Tau, Tyranids etc in Space Crusade

[Apocalypsedreamer]

So since last Thursday I have been mulling over the concept of making rules for tau in space crusade and brodening the range of nids further than the good old genestealer-warrior combination.

Here are some Ideas

Tau

Fire warrior-6 squares

Armour- 2W
Combat-1W

Fire warrior Sargent (shas'el or whatever!)-6 Squares

Armour-2W
Combat-2W

Gun Drone-4 squares

Armour-1W
Combat------
(1/2? Pulse Carbine(s))

Shield Drone-4 Squares

Armour-2W 1R
Combat----------

Shield- All models in base contact with the Shield drone add 1 red weapons dice to their armour value

Weapons

Pulse rifle (standard)- 3W
Pulse carbine (one FW may swap out PR for a PC (does not count as heavy weapon))- 1W 1R
Burst cannon(heavy)-3W 1R
Flamer(rng 6/10? squares hits all in template(heavy))-1W 2R
Portable missile pod(heavy(awesome template of doom!!!))-2R 2W

Equipment

Bonding Knife- +1W (C)
Drone controller-may take one gun or shield drone
Shield generator-+1W (A)

Order cards

Fire- All models may shoot twice and move this turn
Onward for the greater good- All models may move twice this turn and fire
Shielded by truth- all models gain +1W(A) this turn
Tactical retreat- all models may shoot-move-shot this turn
photon grenades-as norm
melta bombs-as norm

edit

this should make the Tau rules more validated. I worked the weapons from the tau codex and think they are pretty close.  looking foward for our game tomorow.
 
-][- Dreamer

[Apocalypsedreamer]

++UPDATE++

Found some nice pics that chaos and ultramarines players are goin' to like-



















 




















































Anyone speak fluent German?  


-][-  Dreamer

[BobbieTheDamned]

My german is rusty but its good enough to translate these.

Marchtempo/ziehen is movement.
Nahkampf is close combat
Feuern is shooting
Panzerung is armour value

I can translate the rest if need be but its not really needed. Where did you find these?

[Mezillious]

Great thread guys, I have been meaning to post a similar thread since the weekend regarding Khorne Berzerkers, but I don't want to hijack yours.
Sounds like a great idea, will you be using templates in the game?

[Apocalypsedreamer]

RobertTheDamned wrote

 Where did you find these?

Board game geek forum so i don't know if they are official or someone else's idea

Mezillous wrote

 Will you be using templates in your game?

In the game I played on Saturday with Mort and Rob when you shot with a rocket launcher every model in base contact is damaged so if that's a sort of template yes.  What do you guys think of the rules will we be able to use them in games if Vox brings his Tau army with him?

-][- Dreamer  

[Vox_the_awesome]

hey these are pretty cool (you'll have ta tell me what all the abbreviations mean but hey)
so all i can say is that im up for a game sometime soonish so let me know when and where

[Apocalypsedreamer]

Vox_the_awesome wrote

hey these are pretty cool (you'll have ta tell me what all the abbreviations mean but hey)

FR-fire warior
Pr-pulse rifle
Pc-pulse carbine
W-white space crusade dice
R-red space crusade dice


I think that covers all of them.

-][- Dreamer

[Billiam Babble]

ABADDON der Vernichter!   

He's quite withdrawn when you meet him in person.  Very deep, shies away from cliché.  Gets a bad press, I reckon.

Snell!  Rauss!  Ist der Terminatorrustung!   

(Somehow I feel as if I should be experiencing guilt for enjoying shouting random German as if it was written in a Commando comic...  It's a "war" thing I guess)

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Sorry I've taken so long to get round to posting on this thread ... right now

good rules ideas you've got here in need of only a few minor tweaks ....

Apocalypsedreamer wrote

Shield Drone-4 Squares

Armour-2W 1R
Combat----------

Shield- All models in base contact with the Shield drone use its Armour value

I've changed my mind since I talk to you in person about the shield drone rules, my new thinking is that it should
give friendly troops in surrounding squares a +1 bonus to their Armour Value

other than that, I'd like to check over the weapon stats against the Tau Codex and you are also going to need a few more order cards

so far pretty good!

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Also: I'm working on extra Tyranid monster rules and blips, coming soon!

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[MortiS-the-Lost]

The Tau rules are undergoing a long term overhaul (and we don't have any minis for them), don't expect to see them in play any time soon

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[messyart]

Hehe, we do keep talking about having missions of only one type of enemy, too.

I think me and Mort have worked out Chaos Cultists for a chaos game, based on a half-way mix between Orks and Grots.
The rest.. Pretty easy to plan.

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[MortiS-the-Lost]

Lumberjack wrote

Shas'ui Pathfinder (commander) -
1 in a Squad
Armour: 3W
Move: 6
Life Points:?
Close Combat: 1D+1
Ranged Combat: 2D+2

sorry but what game is this a stat-line for?

Space Crusade stats look like this:

Movement: 6 (number)
Armour Value: 2 (number)
Shooting: 2 White Dice (which dice to roll expressed in White Dice and Red Dice)
Hand-to-Hand: 2 White Dice (which dice to roll expressed in White Dice and Red Dice)
Life Points 1 (number)

The above profile is for a Space Marine with a bolter as it appears in the original game - White Dice and Red Dice can be shortened to WD and RD if you like

Shooting should never have a number (such as +1) as a modifier as it would mean the shooter would never miss (if you want to give more chance of hitting use a re-roll)

I think you need to play the game and study the rules a little closer before you start writing new rules

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[MortiS-the-Lost]

Since you're so keen on seeing some Tau rules, I'll post the pre-playtest draught of Tau rules in the week

You can find it Here but it is unfinished

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