With the larger suits being available and I have a problem. I bought some. Then took another look at the list to see if, it was even worth putting them together. They come in about 10 pieces. And suck to put together.

        The Riptide suit is the one that looked good enough. You get 3 for 350, 6 AP+4 & 3 MW+3 at 45cm. I would like to see Reinforced armor Vs Thick rear armor. I think for their role thick rear armor is a no benefit. A waste.
         Also being a War Engine is a fuck job. It is not that big. It looks a Warhound in the nuts. The Supremacy is massive, it should be a War Engine.

        The Stormsurge with its 8 one shot missiles are hamstringed by needing a marker light. Thereby reducing it to a 250 point 2 shot MW+3. I don’t see the use. LOS would make it unusable quickly.

1         The Supremacy at 225 is interesting. Again needing a marker light for GLs, turns it into a one shot 3BP 4/5. Which sucks. Sucks cause Tau should not have an indirect and for 225 DC3. It should be a high enough BP to get an extra pie plate.

         Are Riptides Termies, hell no? 300 is a better price point than 350. No MW in assualt. No double blast markers. Only 3 of them not 4. 4++ Vs a 3+5+, 8 shots at 5+ Vs 9 at 4+/3+.
          I am going to take them for a spin. Maybe I get the raw data to support the armor and point change. For now I will be gluing them to my fingers. They are a total bitch, come in about 8 parts.

Ghost suits with more parts

I think they are another form of Riptides?????

        As usual I started off strong with the picture taking. Then quickly failed to continue. Only a few pictures from Turn 1.

We were at 6 feet under games again. Their gaming tables are very nice. Gaming mats cover the playing surface. Being made of mouse pad material, I must remember to bring a box to roll dice in.

My list;

I had some problems to start off with. All my Fire Warriors didn’t make it back into the case. They were out for repairs. I fixed and never put them back. So, the 8 FWs with two Ion heads became 6 FWs with Devilfish. (1 pathfinder subing in for a FW).

     *Kroot spilling out of an Ocra into assault is a crap shoot. Next time, they will be fielded as scouts. 
     *Skyrays will never be taken as a detachment again. Next time, they will be split up as 2 upgrades.  Too easy to break and its a marker light that does not get used.
     *FWs with 2 Ions heads as an upgrade stiffen that detachment up nicely.
     *Recons with the 75 point for 3 Piranhas needs further testing.

Kal’s Eldar

          Kal had a rough go. He had me thinking I was going to be tabled in turn 2. Turn 1, my right flank was gone along with my Blitz. I was getting rolled up.
         Then his dice went stone cold. 3 engagements in turn 2 saw me rolling box cars. Every save he failed, the reroll failed. I made 80% of my saves and only failed 3 activations al game. (never remembered my SC’s reroll) All the critical hits I rolled for, popped his shit.

Objectives & Deployment;

The 3 detachments in the top left corner are off table. They will jump out of the Storm Serpents.

Garrisons

Tau
Kroot 2
Path Finders

Eldar
None

Off table support

Tau
Ocra
Cuda1
Cuda2
Stealth suits
Kroot1

Eldar
Avatar
Phoenix Bombers
Wraith Blades
Wraith Guard
Wraith Guard

Turn 1

(RF + right flank, FW = fire warriors, WB + Wraith Blades, WG = Wraith Guard, WL = WraithLord, KRT = kroot, C = center, LF = left flank
Tau win initiative.
T Skyray overwatch
E Phoenix bombers ground attack targets FW. 5KIA BROKEN
T Recon advances
E Storm Serpent RF doubles targets Recon. 1BM
Retain
E WB engages Recon. ELIMINATED
T Cuda1 ground attack targets WB. 1KIA 2BMs
E WG march into the city
T Cuda2 ground attack targets WB. 1KIA BROKEN
E WL RF march down RF
T KRT1 engages WB LF. 2KIA BROKEN
E WG LF doubles
T Pathfinders advance
E Storm Serpent doubles targets Pathfinders. 1KIA 2BMs
T Ion Heads double targets Storm Serpent RF. Critical Hit ELIMINATED
E WG C double targets Pathfinders. 2KIA BROKEN
T Suits double targets WG C. 1KIA 2BMs
E WL LF march
T enlarged Recon doubles targets WL LF. 1BM
T FW w/ Ions FAILED
T Ocra w/ KRT2 engage WG LF. 1KIA BROKEN. Taking Blitz

