And so ends another week , but for players of Tau Empire , although the next week seems to be the last regarding the new releases of both Tau miniatures and books , things are only heating up ... Checkout the rumors that are flowing this morning about what may be the final wave of Tau models to be released, the Battlesuits!
Soo, what's comming up? Lets see:
Crisis averted, White Dwarf's here!
Soo, what's comming up? Lets see:
- Commander (apparently with a drone) – 40€, 30£, 50$
- Crisis Battelsuits (3 suits + 6 drones) – 60€, 45£, 75$
- Drones (2 drones) – 9€, 7.7£, 12$
- Warzone Damocles: Kauyon (campaign book) – 60€, 45£, 74$
- Codex Tau (128p) – 39€, 30£, 49.5$
- Tau cards, Raven Guard! cards, also White Scars cards!! for some reason – each 10.5€, 8£, 13.5$
READY THE CASH CANNON!
And, as an extra, checkout the new rumors for the Tau and Astartes that have been spotted about what may be some very nice rules mechanics!
- Commander is 85pts base. Coldstar has no particular rules compared to a Crisis so no +1T ... sorry. The high yield canon is crap (or should I say crap for that model), 18″ S5 AP5 Assault6 Twin-Linked.
- Crisis suits kit contain 4 of each weapon (except only 3 missiles). Iridium armor is still in the Codex, you can build one of such suits per kit (it's the red one we saw in the pictures?).
- Kauyon’s pictures show two formations: the awesome Shadowstrike Kill Team (2-4 Scouts + 1-5 Vanguards, you chose to fail or succeed reserve rolls for the Vanguards, they don’t scatter within 9″ of the scouts, they can charge the turn they DS) and Pinion Battle Demi-Company (like a demi company but with scouts that help reserves by accompanying other units to allow them to do a flank attack and can give ignore cover to an unit with 9″)
- Codex pictures show 80pts Devilfish and 44pts Pathfinders (minimum unit size of 4)
Apart for counting as a Flying Monstrous Creatre, it´s sad to hear about Coldstar, although I think we should reserve judgement until we get the true rules in the codex (particullary the special rules, and signature systems!). On the other hand I'm really excited with the new crisis design... man, so dynamic!
And for the Ravens? More assaulting from deep strike mechanics, and a new demi-company? That’s pretty saucy. I’m sure Raven Guard players will be estatic, however I wonder if that offer will extend to the normal Codex Space Marine chapters as well? Good guy Games Workshop seems to be including more options in the their kits as well. Nice to see the ability to field units without purchasing extra bits to do it. Gosh, maybe that was their plan all along? Perhaps especially in view of what is about to come by Forgeworld ...
And for the Ravens? More assaulting from deep strike mechanics, and a new demi-company? That’s pretty saucy. I’m sure Raven Guard players will be estatic, however I wonder if that offer will extend to the normal Codex Space Marine chapters as well? Good guy Games Workshop seems to be including more options in the their kits as well. Nice to see the ability to field units without purchasing extra bits to do it. Gosh, maybe that was their plan all along? Perhaps especially in view of what is about to come by Forgeworld ...
From the shadows we strike ... what's left in your bank account!
The New Codex "Crisis"...
Usually I don't care much to rumors in the warhammer universe ... except when they come accompanied with images that seem minimally legitimate ... wich happened this week with the "new" Codex ... but honestly it's all very confusing ...
Via BOLS:
"Latest word says GW is putting out a bunch of new campaign and warzone books along with the “optional” Tau Codex. Here’s the details:
Readers have noted in the upcoming White Dwarf product list there a bunch of new Tau books are coming out.
For a while now, there have been rumors swirling that 40K codices may become less and less important, with alternative routes to getting current rules becoming available. Well take a look at what some folks are saying about next week’s releases:
Then we got the details on the Tau codex via the new White Dwarf:
via Gamerstrust.de 10-20-2015"
Via BOLS:
"Latest word says GW is putting out a bunch of new campaign and warzone books along with the “optional” Tau Codex. Here’s the details:
Readers have noted in the upcoming White Dwarf product list there a bunch of new Tau books are coming out.
For a while now, there have been rumors swirling that 40K codices may become less and less important, with alternative routes to getting current rules becoming available. Well take a look at what some folks are saying about next week’s releases:
Then we got the details on the Tau codex via the new White Dwarf:
via Gamerstrust.de 10-20-2015"
The Tau Empire is so young and innovative that they haven't changed the cover of their own codex...
– Codex: Tau Empire
– Operation Shadowtalon (Raven Guard)
– Burning Dawn (Tau)
– War Zone Damocles: Kauyon (campaign book)
And according to these rumors, here's the deal:
- If you already have a 6th edition Codex: Tau Empire, you just need War Zone Damocles: Kauyon.
- If you get War Zone Damocles: Kauyon, you get rules for both Tau (for the new units and Hunter Contingent) and Space Marines (Formations) plus new Fluff.
- If you get the new Codex: Tau Empire, you get everything that’s in the old Codex plus all the Tau stuff from War Zone Damocles: Kauyon (including the new Fluff?)
- If you get either Operation Shadowtalon or Burning Dawn, you get some scenario-specific fluff and a formation or two, but that has nothing to do with the real new rules/formations.
No sure if trying to be consumer friendly... or just suck all of our money as usual.
So under this piece of news, the New Tau codex seems identical to the old one except for the newly released units and formations, all of which are in the War Zone Damocles: Kauyon campaign book. It’s said to be be not so much a “new codex” as a “reprint” with all the new items collated together.
Honestly strikes me as odd that GW is thinking about their customers' savings ... it's usually the other way ...And, since we're discussing Tau books... what's going to happen to the Farsight Enclaves Supplement?? Maybe there is a explanation:
Via BOLS:
"Well that’s an interesting turn of events. I can see GW doing this to avoid the sticky situation that occurred with the Leviathan campaign last year which resulted in a handful of new Tyranid models that have difficult to access rules (which I’m sure negatively affect sales). I bet we will see this type of thing rolled out with future codices. I’m looking at you Tyranids and Chaos Marines!"
I hope that in the coming days this issue be clarified ... until then, leave your wallet alone!
In Other News:
"Well that’s an interesting turn of events. I can see GW doing this to avoid the sticky situation that occurred with the Leviathan campaign last year which resulted in a handful of new Tyranid models that have difficult to access rules (which I’m sure negatively affect sales). I bet we will see this type of thing rolled out with future codices. I’m looking at you Tyranids and Chaos Marines!"
I hope that in the coming days this issue be clarified ... until then, leave your wallet alone!
In Other News:
Thank you for your time and until the next publication
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