YorkNecromancer
01-27-2015, 04:49 PM
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In keeping with my traditions of buying leftover bits and wrecked kits, then using the one to restore the other, here's a few Tau conversions I've been working on.
I'm planning two teams; one of three anti MEQ, equipped with two plasma rifles each. The second will be three suits of anti-horde, equipped with two burst cannon and a flamer each (flamer is to dissuade potential assault).
They're for my Tau army, the E'Krati Sept (http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/entry.php?8508-Warhammer-40-000-Campaign-The-Kepler-Covenant-Part-4-Tau), who represent a dishonoured, offshoot faction of the T'au who have prospered in relative isolation, but lacking the high-tech of the T'au, have adapted pre-extant designs with earlier, less advanced technology (which has been slightly influenced by the technology of the human allies in the political union they operate within, the Kepler Covenant). As a result, the suits are bigger and clunkier, consume more fuel, and have armour that is cheaper to produce, but is essentially as effective because it's just so damned rugged. The idea behind the 'striped' armour plates, is that they are essentially thin plates of reactive ablative armour - personnel-scale Chobham plates if you will, designed to defend against heavy anti-infantry rounds at close quarters, and therefore cheaply replaceable. After a battle, those plates that have been detonated are unscrewed and new ones screwed on, preserving the general integrity of the suit.
The plasma suits will have lighter armour (for speed), while the burst cannon suits will have heavier additional plating and stronger legs (to compensate) so they can survive getting in close.
Visually, of course, they're meant to evoke the lamellar armour of samurai and ashigaru, specifically the horizontal plates of the okegawa dō, because Tau.
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http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2015/027/5/a/2015_01_27_21_32_56_by_yorknecromancer-d8fnmev.jpg
In keeping with my traditions of buying leftover bits and wrecked kits, then using the one to restore the other, here's a few Tau conversions I've been working on.
I'm planning two teams; one of three anti MEQ, equipped with two plasma rifles each. The second will be three suits of anti-horde, equipped with two burst cannon and a flamer each (flamer is to dissuade potential assault).
They're for my Tau army, the E'Krati Sept (http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/entry.php?8508-Warhammer-40-000-Campaign-The-Kepler-Covenant-Part-4-Tau), who represent a dishonoured, offshoot faction of the T'au who have prospered in relative isolation, but lacking the high-tech of the T'au, have adapted pre-extant designs with earlier, less advanced technology (which has been slightly influenced by the technology of the human allies in the political union they operate within, the Kepler Covenant). As a result, the suits are bigger and clunkier, consume more fuel, and have armour that is cheaper to produce, but is essentially as effective because it's just so damned rugged. The idea behind the 'striped' armour plates, is that they are essentially thin plates of reactive ablative armour - personnel-scale Chobham plates if you will, designed to defend against heavy anti-infantry rounds at close quarters, and therefore cheaply replaceable. After a battle, those plates that have been detonated are unscrewed and new ones screwed on, preserving the general integrity of the suit.
The plasma suits will have lighter armour (for speed), while the burst cannon suits will have heavier additional plating and stronger legs (to compensate) so they can survive getting in close.
Visually, of course, they're meant to evoke the lamellar armour of samurai and ashigaru, specifically the horizontal plates of the okegawa dō, because Tau.