New Tau and Marines in WD#90 10-17-2015

[Mr Mystery]

I'm now pondering how the Pulse Inductor drone thing might affect Breachers?

Either way, I'll be picking up probably a Broadside and two boxes of Pathfinders later on.

Assuming they're in stock.

[Kirsten]

I am wondering if a Fireblade will add shots to the pulse blaster...

[Mr Mystery]

Fireblade?

No, never mind. Being thick.

[Kirsten]

I'm now pondering how the Pulse Inductor drone thing might affect Breachers?

the pulse accelerator drone that increases range is pathfinder only currently, if that is the one you mean

[Mr Mystery]

Yep, that's the one.

I'm really quite excite for this. Not quite as excite as I was for Mechanicum. But not far off.

[Kirsten]

I am more excited than I have been for ages. my stormsurge is built, just got to do the base, then off for spray basing

[Mr Mystery]

I've just had a clever....

Deploy the Breachers into terrain based choke points - anywhere it seems likely your opponent will drive past with transports. Given how simplistic it is for Tau in general to break open Transports, your opponent (if they're on their toes) will have to time it right in a chicken run - can the Transport make it far enough through the gap, without leaving any potentially emergency disembarking passengers worryingly close to the Breacher team....

And given the sorts of units that tend to be inside transports (small, elite...expensive that's a pretty controlling tactic right there.

[Learn2Eel]

where is the price? I missed that bit

Here you go



$265 dollary-doos will hurt but it looks to be a very large terrain piece, I'm getting it no matter what the actual rules are. If it really does move though I can see it being extremely popular.

I'm now pondering how the Pulse Inductor drone thing might affect Breachers?

Either way, I'll be picking up probably a Broadside and two boxes of Pathfinders later on.

Assuming they're in stock.

Per the rules-as-written for the Breachers I actually have no idea how the range-bonus thing would work if the the Pulse Accelerator Drone became widely available, as the Breachers' guns specifically fire different profiles at specific ranges i.e. at 5" away from the target they use the S6 AP3, at 10" they use the S5 AP5. I'm guessing that Drone will stay Pathfinder exclusive to avoid rule conflicts like this.

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I've just had a clever....

Deploy the Breachers into terrain based choke points - anywhere it seems likely your opponent will drive past with transports. Given how simplistic it is for Tau in general to break open Transports, your opponent (if they're on their toes) will have to time it right in a chicken run - can the Transport make it far enough through the gap, without leaving any potentially emergency disembarking passengers worryingly close to the Breacher team....

And given the sorts of units that tend to be inside transports (small, elite...expensive that's a pretty controlling tactic right there.

That's a great point and something I didn't think about, the Breachers are actually bloody ludicrous on city boards. I'm just glad they've given us a proper CQC Troops choice (Kroot in their current incarnation are a light ranged unit) that we can actually use to take objectives.

[Mr Mystery]

From what I've seen so far, it looks like Tau, despite getting some really nice new toys, will still need to depend on synergistic (look, it's a word now. I'm British. We're allowed to do things like this) list writing to tie it altogether.

Which is nice.

[Kirsten]

yeah, the breachers are a wonderful alternative to getting a close combat unit, I love them.

I really want to see what Forge World do with the stormsurge too. ideally change the cluster rockets for something anti vehicle, given that that is what it is supposed to be fore anyway. would also be the simplest conversion kit ever, you would only need new pod front plates.