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New Tau - Giant Fethin' Riptide with Missiles, New FireW and Stealth Riptide


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Here is the full anonymous tip mentioned earlier.
Take this with a bucket of salt.
 

A couple insights to the new Ghostkeel model and some special rules
1. The torso can be open or closed to show a pilot inside. Both a male and female Tau are included. A good thing to possibly magnetize.
2. The Sensor Arrays are on the battlesuit look the same as the Shadowsun's.
3. The Stealth Drones carry stealth emitters underneath replacing the standard weapons.

Regarding special rules- no infiltration
-Fire Team
-Stealth
-Supporting Fire

Countermeasures. Once per game, you can disrupt the targeting of an enemy unit, if it is targeting the Ghostkeel's unit, before dice are rolled. That unit can only make snap shots during that shooting phase.
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The Ghostkeel is an elite choice that comes with 2 stealth drones for each Ghostkeel. It's a Jet Pack Monstrous Creature, and you can take 1-3. It has the normal Tau BS 3 with 4 wounds, but only a T5. However the 3+ save with +2 to it's cover save outside of 12" should make up for it.

The main gun- Fusion Collider is an 18" S8 AP1 melta blast gun that can be exchanged for a Ion weapon that is more infantry based with a S7AP4 Assault 6 gun that can overcharge for additional strength and a large blast.

It also has a twin- linked flamer that can be exchanged out for a TL bust cannon or fusion blaster.

The model has gear that doubles the cover saves to a max of +2 but also gains shrouded from it's drones. It seems powerful with stealth, shrouded, and the limited doubling, but I have not had time to read the details to see what stacks.

Two support systems are also allowed for upgrades. Cost wise its a little over a hundred and a quarter.

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I believe this is from the next white dwarf. Seems to be a damage table for the Stormsurge reminiscent of the Imperator Titan's, perhaps for a specialist game or RPG?

 

All text is in French. Large image.

 

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I think I saw something about a special mini-game in White Dwarf for the StormSurge. This might be for that.

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And even breasts in humans are abnormally large (so are penises too) beyond what is required.  

To be fair, every Vampire Counts model is showing their fangs. No GW vampire can keep his mount shut.

 

If they don't show off the female bits on the model, how would we know it was a female?

Look at Samus:

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Example of sci-fi fantasy concepts where they are "female" without obvious feminine visuals. Yeah, had no idea this was a woman for quite some time.

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If they don't show off the female bits on the model, how would we know it was a female?

 

This is, in fact, part of the problem- the default assumption that a model is only female if it is displaying female sexual characteristics (and is otherwise male because male is the "standard" and female the exception) is a rather toxic mindset that a lot of people are struggling to counteract.

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