For context on the manta: the deep-strike rule for crisis suit unit is called "manta strike", the implication being that the manta is so large and important as to be beyond the scope of the ruleset.
I remember seeing a conversation about this on Twitter a while ago. Apparently, there is an artwork of Space Marines boarding one and they were inspired by that. No idea if they ever got round to actually doing it.
I'm old enough to remember the T'au being released and that GW created them to break into the Japanese market (for the record, the Japanese market preferred Bretonnians lol). Personally, the far-future Japanese theme (and the mech suits) sold the race to me and I've had a small collection for years. Just wish I could afford some FW models for the collection lol.
@@Dwarficus the one thing I'm really not keen on is the official colour schemes. I've seen a few bits of Konflikt 47 power armour that has similar design elements to some of the T'au stuff and just having the more grounded, earthy colour schemes really ties the models together
As a tau player they are easy- ish to build and have a ton of customisation so from almost any kit you’ll have some cool extra bits. Painting is quite easy if you know what you’re doing
@Just a normal guy Hello there Use a gun. And if that don’t work... (sounds of literally millions of cannons everywhere holy shit the T’au are crazy) ...use *more* gun.
The 40k fandom's opinion of the Tau being "It's anime" will always make me laugh. Because man, I have trouble figuring out what anime they have that has mecha like this that isn't some OVA from 40 years ago.
I have the Tau’Nar and I gotta say, it’s every bit as cool as it looks! Fun fact, you can run a Taunar, two stormsurges and commander Shadowsun in a legal 2000 pt list lol superheavy detachment and supreme commander. It’s an incredibly weak list but it’s very cool looking!
For the tau I’ve always wanted a squad of 5 battle suits to be able to merge into one big battle suit with lasers rail guns fusion cannons the lot oh the fun it would be to see lol
I don't know about a squad, but I could see a Stormsurge voltroning with a handful of crisis and broadsides to get the missing parts (arms, head, beefier legs, backpack?)
Just gonna quote Danable Lector’s anecdote in case you haven’t seen their comment: «I have seen the Manta on a board once and it took up the width of the board and covered the entirety of the Tau army on the board. It is hilarious»
A few comments of my own here. One, I unironically love how the Manta looks. It somehow both looks graceful and brutally deadly at the same time. Two, I think you underestimate it a bit by saying you can put two Hammerheads in it. After all, you can ALSO put two Devilfish in it at the same time as those Hammerheads! And Three, the Ta'unar as a full set, some of its most impressive weapons, and the XV9 are sold out and no longer available in my country, which makes me sad.
The drone fighters are actually pretty aerodynamic, theres a type of rc plane (nutball) thats is just a round with no wings so i reckon those models are pretty close
forty-eight seated resin Fire Warriors and six Gun Drones, overseen by a seated T'au Ethereal. They exit through doors that retract into the walls and then down to the landing zone via the hidden extendable ramp. On the lower deck are eight T'au Battlesuits, two Devilfish troop carriers and two Hammerhead battle-tanks.
I was totally expecting this list to be all vehicles and battlesuits but it's such a shame not to see any Kroot in here. I would love the Kroot to get a reboot and their own codex. So much potential.
It's a shame they've purged more than half the range. I have a whole bunch of now unplayable Tau Forgeworld stuff because GW can't be bothered to update a few datasheets. Also, fuck GW for nerfing the Y'vahra into the dirt for no reason. Killed one of our few half-decent playstyle options, and people wonder why Tau players have been running the same passive gunline garbage for years.
I used to be obsessed with the Tetras as a kid - mostly because they were the only thing in the catalogue I could come even close to being able to afford Still love them
The forgeworld models for tau are what attracted me to the army in the first place love almost every model apart from the Tetras obviously, my only wish is that I purchased an orca back in day while it was still available as when I got back into the hobby a few years back they have all vanished, they are impossible to find now and when you do finally find one they want the price of the manta its insane
Wow that Manta is awesome and that mech with the 3 guns on the top. I'd love to see some of these painted up. Really enjoying this range review series. Keep up the good work.
