The Chaos Gods have the ability to twist the minds of mortals, amplifying certain emotional traits and inspiring reverence, like a supernatural form of brainwashing. Worshippers of Chaos most of whom depicted in the game are human tend to be insane, violent, and depraved, and they often exhibit grotesque physical mutations such as extra mouths or limbs replaced with tentacles. Like the Imperium, the forces of Chaos have access to a large variety of models, meaning a Chaos army can be designed for any style of play.
The Eldar are derived from the Elves of Warhammer Fantasy. They are an ancient species of aliens who view humans and other non-Eldar species as vermin.
In the distant past, they ruled an empire that dominated the galaxy, but it was destroyed in a magical cataclysm, along with most of the population. The surviving Eldar are divided into the ascetic inhabitants known simply as 'Eldar' of the Craftworlds, massive spacecraft scattered across the galaxy, and the Dark Eldar, or Drukhari, a race of sadistic space pirates who inhabit a massive port city hidden within the Warp.
Eldar infantry tend to be highly specialised and relatively frail 'glass cannons. The Tyranids are a mysterious alien race from beyond the Milky Way. They migrate from planet to planet, devouring all life in their path. Tyranids are linked by a psychic hive mind; individual Tyranids become feral when separated from it. Their 'technology' is entirely biological: their ships are living creatures, and their weapons are living components of their bodies.
Tyranids have a preference for melee combat; their infantry units tend to be fast and hard-hitting but frail. They also have low point values, meaning Tyranid armies in the game are typically fairly large to compensate. Tyranids have the most powerful counter-measures against enemies with psychic powers: many Tyranid units possess the 'Shadow in the Warp' trait, which makes it harder for nearby enemy psykers to use their psychic powers. The Tau, or T'au, are a race of blue-skinned aliens inhabiting a small but growing empire located on the fringes of the Imperium of Man.
The Tau Empire is the only faction in the setting that actively integrates alien species into their society. They seek to subjugate all other races for the benefit of all, under an ideology they call 'the Greater Good. Although humans are effectively second-class citizens in Tau society, they still tend to have a better quality of life than Imperium citizens.
Tau armies have a strong preference for ranged combat. The Tau do not have any psykers nor units that specialise in countering psykers, which makes them somewhat more vulnerable to psychic attacks. Most Tau vehicles are classified as flyers, skimmers, or jet pack infantry, meaning they can move swiftly over difficult terrain. The Necrons are an ancient race of skeleton-like robots.
Millions of years ago, they were flesh-and-blood beings, and they transferred their minds into robot bodies to achieve immortality. However, the transference process was flawed, and all but most high-ranking Necrons became mindless automatons.
They are waking up from millions of years of hibernation in underground vaults, and seek to rebuild their old empire. Necron infantry are characterised by strong ranged firepower, tough armor, and slow movement. They are known primarily for their trademark 'gauss flayer' weapons and reanimation abilities.
As robots made of quasi-living metal, many Necron units possess the ability to reassemble themselves after being slain and fight on. As machines, Necrons possess maximum leadership across all units but are also relatively slow moving outside of some transports. Necrons do not have any psykers, which makes them vulnerable to psychic attacks. The Orks are green-skinned aliens based on the traditional orcs of high fantasy fiction. Their culture revolves around war for its own sake, periodically erupting into massive crusades against Imperial planets or other species.
Orks are a comical species, having crude personalities, wielding ramshackle weaponry, and speaking with Cockney accents. In the tabletop game, Ork infantry units are typically slow-moving, tough, and numerous. They have a preference for melee combat, as their ranged units are weak.
Bryan Ansell the manager of Citadel asked Priestley to develop a medieval-fantasy miniature wargame that would be given away for free to customers so as to encourage them to buy more miniatures Dungeons and Dragons , at the time, did not require players to use miniature figurines. Priestley showed his bosses his outline for 'Rogue Trader', but they were hesitant because they thought that a science-fiction game wouldn't sell well.
His bosses floated the idea of selling cheap kits with which players could convert their Warhammer Fantasy models into science-fiction models — e.
Sometime before 'Rogue Trader' was released, Games Workshop signed a contract with AD to develop a board game based on the comic book Rogue Trooper. Warhammer 40, Rogue Trader was released in October The first edition of the game, Warhammer 40, Rogue Trader , was published in The gameplay of Rogue Trader was heavily oriented toward role-playing rather than strict wargaming.
