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| Nevermore | | Grand Celestial of the Shi'Kara Sept [ Shas'vre ] Joined: Thu Nov 29 2007, 05:35PM Posts: 160 | Well, it seems nobody has had anything to say here for a while but I assume everyone still checks the site periodically so I thought I would post some stuff I noticed from the new rulebook.
I'm sure there will be lots of discussions about what the new rules do for (or more acuratly, to) the Tau, so I won't go into that much here.\
While looking through my local store's advance copy of the new rulebook though I noticed that there is actually alot of new fluff material for the Tau in it.
They mention several previously unknown battlesuit types including a n XV-8x suit designed for zero-G fighting, and one or two mid-size suits (I think an XV-3 but I'm not sure). We'll probably never see an official model for any of those but it should be excellent conversion fodder.
They also mention a new commander character. Unfortunatly I can't remember her(?) name, but it was someone I had never heard of before.
I think they mention a couple of specialized types of cadres beyond just "hunter" cadres
They also bring up the problem with Tau age (farsight and shadowsun being hundreds of years old but Aun'Shi being old at 40) They say the typical Tau lifespan is 40-50 years but that some individuals, who seem tied to the destiny of the race, seem to live much longer.
That doesn't really expalin anything but I think it's encouraging that they at least acknowledged the problem.
Anyway, that was some of the stuff I noticed on just a quick skimm through the book. There may be more stuff.
All in all I was pretty happy with the fluff portions of the book even if the rules are going to totally nerf us.
So if anyone is still checking the site, what do you think?
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| aquakroot |  Thu Jun 12 2008, 03:42PM | |
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| The new battle suits sound sweet and so does the new character but the whole "destiny" thing is pretty lame. Just another way for GW to keep the old characters and not come up w/ any new ones
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| Nevermore | | Thu Jun 12 2008, 08:03PM | |
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[ Shas'vre ] Joined: Thu Nov 29 2007, 05:35PM
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| At least they recognized that they screwed up the fluff.
And they did add a new character in the fluff, I just can't remember his/her name right now.
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| Ethereal Shas | | Thu Jun 12 2008, 11:34PM | |
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| The new fluff sounds very interesting, I'm really glad that GW is paying more attention to it this time. Even though the rules in the 5th edition book could be bad for the Tau, they could easily put together a nice F.A.Q. (Erratum) in which they explain how it works for the Tau, it has happened before.
I hope that the timeline they have in the book is covering Tau aswell and that it contains not to many flaws. On the other hand, the latest information counts, so everything in the Big Red Book is true. The age of Farsight and Shadowsun is not the only problem there is with the Tau timeline, but when I have the new information I will finish the timeline I made some time ago.
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| Nevermore | | Fri Jun 13 2008, 07:13AM | |
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| The book has a pretty extensive chronology but I think it is all imperial. The only Tau stuff that is going to be in the book's timeline is going to be battles with humans I am pretty sure.
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| Shas'Ui Jais | | Thu Jul 17 2008, 06:33PM | |
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| Long time no post.....lol, anyway, Was there ANY new fluff on Farsight's Enclaves or just that his age is nuts (cuz i knew that...) And BTW, I got some more ships for my Farsight BFG Fleet, it is now 1500 points!
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| Nevermore | | Fri Jul 18 2008, 06:42AM | |
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| I'm still working my way through the rules so I'm not sure but I don't think Farsight is mentioned much, if at all.
Sorry
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| The Burning Knight | | Fri Jul 18 2008, 01:10PM | |
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| the 0 g suits are they anti grav or space suits?
and there is a forum about some of the new rules on the news page.
p.s is the destiny thing have to do with the fact that the tau could have been made by the eldar?
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| Shas'Ui Jais | | Fri Jul 18 2008, 06:48PM | |
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| Poor Farsight....
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| Aun'O Disse'Us | | Sun Sep 28 2008, 11:15AM | |
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[ Shas'ui ] Joined: Fri Nov 30 2007, 05:33PM
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| Nevermore wrote ...
They also bring up the problem with Tau age (farsight and shadowsun being hundreds of years old but Aun'Shi being old at 40) They say the typical Tau lifespan is 40-50 years but that some individuals, who seem tied to the destiny of the race, seem to live much longer.
That doesn't really expalin anything but I think it's encouraging that they at least acknowledged the problem.
hmm
theory: Perhaps each caste has their own lifespan? perhaps Aun'Shi being 40-50 is old for an Aun (good way to avoid corruption in the government is to rotate leaders frequently perhaps this is the Aun's internal clock failsafe as leadership caste) and fire warriors, provided they are not killed in a combat zone, can live for a long time like a few hundred years like shadowsun and farsight. Who can really say if living in space can prolong or shorten life spans especially for an alien species whose caste system has altered their state (buff fire caste, skinny and tall air caste, stout earth caste, normal human physic for water). Being that the air caste spends most of its time in space and fire warriors could spend a great deal in space being transported to combat zones and guarding ships and space installations. Earth castes are probably about the same life spans as humans of nowadays as well as ethereals and water caste as they spend most of their time planet side building and administering. just a thought 
The Burning Knight wrote ...
the 0 g suits are they anti grav or space suits?
and there is a forum about some of the new rules on the news page.
p.s is the destiny thing have to do with the fact that the tau could have been made by the eldar?
If they are space suits sounds awefully close to UC gundam type stuff
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