Yo, listen up here's a story About a little Tau That lives in a blue world And all day and all night And everything he sees is just blue Like him inside and outside Blue his armour With a blue little air vent And a blue exhaust And everything is blue for him And himself and everybody around Cause he ain't got nobody to listen to I'm blue Da ba dee da ba di ... I'm sooo sorry
Gotta love the transport within transport matrioshka tau with the manta. For if you need to deliver the absolute most tau infantry in one package for some reason. Almost like doing the Militarum outflank with 3 max sized stacks of conscripts and a fully kitted out stormlord full of heavy weapons teams for when you need the absolute maximum amount of daka via special delivery into the enemy's face. Idk why youd do either strategy but maybe if you're playing a multi man mega apocalypse game and you need to buy time for your allied titans to get into position or something
So fun facts. The R'Varna in lore is based off the Riptide, but it's a long range Riptide that uses Pulse Submunitions to just lay down plasma fire. The Y'Vahra was built due to the success of the R'Varna but fills the opposite role as a close quarters battlesuit. It has a Phased Plasma-Flamer that can melt space marine armor. That's why it has the hefty jetpack so it can fly into a crowd, melt everything, then go onto a new combat zone.
The engineering term for aircraft with the wing configuration T'au use is "flying wing" ;) Maybe the next range review could be on FW Craftworlds? Quite a lot of good stuff in there!
I have to say that the Barracuda kit is one of the best designed Forge World kits I've ever assembled. What's most about it brilliant is that it's actually DESIGNED to be magnetized. Every swappable part and its corresponding hardpoint have circular recesses moulded into the sculpt for putting magnets into and it works perfectly.
Kirioth. Have a search on TH-cam for Manta build projects. Believe it or not. But, some people that have built it have resorted to boiling some of the parts in order to make them pliable enough to straighten out! Forge World Tau kits I own include the Tetras, two of the old style Barracudas, sha’so R’myr, some of the older crisis suits they released with the Taros campaign book, Remora drones, a couple of XV9’s, several of the FW Broadsides, an original resin Piranha and a TX-42 Piranha. I would really like them to re-release the crashed Piranha. That was a nice mini.
Agree, the Forge World resin kits are a challenge to assemble. The cannon with the two rods on the XV109 Y'Vahra is like the Mechanicum Knight Moirax Conversion Beam Cannon. I've just finished assembling it and it was a bit of annoyance to glue some parts of it together. KX139 Ta'Unar Supremacy is a beast!
You can very easily convert a Stormsurge to look like the Taunar. There are several good arm kits for the Stormsurge and you can actually stand them up much, much taller than the way GW insists on assembling them.
I bought a Hazard Suit from Forge World. Just the one, and I decided I would never order another Tau model from them. Every single piece was warped, the detail was mush. And, the reason you remember the shins on them being bad was because they are. I put it together and I'm still not sure if I got them upside down or not.
I have the s8premacy armor model and it is quite an impressive model. It comes with cavities for magnets on the arms already included which was nice. I built mine so it comes apart at the waist and I can remove the top gun assembly (this was even before a second upper option was a thing) just so it can occasionally be moved. I got two of the same arm and one of a different arm (at the time there were only two arm choices) so I can do multiple versions in I ever use this thing in battle. It even comes with a huge circular base that I drilled screws through the bottom into the model's feet to support it. I had fun with the base and used a couple of the resin end cap pieces that FW pieces are often attached to and turned them into little barricades and glued a couple spare fire warriors taking shots from behind the barricades as the supremacy suit towers over them. It is definitely a model that you will hardly ever use but it looks amazing as the centerpiece of a T'au collection.
The Manta, the definition of madness. A 2000 points TRANSPORT with capacity for 200 infantry and drone models, 4 hammerhead/devilfish/sky ray gunships and 8 Battlesuits (those only with 9 or less wounds). That are about 3000 points capacity without any special equipment, taking 8 stock broadside, 4 Hammerheads and 200 Breachers/Strike Teams, theoretically you could take 240 infantry and 4 devilfishes to take as many models as possible. And then this thing gets shot down before dropping of the troops, lets roll for 250+ models if they survive
If I didn’t know otherwise and you told me that ‘Battlesuit Commander Shas'o R'alai with Drones’ was a metal model photographed in the mid-90s I could believe it based on the design and quality of those photos
You mention that the Manta has two Hammerheads in the back. But behind those Hammerheads are also two Devilfish with 8 Crisis Suits in-between. Oh, and that vehicle ramp can extend down. They went all out with the Manta.
