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[TrawlingCleaner]

10 minutes ago, Handsome Fred said:

Lukly the sunforge have 2 fusion rifle instead 1 twin linked.

 

Twin-Linked would've been super weird on a unit that rerolls it's wounds vs Monsters and Vehicles but I'm glad those fears have been put to rest!

 

If I'm not mistaken, Crisis Suits can only be taken in sqauds of 3 now. I've still not sussed how you get 6 Fusion Blasters out of the current kit either, even duplicating one of the sprues won't give you 6 Blasters

[VanDutch]

Yeah, I read that as units are limited to 3 models too. I’m a bit less interested in that battlesuit detachment now unfortunately.

[Handsome Fred]

There is the full scan on the web.

Tldr
aunva, sniperdrones, aunshi, longstrike and crisis commander gone

Stupid tidewall still in.

Farsight lost the one per game reroll in melee for a free strat each turn

Only 4 detach, kauyon (changed a enanchement and 3 strats), Mont'ka, Kroot and Enclave (only one battletactic, sustined hit 1 against 6+ models and sustined hit 2 against 11+ models and betweeen enanchment and farsight you can have two damn free battletactics strat)

Little buff on stealth now as observer reroll 1 both hit and wound

Marker drons can observe even if advanced

Commander can still duplicate drones but can take only 1 Cib

[TheArtilleryman]

I think like someone else said earlier, they will need to change the sprues available. There is one sprue that would do all three loadouts if you just got 3 of that one.

[Deffrekka]

14 minutes ago, Handsome Fred said:

There is the full scan on the web.

Tldr
aunva, sniperdrones, aunshi, longstrike and crisis commander gone

Stupid tidewall still in.

Farsight lost the one per game reroll in melee for a free strat each turn

Only 4 detach, kauyon (changed a enanchement and 3 strats), Mont'ka, Kroot and Enclave (only one battletactic, sustined hit 1 against 6+ models and sustined hit 2 against 11+ models and betweeen enanchment and farsight you can have two damn free battletactics strat)

Little buff on stealth now as observer reroll 1 both hit and wound

Marker drons can observe even if advanced

Commander can still duplicate drones but can take only 1 Cib

Any clue on the last 3 strats in Hunting Party? The 2 last enhancements? Do shapers have secondary abilities? Lone Spear?

[TrawlingCleaner]

10 minutes ago, TheArtilleryman said:

I think like someone else said earlier, they will need to change the sprues available. There is one sprue that would do all three loadouts if you just got 3 of that one.

 

This one has the 2 fusion blasters which is great for that loadout but then only has 1 flamer, 1 burst cannon, 1 Plasma and 1 Missile Launcher so it doesn't work for the other 2 loadouts

 

[TrawlingCleaner]

 

Aaaand there's most of the codex

Didn't take long!

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

All of the Finecast units have been removed, including Vespids which is interesting. Assumably they'll be back with their killteam release with whatever extra weapons and rules they gain with their update

 

 

Edited March 14 by TrawlingCleaner

[TheMawr]

29 minutes ago, TrawlingCleaner said:

Aaaand there's most of the codex

Didn't take long!

 

All of the Finecast units have been removed, including Vespids which is interesting. Assumably they'll be back with their killteam release with whatever extra weapons and rules they gain with their update

 

Sure they are not on the missing page with Pathfinders and this is an act of a "noble" leaker who doesnt want to spoil the suprise of new models showing there ? ( sadly probably not as when counting there is only 1 datasheet missing.)

 

Actually no, there is a double kroot page in there.. gonna do some proper counting

Edited March 14 by TheMawr

[Wormwoods]

Welp, didn't get that generic pathfinder character, which was expected. And both of my upcoming conversions are now in legends! Good thing I play Crusade.

[TheArtilleryman]

44 minutes ago, TrawlingCleaner said:

 

This one has the 2 fusion blasters which is great for that loadout but then only has 1 flamer, 1 burst cannon, 1 Plasma and 1 Missile Launcher so it doesn't work for the other 2 loadouts

 

The other loadouts are one of each weapon, so it would work. 1 plasma and one missile pod or 1 flamer and 1 burst cannon.

 

Basically it’s making it so people can buy and include more suits but at the same time nerfing the unit because you can’t have 3 weapons anymore and the flexibility is gone.

 

Ah well.

Edited March 14 by TheArtilleryman

[Handsome Fred]

27 minutes ago, TrawlingCleaner said:

 

Aaaand there's most of the codex

Didn't take long!

 

  Hide contents

 

 

 

All of the Finecast units have been removed, including Vespids which is interesting. Assumably they'll be back with their killteam release with whatever extra weapons and rules they gain with their update

 

 

 

Vespid are on the devifish limitations, looks like the scans misses 2 pages with them and pathfinder (in the darkstrider opzions).

With the next kill team with them all of old resin stuff in tau codex will be dead.

 

[Remain_Indoors]

Kroot still aren’t Battleline? 

