#tau pathfinders

[ajokeaboutadog]

More of the Sisters Repentia kill team.

[definitelynotalpharius]

Some Kill team, intercession against pathfinders (8-6)

[nerdnproud]

Hey @no-foxgiven your filthy heretical xenos are all painted and done.

[abatilus]

A keen dead eye can distinguish between friend or foe quickly...

Bleeding heart Part 2

[hereticusmaximus]

T'au Pathfinders!

A pretty quick paint job just to get these "battle ready". I went with basically the same color scheme as with the fire warriors, except I reversed the colors (which in my army signifies these being elite troops, when compared to the regular warriors).

[front-line-head-line]

Thought of the Day: The reward for treachery is retribution

[simonbreeze]

That's a wrap, Pathfinders all finished 💀

[the-turts]

My first warhammer 40k model painted! Tau from a pathfinder kill team

I wanted to try a muddy effect to hide certain imperfections but overdid it. I like how it came out though, like a mortal shell hit almost too close

[misternohair]

My Pathfinder Kill Team are beginning to come together. Pobody's Nerfect but I'm really proud of them.

[vlepkaaday]

Here I am back with some T’au/Xenos propaganda.

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[definitelynotalpharius]

Some Kill Team

[4thofeleven]

Been getting back into painting Warhammer miniatures, and Kill Team seemed like a good way to get some practice without committing to full armies. Here's my first squad, a team of Tau Pathfinders with drone support.

Always liked the Tau background and aesthetics, though after painting up these guys, I'm glad I won't be doing any more - the smooth lines and high-tech aesthetic doesn't leave as much room for error as Orcs or Chaos warriors!

[farsight-the-char]

I see 40k X Dungeon Meshi art, and I approve, but I feel people one detail wrong.

Chilchuk would not be a "Ratling".

Chilchuk in canon is a species that lives somewhat shorter lives, is generally shorter height then most, and himself portrayed often as a Worker's Rights dude.

Chilchuk would be a Tau Pathfinder.

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This is not serious.

[corvidous]

Finally finished my Sisters Novitiate Killteam! After months of waiting and then a disastrous attempt at the slapchop method I decided that these ladies needed the full send treatment. So of course I had to do perhaps the most laborious paintjob I've ever done!

This fabric drape was a nightmare.

The Whip-Sister doesn't actually have an autopistol in-game, but dual wielding combat whips is a bridge too far even for me, so I gave her an autopistol. I wouldn't have put her in at all except that she combos so well with the Big Chainsword Sister.

And I LOVE how the reliquary turned out. Exactly the effect I was going for.

I am SO proud of these, I'm giving them a coat of matte clearcoat to make sure they stay pristine and then I am going to paint something that is NOT a GW model next, because for fuck's sake. I don't know if I will ever actually play Killteam but hey I've got my girls painted up and ready. The Tau Pathfinder half of the Chalnath box is NOT getting this level of attention, sorry Tau but I don't care about you that much.

[nota1eks]

If/when they create a phm movie, what changes (if any) would you like to see them make to the story?

Jesus that’s a hard question…wow…! In a perfect world, they’d change nothing. It’d be a TV show with lots of room to portray everything. But we don’t live in a perfect world. I, therefore, want to keep as much of the original book as possible. My only immediate want is that it might be cool for them to use “they” for Rocky instead of “he”. Maybe some toning down of the Crazy Russians stereotyping, though if they do it right, that can be great. Nothing else comes to mind that I want changed -- it's a very good book.

But with that out of the way, let's talk about stuff that will very likely be cut. Because I think that's very interesting...

I think, as with Pathfinder getting fried and the dust storm in the Martian (2015) (wherein, both times, a huge plot event in the movie was gotten rid of for time purposes, with little impact on the overall plot, but a devastating-ish loss to the dedicated novel-enjoyers), some stuff will get cut out. Let's go one by one through the timeline of events:

The flashbacks will be there. Maybe not in flashback form (maybe they come before the rest like in the Martian...though those aren't flashbacks it's just backstory), but nonetheless there. Not everything will be there, though. Stratt barging in on Grace's class will be there; him doing the first experiments on astrophage will likely be there; meeting the crew will be there along with some of him training them so as to explain how he learned so much about being an astronaut; the explosion at Baikonur and the proceeding chaos will be there, trailer meetings included; but I think that'd be roughly it. They'll add some; they'll take away a lot. No Steve Hatch; no Lamai; probably very little Lokken (which is very sad); no frenchscientistwhosenameicantrememberimnotevenarealphm fanomllllll, either. They'll have their stories be explained via Grace talking to Rocky. Lots will be explained via Grace talking to Rocky.

