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>> Actually, the more I look at these models the less I like them, and the
>> Tau should really have new vehicles capable of anti-Marine work rather
>> than having to rely on suits and Vespids.
>
>Hmmm... anti-marine...
>A S2 AP3- weapon is actually less effective against marines than the
>Tau standard S5 AP5 per hit (1/6 wounds x 1/1 failed saves =
>1/6 killÃs verus 2/3 wounds x 1/3 failed saves = 2/9 kills).
Ah, but how many shots do they get and are they less than 10 ppm? If
they're assault 2 with any kind of range, they'll be at least the equal
of pulse carbines.
> OTOH if
>the 'count as S8 for instakill' part of the rumour is true the weapon
>would be better against for example characters, Necrons, Death Company
>and Chosen of Khorne (who gets 'feel no pain', right?).
And would be no different against anyone else. If this thing is some
kind of flamer type weapon it should have Ignore Cover at the very
least.
> Of course
>all this ignores things like number of shots (I'm guessing Assault
>1)
If so they'll be unusable unless Vespids are either very cheap or have
some really good special rules. But I doubt we'll go from rumours of
template weapons down to assault 1 - my guess is either assault 1 blast
(auxiliaries are supposed to fill gaps in thed Tau army, and no blast
weapons is a gap, albeit a characterful one) or assault 2. Assault 3
would just be too many dice for a unit unless the size is small (as
Stealth Suits).
>, BS (I'm guessing BS3),
Almost certainly - that's characteristic of the army, including all
auxiliaries (Kroot and Gue'vesa, though the latter aren't apparently
making it into the book - which surprises me not at all).
> and that S2(8) AP3- might have nothing what
>so ever to do with what gets printed in 'Codex: Tau Empire'...
Oh, it probably won't. What interests me is that, unlike Kroot weapons,
these guns are clearly of Tau design, and so may not be limited to
Vespid units. We are supposedly getting more options for the Tau, after
all, and this is one race that should have access to a diverse range of
weapons - maybe one of the new Battlesuit components will be a bigger
gun based on this technology (though it would have to be good to
compete with plasma rifles).
Philip Bowles
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