[Matrindur]

1 hour ago, TheArtilleryman said:

I think like someone else said earlier, they will need to change the sprues available. There is one sprue that would do all three loadouts if you just got 3 of that one.

Thats not really how plastic injection sprues work. They won't just throw away two thirds of every kit they produce and put three of the last sprue in a single box.

 

Since the Sunforge version is the only one who gets a 4+ invul I would probably just ignore WYSIWYG here and throw one of the shield generators on the second arm instead of a second fusion blaster. That way everything on it still makes sense.

Edited March 14 by Matrindur

[Redcomet]

God 10th is just incredibly boring. Nothing about it gives me the fizz

[Indy Techwisp]

5 minutes ago, Remain_Indoors said:

Kroot still aren’t Battleline? 

 

Kroot Carnivores gain Battleline in the Kroot Detachment.

 

24 minutes ago, Handsome Fred said:

Vespid are on the devifish limitations, looks like the scans misses 2 pages with them and pathfinder (in the darkstrider opzions).

 

It is a bit suspicious that someone's scanned through the while codex, but just so happens to leave out the Vespid page when there's a reveal stream right around the corner.

Almost like the Vespids have been updated and to show the datasheet would spoil the surprise (like what happened with the Scouts)

[TheArtilleryman]

5 minutes ago, Matrindur said:

Thats not really how plastic injection sprues work. They won't just throw away two thirds of every kit they produce and put three of the last sprue in a single box.

 

Since the Sunforge version is the only one who gets a 4+ invul I would probably just ignore WYSIWYG here and throw one of the shield generators on the second arm instead of a second fusion blaster. That way everything on it still makes sense.

The fact they are the only suits with the invun is also bizarre. Unless there’s a big points difference surely everyone will just want the sunforge team?

[TheMawr]

7 minutes ago, Remain_Indoors said:

Kroot still aren’t Battleline? 

 

They are in the kroot detachment.

 

There are only 35 datasheets there, so 3 missing; Pathfinders, Vespids (as fred noticed, they are mentioned on the devilfish, so are probably still there) and a third one, personal guess its the sniper drones.

[Remain_Indoors]

7 minutes ago, Indy Techwisp said:

 

Kroot Carnivores gain Battleline in the Kroot Detachment.

 

 

Thank Pech for that and thanks for correcting/clarifying

Edited March 14 by Remain_Indoors

[LSM]

6 minutes ago, Indy Techwisp said:

It is a bit suspicious that someone's scanned through the while codex, but just so happens to leave out the Vespid page when there's a reveal stream right around the corner.

Almost like the Vespids have been updated and to show the datasheet would spoil the surprise (like what happened with the Scouts)

 

Rumours are that the next KT is Votann vs GSC (and CMValrak has been pretty on target lately about that sort of thing), so if Vespids are coming they're still a bit of a ways away.

[TheArtilleryman]

20 minutes ago, Remain_Indoors said:

Kroot still aren’t Battleline? 

If you choose the Kroot hunting pack detachment they do.

[TheMawr]

8 minutes ago, LSM said:

 

Rumours are that the next KT is Votann vs GSC (and CMValrak has been pretty on target lately about that sort of thing), so if Vespids are coming they're still a bit of a ways away.

 

Vespids coming through kill team predate those rumors by a few months though ( also from CMValrak ).. they even predate the rumored contents of the Nightmare box.

The theory has been for a long time that it is a side product, not a main release... so it can drop before or at the same time of the Votann vs GSC matchup, the same way how Gallowfall and Ashes of Faith have been released pretty close to each other, with the latter not being a roadmapped seasonal KT product.

[Emperor Ming]

24 minutes ago, TheArtilleryman said:

The fact they are the only suits with the invun is also bizarre. Unless there’s a big points difference surely everyone will just want the sunforge team?

Depends on points, a fully kitted out crisis suit with support and drones, used to be something like 80. 

 

So if these new loadouts, that look like crap to me, are like 20/30pts each, then thats maybe ok

 

I say that, ogryns get cheaper every edition and they still don't get used

[Alternis]

That silent ninja change to strike team 

 

they lost their 4+ hits on Overwatch 

 

but gained a suppression rule to suppress a targeted enemy unit that’s been hit with -1 to their hit rolls. 
 

Also, Crisis suits lost range on their plasma rifles, going from 24 > 18 

[DemonGSides]

18 minutes ago, Emperor Ming said:

Depends on points, a fully kitted out crisis suit with support and drones, used to be something like 80. 

 

So if these new loadouts, that look like crap to me, are like 20/30pts each, then thats maybe ok

 

I say that, ogryns get cheaper every edition and they still don't get used

Ogryns are a meta pick right now in the IG army.

 

They're just ugly. 

[Tokugawa]

25 minutes ago, Emperor Ming said:

Depends on points, a fully kitted out crisis suit with support and drones, used to be something like 80. 

 

So if these new loadouts, that look like crap to me, are like 20/30pts each, then thats maybe ok

 

I say that, ogryns get cheaper every edition and they still don't get used

In 2024 some tournament winning IG list taken max 18 bullgryns.