Hey, all! Decided to post pics of my progress on my new Tau army. Thing is, fish heads are for weeaboos, so I decided to go with a counts-as Farsight Enclave (plus I'm a cheap bastard and I like using alternative miniatures).
Thusly, once I discovered that a certain miniatures distributor had a large stock of a certain dead game's models, I was all over that like an Ork in a military museum.
And so was born the Kinebrach Confederacy!
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Kinebrach
The basic story is that a contingent of these xenos survived their encounter with the crusading Astartes 10,000 years ago, and wandered between stars evading the clearly xenocidal and dangerous humans until they encountered the Tau Empire. By allying themselves with the upstart empire, they've benefited from technological exchange and mutual defense pacts. As a result of this conglomeration, the Kinebrach have once again mobilized for war, with newfound hope of relinquishing the galaxy of the Homo Sapien oppression.
Fluff subject to expansion and change as I brush up on my Tau background in the future. I also want to include a wider variety of cooperative Xenos species as I don't feel that the Tau model line really reflects that aspect of their story. Plus, if I ever feel the need I can throw in a Riptide or two for some heavy lifting.
Without further ado:
These three are my characters for use as Commanders of various configurations. I intend to be able to field a whole 1850 point force of Crisis and Broadside suits and will be ordering the bulk of the force next week. The last pic is of the drones I cobbled together from bitz.
Planned army list forthcoming.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here is my current list for 1850 points. I know it's lacking in straight competitive power, but by having this many Crisis and Broadside suits I'll be flush with them for the future and can flesh out additions as they come. Accepting critique and recommendations for particular wargear and squad load outs, however!
+++ Monkey Mayhem (1846pts) +++
Farsight Enclaves
+
HQ (305pts) +
Commander (177pts)
····XV8 Commander Crisis Suit [Neuroweb System Jammer, Onager Gauntlet, 2x Plasma Rifle, Shield Generator, Vectored Retro-Thrusters, XV8-02 Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit]
Commander (128pts)
····XV8 Commander Crisis Suit [Drone Controller, Missile Pod, XV84 Battlesuit [
FW]]
+ Troops (1216pts) +
XV8 Crisis Battlesuits (507pts) [Bonding Knife Ritual]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
····Crisis Shas'vre [Command and Control Node, Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite, Puretide Engram Neurochip]
XV8 Crisis Battlesuits (58pts) [Bonding Knife Ritual]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle, Vectored Retro-Thrusters]
XV8 Crisis Battlesuits (333pts) [Bonding Knife Ritual]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Missile Pod]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Missile Pod]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Missile Pod]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Missile Pod, Target Lock]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Missile Pod, Target Lock]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Missile Pod, Target Lock]
XV8 Crisis Battlesuits (106pts) [Bonding Knife Ritual]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Fusion Blaster]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Fusion Blaster]
XV8 Crisis Battlesuits (106pts) [Bonding Knife Ritual]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Fusion Blaster]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Fusion Blaster]
XV8 Crisis Battlesuits (106pts) [Bonding Knife Ritual]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Fusion Blaster]
····Crisis Shas'ui [2x Fusion Blaster]
+ Fast Attack (112pts) +
Drones (112pts) [8x MV7 Marker Drone]
+ Heavy Support (213pts) +
XV88 Broadside Battlesuits (71pts) [Bonding Knife Ritual]
····Broadside [Early Warning Override, Twin-linked High-Yield Missile Pod, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]
XV88 Broadside Battlesuits (71pts) [Bonding Knife Ritual]
····Broadside [Early Warning Override, Twin-linked High-Yield Missile Pod, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]
XV88 Broadside Battlesuits (71pts) [Bonding Knife Ritual]
····Broadside [Early Warning Override, Twin-linked High-Yield Missile Pod, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]