Love the FW stuff I have 4 of their "riptides" and a magnetised taunar, the fw stuff made me fall in love with the army and will keep me continuing the army for the future
Oh that manta is a girthy lad. Saw them transporting the one they have at warhammer world years ago. Took three guys to shift it across the gaming floor
I think the manta looks cool. Big, sleek, in scale, ticks all the boxes. It's very old now as well. It was around since 2001 in the very first Tau codex, and the model itself is like 15-16 years old. Not sure how long it takes to be "established" in the 40k universe.
The Tiger Shark AX-1-0 was one of the coolest things to ever come out of Tau lore. Being able to fight and destroy unique, nearly irreplaceable Titans with mass-produced fighter aircraft perfectly suited the little blue weebs, and while I do like the Ta'unar, I will never forgive Geedubs for making up an excuse for the Shark to not work so they could sell another Titan-scale robot. Also yeah, the Tau range on FW got gutted. Pretty much every Crisis and Broadside variant, including an entire character (Commander R'myr, who had a cool elliptical shield and a double-barrelled Plasma Rifle), all gone. This was at around the time where the only variant Crisis available was the monopose Finecast Commander kit, so if you wanted a unique and well-posed Crisis Commander, you were shit out of luck. At least we still have the Hazards.
The only Forge world T'au I have ever put together are for Aeronautica Imperialis. I have to say that my favourite are the Remora Drones. Or they will be as soon as they release the darn things. It's only been about 2 years since the announced them so they should be coming any day now.
The Rvarna is amazing to build but has lots of small details to help you glue your fingers toghether. The yvarna on the other hand is reasonably easy to put toghether, both are fun though
the barracuda is like a more exaggerated version of the f35 or f22 which has it's 20mm cannon offset in the shoulder of the body of the airframe it's just not as LORGE as the barracudas gun. but if they balance the airframe properly, there's no reason that shouldn't work.
Kirioth likes the 107. Kirioth gets a District 9 Vibe from the 107. Kirioth wouldn’t mind owning a 107. For pity’s sake, give yourself and the people what they want! A 107 kitbashed so it looks to be launching a pig, à la District 9!
I actually have the commander and 3 hazard burst suits on the way... unfortunate the forgeworld US site doesn't have alot of stuff available atm..I want the y'varha next
Idk why they don't make more battlesuit variants that aren't giant fucking models and have melee weapons, it would make sense that battlesuits would be a answer to giant super soldiers
Was thinking of starting a new army and it's between tau and sob.... Just can't choose with all The lovely sisters stuff and those mental battlesuits 🤯
Tau aircraft follow the "blended wing-body" school of design - they do look viciously dangerous. Also, as a Tau player, I would LOVE to have 3 squads of XV-9s. a shame I don't have the impetus to both to get them and paint them up >.>
Not certain, but I think your GW Tau range review was the first video I watched of yours. Looking for content during lockdown. So... Thanks for about a year of pandemic-distraction, I guess 👍
@@Gormathius Ohhhh, you know what? I remember that now. Appeared in my recommended vids awhile back. Maybe the Tau vid was just the beginning of my regular viewership.
Same! When Kirioth started picking on the paintjob I was like, «That’s painted?» I legit thought it was just an unpainted model that’s been sanded a bit.
I bought the tetras years ago when they first came out, they are odd looking and when I have used them have been ignored by players they are only good for target locks which helped but I have hardly used them. My favourite is the Barracuda.
The Tiger Shark is a flying wing much like the B-2 spirit or F-117 and the cuda takes cues from the A-10 (brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt) whose gun is of set from center line a little bit not to that extent though.
