A “basic” Stormsurge is actually quite cheap comparatively (about 320pts), but since the Support Systems that make it functional cost another 80pts or so, we can consider more in the neighborhood of 400 to be the “real” cost. Ballistic skill does, however, starting at 4+ and potentially dropping all the way to 6+ if you’re on your final tier. Stormsurges are also much, much slower than their cousins, moving only 6″ per turn, though thankfully this doesn’t go down any as they get hurt. It also has atrocious melee combat stats (as do most Tau units), with three attacks and WS5+ bizarrely, its strength is one of the attributes that degrades when it is wounded. The most obvious ones are defensive- being only toughness 7 and twenty wounds puts it noticably below something like a Knight or a Wraithknight, though its 3+ armor save is pretty par for the course. The Stormsurge has a statline that is… well, it’s not bad, but it is inexplicably worse than other comparable units in a number of strange ways. However, because Games Workshop discovered that people like big robits and it’s real, real hard to make a giant airplane that functions on the tabletop, they decided to completely ignore this decision and instead make a huge giant walker for the Tau. Where extreme firepower was needed, Manta Missile Destroyers or other orbital spacecraft were used, but never ground forces. From 3rd Edition to 7th Edition, the party line was that the Tau did not field superheavy walkers or tanks in the fashion of other armies because it was not part of their combat doctrine- the Fire Caste emphasized mobile warfare that flowed around strong points in the enemy’s defenses and huge, ponderous vehicles that required massive dedicated logistics were anathema to this. The Stormsurge is basically the Tau Empire (and GW) deciding to give up. And all you have to do is shell out 895 british pounds and wait for them to cast it for you.Mostly on the shelf since 7E went away and it wasn’t allowed to Stomp everything smaller than a Wraithknight into the ground, the Stormsurge still exists and hey, it’s not terrible! Click to read the post-CA2019 article, or check out the Tactics Corner for more reviews and strategies. It weighs twelve and a half kilos, empty - and it comes with what amounts to a complete Tau Army, half of which can be removed and used as is on the game table (including four tanks and eight battlesuits - the rest are seated figures in the upper hold). It was beyond cool, it was awesome.Īnd now, they've released the 40K scale version. They made one for Epic: Armageddon a little more than a year ago - complete with a working main cargo hold for four Tau hovertanks. If you've got any serious interest in Warhammer 40K, you've probably heard of the Forgeworld studio, which does limited-edition resin products that expand on the standard Warhammer and Warhammer 40K lines of miniatures (Well, that and all the other product lines too, but those are pretty much the main ones.)Īnd if you happen to be playing the Tau race, you've heard of the Manta missile destroyer (which if nothing else is plastered over at least one page spread in the Tau Codex as a background image).
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