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With the Wrecka Crew completed its time to move onto what's next, and since Call to Arms is still going on and I've got more kill teams to paint, its time for the Vespids! A few years ago I painted up the tau pathfinder kill team in a comic-book/cell-shaded style. I was very happy with the results and love the way they look...unfortunately I don't particularly enjoy playing them so they rarely hit the table. As the new "season" of kill-team approaches and pathfinders are getting ready to be declassified I wanted a new team with a similar style, and wouldn't you know it I happen to have a Tau Auxiliary unit sitting on my shelf that seems like it would suit the style well. My 7 year old loves all things Pokemon right now, and so the Scyther/SliphCo theme came pretty easily. Tau have so many Pokeball looking icons stamped all over their equipment I'm surprised I haven't seen a deluge of these kinds of themes before. Admittedly I don't look to hard so it may be that I'm walking well tread ground on this one. Green was an airbrush built up in a few passes, off-white was a quick pass to get it blocked in, and since I'm really only using 3 other colors for the rest of the model getting the rest blocked in didn't take too long at all. Tried out a new white...it was terrible. If anyone has a white they'd recommend for use outside of an airbrush please let me know, because my search is still ongoing. After I got them blocked in I hit them with a thick gloss coat, because I decided I wanted to try and use a panel liner to "ink" the recess spaces. Not entirely sure how I feel about this step yet, on one hand I think it makes the recesses pop more, but it also looks sloppy up close, and I'm not sure how much it will clash with my lining work later...we will see I suppose! I've got two models to finish lining, then I'll need to go back and hit my missed spots, get the bases blocked in (was debating using different "tactical rocks" for them, but decided against it recently) and start my "chunky" highlights. Then they'll go live at my office desk for a week or two so I can line them out during breaks/lunch. Trying to move quickly on this one both because of Call to Arms and because I've got a lot of backlog to burn through before Kill-Team: Tombworld drops and fills it back up again

Big ol' box featuring; Kroot Carnivores Krootox Rampagers Krootox Rider Kroot War Shaper

According to Auspex Tactics, the contents of the new combat patrol are: 1x Enforcer Commander 10x Breachers 10x Pathfinders 1x Devilfish Information comes from this video: Auspex doesn't say what the source of the leak is, rather that a person showed him where it was.

Kroot Carnivore

So, I've been thinking of making a Tau Recon style list to thematically go with my Kroot Army. I've dabbled in Tau proper here and there, but I'm far from an expert, so I wanted to know from those more experienced if this seems like something that would work. It doesn't have to be super competitive or anything, but if you see any obvious gaps/flaws in the list, that would be great to know. T'au Mont'Ka (2000 Points) Darkstrider: 60pts Pathfinders with Ion Rifles 2x10: 180pts Pathfinders with Rail Rifles x10: 90pts Stealth Battlesuits with Fusion Blasters 3x6: 360pts Ghostkeel with Cyclic Ion Raker 2x1: 320pts Ghostkeel with Fusion Collider x1: 160pts Pirahnas with Burst Cannons 2x3: 310pts Pirahnas with Fusion Blasters 1x3: 155pts Vespid with GL and Rail Rifle 2x10: 260pts Vespid with Neutron Blasters 1x5: 65pts Kroot Hounds x5: 40pts Aside from the thematic recon / sabotage force feel, the idea is very much in the Mont'Ka style of hitting very hard and fast. Everything in the list either infiltrates and/or scouts, or compensates with a very fast move profile to get into the opponents face quickly and remove key targets. The Stealthsuits guide the massive volume of Pirahna missiles, giving them re-roll hits and wounds, to take any hard targets off the table, then moving on to mow down infantry. Meanwhile the Ghostkeels focus on the elite infantry with support from the Vepsid and Pathfinders. The extra Vespid unit gets to be an action monkey and the Kroot hounds just run around being annoying since I had an extra 40 points in the list. I kinda wanted to include a Firesight Marksman for thematic reasons, but he just seems... real bad right now. Thoughts?

Greeting B and C! This feels a bit odd... Plonking Xenos down but here we go! I have been working on some Tau. For no real reason other than a change to my usual power armour obsession (iron warriors, angels sanguine, plague marines etc). These were really just a painting army. But I went eBay ad and have quite a lot. I will likely sell a lot though to make some space as a hour move is on the horizon but here is the current state of play. http://i.imgur.com/uXzQank.jpg Terrible, over bright pic. Can't see any highlights but it gives you a good idea at least. First suit and fire warriors complete. http://i.imgur.com/dyMlsiU.jpg?1 Second complete suit. Better pic. Ish! But you can see some highlights at least :) Now the WIP. http://i.imgur.com/ohq6rLO.jpg 5 fire warriors to round out the squad. These are painted differently to first batch and I think I prefer them. Just details really and markings then a dull cote and done. http://i.imgur.com/0bLWOG4.jpg Finally a very early ethereal shot. Lot's to do and better pics to be taken. So the theme is crap pictures and lots of white :) After these I might do 3 stealth drones then a couple more crisis suits and some pathfinders. I also have a devilfish. Another 3 stealth as well. Cheers!

https://youtu.be/e6ERhROAKhc An00bis's Tau Empire vs my "Imperium" list comprising of deathwatch and count as ultramarines. 2000pts, tau empire had one battalion detachment, imperium was a battalion and flight wing I believe. - cover slaves

1500pts 8th ed battle report. An00bis's T'au Empire vs Skimask mohawk's Chaos Space Marines. http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wB3oeyP1gg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0002_zpsrhqxsfnl.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0003_zpsadrpok8s.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0004_zpsrzkvwa8t.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0005_zpsq7iqwz8v.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0006_zpsldzczm5p.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0012_zpsqyswws9k.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0014_zpsk7hdm8r4.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0015_zpseaepguki.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0016_zpsc599nje7.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0017_zpsp3fqkb8k.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0018_zps1oyitvsh.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0019_zpso5jmmkem.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0020_zpscsyfoozs.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0021_zpsk2q1dthb.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0022_zpsj0qw2jdn.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0023_zpsmumn8hmm.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0024_zpsgcvtedcg.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0026_zpsy6iws6em.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0027_zpsfnysyouw.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0033_zpsio6kolud.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0034_zpswn5dqjwj.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0035_zpshspyqw4t.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0038_zpsp9viryeu.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/bulimic_possum/2017%20-%20lcbr%20-%208th%20ed%20second%20game/IMG_0040_zpsltch5cdw.jpg