Rallies
FW remain broken. All Eldar rally

Turn 2

Teleport
Stealth suits land on Blitz, 0BMs
Avatar lands near Ion Heads

Eldar wins initiative
E Avatar engages targets Ion heads. Tau win, Tau win. Avatar dies!
Retain
E WG C engage targets Suits. Tau win, Tau win WG C BROKEN
Retain
E WG LF engage targets Stealth suits. Tau win, Tau win. WG LF BROKEN
T Suits advance targets WL C. 1 BM
E Phoenix bomber ground attack targets Ion heads. 1KIA BROKEN on disrupts
T Cuda1 ground attack targets WG RF. 2KIA 3BMS
E WG RF Marshalls
T Stealth Suits double targets WG LF. ELIMINATED secures Blitz
E WG C engage targets suits. 3KIA BROKEN
T Skyrays sustain targets WL C. 1KIA 2BMs
E Storm Serpent marches.
Retains – fails – fails SC Errol
T enlarged Recon sustains targets WL C. 2KIA
T Pathfinders FAIL
T Cuda2 ground attack targets BTS. 1KIA 2BMs
T Ocra ground attack targets BTS. 1BM
T FW w/ Ions double targets WG 2KIA BROKEN
T KRT2 Marshall

Rallies
FW remain broken, all others rally. WL and WG remain broken, others rally

Turn 3

Eldar win initiative
E Storm Serpent doubles targets Ions 1BM
Retain
E WG jump out of Storm Serpent. Engage FWs ELIMINATED secures Blitz
Retain
E Phoenix bombers ground attack targets Ions. 4KIA ELIMINATED
T Cuda1 FAILED
E WG RF double target KRT1. 1KIA, 2BMs
Retain
E BTS doubles into city
T Pathfinders FAILED
T KRT2 Doubles to sit on top of Blitz
T Stealth suits March for RF objective
T Cuda2 ground attack targets BTS. 1BM
T FW double targets WG. 1KIA, 2BMs
T Skyrays double targets Storm Serpent 2DC, 3BMs
T Ocra ground attack targets BTS. ELIMINATED

Tau 3 (Blitz, T&H, BTS)   Vs   Eldar 1 (Blitz)

         Some new giant Tau suits from China Forge. Plus some Tau bombers. I am not too crazy about the list. Vior’la Tau In the past things like this are there one day and gone the next. Got to get them while they last.

        Some time ago, like four plus years ago, I was selling my FW Epic originals. All of them. Last December a guy remember it and contacted me looking to see if I still had it. I told him all I had access to was the Tank Factory and the Church. He want the Tank Factory. I quoted a high as price. He said ok, send some pictures.

        Sadly he comes back and says, No deal. It was assembled. He wants it to copy. I said sorry, but when you do, if you do, I would buy your mis-casts. He says ok.

        For those that have a problem with this sort of thing. I don’t give shit what you think!

Off I go back to Argentina. Dad says hey you got a box. I say what? He says it is heavy. ahhh what the hell did I order?

O’Yeah! This dude sent me a box full of copies and mis-casts. I never send him a nickel. What a cool as fuck ass thing to do. I am sending him a thank you note and a c-note!

         Yeah I bought another one. Off of the Facebook epic trader thingy. And this time an army I have, Epic Tau from Canada. All original FW shit. 600 beans half painted, half raw in the original bags.

       It is an army but not really another army for the collection. I am going to cherry pick it. Yeah no shit 600 just to cherry pick. I got a big dam problem.

       After my picking. The rest is going up on eBay. I will update this post once the non cherry picked items are sold off.

        Another game with Kal. Kal hosted at his casa. Same old same old. I am pushing around the Tau and Kal the Eldar. We own other armies, but we are stuck. Maybe once we get a regular gaming schedule, those other armies will appear. With Cold Wars around the corner and AdeptiCon creeping up on us. We are training with our tourney choices.

This was a non drinking event. Way too many Amish on the county roads to be slamming beers.

Kal’s force

My Tau

Turn 1

 KRT1 and Guardians LF. KRT2, KRT3, and Rangers remain BROKEN

Turn 2

Turn 3