Squats are all well and good but it is the idea of new battlesuits that I like the most. Hopefully they will take a page from FW and go with that look as the current crisis suits just do not fit the rounded and molded look of the rest of the army.

 

I dunno, with a bit of conversion work the tau battlesuits can look pretty awesome. I find the FW suits to be a bit too mecha, then again that's just my opinion.

 

Lishwisting; I think.

 

Lishwisting?

 

I enjoy the prospect of a not-too-distant-future release for the Tau, one of the cooler armies

 

A new Tau codex would be nice.

However I don't think crisis suits need to be improved. 2 wounds, 3 up armour and able to be tooled up with lots of nice weaponry. Good enough I think.

Suits as troops would be nice however. Make for a nice compact travelling army.

 

I think the tau need an update but then again why do we complain about an army that is allowed to shoot and the move out of sight .

 

Fingers crossed for useful all-suit army. Its like a shooty-jumpy Deathwing list without Land Raiders.

 

having just started collecting Tau, this could prove annoying as I will have my army built by then.

 

Squats? T4 S5? :scratchhead: Midgets that are as tough as a space marine and as strong as a warboss, methinks there may be something wrong there.

 

They're dwarves, they're beings of pure muscle, nothing wrong with it.

 

Man would I love a Tau codex update. Haven't had fun playing them for years. I hope at least some of this is true :victory:

 

Well they are dwarves because of thier planets high gravity, so naturally if they were on a normal gravity world they would be stronger. That said stronger than an SM and as a warboss? IDK

 

That said stronger than an SM and as a warboss? IDK

Keeping in mind that they probably won't have lots of attacks like a Warboss, and their Strength is probably augmented by their mechanical exoskeleton, which Squats used to love using, I'm given to understand.

They also probably use huge axes, being dwarves.

 

I just remember squats being little fat gaurdsmen in quilted jackets sometimes to be found on a trike. And there were the exoarmour ones I think, like halflings in mega-armour.

I don't know what they have in mind for demiurg though.

 

I just remember squats being little fat gaurdsmen in quilted jackets sometimes to be found on a trike. And there were the exoarmour ones I think, like halflings in mega-armour.

Pics for awesome nostalgia:laugh:

 

I always called the squat army the robotnink army just because of the egg shaped look most of them had

 

Oh please let this rumor be true! I want a Tau update! Personally, I am hoping for a new Codex, new plastics, new heroes and the Demiurg. (or another alien ally race)

For the Greater Good!

 

Interesting rumors. If true, the tougher then SM and as strong as Warboss Space Dwarf allies of the Tau may reignite the passionate hatred I used to have for the Tau when I first read about them. Dirty Blue Commies.

 

Hmmmm...... with Demiurgs and Kroot coupled with suits....
I can definately see the possibilities in that. Demiurgs with FW behind in a gunline formation? Lots and lots of Str 5 pulse fire and protected by a line of "let's get up close and personal" troops.....

Yes.... definite possibilities.

Here's hoping ......

For the Greater Good

 

 

If Demiurg are indeed introduced, They'd have to be given a transport, or a teleporter of some kind to be on-par with Kroot, in terms of usefulness,

@above: I don't get the first picture: Tyranids did destroy all the Squats...

 

No they didn't the squats changed there name to demiurg.

 

er, and where did you come up with this "theory"?

 

Squats and demiurg are both space dwarves.

 

No, no squats. Please.

I know they have to expand armies when codices come out, but I hate this "codex convergence" stuff. If you give the slow army fast things, the assault army shooty things, and the frail army tough things, they loose a part of their tactical identity.

 

hope this is not true.

Hate dwares all the way and don't want them anywhere near 40k. I for one am hoping for tau to get more minor races as well as human auxiliaries, not squats. human troops should come way before squats.

 

QQ
The Demiurg (think that's how you spell it) are a perfectly valid race.
You think it's coincidence that Eldar and Humans look so much alike? Humans are probably a descendant of the Eldar; there's a big gap in Human evolution.
Just the same, the Squats (and presumably the Demiurg), Ogryn, Ratlings, are all Abhuman, meaning descendants of humanity.

Ogryn are big, stupid Humans.
Ratlings are small, frail Humans who live a very similar lifestyle to their namesake.
Squats (and probably Demiurg being the same thing) are short, tough, strong, and hardy Humans.
There even used to be Beastmen, who were exactly what they sound like.

The existence of Squats is no more absurd than the existence of Ogryn.

 

I quite like the idea of a new Tau codex. However I would rather the Nicasser show up rather than the Demiurg because they cover a more subtle hole in the Tau army. Psychic Defence.

Tau are supposed to be rubbish in close combat so let them stay that way. Also on another note I thought it was meant to be a very closely guarded secret that the Tau are friendly with the Demiurg. If they start fighting in battles with each other would it not give it away somewhat?

Hopefully Farsight is the character that lets you take an all suit army. He seems the best bet.

My own personal hope for any prospective new Tau codex is that they make Stealth Suits worth taking. They are one of the most coolest entries invented in the 40K universe but their weapons are too short ranged for my liking.

 

Hopefully Farsight is the character that lets you take an all suit army. He seems the best bet...

If he keeps his current limitations then hed better do that too:laugh:


Stealth Suits are just 1 unit thats broken (in the true meaning of the word for once) in the Tau Codex. All in all itll be a blast to see what they will do with the Next Tau codex

 

Nicassar have evolved to the point that they're completely space born and would likely turn to mush on a planet, but I guess there are possibilities of individuals learning to adapt gravity.

And Stealth Suits have no redeeming values. None. They are twice the point cost (literally) than they should be and need long barelled Burst Cannons.

 

And Stealth Suits have no redeeming values. None.

The models are pretty. That's reason enough for me.

 

No actually it applies to the Demiurg away. The Tau spent a lot of time during the Damocles Gulf Crusade ensuring that the Imperium never knows of their alliance to the Demiurg. They even use Nicasser ships to do this.

 

id be very much for a tau release, im not all that familiar with their codex. but i think that giving the basic fire warrior weapon (pulse rifle?) a special rule allowing them to rapid fire at 15" or whatever half range would be (i think 32" would be a nice long range) perhaps have their weaponry should be assault 1, and assault 2 at half range...something.

i would like to see more suit units, like a troops choice CC unit (max of 3 a unit w/o drones or be really expensive). but that said i think id like to see more usefulness out of the vespid and kroot and possibly the human aux's they have.

they need some sort of elite choice that is their psychic/antipsychic power.