I just noticed that Dave amended the tournament pack on 14th August:
https://github.com/dsusco/tp.net-armage ... c7df5871c4

For two changes:
crisis upgrade is 2 for 75 instead of 1 for 50
crisis twin plasma gains AT6+

Evidently the ERC accepted the proposed NDC changes but these are not reflected in the PDF or armyforge or another post in the Tau section.

Who has the original PDF source so that we can push out a 6.9 release?

However while we're figuring that out, I think we may have an unintended consequence. It's no longer possible to have a formation of 5 crisis suits. Instead of spending 50 on this, you now have to spend 75 on a pair of crisis, which can mean the formation is actually more expensive not less. Why not make it 1 for 50, 2 for 75?

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Ok great! I hadn't heard anything back from theERC, bit apparently they approved!

Yeah 1 crisis for 50 or 2 for 75 or 4 for 150 is what I intended. I could probably have been clearar on that.

Huraah, I shall precipitously - perhaps prematurely - cheer the forefront of the rumoured news/change.

Also realised whilst doing the armyforge file the TP wording means you can only have 4 or 6, as an upgrade can only be taken once.

I suggest the wording be:
Add upto 4 Crisis Battlesuits +50 points each or +75 per pair

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Has anyone got the source file for the list from Joe?

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Hey, Quick question , in the lists found in the beginning of this post, the Railgun Hammerhead has Burst Cannons , instead of the smart missile system carried by the rest of the Heads. But in the NetEA tournament pack list, the Railheads too have the smart missile system, http://tp.net-armageddon.org/army-lists/tau.html
Is it right to assume the NetEA tournament pack list is the up to date and correct version (Dunno if there are more things that differ, just noticed this now)

Thanks for catching that Cygun. You're correct, all Hamerhead variants should have smart missile system and seeker missiles. I'll get that cleaned up and roll out the proper form. I'll roll it out with the Vior'la 2.2 list. I just want to get at least one more play test in with it to test out a couple proposed changes.

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Hey, the Hammerheads Railguns, still have the Burst cannons , in place of the smart missilesystem in these PDFs

Nice work on the Vior`la list

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That's not a mistake - that's intentional. Railheads intentionally have worse burst cannons to compensate for their main gun being so much better (even with the extra cost). It's not unusual for variant battle tanks to have different sponson weapons - think Predators and Predator Annihilators.

It's been burst cannons railheads for several years or more and is the same in the Epic-UK Tau list that unusually mirrors the Net-EA list rather than doing a list variant of their own. Please leave it as is!

Well, if you read my question three posts up, the reason I say this , is because I found an inconsistency between the PDF lists found here and the one found on NETEAs tournament pack lists. On that list all hammerheads are grouplisted and as such according to that list, all of them has smart missilesystems. So I asked here what version was correct, and the answer given me then, was that indeed all of them are meant to have smart missilesystems. Now I don’t know if that is a fairly new change then? Or if it’s not actually true? In either case , the important thing in my opinion is that what ever they have they have the same on both lists.

The files I had, including the 2019 Net EA TP, the Railheads are listed as still having the seeker missiles. However, I dove back through the forum and the list's earlier iterations and it looks like Railheads switched from seeker missiles to burst cannons in the jump from 6.6 approved to 6.71 developmental. I assumed it was then approved at some point by the ERC as it shows up in each subsequent list, including the 6.8 approved at the top of the thread. I would agree that the Railheads are intended to have burst cannons and will confirm with the ERC. I'm guessing with some of the AC shifts and requests, documents got crossed.

In that vein, if anyone from Epic UK has the word format documents of the list, I'd appreciate if you could send it along to me rather then need to reinvent the wheel and reconstruct it from scratch.

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I asked Dave to take a look into the ERC archives to see when the Missile to Burst cannon ("M2BC") change was implemented. It looks like this change may have never been formally voted on, hence the state of the tournament pack. My guess is that this was such a minor change, folks over looked it in the debate regarding the lance rule.

Either way, there seems to be the support and testing in place for the change. I'll include that with the next submission to the ERC which will also address proposed changes to the Manta.

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I've finally had the chance to set up my Tau, on my very own Game Table and see them get crushed by some Orks! It was wonderful!!! I had to play what I had managed to paint, scrapping together 3000p as best I could, and did some fairly sweet misstakes, CO-fireing away just for the fun of trying it out! Learned a lot! and now it's back to the drawing board and painting table!! =)&
I was wondering how you guys play the Tau Jet Packs. Since they follow the same rules as regular Jump Packs , they suffer a dangerous terrain test when landing in such, BUT I was wondering about the extra 10 cm at the end?

On the UK "version" or the PDF found there , they have a little "fluff" description to go with all the Tau special rules , there you can read Tau Pounce and strafe away from they enemy..., and in my mind, the extra 10cm is a ground level hoovering type of thingy, so?

What my ramblings boil down to is, If I jump a forest , shoot the crap out of some orks on the other side, can I use the extra 10 cm to back up into the forrest without suffering a DTT? How do you play it?


(oh, and if I may? what are, or where can I find, these suggested changes to the Manta mentioned above?)

cheers =)

The extra move is "a move" and follows all the normal move rules, so yes they would have to take a dangerous terrain test if they landed in it.

It's worth noting though that in the third phase list the units with jet packs are infantry, and I suspect in most people's games terrain that's dangerous to infantry (marshes, rivers) is quite uncommon. In particular forests are not dangerous for infantry.

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The trial version is listed in the Vior'la list. We're looking at either a 50 or 75 or reduction in cost and increasing the rail cannons from one at 2+ to 2 at 3+.

I think they still suffer from same point sink as many expensive war engines, but this helps them be a bit more palatable and useful.

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