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Turbo_MMX
09-27-2010, 08:27 AM
Greetings all.

Our club is starting up some epic and since my love of the Greater good is absolute! Ive opted to attempt the imposable and make myself a Tau epic army. Ive got my main vehicles and infantry models worked out.

However like many people out there im not wanting to spend mega bucks to make the army. Ive just had an idea about using the BFG tau ships to represent the epic tau aircraft.

Here are some pics of what im considering using

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j157/Lachlan_a/SUC30001-2.jpg

(thanks to Uber-kroots BFG thread for the pic)

What im thinking is using that super large ship as a counts as Manta (looks about the right size)

The Castellan Escorts (the ones directly in front ot the super large ship) as Tiger shark counts as

and the Warden Gunships (the group 2nd from the front on the right hand side) as Barracuda counts as.

The other idea I had for the Barracuda was the gothic scale Manta's (HERE) (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Battlefleet-Gothic/BATTLEFLEET_GOTHIC-TAU-MANTAS.html) with the "drone mounts" cut off since the shape is closer to the shape of a Barracuda and You get more in a pack.

My question is. From that picture (or even if you have both and could do a comparison) do you think the scales would be correct for the models im planing to use?