Sunday, January 10, 2010

January update

Greetings =) Let's start this new year with some new stuff for the Experimental Tau Codex. I did some talking and playtesting, and decided to modify the Codex in the following ways: to grant more room for army-tailoring I modified one of the Strategic Support Effects (the one that modified the behavior of seeker missiles) to be more broad and allow for modifications on many of the weapons of the army; each time you choose it you can select up to 2 "modifications" (paying for each od them, of course) that allow you to, for instance, consider all your flamers as twin-linked or that make all your plasma rifles Assault 2. Take a look at it, it's versatile (and probably broken at the moment :D ). The other change involves all jump infantry in the army. It's just that with the increased mobility every army is getting with the new codices, the Tau don't feel fast anymore. To try and fix this I introduced a rule that allows all Tau jump infantry to run in the shooting phase while retaining the ability to shoot normally. This will need extensive testing.