tau book looks good, more on par with the rest of the set pre Necrons (obvs in a competitive environment that means nothing) but there are still gonna be markerlights and Riptides, throw in the Stormsurge and they will have some good shooting across the board, Tau players I wouldn't worry I would guess itll be the current Tau dex +1.

 Tinkrr wrote:

 Sidstyler wrote:

 Tinkrr wrote:
That's like saying "Hey, we can try to make balanced rules for all of these cool models, although we might not always get it right, so we're not even going to try..."

Bingo. You just described exactly the GW design studio's attitude.

That just shouldn't ever be the case. Especially when they have access to so many great community resources that will happily provide them with data and input, such as the ITC guys.

And I know they tried doing FAQ sticker things in the past and it failed, but that was way back before we had as much technology as we do now. I feel like with digital codices and the majority of people having smart phones, it's not unreasonable to do an FAQ update once every three months or so to try to balance things a little.

But they don't. If you go back and read the GW-published BatReps, you will notice that they don't even play the game by the rules they publish. They will literally make up rules and permissions to hold a game under. They say that this is how they intend the game to be played, which is why they don't write FAQs any more. If there's a problem? "Fix it yourself amongst your mates" is GW's line.

Dman137 wrote:

 kronk wrote:

Dman137 wrote:

 Bookwrack wrote:

Dman137 wrote:

And do really well with all of them, even in the current meta

Given your record of honesty, I'm not putting much faith on that.

ill let my awards speak for them selves haha

I got a sportsmanship award once.

Anyone that knows me will say I'm a dick.

Awards don't mean gak.

so my multiple best general awards and best over all awards mean nothing.? Clearly lol

How did you earn them? Tell me you bought them a beer and danced a jig. As according to you that's the only way to get max sportsmanship points.

(no seriously please say this I want it to be true. )


As far as this thread goes

 Psienesis wrote:

 Tinkrr wrote:

 Sidstyler wrote:

 Tinkrr wrote:
That's like saying "Hey, we can try to make balanced rules for all of these cool models, although we might not always get it right, so we're not even going to try..."

Bingo. You just described exactly the GW design studio's attitude.

That just shouldn't ever be the case. Especially when they have access to so many great community resources that will happily provide them with data and input, such as the ITC guys.

And I know they tried doing FAQ sticker things in the past and it failed, but that was way back before we had as much technology as we do now. I feel like with digital codices and the majority of people having smart phones, it's not unreasonable to do an FAQ update once every three months or so to try to balance things a little.

But they don't. If you go back and read the GW-published BatReps, you will notice that they don't even play the game by the rules they publish. They will literally make up rules and permissions to hold a game under. They say that this is how they intend the game to be played, which is why they don't write FAQs any more. If there's a problem? "Fix it yourself amongst your mates" is GW's line.

That just baffles me to no end, because they can easily have both as an option. I know I bring up MtG a lot around here, but I have to do it again here, as MtG does have very set rules for multiple modes of play, but it constantly acquires new player generated content. There are several formats now which players just came up with, that were popular enough for the company itself to adopt and support. So why on Earth would GW believe that simply if they made standardized rules of play (such as the ITC or others) it would hurt people having the option to play the game outside of those rules? Especially since we have multiple examples where despite strict highly functioning rules being in place people still come up with amazing new ways to play a game outside of those rules.

Tau s are already OP and they will be even better for sure... Please stop crying about your new codex and try to imagine how those poors orks, chaos space marines, dark eldars, tyranids and imperial guards feel since a long time .... Maybe its your turn to play with an ugly codex after all? Join us !

Tau are not OP. They are on the upper-mid tier, but not OP. They used to be in 6th with shenanigans (and even then it was mostly taudar), but not in 7th.

Edit: also, ever hear about our previous codex? Don't talk to me about "your turn to play an ugly codex".

Only second place Kronk?
You should see how many First place can get you!

Tau probably also get a bad reputation because of the Firebase Cadre, not for their own army, but because it can be taken by other armies that generally lack fire power in order to almost completely nullify that issue. So it's like they're OP as long as they aren't actually playing Tau D:

JinxDragon wrote:
I approve of the less then over-powered nature of the leaks we have seen, as Game Workshop needs to work on their 'power creep' problem anyway.

Yeah, GW tried that and released a years worth of stinker dexes before cranking it back to 11 with crons. Guess sales weren't doing so hot. But whatever, its only 20% of their customers that play the game, what do we know.