Codex Tau - Farsight Enclave pictures

[chicop76]

Farsight Enclave ships today with the following note:



I am not pleased...

HOLY CRAP!

Now that is one nasty Deathstar you can build!!!

[URL="http://greenblowfly.blogspot.com/2013/07/confirmed-farsight-enclave-rules.html"]Confirmed Farsight Enclave Rules[/URL]

Anyone want to start summarizing the high points? I'm sleepy.

That's almost 1500 points at least.

[Cap'nSmurfs]

This book has given us the 40k Seven Samurai, and for that, I am pleased.

(okay yes, there's nine of them, shush)

[energongoodie]

I'm loving this extra rules sauce to pour all over my Tau! Nice

[Cap'nSmurfs]

On the "how does he GET these things" front, it seems that being in charge of an Artifact World full of arcane gubbins allows one to build quite the war machine.

[chicop76]

What I find interesting is that the IC are not restricted with the regular Tau special gear. Meaning that if you at least have ignore cover and tank/ mc hunter you are gravy.

Thinking about it more you can add each commander to differant suits. I think it's odd to possibly have 2 riptides in a squad with O'Shova with the fusion blade, ignore cover, and tank/ mc hunter.

[Billyjoeray]

The eight aren't independent characters. They replace Farsight's normal super command squad. So instead of up to 7 regular suits with normal access to upgrades (which is in the regular tau book), you can choose to take "The Eight" instead, which would be 1-7 of the named Suits (and you can't buy them any upgrades).

[chicop76]

The eight aren't independent characters. They replace Farsight's normal super command squad. So instead of up to 7 regular suits with normal access to upgrades (which is in the regular tau book), you can choose to take "The Eight" instead, which would be 1-7 of the named Suits (and you can't buy them any upgrades).

They have Independant Character as a special rule listed for all of them. They are all commanders except the broadside and riptide. On all their disriptions it is said they are all IC's.

3 of them are really useful. However besides the riptide most of those suits hit between 150-200 each. Taking 3 suits and Farsight can easily take up to 800 points.

I think the abiltity to potentially out flank from the enemies rear is a nice option.

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

The Eight are pretty cool, seem more like an Apocalypse formation than a standard 40k unit, tho.

Battle-brothersing these guys in w/ regular Tau (or vice-versa) makes their FOC choices a lot more flexible, too.

Edit: Hmm, seems kinda weird that Farsight Enclaves included 7 new Special Characters, but Iyanden's supplement didn't give non-scenario rules for their unique character who's been kicking around for years.

[Popsical]

Judging by the uber space maureen hatred in this dex, i really hope the new SM dex is seriously beefed up!

[LordGrise]

This is simply too good to be true. I look for this to be errata-ed straight to nerf hell meh-dom before the dead-tree version ships. That said, if I had the money I'd go buy the damn Ipad just so I could get this while it's still hot, fresh, and tasty...