Bought several of the battlesuits. The ankles are the worse bit and easily break. Had to chuck one mini as a result after a few years as it was unrepairable
Can we pour one out for my boy the yvahra. This bad boy used to have an insane flamer. When overcharged, heavy 3d6 s6 ap-3 d3 that's right flat 3 damage on a flamer. By no means was this guy busted I mean he was way over costed at 400 something points but it was still cheeky enough for me to join a tournament and play three of these bad boys just for the shits and giggles of massive stupid flamers. Sadly the IAC neutered their flamers to a pitiful d1 and hardly dropped the price to compensate. I will never not feel like I lost a child on that terrible day.
I'm still waiting for GW to go full japan's pop-culture on the T'au. There are so much crazyness they can pull off for this range that can also be twisted into nasty and upseting grim dark in the back lore.
Fun fact: the Manta is the only unit in 40k that has guns that can't hit something on the opposite end of itself.
holy shit lol
love it
Cool fact lol 👍
@nibble cookie burst cannons only have 36 inches of range and they’re at the very ends of the model
i guess you never heard about a warlord titan's butt guns...
For context on the manta: the deep-strike rule for crisis suit unit is called "manta strike", the implication being that the manta is so large and important as to be beyond the scope of the ruleset.
I’d love to see someone turn a Manta into a kill team board.
I remember seeing a conversation about this on Twitter a while ago. Apparently, there is an artwork of Space Marines boarding one and they were inspired by that. No idea if they ever got round to actually doing it.
Imagine with like the space hulk type corridors.
I have seen the Manta on a board once and it took up the width of the board and covered the entirety of the Tau army on the board. It is hilarious
Can we get an F for all the fantastic Tau forge world kits that you can’t get anymore. One of the best ranges forgeworld ever did.
I miss the Orca so much, I'ld loved to own one :(
F
@@maaxk1237 Agreed, it was charming in its reasonableness.
As someone with a 3D printer. Muahahahahah !
@@amineelyoussoufi4371 :((
As a newcomer to 40k I like the look of T'au. Looks simpler to put together than a lot of other races and I like the style
They're alright to put together, lots of customization, and they're fun to paint
I'm old enough to remember the T'au being released and that GW created them to break into the Japanese market (for the record, the Japanese market preferred Bretonnians lol). Personally, the far-future Japanese theme (and the mech suits) sold the race to me and I've had a small collection for years. Just wish I could afford some FW models for the collection lol.
@@Dwarficus the one thing I'm really not keen on is the official colour schemes.
I've seen a few bits of Konflikt 47 power armour that has similar design elements to some of the T'au stuff and just having the more grounded, earthy colour schemes really ties the models together
As a tau player they are easy- ish to build and have a ton of customisation so from almost any kit you’ll have some cool extra bits. Painting is quite easy if you know what you’re doing
When your walking Gun is not enough, "I need more guns on my gun"
😂😂😂
Hey look buddy, I’m an Earth Caste which means I solve problems.
@Just a normal guy Hello there
Use a gun. And if that don’t work... (sounds of literally millions of cannons everywhere holy shit the T’au are crazy) ...use *more* gun.
@Just a normal guy Hello there Missiles are just the Garnish
The 40k fandom's opinion of the Tau being "It's anime" will always make me laugh. Because man, I have trouble figuring out what anime they have that has mecha like this that isn't some OVA from 40 years ago.
Alright nerd.
I think you answered your own question.
compare them to mecha anime or the more "grounded/european" mecha aka Battletech, there is your answer.
Compare shadowsun to the gurges from appleseed.
its a mix of everything but badly done. And MACROSS is the real inspiration, uncultured Tau waiting to be swipped.
I have the Tau’Nar and I gotta say, it’s every bit as cool as it looks! Fun fact, you can run a Taunar, two stormsurges and commander Shadowsun in a legal 2000 pt list lol superheavy detachment and supreme commander. It’s an incredibly weak list but it’s very cool looking!
For the tau I’ve always wanted a squad of 5 battle suits to be able to merge into one big battle suit with lasers rail guns fusion cannons the lot oh the fun it would be to see lol
I’ve never thought about this, but it would be awesome!
I don't know about a squad, but I could see a Stormsurge voltroning with a handful of crisis and broadsides to get the missing parts (arms, head, beefier legs, backpack?)
