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Tau Heraldry
colonel_sponsz	Post subject: Tau Heraldry Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:13 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:14 pm Posts: 390	I've just been doing some artwork for back banners for my army, I'm going for an anime, space samurai, look and the plan is to print them out in colour on acetate before attaching to my squad leaders with the Sept and Aun's standards carried by the commander's bodyguards. Tau Heraldry (The background text won't survive at final size but they look a bit dull on screen without it.) Orde _________________ "I'm smelling a whole lot of 'if' coming off this plan." Tau Army List Archive
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primarch	Post subject: Tau Heraldry Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:08 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:46 am Posts: 27069 Location: Edmond, Oklahoma USA	Hi! Thats very nice art. Would you mind send it to Warmaster for inclusion in NetEpic gold? Primarch _________________ Primarch The Primarchload Magnetized Titans Tutorial Net Epic Gold Heresy Rules
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Tactica	Post subject: Tau Heraldry Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:03 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:12 am Posts: 2241	Well done - the banners look great! I've not seen many custom sept designs, very nice. Thanks for sharing! _________________ Rob
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colonel_sponsz	Post subject: Tau Heraldry Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:13 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:14 pm Posts: 390	In the past I've tended to do armies out of the book, even if it is a pretty obscure choice, and with this army my intial idea was to do a Farsight enclave force, mainly because I liked the look of the Farsight model in the codex.  Hoverver, I don't really trust GW with the background of my force, especially as the prevailing view seems to be that Farsight is going down the hacknied 'Chaos Possesed Monster' route.  So I decided to create my own army from scratch. I had always liked the idea of a Tau force that could be deployed directly from orbit and this has since evolved into an air mobile force mounted in Orcas with close air support provided by Tigersharks and Baracudas.  With such a heavy reliance on the Air caste the Vash'ya sept was the obvious choice and, as the 40k Tau air force is made by Forgeworld, it seems a fairly safe bet that GW will leave the sept as little more than a foot note giving me free reign to do what I want.   The sept mon (for want of a better word) is designed to echo the Air caste symbol and will translate well to being presented in the triangular format used in  the BFG lists. As I'm now coming to the end of painting my Chaos army (I've finally managed to make that Slaaneshi army that's been there or there abouts since I bought Lost and the Damned all those years ago...) and there is talk of a winter campaign I'll be working on more background for the Vash'ya way of war.  Who knows? I might actually do some painting... Orde (BTW; The background text on the banners reads "Gue'la don't surf".) _________________ "I'm smelling a whole lot of 'if' coming off this plan." Tau Army List Archive
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Tactica

Post subject: Tau Heraldry Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:27 am

Brood Brother Joined: Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:12 am Posts: 2241

Col_sp, Word on the street is Farsight is in the new codex due by April 06 I had always liked the idea of a Tau force that could be deployed directly from orbit and this has since evolved into an air mobile force mounted in Orcas with close air support provided by Tigersharks and Baracudas.  With such a heavy reliance on the Air caste the Vash'ya sept was the obvious choice and, as the 40k Tau air force is made by Forgeworld, it seems a fairly safe bet that GW will leave the sept as little more than a foot note giving me free reign to do what I want.   I love this! I don't know how it will play out in epic, but sounds really fun to play around with. (BTW; The background text on the banners reads "Gue'la don't surf".)

This reminds me of our team name this past year at AdeptiCon for some reason... "Gloria Victis"

translates, Glory to the Defeated.