Tau coming April, New pictures addded, it’s released April 6th.

[Gareth]

Crisis Battle Suits are dropping 50p each, although you get lockied into buying 3. Broadsides are £9 upgrade, though so I would order in any upgrade kits you want now, as they currently run at £24.50 a model, £24 if you wait until the Crisis 3 pack, or will be £30 :o

[manrogue]

Crisis Battle Suits are dropping 50p each, although you get lockied into buying 3. Broadsides are £9 upgrade, though so I would order in any upgrade kits you want now, as they currently run at £24.50 a model, £24 if you wait until the Crisis 3 pack, or will be £30 :o

I will stick to the converting them up option mine cost me about £20 all in at most.....

[Nick1988]

All looks pretty good shame they haven't changed the regular battle suits though

[manrogue]

Yeah, was a bit gutted that crisis suits have not been changed as it is a really old kit now.
Thought they would resculpt them to look like the forgeworld ones which are really nice

[actungpanzer]

Wow that fighter bomber thing looks awesome......how can i justify one? =P

[Cookie101]

well its a good thing i plan on using eBay and not GW for my tau models
though i may just have to get 2 riptides so i can orkify one.....

[Nick1988]

Yeah, was a bit gutted that crisis suits have not been changed as it is a really old kit now.
Thought they would resculpt them to look like the forgeworld ones which are really nice

Exactly what I was hoping for. The forge world ones are awesome but pretty much double the price. Depends on how many I'll end up needing when I be t the codex!

[manrogue]

I am curious as to what are troop choices now as the battle box only has 1 traditional troop choice in it, they always have 2 in so you can field a legal army from it.
Which means either stealth or crisis suits may have moved to troop choice, my bet is the XV 25 stealth suits being troop choices now.
Also spotted that every unit has at least 2 drones, sometimes 3 attached which makes me think they have changes the way drones are fielded.
Looking forward to the codex big time now!

[Gareth]

I would guess the Crisis are. More money, from core, and stealth have always had a more specialist roles.

[manrogue]

More rumours-
Neko over at Waseer wrote: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.

Also, isn't the resin commander Neko was talking about is in the page fold of the first pic? This XV8 suit seems weird.


It is! Good eyesight there

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via an anonymous source from the Faeit 212 inbox
To answer some questions for your readers:
*The suit starts with rail cannons and can upgrade them to the Ion Weapon.

*The profiles you have listed are wrong, but it does indeed have blast and shot options. (from yesterday)

*It does divert power from it's reactor to different systems at the start of each Tau turn, lasting until the next turn and starts with one system active.

*One includes the gun, which is how you change it from shots to a blast.

*For those of you wondering; yes the blast is better than the multi-shots.

*It isn't like submunitions, or dispersed firing. Think of it more like megaman's buster. It gets powers up and fires a big shot instead of rapidly firing smaller shots (granted it's from a big gun).