Salamander rule 63

Примкнуть штыки

Финишная прямая. Остались аксессуары: примкнуть штыки к болтерам, кобуры с болт-пистолетами на пояса и наколенники с налокотниками дредноуту. Ну и собсна сама покраска, сколько лет у меня на неё уйдет одним тёмным богам ведомо.
Испытываю особенный каеф от своей первой сборки. И особый некаеф от воспоминаний о том, как собирал плащ претора (волнистую ткань, развевающуюся на ветру) из пяти, блять, отдельных деталей. Или как сломал и потерял с двух сержантских шлемов крепления для гребня и импровизировал, чтобы воткнуть онные.
А ещё при внимательном перечтении rules выяснил, что у них не волкитные (как я решил первом взгляде на деталь) пистолеты, а плазменные. А по комплектации стоит bolter (legionaries only) и plasma pistol (legionary sergeant only), но чот как-то мне болт на этот нюанс. В моём мухосранске полтора вахаеба на всю округу, играть не с кем, так что пусть стоят красивые, взор мой радуют... в коробке... закрытой... на дальней полке, чтоб ни кошки, ни люди не трогали.

The Radiant Empress

An Ork sitting in an innertube with his pet squig and a fruity umbrella drink

An Ulthwe Farseer reading Love Can Bloom with a Vindicare Assassin watching in confusion

Custodian Febreezing the Corpse Emperor

Salamanders Primarch Vulkan roasting a Marshmallow for a small child

a Sister of battle in sunglasses jamming on her keyboard on the Exorcist tank

A sororita tending to roses

Admech wife catches her husband looking at machine blueprints like they were dirty magazines

Guardsman fixing bayonet to charge a Chaos Warlord Titan

Popuko and Pipimi as guardsmen flipping the bird to a Chaos Space Marine

Sly Marbo placing a det pack on the back of the unsuspecting Chaos Space Marine

Small child showing a Space Marine his/her Space Marine doll

SoB unable to sleep due to her bunk-mate's snoring

Nobody is Safe From the Awesome Power of The T’au Empire’s New and Improved Railgun

For the T’au Empire, warfare means massed pulse rifle fire, hit-and-run battlesuits, and the whip-crack report of awesomely powerful railguns making mincemeat of enemy vehicles. We’ve looked at the first two already, so it’s time to tackle the railgun – the shining star of T’au engineering, and the dependable Hammerhead tank it’s often mounted on.

Popular with proponents of both the Mont’ka and Kauyon philosophies, rail weapons use magnetic fields to fire metal slugs at very high velocity, punching through armour like paper. And in the upcoming Codex: T’au Empire, they’ve had a considerable upgrade.

The Fire Caste use several varieties, from the Pathfinders‘ rail rifles to the heavy rail cannons of a Manta Missile Destroyer, but it’s the Hammerhead’s railgun that all others are compared to.

There are a few things to break down here. With an AP of -6 and the ability to ignore invulnerable saves, your payload will be making it through almost any kind of energy field, daemonic protection, or battle plate that might stand in its way.

Once that shot hits home, it delivers eye-watering damage with the potential to knock out vehicles and large monsters in a single shot. With such a powerful single slug, connecting with each shot is crucial, so the Hammerhead has an advanced targeting array that pairs well with the new Markerlights rules.

The Hammerhead is shockingly effective at turning single targets into smoking wrecks, but what if the enemy is coming in numbers? Faced with smaller foes, Hammerhead pilots can load short-ranged Submunitions.

The railgun is not the only big hitter getting a major update in the new Codex: T’au Empire – would you believe it isn’t even the strongest weapon in their arsenal? We’ll be having a look at a few more soon, but in the meantime, you should brush up on the devious plans of the Genestealer Cults and Adeptus Custodes.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/12/29/nobody-is-safe-from-the-awesome-power-of-the-tau-empires-new-and-improved-railgun/