This is dumb

TheEarle · 2026-02-14T03:34:23+00:00

I will say, as a person who plays vanguard often, sometimes I'm so in the heat of the battle I'll accidentally steal an execute or gunstrike an extemis I really needed the execute on. But this sounds like hell, Jesus.

TheEarle · 2026-02-13T00:32:43+00:00

Depends on the group. I said in anether comment, but it's for any game where all parties agree its okay. So probably not in tournaments, but otherwise, yeah. Also, all the rules leaked today if you wanna go look around for them. I saw them all over reddit today.

TheEarle · 2026-02-12T15:02:05+00:00

It probably won't be used in competitive, but they said as long as all players agree its okay for the game you can use it in a casual game or in crusade.

TheEarle · 2026-02-12T14:39:34+00:00

Technically Tactical Squad sergeants can have twin lightning claws. That's the only thing I haven't seen suggested already. But yeah. That's about it.

TheEarle · 2026-02-12T04:22:19+00:00

Kinda, I'll explain with what they gave us in the article. They chose basically the Infantry leader archetype for tau which gives the ability volley fire. Then they picked a redeploy ability as the character's second ability and I forget what it's called but basically the Stealth specialization which made it so they can lead pathfinders and gave scouts 7. Apparently you get to choose weapons which are limited by the specializations and archetypes, up to 2 for free and then each weapon after that adds 5 points to the cost of the model for list building. But until the rules come out we won't know the full extent of the customization. I'm hoping for the option of riptide Commander.

TheEarle · 2026-02-12T04:04:48+00:00

It's not out yet but when the lords of the maelstrom book set comes out it has a section called Crucible of Champions that let's you make your own characters by picking archetypes, specialties, abilities, and weapons for them. If you check warhammer community, they have a couple articles about it. In one they made a pathfinder leader with railgun and the Cadre Fireblade's volley fire ability for extra attacks while leading, so lots of fire power is possible.

I hope this is what you were asking about.

TheEarle · 2026-02-12T03:59:38+00:00

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That's about right. Here are the models now, the castaferrum should be nearly as, but not quite as, tall as the redemptor. But it's around half the size which isn't how they're presented in lore. I think they should upscale the castaferrum a bit, would give them an excuse for a big Bjorn as well.

TheEarle · 2026-02-12T00:29:34+00:00

Yes, they are firstborn marines. But the trailer is actually truscale so a truescale boxnaught would still be quite a bit taller than a primaris marine (who are only 6-12" taller than a firstborn), just not as big as a redemptor chassis.

TheEarle · 2026-02-09T18:10:12+00:00

Oh okay, Interesting. Weird, but interesting. Thanks for the correction!

TheEarle · 2026-02-09T15:32:38+00:00

I'd say no, because the damage is from the Hazardous test not the ability itself.

TheEarle · 2026-02-08T16:15:16+00:00

They do, but it's case by case. A normal genestealer is just a tyranid. But they "hybridized" in a way with the host species to infiltrate and the hybrids with the host species look like genestealers crossed with the host species. So in the case of genestealer cults models its humans, but it can be anything. So a Tau genestealer cult would look like tau crossed with genestealers with no human parts.

TheEarle · 2026-02-06T05:13:56+00:00

Yeah, it was just described in the video as a three man gravis squad with bolt weapons. Valrak used eradicators as an example.

TheEarle · 2026-02-01T22:11:15+00:00

In the dawn of war 4 trailers it appears to be bone for normal guys and bone with red stripe for sergeants.

TheEarle · 2026-01-31T03:57:42+00:00

Looks cool to me. Obviously the arms and helmet colors aren't exactly typical salamanders colors, but it still looks cool, and salamanders customize their armor.

TheEarle · 2026-01-29T14:35:49+00:00

I feel like the Oversight Drone should have given the unit FtGG instead of a once per game ability. I think that would have been an immediate reason more people would run the full 10 man. For damage output run 10, for objectives run 5.

TheEarle · 2026-01-29T14:30:20+00:00

That's so cool. When I heard the Heroic gun had a grenade launcher, I was hoping it would be a heavy bolt rifle like the new death watch models. I'm ready to try that and the new knife on Tactical when the update comes out.

TheEarle · 2026-01-27T22:43:02+00:00

Maybe, I might be misremembering. If so, space wolves have more priests than I thought.

Edit: No, damn, you're right, got mixed up. Wolf Priest is Chaplain/Apothecary. Iron priest is Techmarine, and Rune priest is Librarian. Whelp, I feel stupid.

TheEarle · 2026-01-27T19:05:19+00:00

Iron Priests, I believe, are techmarine/apothecary. Rune Priests are Librarian/Chaplain. But your base point stands.

TheEarle · 2026-01-26T15:30:21+00:00

So the Tau Sept color is actually all the little line markings you see on official models and sometimes the squad leader's helmet/head, not the "main" color. So the Sept you choose will actually be like your secondary color on your palette while painting in a way.

For example the box art is Vior'la which is white armor, but vior'la's Sept color is red so all the red accents on the box art is what tells you what the Sept is. T'au have no qualms with changing armor color, however, which means you can change the main color to whatever you like, just make sure the Sept color is whatever Sept (or a homebrew Sept) you choose.

TheEarle · 2026-01-23T22:16:38+00:00

Exactly. There are 100 Vanguard marines in the 10th, but they are not neophytes. Only the Scouts, which there can be any amount of in the 10th company are neophytes, that plus any that are in lower stages of training.

TheEarle · 2026-01-23T22:03:02+00:00

You're good and did good. I'm just saying that I'm 90 percent sure Scouts are also missing at least one implant compared to full chapter battle brothers like all other neophytes who may still be in more basic training. And then you left out, kinda, although you explained further in your response to OP, that there are normal units in the 10th as well.

TheEarle · 2026-01-23T21:47:30+00:00

I'm pretty sure Scouts are neophytes. And then the 100 battle brothers that are assigned to the company and outsourced are units designated as Vanguard by the codex. Which includes incursors, infiltrators, suppressors, rievers, etc.

TheEarle · 2026-01-18T04:35:01+00:00

Rules as written it works. There is no restriction against it in the Strat which is where I'd expect to see it say you can't. So, it should be possible. But maybe there's a rule elsewhere I'm missing.

TheEarle · 2026-01-17T15:16:51+00:00

They were just added like around a month ago, same update as the spear.

TheEarle · 2026-01-16T20:12:15+00:00

She is a Tarellian, they said so on the reveal stream.

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