Tau Rumor Roundup Mk-2

[Jenn]

Most starter sets have 2 troop choices, but this new Tau battle force has just one ?

Unless of course, XV8s/ XV25s can be taken as Troops now... Just sayin.

[RGilbert26]

The Riptide looks like it has at least two weapon options, a bigger version of the Burst Cannon and some kind of Ion Cannon looking thing - or it's a new weapon.

[Farseer Uthiliesh]

The Riptide looks like it has at least two weapon options, a bigger version of the Burst Cannon and some kind of Ion Cannon looking thing - or it's a new weapon.

Hence why I am purchasing two

From Faeit212:

This is another Tau treat, as each image we have seen is explained with details on what you are seeing.

I expect a balanced 6th edition codex with the Tau, and look forward to seeing what it brings.


via neko over on Warseer
I'm glad someone's posted those - I feel I can speak a little more freely now

Looking at the double spread:
- The flyer on the left is a gunship. The chin-mounted burst cannon you can see, but the main weapon is actually mounted on the underside of the tail, and is some sort of turreted array of ion weapons. My first thought is that this should make the flyer easier to use, as you don't need to be pointing at the target. It also has 2 pop-up seeker missiles.
- The flyer on the right is the bomber. It doesn't actually carry any bombs, but instead has a generator for forming bombs out of plasma as they're needed. It also has a detachable drone fighter in each wing for defense.
- Below the bomber, you should be able to make out a lot of white missile tips. These all belong to a Broadside model. The uppermost bundle of missiles is a shoulder-mounted pod, whilst a bit lower you can see 2 more bundles of missiles in arm mounted pods. Also, to the right of the shoulder pod you may be able to make out a seeker missile pointing straight up - this is the suit mounted seeker I mentioned.
- To the right of that you have the XV104 Riptide. You should be able to make out an ion cannon of some sort on its right arm, and a shield on its left.

2nd Attachment:
- Here we can see the box art for the XV104, this time armed with some sort of uber-burst cannon. On this shot you might be able to make out the twin support weapons mounted under the main gun. It also comes with 2 shielded missile drones.
- And another picture of the bomber.

3rd Attachment:
- Pathfinders. You can't really make out the new experimental weapons I'm afraid, but you can certainly see that one of the drones is beefier than the rest. If I understand right, this drone can sit in place of the cupola on the devilfish, and grant some sort of C3 bonuses.
- Broadside suit. In this shot you can see it built with the twin heavy rail rifle (the rifle you can see is actually 2 heavy rail rifles side by side).
- Crisis team. It's just the current suits repacked into boxes of 3.

Another tidbit not shown:
- The XV8 varient is a finecast commander's varient. It looks similar to the XV8 (maybe with longer limbs?), and may well have the same rules, but is posed with the hand units deployed.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

I like the Riptide and Fliers, and great to see Pathfinders and Broadsides in plastic. Surprising lack of new units considering how little they had before though but Like Kirsten, ill pass - too expensive for me.

[The Dinosaur]

Very keen to see the riptide side by side with other similar size kits

[Kirsten]

Yeah, I have never been too concerned with the gradual prices in the past, but with Warriors of Chaos and now Tau demonstrating an absolutely crazy jump in price it has just killed off any chance I have of getting another army short of winning the lottery or getting some high flying job. I was really looking forward to High Elves, but clearly that wont happen for me either now. Genuinely quite upset by this, don't know what I will do now.

[Neelam]

Well times like these make me appreciate the 20% discount our LGS gives. Will be nice to dust off the Tau army and give them a go with the new codex.

I'll definitely pick up Riptide and the Pathfinders , not sold on the fliers and broadsides though, will have to wait for a better look at them, you never know they might look a lot better up close (straingely like a lot of models released since the new WD format - the images they take aren't very flattering.

If the rules aren't that different I'll probably just picked up a few FW Broadsides from the open day this year.

[Farseer Uthiliesh]

Yeah, I have never been too concerned with the gradual prices in the past, but with Warriors of Chaos and now Tau demonstrating an absolutely crazy jump in price it has just killed off any chance I have of getting another army short of winning the lottery or getting some high flying job. I was really looking forward to High Elves, but clearly that wont happen for me either now. Genuinely quite upset by this, don't know what I will do now.

Shop around. There are some good dealers around with decent discounts.

[Kirsten]

I know, but you are still talking £40 for the Riptide with a discount, and yet a Dreadknight, similar size, £33 before a discount. It is just too big a leap in pricing.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

I know, but you are still talking £40 for the Riptide with a discount, and yet a Dreadknight, similar size, £33 before a discount. It is just too big a leap in pricing.

Yeah, discounts used to be good - but they amount to the RT prices of 1 or 2 years ago now so they don't really make any real difference now. Not really bummed about it though myself since I have my own Wargame to work on.