Tau - with additives

[SourImplant]

http://www.advancedtautactica.com/vi...4bf23531f8e3b6

I was having a chat with my local store owner this week about the upcoming releases. I'm excited for this year because I play both Chaos and Tau. It'll be nice to see some updated love to both my armies as well as the system as a whole. This year will be bad for my wallet though.

The owner has been gaming far longer than I have and has a better tuned ear to how GW does its thing.

We talked about flyers. He and I share suspicions that there will be a plastic barracuda kit since many other armies are also seeing flyers added to their new codices. He also mentioned another Tau transport flyer; something of an Orca-Lite.

He did tell me not to get excited about the new Tau codex yet. He says GW is very good about forecasting their supply chain and they just replenished their stocks of old Tau codexes. That means if GW thinks they'll need the old one for a while, they don't plan on releasing the new one for some time.

I didn't think ask him about Chaos.

[Eryx_UK]

Up until just over a year ago I worked at my local FLGS and I can tell you that GW never told you anything about new releases until about 3 weeks before release date. They are not "very good at forecasting their supply chain" unless something has changed in the past year which I doubt.

But still, fingers crossed that Tau are upcoming though.

[Gendoikari87]

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2012/...-we-weave.html

so ghost21 came out as a fraud. .. Guess this takes us back to square 1

[commandojimbob]

I am not convinced about ghost21 coming out as a fraud - I think its more to do with him having enough of it all. He was a well received, requested rumourer but got a lot of Flak. If you want out, what is the best way to do it, say you made it all up - of course he could of made it all up.

Still it is a bit annoying but hey ho.

[Leonix]

Personaly all of this has just worn me the fook out...

[Eryx_UK]

I just wish we could get some decent info from GW about this book. Someone must be able to let something worthwhile out.

[Deception]

Personaly all of this has just worn me the fook out...

I honestly felt like i lost something when i got the news :/ oh well back to more speculating.

[ZombiePrimarch]

well idk if anyone else noticed but they didnt get faq'd and all the articles have been disappearing off the gw site over the last month, last one left is the getting started.............im thinking new army book soon enough

[SourImplant]

well idk if anyone else noticed but they didnt get faq'd and all the articles have been disappearing off the gw site over the last month, last one left is the getting started.............im thinking new army book soon enough

Black Templars and Sisters of Battle didn't get updated either. And the articles have disappeared from every army section in all three games. Because the paints used were out of date.

[SourImplant]

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2012/02/w...nt-rumors.html

Nothing new, but about six months ago I saw internal emails from GW devs talking about Tau codex updates. All of the things I saw have been covered by other people in the Tau thread. I just wanted to let you know that according to the people who wrote those emails, they expected the Tau codex to be released within six months to a year. Nothing solid, still just a rumor, but I thought you might be interested.

For tau, I would hope they aren't a year off, ive heard some of the packaging is already completed, so if so they are consuming warehouse space somewhere, which is not what I have ever seen gw like to hold on long games. The new ethereal guard models ( I don't recall the name) look positively delicious. And I really think the updates will bring in new players as well as de did.

Yes. you are right in fact I have even heard (and I think posted) that I wouldn't be surprised if we saw something for tau ahead of the full codex release. So that could be whats going on here. So on my other schedule where I had Tau with the ? that might be right for a small release.

[Beeva]

Some Tau released before the new Dex? Seems unlikely...

[RossMM]

They did it with Vampire Counts.

[Beeva]

Fair enough, I don't follow Fantasy so I didn't know that.

Still seems odd though... we talking months or years?

[Mnemonic]

Honestly, unless GW is starting a trend with the whole "New-models-to-throw-you-off-the-scent-HEY-look-just-kidding-here's-a-codex" thing, I'll stay a little skeptical about the pre-released models. I'm also hesitant to think that the articles coming down is heralding a book update, purely because of the SoB and BT pages. Granted, the Tau are a bit more popular than either of those armies, so it could mean something, but given that the folks at GW (and all the online rumour sites) have been dangling the Tau book over our heads for close to a year now, it probably isn't anything to get too excited about.

[Deception]

codex or not, atleast its nice to see new tau stuff.

[Gendoikari87]

ethereal guard, could those be those models we saw that looked like they were from forgeworld about a year and a half ago.

[Comr4de]

today my GW manager confirmed to me that tau are next


#fuelforthefire

[vasrael]

Comr4de, same here. From my local GW I heard that the people starting tau now are better of waiting a month or 3 for a huge surprise.

Would be awesome though

[WolfsSOL]

Comr4de, same here. From my local GW I heard that the people starting tau now are better of waiting a month or 3 for a huge surprise.

Would be awesome though

The huge surprise would be if this turned out to be true

[Beeva]

Ha, very true!

I wouldn't put too much faith in what the local staffers say.