What's New Today ... This Week's New Pre-Orders!

From today the new Fire Warriors box is out in Games Workshop stores and independent stockists, as well as the Infiltration Cadre Burning Dawn and the Shadow Force Solaq... But that's not all, because this week there are loads more new kits available to pre-order!

Here we go ...

The Mantle of Heroes...

The battlesuit is one of the Tau Empire's most iconic pieces of wargear, a huge armoured suit that can turn a humble Fire Warrior into a mighty hero of the Tau Empire. Armed with the most powerful weaponry his race can devise and kitted out with a suite of high-tech upgrades, a battlesuit pilot can take on anything the galaxy can throw at him and not just survive but emerge triumphant. Today, then, is a good day, for we have not one but two new battlesuit kits available to pre-order: the XV8 Crisis Battlesuits and the Tau Commander.

The new commander set has two options: The Coldstar on the left, amd the Enforcer on the right...

The Tau Commander can be built in two ways: wearing the classic XV85 Enforcer armour or the new XV86 Coldstar armour. This new upgrade for Tau Commanders enables them to zoom across the battlefield like an aircraft and even take on other flyers in mid-air with their high-yield burst cannon and missile pod. As you'd expect, the kit comes with loads of weapon and assemble options, which we'll be taking a closer look at next week.

The XV8 Crisis Battlesuit’s greatest strength lies in mobility and ranged firepower -- it is the XV8's role to get to the right place, at the right time and eliminate the right targets.

The XV8 Crisis Battlesuits are a revamp of another classic kit. The models are all-new designs, complete with new construction options, such as iridium armour, and a range of poses in the arms and legs that make them incredibly dynamic. They come with an arsenal of weapons and wargear, too, plus six drones to accompany them into battle. You can see more of this great kit in White Dwarf 91, out today.

Wow, so dynamic... much options ... extras!

Personally this is my favorite release of this week: the box  contains everything needed to build three XV8 Crisis Battlesuits, with six accompanying drones. There’s an impressive level of customisation available, with ball fittings allowing unprecedented posability. One miniature can be optionally assembled as a Shas’vre, with special head and chest plate, and there’s a prodigious amount of advanced Tau weaponry in the box: four plasma rifles, three flamers, four fusion blasters, four burst cannons, three missile pods and three shield generators. The six accompanying drones can each be built as gun, shield or marker variants and an assortment of battlesuit electronics systems are included. One model in the kit can even be built as the new, experimental Iridium-class XV8-02 Crisis Battlesuit - distinguishable by its thicker armour and aggressive appearance. Huge variety!

I', quite happy to see this set also includes the flying stems wich we can use for taking-of/flying/landing positions in the battlesuits, just like the battlesuit in the center... Also, the bonding knife for the team leader is super! 152 components are included in total, with three Citadel 50mm Round bases (!!!) and three Citadel small Flying bases.

The "New" Codex and More...

But that's not all! Also available to pre-order this week is a new edition of Codex: Tau Empire, which includes all the new units such as the Stormsurge and the Ghostkeel, plus new colour profiles, background information and miniatures galleries.

It's your choise now...

Today also heralds the release of War Zone Damocles: Kauyon, the next instalment in the ongoing war for the Damocles Gulf. If you're a fan of the Tau or the Imperium you'll definitely need this double-set of hardback books. If you're not? You'll want them anyway, because they're packed with loads of great new background, missions, artwork and pictures of beautifully painted Citadel miniatures. Remember the Shield of Baal series that came out towards the end of last year? Kauyon is like that, but even bigger and cooler. It's got the Tau in it for a start!

Also available are three sets of datacards for the Tau Empire, Raven Guard and White Scars, plus a Tau Empire painting guide and a new Black Library novel focusing on the red-armoured renegade himself, Commander Farsight. But that's not everything for today, next post will be about the new formations and oh boy... just saty tunned for my nest message.

Thank you for your time and until the next publication

Joaquim de Oliveira

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