Las Vegas Open Preview Stream - January 18th/19th

[Matrindur]

Left is Kroot right is SA Aethon sentinel no idea about the middle

[TheMawr]

So kroot after all when looking at the silhouette... now Im wondering if the roadmap codex order is technically correct, and tau is near end of spring and months away... just not with all the kroot in it anymore ( and that would make sense to not put on the roadmap.)

And that angel silhouette is naturally AoS, but I wonder if that is the MoraiHeg staff we saw in the rumor engines a while ago, thats potentially lots of pointy ears who want to be converted for 40k this preview.

 

And I was actually planning to just go to bed...

 

[Matrindur]

2 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

So kroot after all when looking at the silhouette... now Im wondering if the roadmap codex order is technically correct, and tau is near end of spring and months away... just not with all the kroot in it anymore ( and that would make sense to not put on the roadmap.)

And that angel silhouette is naturally AoS, but I wonder if that is the MoraiHeg staff we saw in the rumor engines a while ago, thats potentially lots of pointy ears who want to be converted for 40k this preview.

 

And I was actually planning to just go to bed...

 

Is the roadmap placement normally when the first releases of an army are released or when everything is out? Because if its the second we could see the Kroot army set first, then the other two codexes with their single models and then the full Tau codex release 

[TheMawr]

6 minutes ago, Matrindur said:

Is the roadmap placement normally when the first releases of an army are released or when everything is out? Because if its the second we could see the Kroot army set first, then the other two codexes with their single models and then the full Tau codex release 

 

This varied previously afaik, this time its likely more the final release of the codex, because dark angels too came in winter not in spring like the roadmap says... however I also wondered about that with dark angels now.

When the codex drops the index goes, meaning that with such a long time between (very) limited boxsets and the eventual codex release, an army is completely ruleless ? Just something Im curious about.

[Assessor_of_Maat]

9 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

So kroot after all when looking at the silhouette... now Im wondering if the roadmap codex order is technically correct, and tau is near end of spring and months away... just not with all the kroot in it anymore ( and that would make sense to not put on the roadmap.)

And that angel silhouette is naturally AoS, but I wonder if that is the MoraiHeg staff we saw in the rumor engines a while ago, thats potentially lots of pointy ears who want to be converted for 40k this preview.

 

And I was actually planning to just go to bed...

 

 

yeah, top of that staff was obviously something for Daughters of Khaine from the rumour engine, seeing it with the wings it's gotta be some new gorgon-esque HQ for them

[Matrindur]

Edited January 19 by Matrindur

[TheMawr]

Mandrakes actually got even better   but clearly this kill team season was unintended/unexpected for GW.

edit : And while we cant really talk about it.... the new elves are going to be my ynnari/corasir harlequins !

Edited January 19 by TheMawr

[Matrindur]

This is only half! of everything Kroot are getting

 

 

Edited January 19 by Matrindur

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

I am Kroot?

[chapter master 454]

aight, I might just be convinced to run kroot in my tau. Still not my favourite part but these boys looking much better.

[Black Cohort]

those new Kroot look amazing.

 

The Madrakes are also cool.

 

Edit: Presumably with a full refresh then new kroot hounds are on the way.  But it seems like we are going to get entirely new Kroot units as well if the rumoured number of units is correct.  Maybe flying kroot?  Or a Kroot Psyker?

Edited January 19 by Black Cohort

[Handsome Fred]

So 8 Kroot units in the codex...almost 1/3 of the codex will be kroot now lmao

[Astartes Consul]

Not sure why or how I’m awake at this time, but those Kroot look great. 

[Indy Techwisp]

With another 5? Kroot kits on the way and the rumoured Vespid Kill Team, looks like T'au Auxiliaries are eating good.

 

That said, the last 2 T'au Models we've gotten were the Darkstrider refresh and Farsight refresh, neither of which were a "new unit".

It's genuinely been a while since T'au got any fully new T'au models

[Indy Techwisp]

2 minutes ago, Handsome Fred said:

So 8 Kroot units in the codex...almost 1/3 of the codex will be kroot now lmao

 

The curse of Tzaangors spreads...

[Handsome Fred]

4 minutes ago, Indy Techwisp said:

With another 5? Kroot kits on the way and the rumoured Vespid Kill Team, looks like T'au Auxiliaries are eating good.

 

That said, the last 2 T'au Models we've gotten were the Darkstrider refresh and Farsight refresh, neither of which were a "new unit".

It's genuinely been a while since T'au got any fully new T'au models

 

And before we had Shadowsun.

The only "new" kit since the 6th was the kroot kill team that is...not so fine rulewise.

[Wormwoods]

3 minutes ago, Indy Techwisp said:

The curse of Tzaangors spreads...

Yeah but Kroot are good.

[Handsome Fred]

1 minute ago, Wormwoods said:

Yeah but Kroot are good.

 

Good is not the term I use when I add some kroots in my lists

 

"cheap and sacrificable" are better one lmao

[Indy Techwisp]

Just now, Wormwoods said:

Yeah but Kroot are good.

 

I know, but "Curse of Tzaangors" refers to "A significant amount of units featured in your codex aren't actually what your Faction is."

So Tzaangors for TSons, Mortals of Chaos for Chaos Space Marines and now Kroot for T'au.

It's just a bit less egregious for T'au since they're the 40k version of the Covenant.

[TheMawr]

2 minutes ago, Handsome Fred said:

 

And before we had Shadowsun.

The only "new" kit since the 6th was the kroot kill team that is...not so fine rulewise.

 

Ghostkeel and Stormsurge where definitely past warhammer end times, so late 7th. I think others too. ( but ghostkeel was one of the first news I saw when I was slowly moving back to GW ;) wich was caused by the end times things going on and the change to miniature design it had.)

[Matrindur]

Edited January 19 by Matrindur

[Wolf Guard Dan]

Those Kroot are awesome. I’m going to have to grab that Kill Team box as well.

 

And as I’m typing this the Solar Auxilia for Horus heresy shown. Wowowow. Looks great. 

[StrangerOrders]

Solar Auxilia look amazing.

 

...this is gonna be so expensive. ;_;

[Cryptix]

[Indy Techwisp]

2 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

Ghostkeel and Stormsurge where definitely past warhammer end times, so late 7th. I think others too. ( but ghostkeel was one of the first news I saw when I was slowly moving back to GW ;) wich was caused by the end times things going on and the change to miniature design it had.)

 

Ghostkeel and Stormsurge were 7th, yes.

Resculpt Darkstrider and Resculpt Shadowsun were 8th

 

Resculpt Farsight was 9th (replacing the 6th Ed Farsight model)