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Post subject: The Tau Rules???  Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:23 pm |
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| Quote (Legion 4 @ 26 2004 Jan.,17:19) | I'm with you Enginseer V, but I don't have any KOS or Eklipz Boys, but I like the idea ! ?  |
In my case, I have a total of 1 Skorcha and 1 Landa belonging to the EBoyz - have got far to go.... 
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:32 pm |
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It's a start ... I have 30 Warbands in 3 Hordes. Most a mix of all clans but one if primarily Blood Axe, another mostly Deff Skulz and then an "Allied Horde" wif sumz ove's each Orkzez clanz !
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:38 pm |
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| Quote (Legion 4 @ 26 2004 Jan.,17:32) | | It's a start ... I have 30 Warbands in 3 Hordes. ?Most a mix of all clans but one if primarily Blood Axe, another mostly Deff Skulz and then an "Allied Horde" wif sumz ove's each Orkzez clanz ! ? |
Wow - great, I always thought the D-skulls and B-Axes have loads of character. It's just that I can't resist red and yellow colour schemes (plus a soft spot for good old Nazdreg).
So - in view of all the alterations going on on the site - where do we sign up for ork clan smilies - not to mention ad-mech? Judging by the great thread on proprietary rights etc. (see Kult of Speed thread elsewhere) I guess we won't. 
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:50 pm |
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 7:02 pm |
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| Quote (Legion 4 @ 26 2004 Jan.,17:50) | Well you know me ... I don't like bright colors !  ?A lot of my Orkzez are metallics, or camo/tactical colors (green, gray, panzer yellow etc. !)  . ?I do have a red Nob bike leading one of my Nobz Mobz though ! ? ? ? I love emoticons ... too bad we can't have them for each Epic Army !  ? OH ! ?I'm off to work ! ? See you all tonight ! ?If I don't get lost in a snow storm or eaten by a Yeti ! ? |
What, you too all snowed up? We never can get the stuff here. No yeti's either.
Re colours - well, my earlier armies were all black with a spot of drybrushing in different colours - which is why I never show pics of my chaos epic army - too dark. Same for chaos 40k and chaos whfb - I've ended up repainting most of my troops in the end. The big change came with the purchase of a large display cabinet - my wife made a single condition (well, apart from reserving a shelf for her own models - more than fair enough, I got four) - that I had to paint more visible models. This prompted a spate of marines with yellow shoulder pads, plans for yellow and black Bad Moonz (rather than black with a spot of yellow), my red and yellow epic eldar, and a promised white Tau 40k army. And loads of colourful daemons and characters for chaos WHFB, plus a start on a WHFB Empire army in red and yellow (again). Can't say I'm not trying.
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:35 am |
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:48 am |
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| Quote (Legion 4 @ 27 2004 Jan.,04:35) | | Made it back through the snow, sleet and ice ! ?And no Yeti sightings ... it was too cold and they must have stayed home to watch T.V. !!! ? ? I don't imagine Malta gets too cold being in the middle of the Med ! ?I figure hot and dry ! ?Well anyway I usually (98% of the time) use tactical/camo colors. ?However I do admit they look dark in many cases, but that does not bother me. ?That is the way "real" combat units look ! ?I guess I'm to well indoctrinated and study too much history ! ? ? ? |
Congrats on survival, L4! Re camo-oriented-indoctrination: I'm not personally indoctrinated, I usually just miss a few bolts and nuts off the top. But I like camo armies too - two problems: 1 - after so many dark models, I'm having fun painting brighter stuff, and can't stop; 2 - I'm TERRIBLE at painting any form of camo (bar one) and don't say my Eldar red-yellow substituted with e.g. greys could make a splinter pattern - I never manage to get a good balance with low tones; 3 - camo colours don't stick out in the new display case, so that would be going against wifely orders. Inconceivable!
Oh, re the one camo scheme I CAN paint: as you could guess from my poor camo-capability, it's the one used by German tank troops in Russia when things started to get hot and paint scarcer, and there was not enough time to muck about with carefully-laid out patterns etc. In the end poor Private Schmidt would have to go out in -20C (so you see, it's not just you L4) with a tin of paint and a frozen brush and apply a few hastyt streaks or just throw the paint at the tank's side. My fave is the standard sand yellow used after - ah - 1942? with (instead of the usual red-brown and green) loads of white streaks for winter camo. I believe this was applied to the older grey base too, but prefer the white-on-sand. I built a 1/35 StugIII once in this scheme (hoping it was at some time used on the poor old Stugs). This, incidentally, is my favourite anti-tank vehicle - low, biggish gun, less flexible than a turrerted tank, but cheaper too, and still very useful. Of course the later Jagdpanther was better; but the poor (and more numerous) Stug was a nice old thing. Oh dear, am I rambling?
I desist.
Cheers. 
Oh - the weather (what else) - over here in winter the worst it does is creep down to around 4 degrees (over 0) at nights, but this is exceptional. Our problem is the high humidity: ten deg C here can be far colder than sub zero temps in the UK, I've found!
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:02 pm |
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Yes, I am very familiar with those camo schemes and AFVs, too.  ?I used model 1/87th thru 1/35th scale models, so I just took that experience to Epic ! ?The GHQ site has some great pics of those and other models, most painted in various tac/camo colors. ?Well I'm going to try to work on some Epic today. ?And it is a balmy 33 degrees F here, with the promise of more snow, ice and rain !
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 10:15 pm |
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Now that the playtest list has been out for a while, what do you guys who play Tau think?
Good, Bad, Indiferent?
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 10:33 pm |
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I have suddenly been looking at the Tau in Epic recently, although I have not played a game with them. My biggest problem with the force list right now is the limit that it places on Fire Warriors. The main force in the Tau army, and about the only thing that you cant increase in a Cadre. The list looks extremely short ranged, with only a couple of the specialist vehicles with a range of more than 30cm. For a firefight force, this could be a problem.
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 12:05 am |
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I think that this has to do with play balance more than anything else. Currently with their ability to avoid CC (the evade thingy) the only effective way to engage them is long range fire. If you gave them longer ranged weapons, they would be very very hard to beat, in my opinion.
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 4:55 am |
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Hmmm... this could be a problem...
I may have to look at this in a little more detail... 
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 2:33 am |
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So what I am hearing is the Tau will not be my next Epic army. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 5:01 am |
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The Tau are my favorite new Epic army, the rules may just need more "fine tuning" ...
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Post subject: The Tau Rules??? Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:38 am |
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the Tau rules are just sketches at the time. A more extensive playtesting period is planned for about November.
The current army is to be played with a very strong firepower at very short range and a weakness in assault. This weakness is compensated by various specialty (ability to withdraw from CC most notably). The playtest was suspended just after the release of the V3 list, and this is very imperfect, and for what i've heard, quite inbalenced : the TAU win big time. Their weakness in assault is about impossible to exploit (the TAU have a rule that allow them to shoot at the incoming bugger); and they seem to invariably mow down about everything.
Formation composition is also quite imperfect; But be assured that the list will see more work before the release (before the end of the year), and that those problems are "well known", at least from those who care for the TAU list on the playtest forum.
I'm sure if you play Tau, your voice will be appreciated about all those issue and any proposed solution would be studied ! You can just fix the problems yourself... that's the great thing about playtesting, after all.
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