From the Inbox: 500 Point Army List with Pathfinders – Revised

fire warrior

Alright, the list I posted yesterday did not work. Shows me for assuming things about a supplement I don’t own! Many thanks to everyone pointing out the flaws. Hello,I was reading your article: https://pinsofwar.com/starting-a-tau-40k-army/ and love the idea you’re giving suggestions. However I blindly bought a random Tau set, the Pathfinder team, and was wondering how you […]

From the Inbox: 500 Point Tau Army with Pathfinders

Tau Crisis Suit Team

As pointed out in the comments, this list is not viable (except being played as “unbound”). Here’s a revised 500 pts. Tau list. A Tau list-building question arrived in my inbox today. To be honest, I haven’t played Tau in 7th Edition (though I did get wiped by a Tau army in 7th Edition.. I […]

How To Paint Tau Armour In 3 Simple Steps

How To Paint Tau Armor

Recently, I found myself painting a lot of Tau, so I thought it would be a good idea to share my paint-recipe for easy Tau armour. It really can be done in three simple steps. I hope you enjoy this tutorial. This painting tutorial is a guest article by Tom from Mini Brush Studio. For […]

A First Look at the New Warhammer 40K 7th Edition Allies Chart

allies chart

So… Fancy new graphics All Imperial Armies combined into one heading and Battle Brothers (no more Space Wolves keeping a distance to Dark Angels). Imperium and Tau are Desperate Allies Tau and Eldar are Allies of Convencience (the “end” of TauDar?) Eldar & Dark Eldar, Chaos Marines & Daemons remain Battle Brothers (the only ones, […]

How To Base Miniatures With Citadel Texture Paints

Basing with Static Grass

I have been asked how I make cool bases, especially if I need to do a lot of them for larger armies. The following is a quick guide on how to make good-looking bases for gaming models using the Citadel Texture Paints as a base. In this case, I used Stirland Mud. This hobby tutorial […]

40K Rules Conundrum: Interceptor & Overwatch in the same turn?

Tau Empire XV88 Broadside

A little rules conundrum I came across in Warhammer 40K, which I thought I’d share (not least to get some opinions). Can a unit in Warhammer 40K with the Interceptor special rule fire its weapon twice during the opponent’s turn, once using Interceptor and once using the Overwatch rule? #1 – A Day in Warhammer […]

GW’s Second Advent Calendar – Tau Fire Support Cadre

Games Workshop's Tau Fire Support Cadre Dataslate

Ok. I am sorry. I promise my blog will not mimic Games Workshop’s Digital Advent Calender for the whole month, but there is a lot of interesting things coming out of it. Yesterday, we saw a new (and powerful) Character for Chaos Space Marines and Chaos Daemons (and the two Chaos Fantasy armies). Today, the […]

Forge World’s New Massive Tau XV107 Battlesuit

tau xv107 forge world

Forge World news! And it’s not even new Horus Heresy Space Marines for a change. Forge World will be releasing a new Tau Battlesuit for the upcoming UK Games Day 2013. It looks like a huge kit, a Forge World take on something akin to the XV104 Riptide (and it looks like it uses the […]

Starting A Tau Army: A 500 Pts. Battleforce Starter List

Warhammer 40K Tau Starter Army

The question came up in the comments to my Tau Codex review, and it is clearly a key question for anyone setting out into Warhammer 40K hobby: How do I get started building my army? I am going to try giving a more thorough answer – for the 6th Edition Tau – here. #1 – […]