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Rules In the Box? – New TAUPOCAYPSE Kit Details

By Rob Baer | October 12th, 2015 | Categories: Warhammer 40k Rumors

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Come see all the new details on the TAUPOCLAYPSE release drop for this week. Get the good word now!

Multiple retailers are chiming in with these:

Fire Warriors Kit: £30

10 Fire Warriors

DS8 Turret

2 Drones

Strike Teams are armed with Pulse Rifles or Pulse Carbines

Breacher Teams are armed with Pulse Blasters

Tidewall Rampart £95

Tidewall Gunrig – section with twinlinked railgun turret

Tidewall Dronepoint – section with 4 detachable drones

Tidewall Shieldlines (x2) – section with defensive lasers

Components may be fielded individually, or combined to from the full Tidewall Rampart

Rules in the box

Tau Burning Dawn Boxed Set £65

19 Tau miniatures

32 page campaign book

  • New Ethereal
  • 3 Stealth suits
  • 10 Pathfinders
  • 1 Piranha
  • 3 Drones
  • 1 Recon Drone

Space Marines Shadowforce Boxed Set £80

19 SM miniatures

32 page campaign book

  • New Captain
  • 5 Vanguard Veterans
  • 5 Sterguard Veterans
  • 1 Land Speeder

 

That Tidewall rampart seems really spicy!  Its use as individual components will make it quite popular.  We will have to wait and see if they offer the components in individual boxes down the road.

~Have you caved in to The Greater Good yet?

About the Author: Rob Baer

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Rob Baer

Job Title: Managing Editor

Founded Spikey Bits in 2009

Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X

About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.

Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls. 

Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at the Las Vegas Open, each of which attracts thousands of players from around the world.

 

Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the 2011 Adepticon 40k Team Tournament. He was even featured for his painting in issue #304 of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf Magazine.

With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.

While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.