I want to see the Manta on a table. I just want the Manta.
@Mus Musculus That would actually be cool...
tabletop titans did this
Tabletop titans apocalypse stream. It was 7 and a bit hours long. And it was glorious
Just gonna quote Danable Lector’s anecdote in case you haven’t seen their comment: «I have seen the Manta on a board once and it took up the width of the board and covered the entirety of the Tau army on the board. It is hilarious»
A few comments of my own here.
One, I unironically love how the Manta looks. It somehow both looks graceful and brutally deadly at the same time.
Two, I think you underestimate it a bit by saying you can put two Hammerheads in it. After all, you can ALSO put two Devilfish in it at the same time as those Hammerheads!
And Three, the Ta'unar as a full set, some of its most impressive weapons, and the XV9 are sold out and no longer available in my country, which makes me sad.
The drone fighters are actually pretty aerodynamic, theres a type of rc plane (nutball) thats is just a round with no wings so i reckon those models are pretty close
I have both the Tiger Shark and Barracuda, and can confirm: they are amazing kits, and beautiful planes.
Day 2 of asking Kirioth to do a range review on chaos Demons.
There's so many cool (non-titanic) mechs in 40k that some sort of Mechwarrior/Titanfall type game could be pretty cool
If memory serves, the Manta can actually carry FOUR tau tanks.
forty-eight seated resin Fire Warriors and six Gun Drones, overseen by a seated T'au Ethereal. They exit through doors that retract into the walls and then down to the landing zone via the hidden extendable ramp. On the lower deck are eight T'au Battlesuits, two Devilfish troop carriers and two Hammerhead battle-tanks.
@@DaneInTheUS if I recall, it's 8 crisis suits, I think? And a planet's worth of drones. It's ridiculous.
@@tticd yup I found the text and copied it straight from FW lol
The Pathfinder Tetras looks like a Covenant Ghost lmao
I like it though.
I was totally expecting this list to be all vehicles and battlesuits but it's such a shame not to see any Kroot in here. I would love the Kroot to get a reboot and their own codex. So much potential.
Range reviews drop about as ofted as Xenos releases
It's a shame they've purged more than half the range. I have a whole bunch of now unplayable Tau Forgeworld stuff because GW can't be bothered to update a few datasheets.
Also, fuck GW for nerfing the Y'vahra into the dirt for no reason. Killed one of our few half-decent playstyle options, and people wonder why Tau players have been running the same passive gunline garbage for years.
The little battle suit for size comparison is an old crisis suit. Or it may actually be the current GW kit.
Current battlesuit. The riptide and it’s variants are massive.
it was the og battle suit but they made a add on marker light. the only reason tau players got them was to spice up our suit collections
The taunar arms come with pre drilled holes for magnets, same for the Barracuda.
I have an R’varna, the forge world riptide models are cool as hell
How was it to put together? I'm looking at getting a Y'varha but not sure as I've never worked with resin before.
I got it I got it!
My Cursed City arrived today. (and Piety and Pain along with it, like 2 weeks earlier, while Cursed City took extra time from that)
I used to be obsessed with the Tetras as a kid - mostly because they were the only thing in the catalogue I could come even close to being able to afford
Still love them
The forgeworld models for tau are what attracted me to the army in the first place love almost every model apart from the Tetras obviously, my only wish is that I purchased an orca back in day while it was still available as when I got back into the hobby a few years back they have all vanished, they are impossible to find now and when you do finally find one they want the price of the manta its insane
Wow that Manta is awesome and that mech with the 3 guns on the top. I'd love to see some of these painted up. Really enjoying this range review series. Keep up the good work.
I just want to say that you are wrong about the manta
You can fit 4 tanks in it
Yvarah is what happens when a mommy ghostkeel and a daddy riptide love each other very much
Yo, listen up here's a story
About a little Tau
That lives in a blue world
And all day and all night
And everything he sees is just blue
Like him inside and outside
Blue his armour
With a blue little air vent
And a blue exhaust
And everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
Cause he ain't got nobody to listen to
I'm blue
Da ba dee da ba di
... I'm sooo sorry
Why are you sorry for doing the lord's work?
