Perhaps I should qualify my opinions... It does depend on exactly what you mean by finished.
I am currently assuming that SG wont get much further with lists in development. This has the effect of getting rid of any deadline from us, and giving us a bit more freedom. I also assume that development will continue with stats being adjusted and new races and wargear added.
In this sense, the list (and any list, really), wont ever be finished. Counter to that, I do feel that the current version of the list isplayable and balanced. Therefore, in some sense, it is finished.
The real question here is: when do we draw a line under development and state that this is now complete - anything before was development, anything after is balance adjustment?
Or, perhaps more importantly, do we really care?
My view is that we have a list that is playable and relatviely stable. There are still a number of issues to examine, but most of these are to bring things in line with background, or balance the different units, or streamline the special rules.
I will look at the currently unpinned threads, respond to those that need it, pin those which require further debate (and at no point are the EA Tau community going to be excluded from any decision) and reference any which are resolved.
I would like to add the Vespids, but I think that they should wait for a later stage of the list. In some sense, I would almost like to exclude any non-Tau units and look only at the core stats and force, get that balanced and tuned, and then add the auxiliries one at a time... but development has already taken these additional races to a point that they are doing OK.
All the best.
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