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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2013, 12:21:52 PM »
I will defer to my previous thread here http://www.battlegroundgames.com/forum/index.php?topic=5349.0

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2013, 12:55:16 PM »
confirmation is always nice.  I'm excited. 

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2013, 01:35:24 PM »
Expect Tau preorders to go up on 3/30. It seems now GW is doing preorders the same day as WD releases.

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2013, 01:53:38 PM »
Feel free to preorder anything with us too!

So 5 army books for their games in like 6 months?  I wonder what this means for the summer...

I SERIOUSLY hope their summer release doesn't suck this year.

Tau in April or May would be fantastic.
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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2013, 02:01:07 PM »
Wow, exciting
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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2013, 02:05:09 PM »
Summer will be waves and/or expansions and December will be Hobbit 2. November= Eldar. Everyone preorder through Battlegrounds because thats what the Emperor would want you to do  ;)

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2013, 02:55:23 PM »
That's awesome that Tau's getting some love from GW.

Anyone heard any rumors about when Space Marines might be getting a new codex? The back of my codex is starting to fall apart from use :P

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2013, 03:12:01 PM »
Traditionally, the DA codex has been the rumour for everything coming to vanilla smurfs, lol. 

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2013, 05:55:07 PM »
Traditionally, the DA codex has been the rumour for everything coming to vanilla smurfs, lol.

it seems pretty solid for a while that it is going to be Tau then Eldar, as for after that......

Black Templars is by far the oldest and they're said again recently they don't want to roll it into the Space Marine codex because it would become bloated.

The question is whenever the new SM codex does show up what is it going to have to set it apart and make it competitive with the other marine codexs?

Cheaper HQs and cheaper troops? space marine codex is showing its age and these will certainly get cheaper IMO

access to upgrades such as FLAKK missiles and specialist equipment like DA? certainly

flyers? they already got the stormtalon which has since whored itself out to other codexs. i don't imagine SM will get another new flyer

new vehicles? they took a hit in 6th edition and if you really want to go mech BA is the way to go

dreads? this sounds more likely to me, either some kind of new dread or improved stats to the ironclad or something.

every new codex coming out has had some new great combos and competitive units. not to mention NEW units, i will be anxious to see what is going to set SM apart from their brothers and give me a reason to want to take them
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MM3791

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2013, 06:08:33 PM »
I wouldn't get too wrapped up in vanilla space marines, marines in general have received heavy support throughout 5th and now 6th edition.. don't expect them until 2014 at the earliest.

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2013, 06:21:11 PM »
I wouldn't get too wrapped up in vanilla space marines, marines in general have received heavy support throughout 5th and now 6th edition.. don't expect them until 2014 at the earliest.

i think early 2014 is reasonable for BT or SM. As was already mention this summer will be waves and the next codex after that is almost sure to be eldar.

After that logic would follow (i know GW and logic don't ever go in the same sentance) that next would be BT or SM. SW, IG and BA are all more competetive and newer than BT and SM. I suppose the argument could be made for orcs but that would be 4 xeno codexs in a row

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2013, 06:26:48 PM »
Vanilla SM are pretty good right now, actually.  ATSKNF + Combat tactics = Awesome. 

Pus, they're the whores of the imperium, they're Battle Brothers with every body, including Tau. 

All smurfs really need is some adjusted point costs. HQs, devastators, etc. 

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2013, 06:52:04 PM »
Vanilla SM are pretty good right now, actually.  ATSKNF + Combat tactics = Awesome. 

Pus, they're the whores of the imperium, they're Battle Brothers with every body, including Tau. 

All smurfs really need is some adjusted point costs. HQs, devastators, etc.

I really want to do some Kantor/ scoring sternguard action. Unfortuently it's worded as Kantor makes them scoring, not kantor makes them troops. So if i want to pull that off i need to buy 2 expensive SM troop choices

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Re: Whee! Imma gonna shoot you all with railguns. (Tau imminent)
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2013, 07:22:48 PM »
Meh.  SM scouts are everything a firewarrior ever wanted to be.  Get shot, run away,regroup, shoot them in the face.  Step 3 profit. 

Similar things with tacticals, but you can be a little bolder. 

Or you can get pretty decent shooty bike troops.

SM troops are good, man.