Youre bad and you should feel bad
Gotta love the transport within transport matrioshka tau with the manta. For if you need to deliver the absolute most tau infantry in one package for some reason. Almost like doing the Militarum outflank with 3 max sized stacks of conscripts and a fully kitted out stormlord full of heavy weapons teams for when you need the absolute maximum amount of daka via special delivery into the enemy's face. Idk why youd do either strategy but maybe if you're playing a multi man mega apocalypse game and you need to buy time for your allied titans to get into position or something
Let's be real here, the Manta exists purely as a meme.
So fun facts. The R'Varna in lore is based off the Riptide, but it's a long range Riptide that uses Pulse Submunitions to just lay down plasma fire.
The Y'Vahra was built due to the success of the R'Varna but fills the opposite role as a close quarters battlesuit. It has a Phased Plasma-Flamer that can melt space marine armor. That's why it has the hefty jetpack so it can fly into a crowd, melt everything, then go onto a new combat zone.
The engineering term for aircraft with the wing configuration T'au use is "flying wing" ;)
Maybe the next range review could be on FW Craftworlds? Quite a lot of good stuff in there!
Now to be known as "chunk of wing" 😆
I have to say that the Barracuda kit is one of the best designed Forge World kits I've ever assembled. What's most about it brilliant is that it's actually DESIGNED to be magnetized.
Every swappable part and its corresponding hardpoint have circular recesses moulded into the sculpt for putting magnets into and it works perfectly.
Kirioth. Have a search on TH-cam for Manta build projects. Believe it or not. But, some people that have built it have resorted to boiling some of the parts in order to make them pliable enough to straighten out!
Forge World Tau kits I own include the Tetras, two of the old style Barracudas, sha’so R’myr, some of the older crisis suits they released with the Taros campaign book, Remora drones, a couple of XV9’s, several of the FW Broadsides, an original resin Piranha and a TX-42 Piranha. I would really like them to re-release the crashed Piranha. That was a nice mini.
Agree, the Forge World resin kits are a challenge to assemble. The cannon with the two rods on the XV109 Y'Vahra is like the Mechanicum Knight Moirax Conversion Beam Cannon. I've just finished assembling it and it was a bit of annoyance to glue some parts of it together.
KX139 Ta'Unar Supremacy is a beast!
You can very easily convert a Stormsurge to look like the Taunar. There are several good arm kits for the Stormsurge and you can actually stand them up much, much taller than the way GW insists on assembling them.
I feel like the manta sorta brings the theme of the tau together in a way
I bought a Hazard Suit from Forge World. Just the one, and I decided I would never order another Tau model from them. Every single piece was warped, the detail was mush. And, the reason you remember the shins on them being bad was because they are. I put it together and I'm still not sure if I got them upside down or not.
suggestion: idk what project ideas you have milling around in yer noggin but I think you should have a go at t'au after the IG
The manta comes with 12 drones. 2 hammerheads, 2 devil fish, and 8 crisis suits. They all can fit in it too lmao
10:40 I love these. They look like shitty overengineered catapults, and it’s so goofy I love it.
Kirioth, you can fit four tanks in it, eight xv8’s and ca forty man.
PS: I am planing on buying the xv9’s and one Y’vahra.
Been waiting for this one
Why? Are you a weeb?
@@vojtechhykys1466 Rude.
Could we please get all Range Reviews put into a single playlist? There's enough episodes to make a decent list I feel.
I'll do that today!
I have the s8premacy armor model and it is quite an impressive model. It comes with cavities for magnets on the arms already included which was nice. I built mine so it comes apart at the waist and I can remove the top gun assembly (this was even before a second upper option was a thing) just so it can occasionally be moved. I got two of the same arm and one of a different arm (at the time there were only two arm choices) so I can do multiple versions in I ever use this thing in battle. It even comes with a huge circular base that I drilled screws through the bottom into the model's feet to support it. I had fun with the base and used a couple of the resin end cap pieces that FW pieces are often attached to and turned them into little barricades and glued a couple spare fire warriors taking shots from behind the barricades as the supremacy suit towers over them. It is definitely a model that you will hardly ever use but it looks amazing as the centerpiece of a T'au collection.
