Tau coming April, New pictures addded, it’s released April 6th.

[manrogue]

New rumour-
The Dude over at Warseer wrote:
Just heard the following:

Activating the Riptide's Nova Engine is risky. It only works on a 3+. If it fails to activate (roll of 1-2) the Riptide suffers a wound.

The weapon buff result for the Nova Engine supposedly buffs the large blast of the Ion Accelerator to S9 AP1, so there's your anti tank gun

Also, apparently Broadsides with missiles get 4 shots each at S7 AP4.

Of course I'm not sure the mechanics of the Nova Engine, but it appears to me to be a simple random table with1-2 being take a wound and 3-4 being one of the four rumoured buffs. If this is the case, you wouldn't be able to rely on it happening.


Also, if the charged profile does have a drawback like Gets Hot, you are twice risking self harm to get that one mega shot off.
love to see the SMS ignoring cover, even if it doesn't get s7 ap4. the nova engine seems to make sense the way the dude described although i can see it on a roll of a 1 to lose a wound and a 2 no effect, then whatever else afterwards. whatever it is, it is though and i won't have any complaints either way because i have a feeling it'll be awesome no matter what.

I was explicitly told rolling a 1-2 will cause a wound.


Neko wrote:
I didn't get any impression of the Nova reactor giving random effects (other than the chance to kill yourself of course). As always though, I could be wrong.