=] Call to Arms Rally Point: T'au Empire [=

[Grotsmasha]

 

 

What is The Call to Arms, I hear you ask?

 

The Call to Arms is a new multi-forum event designed to celebrate the coming of Warhammer 40,000's new, 10th Edition, and encourage us all to start a new army, or bring our current armies into the new edition.

 

The Forums of the B&C are divided up into three Strongholds; Imperium, Chaos, and Xenos.  For the next three months the 8 Forums of the Xenos Stronghold will be competing to claim Victory over the other Xenos Forums, with all three Strongholds being compared at the conclusion of the Event.

There are two categories for Victory in both the Forums and Strongholds, the Forum/Stronghold who has painted the most points worth of models, and the Forum/Stronghold with the highest % of completion (Participants vs Completions).

 

 

Full Rules and Place your Vow =>  The Xenos Stronghold

 

Start Date: 1st July 

End Date: 30th September

 

 

How do I join in?

 

Models for The Call to Arms have been allocated a point value based around their size, the time they take to paint, and the amount of effort generally taken to paint them, this is why some models of different sizes appear in the same categories, and why Characters are worth more.

The below list should cover every model for the T'au;

 

1pt    Drones, Kroot, Vespid, Warriors, Stealthsuits, 

2pts   Crisis Battlesuit, Piranha

3pts   Broadside Battlesuit

4pts   Ghostkeel Battlesuit

7pts   Riptide Battlesuit,

8pts   Stormsurge Battlesuit, Devilfish Chassis Tanks, Razor/Sun Shark

 

5pts    Leader and Unit Composition: 1 OR Epic Hero, Shaper, Fireblade, Commander, Ethereal

 

Terrain

1pt    3 Munitorum Barrels, 4 Munitorum Crates, Zone Morialtis/Gallowdark Column, Octarius Ramshackle Bridges

2pts   Aegis Defence Line Section, Aegis Defence Platform, Galvanic Servo-haulers, Thermic Plasma Conduit Section, Imperialis Ruins Wall Section, Zone Morialtis/Gallowdark Wall, Octarius Scrap Heap/Barricade

3pts   Fronteris Vox Antenna, Fronteris Auspex Shrine, Thermo-exchanger Shrine, Octarius Oil Rig, Necromunda Fuel Tanks

4pts   Munitorum Container, Mechsnicus Transterrsnic Gantry, Galvanic Servo-crane, Big'ead Bossbunka, Skull Alter, Noctilith Crown, Octarius Ramshackle Walls

5pts   Tidewall Droneport, Tidewall Shieldline, Feculant Gnarlmaw, Miasmic Malignifier

6pts   Fronteris Landing Pad, Mechanicus Forgeshine, Mechanicus Galvanic Magnavent

8pts   Fronteris Hab Bunker, Manufactorum Administratus,

10pts Zone Morialtis Gang Stronghold

 

Note: Custom/Scratchbuilt terrain- use this list as a guide as to how many points tour terrain is worth, but please make sure to mention your terrain is custom when Vowing.

 

 

All points are per model. For example if you pledge 20 Fire Warriors (1ptx20), 3 Crisis Battlesuits (2ptsx3), a Broadside (3pts), and a Commander Battlesuit (5pts), your vow would be worth 34pts

 

If you have any questions or queries, or there's a model you want to paint but isn't listed, just @Grotsmasha or @Triszin and we'll be more than happy to help you out.

 

 

Please feel free use this thread as a place to share your thoughts, ideas, and WIPs throughout the Event to motivate and inspire the T'au, and the Xenos to Victory!!!

 

 

Full Rules and Place your Vow =>  The Xenos Stronghold

 

 

Edited June 28, 2023 by Grotsmasha

[TheArtilleryman]

Is this correct? Surely a Stormsurge should be worth more points? It’s on the same size base as a knight…

[Grotsmasha]

6 hours ago, TheArtilleryman said:

Is this correct? Surely a Stormsurge should be worth more points? It’s on the same size base as a knight…

 

I think you're right, I didn't have a frame of reference for the model sizes, and couldn't find comparison pics previously. A little further digging provided a pic showing the difference between a Riptide and Ghostkeel being much greater than I realised. I think the adjustments above better represent their value.

[TheArtilleryman]

That makes more sense!

 

Great comparison clip here. Ghostkeel is kneeling, but you get the idea.

 

 

 

Edited June 29, 2023 by TheArtilleryman

[TheArtilleryman]

I’d probably put the Devilfish shassis tanks somewhere in between the Ghostkeel and the Riptide though, they are more comparable to a Leman Russ or Rogal Dorn which are worth 5-6 points in the Imperium stronghold. Maybe 5 for a Devilfish and 6 for a Hammerhead? Bombers maybe 6? Stormsurge and Riptide are much more work than a bomber.

 

Hope this is helpful and not just annoying! 

Edited June 29, 2023 by TheArtilleryman

[elmo]

I am in for 2 DF, 2 HH and some XV8s.

 

Don't think I will get the Manta done by the end of September 

[TPS]

I got various battlesuits and vehicles primed and ready. Also, I just stuck arms on a Stormsurge and am now very much looking forward to painting him. :D

 

Where does the Taunar fit, points-wise?

[TPS]

Some work in progress. Making the Stormsurge stand up turned out to be easier than I had anticipated!