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Basing Tau Fire Warriors
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Author:  Breotan [ Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Basing Tau Fire Warriors
I've just got in my FW order and can now stop using strips of printed pictures as proxies.  :oo

However, these little buggers are expensive and I don't want to be rebasing them a year from now.  So, help me remember here.  Based on the unit stat line, how many drones are assumed to be present on single stand of Tau Fire Warriors?  I know the drones are "factored in", but I can't seem to remember if only a single drone per stand was expected, or a single drone every other stand.

Part of the reason this is important to me is that I want my army based accurately so it works as a "demonstration" piece to anyone not familiar with the game.  It helps newbies a lot when the units sitting on the table have all the correct bits and nothing is assumed.
Author:  Tactica [ Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Basing Tau Fire Warriors
I know the begining of the list talks to 'drones being factored in' but that text is old. That comes from when gun drones were not a formation of their own.

Now, gun drones and heavy gun drones are available (shield drones still don't exist)

Gun drones should be glued to their own bases to form those units.

I glue 5 FWs to a stand.

The only exception I would consider is an Ethereal stand where I might put 1 Ethereal, 2 drones next to him, then 2 FW's on the outer most edges of the base.

Hope that helps. Just my opinion though.
Author:  Philosophical Aun [ Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:44 pm ]
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I do believe that drones are -both- part of the individual units, and seperate units on their own! There was a discussion about this on the old board, where the compromise (to save those poor people who had already created their units!) was to have drones both be part of the Fire Warrior Stands, and seperate units.
Author:  2.0 [ Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:40 am ]
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I will be doing 4 Fire Warriors to a stand.  As you said, they are expensive and i'm going to make mine stretch
Author:  asaura [ Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Basing Tau Fire Warriors
I use drones to differentiate FW formations. So far, I've based FW as follows:

1) 2 FW + Drone + 2 FW
2) 1 FW + Drone + 3 FW
3) 3 FW + Drone + 1 FW

Initially, I based FW three to a stand to make the max amount of stands with the least amount of figures, but 5 to a stand just looks a lot better.
Author:  Legion 4 [ Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:04 am ]
Post subject:  Basing Tau Fire Warriors
I'll be doing 5 to a stand, once I get around to my Tau Force ...
Author:  CyberShadow [ Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:06 am ]
Post subject:  Basing Tau Fire Warriors
There were a couple of threads on the old boards about this (and I think that I even started one). When I get around to it, I will be putting about one drone on every two bases. I like my Fire Warriors and dont want to put too many drones in - and this is about what they have in 40K.
Author:  Steele [ Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:29 am ]
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Hi,
I based my minis a long time ago, when Money was scarce , there are 3 FW to a Base, slowly I fill the gaps with Drones up. Future FW Cadres will then be up to 4 a Base with at least 1 Drone. The same will be for Crisis Suits - 2 to a Base with at least 1 Drone. Commander are single Models with the Casual Drone or FW on it?s side.

Cheers!
Steele
Author:  baronpiero [ Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:07 pm ]
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Drones attached via drone controller are not more worth representing than a veteran sergeant or a flamer actually.

Personaly, I use attached drones to differentiate pathfinders from regular firewarriors a bit more that's all.
Author:  Breotan [ Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Basing Tau Fire Warriors
Quote (Tactica @ 29 2005 July,19:10)
I know the begining of the list talks to 'drones being factored in' but that text is old. That comes from when gun drones were not a formation of their own.  Now, gun drones and heavy gun drones are available (shield drones still don't exist)  Gun drones should be glued to their own bases to form those units.

I know that Gun Drones form their own unit in the army list.  I'm not referring to basing a detachment of Drones as that is a different topic.  What I'm referring to specifically is the Fire Warriors unit.

Does the current stat line for Fire Warriors factor in drones as did the original and if so, how many per unit (stand)?  I expect that the stat line reflects four Fire Warriors and one Drone, but am not certain about that.

Just to make sure, I'm not talking about "stretching" models to get the mosts bang for my buck or whatever.
Author:  Steele [ Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Basing Tau Fire Warriors
I think JG spoke of them beeing accounted for, but mentioned no real numbers. Let?s wait, he will pick up your post. That?s pretty sure.

Cheers!
Steele
Author:  Tactica [ Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Basing Tau Fire Warriors
I think 1 drone to a stand looks nice. If you do it on every stand, it looks like overkill to me.

Personally, I mix drones in with the pf stands because I think it looks nice there. Thus far, I've left drones off of my FW stands.

In the end, as long as you can accurately reflect each unit type - to each his own. Artist license is part of the game after all. :)
Author:  Tactica [ Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Basing Tau Fire Warriors
OK, in thinking about this post when my latest batch of epic tau showed up, I decided to explore the look of FW's and drones in a formation.

In 2 bags of FW's + 1 commander baggy + 1 drone baggy, I went with:

1x stand of 2 FW, 2 cmdr SHIELD Drones, 1 cmdr Ethereal
1x stand of 3 FW, 2 Drone
5x stands of 4 FW, 1 Drone
5x stands of 5 FW

Total used:
50 FW's
7 Drones
2 Shield Drones
1 Ethereal

This gave me 12 FW stands (8 cadre + 4 upgrade) without buying a third bag of FW's.

If you wanted too, you could add another drone to each of the other 5 stands of FW's and get one more stand of FW's out of the two bags. However, I didn't want my formation to look as though every stand had drones. I wanted it to look as though they were mixed in. I *think* I achieved my goal. We'll see after paint.

Anyway, thought the author of this thread might appreciate an example.
Author:  Breotan [ Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Basing Tau Fire Warriors
Thanks.

I think I'll just put a single Drone on all stands where they are factored into the unit statline somehow.
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