The Manta, the definition of madness. A 2000 points TRANSPORT with capacity for 200 infantry and drone models, 4 hammerhead/devilfish/sky ray gunships and 8 Battlesuits (those only with 9 or less wounds).
That are about 3000 points capacity without any special equipment, taking 8 stock broadside, 4 Hammerheads and 200 Breachers/Strike Teams, theoretically you could take 240 infantry and 4 devilfishes to take as many models as possible.
And then this thing gets shot down before dropping of the troops, lets roll for 250+ models if they survive
If I didn’t know otherwise and you told me that ‘Battlesuit Commander Shas'o R'alai with Drones’ was a metal model photographed in the mid-90s I could believe it based on the design and quality of those photos
You mention that the Manta has two Hammerheads in the back. But behind those Hammerheads are also two Devilfish with 8 Crisis Suits in-between. Oh, and that vehicle ramp can extend down. They went all out with the Manta.
Love the FW stuff I have 4 of their "riptides" and a magnetised taunar, the fw stuff made me fall in love with the army and will keep me continuing the army for the future
10:30 i kinda like the flat surface vehicles beacouse free hand looks good on them like rhino portriets but tau has those tanks
The designs would be in the Delta wing ~ Blended Wide Body family. Like the B2 Stealth bomber.
Also the Tigershark and Barracuda Have Pre-molded holes for Adding Magnets for the weapons.
Oh that manta is a girthy lad. Saw them transporting the one they have at warhammer world years ago. Took three guys to shift it across the gaming floor
The airframe style of the Tigershark is called a "flying wing." The B2 Spirit stealth bomber is that kind of airframe.
I serious just want to know how the manta is shipped to you? I need to see that.
they drop it in using a real manta. it zooms overhead and they manta strike the manta figure to the ground
I love that you can disembark your battlesuits from a manta without buying one.
I think the manta looks cool. Big, sleek, in scale, ticks all the boxes.
It's very old now as well. It was around since 2001 in the very first Tau codex, and the model itself is like 15-16 years old. Not sure how long it takes to be "established" in the 40k universe.
The Manta does make sense in universe (an intrasystem transport/dropship) the big walker is just a Tued up MAC III
The Tiger Shark AX-1-0 was one of the coolest things to ever come out of Tau lore. Being able to fight and destroy unique, nearly irreplaceable Titans with mass-produced fighter aircraft perfectly suited the little blue weebs, and while I do like the Ta'unar, I will never forgive Geedubs for making up an excuse for the Shark to not work so they could sell another Titan-scale robot.
Also yeah, the Tau range on FW got gutted. Pretty much every Crisis and Broadside variant, including an entire character (Commander R'myr, who had a cool elliptical shield and a double-barrelled Plasma Rifle), all gone. This was at around the time where the only variant Crisis available was the monopose Finecast Commander kit, so if you wanted a unique and well-posed Crisis Commander, you were shit out of luck.
At least we still have the Hazards.
The only Forge world T'au I have ever put together are for Aeronautica Imperialis. I have to say that my favourite are the Remora Drones. Or they will be as soon as they release the darn things. It's only been about 2 years since the announced them so they should be coming any day now.
The Rvarna is amazing to build but has lots of small details to help you glue your fingers toghether. The yvarna on the other hand is reasonably easy to put toghether, both are fun though
Ah the all blue color scheme of the Da'Ba Dee sept that famously lives in all blue houses with blue little windows.
If you want to make the Y'Vahra even more menacing put the extra Ghostkeel head on it
I own a supremacy armour and it is actually really easy to assemble and magnetise as the arms are already built to be magnatesied
the barracuda is like a more exaggerated version of the f35 or f22 which has it's 20mm cannon offset in the shoulder of the body of the airframe it's just not as LORGE as the barracudas gun. but if they balance the airframe properly, there's no reason that shouldn't work.
Kirioth likes the 107.
Kirioth gets a District 9 Vibe from the 107.