This original version came as a very detailed, though rather jumbled, rulebook, which made it most suitable for fighting small skirmishes. A few elements of the setting bolters, lasguns, frag grenades, Terminator armour can be seen in a set of earlier wargaming rules called Laserburn produced by the now defunct company Tabletop Games written by Bryan Ansell. These rules were later expanded by both Ansell and Richard Halliwell both of whom ended up working for Games Workshop , although the rules were not a precursor to Rogue Trader.
In addition, supplemental material was continually published in White Dwarf magazine, which provided rules for new units and models. Eventually, White Dwarf provided proper 'army lists' that could be used to create larger and more coherent forces than were possible in the main rulebook.
These articles were from time to time released in expansion books along with new rules, background materials and illustrations. The 'Battle Manual' changed and codified the combat rules and provided updated stats for most of the weapons in the game.
Can anyone bring me up to date, is this again the main group for WH40k books? Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts. Install Steam. Tabletop Simulator Store Page. It is only visible to you. If you believe your item has been removed by mistake, please contact Steam Support. This item is incompatible with Tabletop Simulator. Tau space borders on many Ork-held systems and several Imperial sectors.
Craftworlds have passed through their space and the first tendrils of the Tyranid Hive Fleets are approaching. This means that it is perfectly possible to fight any opponent in the Warhammer 40, universe. A fully-painted Tau army looks very striking on the tabletop and suits painters who want the best of both worlds.
On the one hand you have the clean, elegant lines and bright colours of the Tau Fire warriors in their battlesuits and grav-tanks, while on the other you have the Kroot, with their barbaric, feral feel and large areas of flesh to colour.
Even very basic painting techniques will quickly produce a battle ready force, giving you the chance to quickly and easily build a playable army and begin to expand the frontiers of the glorious Tau empire, May the Ethereals guide you, Commander. Kais felt sorry that he had to do this, the Guell could not know the folly of this attack.
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Magalie Nadon Roger. Joshua MacLeod Watson. Jerry Virtz. I suspect that it has more to do with the designers wanting to give Tau an expendable way to snatch and hold objectives something they normally suck at without having to leave expensive units in assault range. Excellent point with dodging wounds on already wounded models, but again I'm not disagreeing with you on the overall power of savior protocols.
Out of all the different ways drones have worked, this is actually one of the most elegant. I'm sorry that you have found it beyond your ability to cope and that you have thought of no ways to use it smartly. I am perfectly capable of seeing how powerful this rule is and how it can be abused. But to repeat my self yet again you've missing my points completely, you're just saying "drones are more powerful this way, therefore you're wrong".
I'm not disagreeing with your argument but you've completely missed mine. I'm not engaging in this lunacy any more. I'll play a couple of games this weekend hopefully with tau and can see how it works on the tabletop.
Will deliberately be trying new things as well. I think what we see here is a consequence of a general design choice. There are no more mixed model unit as far as I see. Kroot are one unit,hounds are another unit. No IC joining units. So no more drones in crisis units. So we got this rule to restore the drones usefulness. And still, they are better now in every imaginable situation than in 7th. Unfortunately I haven't time to read the other codexes.
If there are no mixed units at all, that would explain a lot. The changes to drones make a lot more sense if there was an overall ruling against mixed units. The changes make far less sense by themselves. I can't think of any of them that function "wrong" in this edition. Remember, shooting is simultaneous now, so they can't shoot Bolters at you to get rid of your Shield Drone before the Lascannon hits your Crisis.
If you battlesuit takes a wound, you can put it on a drone instead. Thank you abusepuppy for actually reading what I wrote and specifically responding to the argument I was actually trying to make. As a distraction and as an ablative wound drones are absolutely better in all ways. What I mean is that their utility as something that is meant to stay alive and give a specific benefit to a specific squad is undermined by the fact that they can be easily targeted and picked off before they can provide that benefit.
So a smart opponent will target and destroy them first. Did those drones take some hits for your suits? Did they do the job you bought them for? This is why I say that although the new drone rules may be more powerful in the sense of keeping suits and infantry alive I think that it makes drones worse as a utility unit.
You made the point earlier that you can hide them to protect them. That is a totally fair point that may completely invalidate my argument. However I'm not sure it will be that easy in practice — we won't know until we've played lots of games. Regarding simultaneous shooting, pg says "resolve all shots against one target before moving on to the next" my interpretation and I may be wrong is that "resolve all shots" includes wounding and removing models, so a marine squad could target and remove the drones before another marine from the same squad fires his lascannon.
