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Manchu wrote:
is anything else on the page a conversion?

seems out of character for GW to "advertise" conversions without specifically calling them out as conversions

Eh. It might be that this is a section showing off "Kill Teams" and it says that some are converted or something like that.


Sulrias has a scabbard from the Scout sprue, with the sword haft cut off of it. It's commonly spotted on the Heavy Bolter model.
Scout Nasansis has a converted arm(the "tapping goggles" bit) from the Scout Sniper Sergeant. Auspex is converted as well.
Scout Sergeant Michaelos is also converted. There's a knife from the Cadians, and the Chainsword+BP are from the Regular Scout box.



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 Verviedi wrote:

Manchu wrote:
is anything else on the page a conversion?

seems out of character for GW to "advertise" conversions without specifically calling them out as conversions

Personally, I love this OOC trip.

You really haven't looked through many army books, eh? Many of them have conversions without them being called out as such.

Guard is full of them.

Haven't read the new Guard book, unfortunately. I mostly just read through my own dexes completely, and other codices whenever I get the chance, just to know the rules.

pics of them are all over the book and on promo materials. I've never seen GW flaunt conversions like that... And its not just in a showcase section. Idk why you're so combative.

Blood Ravens shown are inspiring enough, maybe they're not a lost cause after all.

 gainsay wrote:
pics of them are all over the book and on promo materials. I've never seen GW flaunt conversions like that...

Highly suggest you look at the Guard book or anything featuring the "two tone uniform" Cadians then. There's a large number of converted models/kitbashes(which is what these Scouts effectively are) in there. Any of the ones wearing respirators are kitbashed for example.

These scouts are featured in white dwarf #318. As someone else said by Darren Latham. Really old.

 gainsay wrote:
Not sure if anyone has posted these but I was at my FLGS and they had the rule book. I was so excited when I saw these scouts and thought they would be in the box! Sadly they do not seem to be and if its a conversion its pretty amazing they did perfect job on all 5 scouts. It is strange if they're conversions that pics of the scouts with respirators are all over the book and other materials.

snipers scout conversion

 DanceOfSlaanesh wrote:
These scouts are featured in white dwarf #318. As someone else said by Darren Latham. Really old.

:(

redacted, I'm clueless.

A friend of mine sent me a picture from one of the 40k competitive FB groups he's in, showing some Eldar weaponry. I don't know if it can be posted, but it has information on D-scythes, wraithcannons, and scatter lasers.

 LVDH wrote:
Just FYI, we have rules for Eldar and Dark Eldar in our blog

http://www.lavozdehorus.com/reglas-eldar-shadow-war-armageddon/
http://www.lavozdehorus.com/reglas-eldar-oscuros/

The blog and podcast are in Spanish, but the leaks are all English text pics.

Cheers!

Thanks, LVDH. Interesting change to Battle Focus there, wonder if that's a hint at 8th..?

Tau rules - source : LVDH

 LVDH wrote:
Just FYI, we have rules for Eldar and Dark Eldar in our blog

http://www.lavozdehorus.com/reglas-eldar-shadow-war-armageddon/
http://www.lavozdehorus.com/reglas-eldar-oscuros/

The blog and podcast are in Spanish, but the leaks are all English text pics.

Cheers!

Eldar Kill Team composition is realy, realy dumb... Why on earth there is no option of mixing in some Storm Guardians with swords, flamers and fusion guns? I get it, it's on additional sprue... And they made guardians Newbies which cannot gain skills, only "evolve" into Dire Avengers. With both Avengers and Guardians having an awesome "choice" of weaponry, consisting of one gun for each... Only "options" in Eldar "so called armoury" are knifes (which everyone already have!), grenades, visors and reloads. Everything else is either for Exarch or for Heavy Weapons Platform...

Are those also in the April WD?

So you can use your fire warriors.

 NivlacSupreme wrote:
So you can use your fire warriors.

Where/how are you seeing that?

The only Pulse Rifle is on the Cadre Fireblade. It's not a weapon option that can be taken. Nor is the "shotgun" that Breacher Teams have.
Tau can take Rail Rifles and Ion Rifles as specials, and Pulse Carbines as "Basic".

Pulse Carbines are standard on the Pathfinder model. The Markerlight bit on top is even "optional"; if you don't want it on the Carbine it doesn't have to be.

I don't know anyone who has built Fire Warriors with Carbines in lieu of the Rifle or "Pulse Shotgun", so it would be kinda hard to use them without tearing things apart...

 Kanluwen wrote:

 NivlacSupreme wrote:
So you can use your fire warriors.

Where/how are you seeing that?