Kirioth wouldn’t mind owning a 107.
For pity’s sake, give yourself and the people what they want!
A 107 kitbashed so it looks to be launching a pig, à la District 9!
The one you like the most also happens to be the newest one! Here's to hoping thats a sign of things to come...
the manta, for when you want to bring 4 battalions and fit them all in a transport
I actually have the commander and 3 hazard burst suits on the way... unfortunate the forgeworld US site doesn't have alot of stuff available atm..I want the y'varha next
Idk why they don't make more battlesuit variants that aren't giant fucking models and have melee weapons, it would make sense that battlesuits would be a answer to giant super soldiers
Delta wing would be the term your looking for in describing the flyers
9:38 you could say that picture is a bit low rez-in
The mini you thought they didn't make anymore, is a crisis suit. Or at least looks like one.
Was thinking of starting a new army and it's between tau and sob.... Just can't choose with all The lovely sisters stuff and those mental battlesuits 🤯
Tau aircraft follow the "blended wing-body" school of design - they do look viciously dangerous. Also, as a Tau player, I would LOVE to have 3 squads of XV-9s. a shame I don't have the impetus to both to get them and paint them up >.>
fun fact the manta fits 4 hammerheads
Not certain, but I think your GW Tau range review was the first video I watched of yours. Looking for content during lockdown. So... Thanks for about a year of pandemic-distraction, I guess 👍
My first was the why 40k always wins video where he talks about the «X sci-fi universe vs 40k who would win» questions.
@@Gormathius Ohhhh, you know what? I remember that now. Appeared in my recommended vids awhile back. Maybe the Tau vid was just the beginning of my regular viewership.
The fw tau models are so much more powerful then the gw one. If you got the coin you can build a pretty competitive list with the fw suits.
The first time I saw shas'o ralai I honestly thought he was unpainted. Took me looking a second time to notice the eye lense and legs.
Same! When Kirioth started picking on the paintjob I was like, «That’s painted?» I legit thought it was just an unpainted model that’s been sanded a bit.
I bought the tetras years ago when they first came out, they are odd looking and when I have used them have been ignored by players they are only good for target locks which helped but I have hardly used them. My favourite is the Barracuda.
R'varna is a must for me If I start tau. Also farsight enclaves.
The little suit for comparison next to the red big suit is a old crisis I think, my dad has some that look the same
*FOUR.* It can carry *FOUR* Hammerheads.
There's a manta build log on youtube somewhere... Think it's like 3-4 years old
I own all but the tetras and the manta. The 107 and 109 were the hardest to build.
If you want to watch a tau manta block half a table of an apocalypse game. Watch the tabletop titans apocalypse game
The Tiger Shark is a flying wing much like the B-2 spirit or F-117 and the cuda takes cues from the A-10 (brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt) whose gun is of set from center line a little bit not to that extent though.
That’s probably the old crisis commander, because there was one that was very squat like the other crisis suits.
The manta as basicly an extremely expensive carry case for a tau army isnt it
You do proper adv. for the TAU. I'm getting addicted to them. :)
Bought several of the battlesuits. The ankles are the worse bit and easily break. Had to chuck one mini as a result after a few years as it was unrepairable
22:40 I am in awe of the size of this lad
I think they made the Manta so the Tau could travel to other worlds. Plus it transports an army
Can we pour one out for my boy the yvahra. This bad boy used to have an insane flamer. When overcharged, heavy 3d6 s6 ap-3 d3 that's right flat 3 damage on a flamer. By no means was this guy busted I mean he was way over costed at 400 something points but it was still cheeky enough for me to join a tournament and play three of these bad boys just for the shits and giggles of massive stupid flamers. Sadly the IAC neutered their flamers to a pitiful d1 and hardly dropped the price to compensate. I will never not feel like I lost a child on that terrible day.
I'm still waiting for GW to go full japan's pop-culture on the T'au. There are so much crazyness they can pull off for this range that can also be twisted into nasty and upseting grim dark in the back lore.
I could honestlysee myself getting a yh'varvaat some point (I probably butchered that) they're not too expensive comparitively at $130
You should review all of the OOP Tau models.