No probably not. I'm prepared to admit I'm wrong on this point. I haven't read the rules as thorough as you probably have yet. Doesn't the player allocate wounds to a model then roll the save for said model?
If I'm wrong, direct me to the page that will correct me. So, I'm noticing Crisis suits, et all say "may take a weapon of the ranged weapons list"……. Like, accoring to that, technically a crisis suit can take an Ion Cannon and whatnot. Obviously a mistake, but still. Blood Angels and Space Marine Leaks. Notify of. Vote Up 0 Vote Down. May 30, PM. Vote Up Vote Down. June 13, PM. Vote Up -4 Vote Down. June 19, AM. Vote Up 1 Vote Down. June 19, PM. Rail Guns remain the King of Guns.
Crisis suits are T5, 3 wounds. Burst Cannons are 4 shots. Holy shit Seeker Missiles. In other news, mortal wounds are rare my ass. Sure you don't mean 7th? But yeah, memory is fuzzy either way. The ability to do 1 mortal wound is situational, but super useful. And they are pretty cheap. Awww yeah. Any thoughts from real live Tau players on the new Markerlights? Real live Tau player well, not in 7th, didn't play 7th. Vote Up 2 Vote Down. Vote Up 5 Vote Down. No One. It only ever stopped being a thing when it became way too easy to blow light units out of cover.
May 31, AM. Good point, you can split fire now with pathfinder teams, that's useful. Splitfire for a less likely but more spread result. Aun'Shi is back! I loved him way back when. Sad tho, I love Farsight more.
It could, though. Some of the keywords seem like they have rules attached. Additional -1 to hit it at any range. Vote Up -3 Vote Down. Vote Up -2 Vote Down. Increases to AP-2 if you Nova. Holy crap DevilFish are expensive. What justifies that? June 1, PM. Multitracker is reroll 1s to hit if you fire all your guns at the same target.
Downside is high cost per model. I'd get the "Heavy Rail Rifle" myself. Cuz Rail Guns are cool. Ben Haight. June 3, AM.
Broadsides with target locks are probably going to be the standard. June 2, AM. Kroot Hounds and Krootox are separate squads now.
That's pretty unfortunate for them. Getting melta within half range is a lot less important now. Longstrike is the man. Trying to figure out if it makes sense to make him the warlord or not.
June 1, AM. Their app, if done right, will make things a shit ton easier. There are no bright line rules. Reality is I will use both, but pathfinders are likely to do my heavy lifting. If so, yeah, I would take a tone of those guys floating near crisis suits.
It's about a third of the way down the page. I missed it for ages too. May 31, PM. Yes, because there is absolutely no value to being able to selectively target enemy characters. Quit being an ass.
I think the changes to the to wound chart have really devalued high str, low rof weapons. It does depend upon what you are shooting. But the Railgun is actually cheaper. June 3, PM. However, mere survival skills are not enough to be promoted to the rank of Shas'o. It requires a conscious knowledge of the Tau way of war, and the ability to wield it too its full potential.
It also requires absolute mastery of battlesuit operation and, most importantly, utter devotion to the Greater Good. On the battlefield, a Contingent Commander sows destruction to the enemies of the Tau'va wherever his attention turns. Equipped with the latest technology that the Earth Caste has designed, and with a mastery of battlesuit mechanics, the Contingent Commander is ranged combat leviathan, making all enemies wary of approaching him.
In addition, they have the most advanced combat control systems of the Tau. These include the Command and Control Node, and possibly the Positional Relay, both which give the Tau Shas'os unparalleled tactical control over the flow of the Tau forces.
It is this that has made facing a High Commander truly devastating to the enemy. Shas'os are not really born. They are made. Once promoted to the rank of Shas'el, they may either choose to stay at this rank and guide the cadre they have always known to victory, or to face the hardships of learning to use multiple cadres during grand campaigns. Only through successful victory does a Shas'el even get consideration for the promotion to Shas'o, and even then, final decision rests with the Ethereals.
When a Shas'el has succeeded every trial his mentor has set before him, and recommendation is sent to the Ethereal accompanying the cadre. If the recommendation is accepted, the Ethereal will assign the aspiring Shas'o one more task to accomplish. The Aun himself will take to the field of battle to watch the Shas'el, watching every move with an intensity that only the Ethereals can do. Once the battle is over, and the objective was complete in no uncertain terms, the Ethereals will grant the esteemed rank of Contingent Commander.
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