Now, they'll have to have Grace waking up and seeing his dead crewmates. They'll have to have Ryan Gosling wandering about this spaceship scratching his head. That's a big part of the story. But I think after a certain point, after enough clues are gathered together, they'll infodump on us. It will be done well, of course, I mean just look at who's making the movie, but it wil lhaev to be like that. Maybe the nannybot will give him information. Maybe there will be a "Here to save Earth from imminent apocalypse? Click here ->" type of thing, but it won't be Grace turning to the camera and saying "Hey guys! I'm here at Tau Ceti to save Earth from astrophage! There's this weird ship out there. Keep you updated! Like and subscribe!"; nor will it be a voiceover. I had a Media Arts teacher in school and he told us that, more than anything, we were to avoid having to use voice-overs to explain out movies. At all costs. So I doubt they'll use that here -- maybe later, though. More talking-head with visuals than voiceover explaining the story.

Now. With Grace meeting Rocky there will either be nothing cut or everything cut: Maybe Rocky wil have a Magic Language Machine. Maybe Grace has a Magic Language Machine. Maybe they do everything how they did it in the book. Either way, it'll have to likely be one or the other. I'm very excited to see how they do Rocky's voice. An adaptation of the Audible Audiobook's version would be ideal, as I and many others think. There aren't many other good options... With the rest, I'm genuinely not sure. I can see them going both ways with this: cutting everything and rewriting it or keeping it pretty book-accurate. By any measure, they won't cut it all out. That'd be stupid.

With the in between between the Blip-A-Hail Mary disconnection and them arriving at Adrian, much will be cut out. It'll be rewritten. For better or for worse. Since it's just that theoretical, I'm not sure what changes I'd even want to see. Maybe some more back story on Rocky's crewmates? On Adrian (the eridian)? I mean Grace asking Rocky about Adrian would be a great opportunity to get some backstory in, btu the movie will already be so chock-full of it that I don't know if they'll be able to fit it in amongst everything else.

The Adrian Incident will likely still be very, very similar. It's the emotional peak of the movie. Rocky will nearly die. I will watch my friends weep, crying about how I should have warned them, and I will tell them they should have read the book. With Grace trying to save Rocky...eeh...it might be there; it might not. Flip of the dice with the landscape of the table being what the rest of the plot looks like, if that makes sense.

Now......The Great Taumeoba Escape. It's a lot like Pathfinder and the Dust Storm. It's just not all that relevant! SO MUCH is happening in the book at this point that -- I don't think -- they would be able to fit this in, even with a TV show with half a dozen hours to show the story in. I'd much rather lose this than lose backstory or silly goofy Rocky details.

The journey back, though, along with the breeding of Taumeoba was so boring it was cut out in the book. No way they'll have it in the movie. Probably even more will be cut out. Maybe one single Eureka! scene where Grace and Rocky drink vodka and wear crystals, respectively, but no more.

Now...The Great Taumeoba Escape 2: Radiation Exposure Boogaloo will NOT be cut out. Lest I stomp out of that movie theatre shouting insults at the directors etc. I kid, but not by a lot. They have to have this in order for Grace to turn around. I also bet they'll delay Grace learning he was a coward until here. It'd work so well there, yeah!? So he does his little thing, then turns around. From here, I think everything will be to-the-book. But let's talk about the ending.

Grace being a teacher is fundamental to the story. He can't not be, or the book/movie just won't work. Now, in The Martian (2015) they changed the ending. But that's not big, really. Mark becomes a recluse who gets looped back into being an astronaut training people who will then work on Artemis versus him being a teacher -- there's not that big of a plotline difference there. And we can pretend that in the interim he was a recluse. BUT IF THEY DON'T MAKE GRACE A TEACHER I SWEAR TO GOD--! calm. be calm. Anyways, him teaching again is a huge end for his character arc. And Rocky wil come in, no doubt, and tell Grace Earth's back to normal. Sending him back off to Earth just doesn't work, plot-wise or logic-wise.

Here's my last want: Earth. I want to see Earth back in shape. I want to see Stratt looking happy in her jail cell, etc.

Christ, I just wrote a lot. Um. I hope that answers your question...? And if it doesn't, feel free to ask me! I can -- and gladly will -- talk about this book all the livelong day!

[elan-ta]

Finally painted some tau again! Here's some pathfinders :3