#broadside battlesuit

[phantomoftheshoppera]

Painted a Broadside battlesuit and the marker/shield drones. My first attempt at a Mars base, gotta practice this one a little more

[alphamecha-mkii]

T’au Broadside Battlesuit by Mark Holmes

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

Some progress!

[zagpi]

This was yesterday's really but I wanted it included

Day 200: trans pride Broadside, complete with trans flag multi rocket launcher

[aspiring-bl-writer]

Flash Fiction: T'au Empire vs Tyranids

Hello! This piece is set during the invasion of the T'au Empire by Hive Fleet Gorgon around 899.M41. I find the contrast of these two species interesting: both are hierarchical and aggressive, but the T'au embody a futuristic optimism while the Tyranids are biological predators driven by an unthinking imperative to consume. (And, yeah, a Riptide battlesuit flanked by Broadsides against a Hive Tyrant is just badass.)

It was over twenty feet tall, akin in size to a Hammerhead gunship, the hover-tanks of the T’au military. Yet while a Hammerhead epitomized T’au science and innovation, the creature was organic, a commixture of biology’s most vicious and lethal inventions. Its body was covered in a chitinous carapace over an insectoid exoskeleton, its tubular head primarily made up of rows of fangs. Around it roamed swarms of lesser monsters, smaller in scale but just as gruesome and deadly. They skittered around the talons of their colossal master, armed with razor-sharp claws of their own. Shas’O Ka’eldi had seen those scything blades tear through her T’au kindred, military and civilian alike.

“The size of it…” The voice belonged to Shas’ui Kais, the newest of the pilots within the detachment of XV88 Broadside Battlesuits Ka’eldi now led. There were six of them, ten feet tall weapons platforms in the form of walking war machines, wielding heavy rail rifles capable of firing high-velocity rounds that could penetrate the thickest defenses. Ka’eldi herself wore the XV104 Riptide, twice as tall as the Broadside, yet just as swift as the smaller model, with an even larger and more formidable arsenal: a heavy burst cannon, twin-linked smart missile systems, and a state-of-the-art shield generator. Around the entire squad darted shielded missile drones, each guided by advanced AI.

All of them were veterans, warriors of renown drawn from the proud T’au Fire Caste, but none of them had fought anything like Hive Fleet Gorgon. It had come from a place of nightmares, consuming all bio-mass in its path as it ravaged across the empire. These Tyranids were even more adaptative than the T’au, their physiology evolving in real-time response to the weapons they faced, each new brood possessing a range of new resistances. The T’au had reacted in kind, using a variety of ammunition and weapons, including equipment long antiquated to the empire, but new to the endless horde of voracious invaders. The Tyranids did not slow in their alterations but had to create a large number of the more plentiful but less intelligent broods, as the larger Tyranids—believed to direct and organize the swarm—took longer to form and mature. Eliminate them, it was theorized, and the swarms would revert to purely feral behavior.

“Fire!” Ka’eldi shouted to the others. Inside her suit the flickering data broadcast in bright neon colors reflected against her pale azure skin. Outside her armor the sky filled with projectiles and precision missiles that blew apart the multitude of minor Tyranids. The titanic over-fiend, wounded, let out a psychic scream that left Ka’eldi stunned. Her mind soon cleared, however, and before long, the giant Tyranid lay dead at her feet.

Ka’eldi watched as the surviving swarm fell into instinctual flight, fleeing before the T’au forces, even the mobile drones that hounded them with far more agility than the battle-suits could achieve. Only now did she allow herself some taste of hope.

[ecclesiarch-tato]

Some People: *Assemble, prime, and paint a whole new army in, like, two weeks*

Me: I've been working on this one broadside suit for almost a month, and I'm almost done with its legs! Just the legs.

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

First time trying to work with so much green. Behold: Dalyth Sept Broadsides, ready to go with all my Kroot. With fully magnetized secondary systems even!

And of course we got a full squad of missile drones to go with it. Strongest weapon you can currently put on a drone - of course I plan to field all of them that I can get my hands on!

These little guys can pack a punch, that's for sure.

Still a bit of work that needs to be done, minor mistake fixing, but for the most part they are ready for the table :)

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

After months of building and painting GSC I can say: we are back on with the Greater Good, and of course that means BIG. ASS. GUNS.

This time I even magnetize the secondary systems - because I got no clue on how to kit them until the Codex comes out. Guess I'll have about 2-3 weeks for those 3 Broadsides before the Kroot will demand all of my time.

I really hope whatever detachment the Kroot get it works well with Broadsides as it did in 9th (where Broads always had cover which is fun on a 2+ armor save).