Tau Empire update

George

For those that havn't seen them yet, this link takes you to a page showing some of the new Tau Empire models being released at the end of this month. There are some better pictures somewhere but cannot remember where. Will try and find them and post them under this thread.
http://theshellcase.co.uk/2013/03/17/tau-images-leaked/

George

http://screwedupdice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/tau-pictures-leaked.html

There are more pictures here. What do we like? What do we hate? (and no you cannot say Tau Empire to the second question!)

JamesThePervySage

Like the mini's hate the price?

TomasLenton

They are only proving my theory that GW are getting sloppy. Dark Vengance was nice, but the rest of the chaos/dark angles stuff, the weird deamon chariots made of 2D pieces and now the oddly proportioned tau battle suit with a TINY head. The flyers with spindly booms? I think they are loosing they touch, i really do. Some of the drones look alright, but they're not exactly groundbreaking new mini's. I really hope they don't butcher my beloved Eldar...

TomasLenton

I mean the flyer... Does anybody like the look of that?

ddmooch

GW always try to keep their armies immediately identifiable they can't do radically differant stuff.The minis look ok but nothing special

George

I would have to cut the weird joints off that flyer, they look ridiculous. And i think the massive battle suit looks cool except i would have to give it a bigger head! As for your eldar tom i doubt they will change much. Are there any eldar miniatures which are still metal boxsets such as striking scorpions or fire dragons? or are they finecast now?

Sim

The flyer(s) looks better than anything the Marines get. With the Riptide, they would make a cool epic army.

Krypter

Love the riptide and new broadsides, new pathfinders are OK and the flyers are mediocre. The prices are as sucky as usually for GW.

Wookie

Gotta admit, I am tempted by that Riptide, just for the joy of turning one into a Gundam! You know you want to!

TomasLenton

All eldar aspects are finecast these days. The rumors for new Eldar are beyond stupid, I mean really stupid. The supposed release dates go back over a year and the list of stuff they are supposedly getting is 6 miles long. There is no way I can tell to work out if any of it is true, it's nearly all from that FAEIT 2012 guy who has supposedly seen:

New pheonix lords, new aspect squads, plastic re-releases of the current aspects, flyers, new jetbike unit, re-sculpt of existing jet bike units, dragon riding eldar, seer council on jet bike kit, a new "mini" avatar, a half wraith lord-half war walker, new warlocks, an eldar webway scenery piece, "Xenarch" a new HQ choice and some other BS.

I think he's just listing everything he can think of so that when they do release something new he "called it"

Personally, I think GW seem to prefer releasing new units rather than re-doing existing units, so maybe we get a new aspect rather than re-releasing the current fine cast ones. Difficult to say, plastic kits for all the aspect warriors is the dream but it's not going to happen realistically. Eldar will of course get a flyer, hopefully one of the Forge world flyers as a plastic kit. There was a leaked photo of an Eldar Jetbike re-scult, similar to Dark Eldar Reever Jetbikes. Expect Shining Spear/Gaudian Jet bike/seer council Jetbike type plastic kits. I suspect that will be pretty much it along with a character or two, perhaps pheonix lords for the aspects that don't currently have one (Warp Spiders and shining spears).

TomasLenton

"Here's what I've been told re: boxes. No rules.

plastic Warpspiders/Everguard
plastic Skycharriots/Shining Spears
plastic Phantomwaechter - these might be the shadow spectres?
plastic Jetbikes
plastic Wraithguard/Cataphracts
plastic flyer combi-kit - The flyer is pretty large and has a crossbow shape, two canopies, one fin. The main variant on the cover has some lances and a large dorsal distort cannon. The other variant has extra downward/sideway thrusters, but I don’t remember if it has a different weapon loadout.
plastic phoenix lord niadhau - For Shining Spears, appears to be on a Vyper jetbike.
plastic webway gate
resin box Avatar
resin Black Warden - The Black Warden looks like an female Autarch. She has a shurikencatapult and a feathered guardian helm with an eye on it.
resin Dire Avenger Xentarch - Appears to be a new English name for Exarch?
resin Howling Banshee Xentarch
resin Fire Dragon Xentarch
resin Striking Scorpion Xentarch
resin box Dragon Riders
resin box Eldritch Raiders - They look like guardians but have no helms and wear scarfs around the lower head and swashbuckle belts. They are very individually equipped, have all sorts blades, pistols and/or rifles. (potentially Storm Guardians?)
resin box Halcones Cazadores
resin Warlock"

TomasLenton

When Chaos were released they got a few characters, 2 vehicles a flyer, one infantry kit and the Stroke Victims aka Mutilators.

So I doubt Eladr are getting 5 times as much stuff....

ddmooch

would the dragon riders be exodite knights? eldar riding dinosaurs are cool.

TomasLenton

I presume so. I think of everything on the list they are perhaps the least likely to actually get released... But Eldar Exodites are unbelievably cool!

http://www.stephane.info/res/article/exodite_lord/thumbnail_Lord_on_mountain.jpg

George

Stroke victims... love it! You're right that is a lot of stuff listed there. You'll probably only get half of that. I cant imagine what they will do with the flyer though since Eldar have a huge list of forgeworld flyers.

Krypter

There's 4 for world flyers (not counting the void dragon variant which just has different weapons), 2 of which are Apoc. only. That's nothing compared to what the Imperium has from FW.

I don't see why they can't pull a crusader and just use the FW flyers in the new book. Rules wise they're pretty good and price wise there won't be much difference by the time the codex is released.

Jswiers

My bet for new eldar:

Wraithguard in plastic, with CC varient being created.

New flyer. (duh)

Jetbikes. Possibly with plastic council and shining spear parts in a box.

New HQ choice. (Bonesinger?)

A giant wraithlord? >.> (someone at GW can't resist making things bigger)

George

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?364126-Tau-rumours

A fully compiled list of all the the new tau which is coming out.

Krypter

As long as there are no squats I'll be happy.

George

http://tykensrift.wordpress.com/tag/tau-pictures-leaked/

picture of the tau codex (In German!) and some better quality pictures of the models.

Wookie

what's wrong with Squats? They've already got Space Elves and Space Orks! WHy not Space Dwarves?
In any case, I'm really not sure about that new flyer. Looks, all spindley and ugly...

Wookie

I don't know why they didn't just roll with a plastic Barracuda, gorgeous flyer.

TomasLenton

Oh god the flyer is soooo ugly, At least the codex cover looks lush. The art work is really nice on all the new books ^^

Krypter

They certainly are uninspiring but still better than the failraven and storm turkey imo.

TomasLenton

Pffft.... It's like comparing vomit with a turd.

Jswiers

I like my storm raven

Krypter

Poor John, all that sniffing paint fumes finally got to you

TomasLenton

Hey, turns out it's not all that bad... The new commander and the characters all look nice :-)

Jswiers

And the flyer... That looks nice.

And whats wrong with Van-halen broadside?...

Wookie

I like the new Broadside, the uber rifle approach is very cool! Not sure about the super sizing of the commander battlesuits (not the riptide), those things are bullet magnets at the best of times now they're making them harder to hide?
That flyer though, is hideous. Just hideous. And what's with that cannon hanging under it's arse? What's wrong with the Barracuda? Perfectly good flyer that looks really cool. Instead they spew out this, eldar-dragonfly-devilfish-gone-wrong-thing?