The only Pulse Rifle is on the Cadre Fireblade. It's not a weapon option that can be taken. Nor is the "shotgun" that Breacher Teams have.
Tau can take Rail Rifles and Ion Rifles as specials, and Pulse Carbines as "Basic".

Pulse Carbines are standard on the Pathfinder model. The Markerlight bit on top is even "optional"; if you don't want it on the Carbine it doesn't have to be.

Pulse rifle is under basic weapons.

As much as I hate to be negative, I have to say all my excitement has died with the release of the Tau list. Not being able to use Fire Warriors is kind of harsh. You get a support unit for your main force, with a lot of support units backing it up. All of the drones are pure support, the Ethereal is of course pure support, and the Fire Blade, which is kind of rubbing salt in the wound of not being able to take Fire Warriors.

It seems very odd to me that your options are essentially; Pathfinders, worse Pathfinders, Sniper Pathfinder, expensive Pathfinder.

The fact the Scouts are conversions is disappointing since they look incredible. I didn't see up thread what the heads are from, but I want to decapitate all my existing scouts and give them those heads.

 NivlacSupreme wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 NivlacSupreme wrote:
So you can use your fire warriors.

Where/how are you seeing that?

The only Pulse Rifle is on the Cadre Fireblade. It's not a weapon option that can be taken. Nor is the "shotgun" that Breacher Teams have.
Tau can take Rail Rifles and Ion Rifles as specials, and Pulse Carbines as "Basic".

Pulse Carbines are standard on the Pathfinder model. The Markerlight bit on top is even "optional"; if you don't want it on the Carbine it doesn't have to be.

Pulse rifle is under basic weapons.

Because the Cadre Fireblade has one as standard.


Nowhere does it say you can buy a Pulse Rifle or Combat Armor.





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 casvalremdeikun wrote:
The fact the Scouts are conversions is disappointing since they look incredible. I didn't see up thread what the heads are from, but I want to decapitate all my existing scouts and give them those heads.

Scout Bikers with the visors from Scout Snipers and some green stuff.

 NivlacSupreme wrote:

Pulse rifle is under basic weapons.

Not on the weapon list. Only the Fireblade can get it.

Yeah, these teams are massively disappointing. Lack of variety and options really sucks the fun out of this.

I really don't get why they're doing it like this. I can understand not providing options for weapons for which official bits don't exist, but these limitations are far beyond that. For example for the Tau the bare minimum would be the Fire Warrios, the Pathfinders and anything that can be kitbashed from the two.

Scouts box from Space Marines?
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Space-Marine-Scouts-with-Sniper-Rifles

 Crimson wrote:

 NivlacSupreme wrote:

Pulse rifle is under basic weapons.

Not on the weapon list. Only the Fireblade can get it.

Yeah, these teams are massively disappointing. Lack of variety and options really sucks the fun out of this.

I really don't get why they're doing it like this. I can understand not providing options for weapons for which official bits don't exist, but these limitations are far beyond that. For example for the Tau the bare minimum would be the Fire Warrios, the Pathfinders and anything that can be kitbashed from the two.

The only thing that gives me hope is that is specifically calls it out as a "Tau Pathfinder Kill Team", which means that maybe, hopefully soon, we'll get a "Tau Fire Warrior Kill Team". Which would still be stupid, but at least that would be better than nothing.

If I end up picking up this game (which I'm sure I will eventually - despite not having Inquisition rules) I may actually do a Tau Pathfinder team. They are cool models and I've never really played Tau before - though it is a bit lame they can't include Fire Warriors or Breachers.

I think the Eldar list looks okay, but I'm really bummed the Dark Eldar can only take Wyches and not Kabalites......I already have a Kill team I wanted to use.

Has anyone seen the Guard rules? I was thinking of picking up some Steel Legion models for some classic Ork Vs. Guard action.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
The fact the Scouts are conversions is disappointing since they look incredible. I didn't see up thread what the heads are from, but I want to decapitate all my existing scouts and give them those heads.

equally disappointed.

Don't know if I just missed it in this thread. Has it been stated what the expected points cost of a starting kill team will be?

Doesn't look particularly hard to do.

and in a game with effectively 10 models (dunno the model count) i should expect everyone to do bitchin conversions for days.

 backlash13 wrote:
Don't know if I just missed it in this thread. Has it been stated what the expected points cost of a starting kill team will be?

1000 points

Bit of GS made flat, few pinpricks in front: done. Simple conversion.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Bit of GS made flat, few pinpricks in front: done. Simple conversion.

I am thinking I will just get some Tempestus Scion heads instead. Much easier to pull off and still look really awesome.