The Manta is finished

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**hammerofulric**

£895

**happypants**

I don't have the taros campaign, can someone post details of the unit? $2000 CAN... hmmm, I can put together my Tau army 4x over for that...

**Strangelooper**

I think the stats for the Manta are:

If the Tau player fields this unit, their opponent rolls one die to represent glancing hits from all of their weapons put together. On a 6, the Manta crashes and falls onto the board, destroying everything underneath it. On any other roll, the Tau win the game.

**Red_Shirt_Hero**

As someone pointed out on Warseer, the Manta itself is only £725 as they included £170 of Tau models (tanks, battlesuits and drones) in with it!

**nobody**

from what I remember of reading about it, it has a twin-linked titan killer railgun, 3 twin-linked long barrelled ion cannons, and around 15 or so drone controlled burst cannons. Points was enough so this was your army at 2000 pts. I also want to say it has 10 structure points (could be wrong on that point though).

**magine**

Wow with something that big I hope I can fit inside it as well because if I ever bought my fiance would show me the door. Well at least it looks nicer then a cardboard box. I would be living in the upper class of homelessness.

**Brother Tiberius**

The Manta has been designed to have a fully working and detailed interior. The Manta has two decks: the upper deck is where you will find forty-eight seated resin Fire Warriors and six Gun Drones, overseen by a seated Tau Ethereal. They exit through doors that retract into the walls and then down to the landing zone via the hidden extendable ramp. On the lower deck are eight Tau Battlesuits, two Devilfish troop carriers and two Hammerhead battle-tanks. This whole deck drops down so the vehicles and Battlesuits can disembark and deploy rapidly. Further forward, towards the nose, four Air-Caste systems operators and two pilots control the prodigious amount of firepower that the Manta can bring to bear on the enemy. Sixteen Long-Barrelled Burst Cannon, Six Long-Barrelled Ion Cannon, Two Heavy Rail Guns, Missile Pods and battery of Seeker Missiles as well as a Networked Markerlight turret. The kit includes two Devilfish, two Hammerheads, eight Battlesuits, six Gun Drones and one Black and one White Tau decal sheet. The full rules and background for the Tau Manta can be found in Imperial Armour Volume Three: The Taros Campaign.

Yeah, it's the Death Star...

**nyarlathotep667**

I wonder how many of those ginormous things they'll have to sell just to break even on development & casting costs. Jesus that thing is freaking massive...

**Kilkrazy**

Imagine being the pilot, sat right in the front of that huge vehicle, and having to back it up to the loading dock!

**Drake_Marcus**

Dude - I think it's amazing. It's all about disposable income. I'm just glad I'll have my PhD in Biomedical Engineering by the time I'm finished school

This kind of project wouldn't be that profitable for FW. GW does stuff like this for promotional purposes. I suspect GW will own more of these kits then the rest of the world combined

**The Crawling Chaos**

I really want to write in a bad taste Crocodile Hunter joke. The timing's too good. But I'm not gonna, cuz he was cool. Crazy yes, but cool.

**Jester**

"Well, someone has to get the dropship from the Sulaco..."

That thing is, to use the parlance of our times, 'totally sick'. I do kind of question the 'all in one basket' transport, though. One lucky defense laster shot and an entire cadre goes bye-bye.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Front page of new stuff:
www.forgeworld.co.uk/acatalog/QUATERMASTERS_STORE_NEW_STUFF__11.html

**scramasax**

A Manta is a super heavy detachment of 1-3 mantas. I want to know when someone will field a complete detachment :-P

The armament is more like

Sixteen Long-Barrelled Burst Cannon
Six Long-Barrelled Ion Cannon
Twin linked Heavy Rail Guns
Twin linked Missile Pods
battery of Seeker Missiles
Networked Markerl

Practically every tau vehicle upgrade included

**fullheadofhair**

Posted By scramasax on 09/04/2006 8:04 PM
A Manta is a super heavy detachment of 1-3 mantas. I want to know when someone will field a complete detachment :-P

MayFW gives a voucher for discount divorce lawyer costs for when my wife divorces my rear end for ever bring 1 in the house, let alone 3.

Serious - beautiful model, but for $1700 my life would be measured in seconds if i ever bought one of these into the house.

**Furious**

Incredible, simply incredible. And with a price tag to match.

**Frazzled**

The shots look quite nice. Huzzah to anyone who gets one.

**migsula**

WOW

That things is *fudge*ing cool and I'll never justify the price to myself to buy it. Good Job Will!!

**thelosttau**

Reminds me of why I need to win the lottery. It looks like a beautiful model, but if you buy one are you compensating for something?

**skkipper**

I wonder if one will show up at the gladitor at adepticon 2007

**xnet445**

Sweet!

Definitely Divorce-in-a-Box, though

**Jayden63**

Very sexy indeed. Infact it has to be very sexy, because it would probably cost me my very sexy wife if I ever brought it home. So if anyone needs my painting services for this beast, let me know. Its probably the only way I'll ever actually see one.

**LordOfTheSloths**

GW's target demographic:

Rich spoiled brat: Daddy, daddy, I want that Manta!

Overpaid corporate executive: Sorry, son, but Mommy's new tennis bracelet comes first.

Rich spoiled brat: I WANT IT, I WANT IT, I WANT IT!!! And she's not my real mommy!

Overpaid corporate executive: Oh, OK, Dudley. I'll just pad my expense account a little more.

Slutty trophy wife: I better get my tennis bracelet, pal, or you know what you're NOT getting!

**chris_valera**

Posted By Kilkrazy on 09/04/2006 1:57 PM
Imagine being the pilot, sat right in the front of that huge vehicle, and having to back it up to the loading dock!

*beep.. beep... beep...*

*crash*

"Oh *fudge*."

Posted By skkipper on 09/05/2006 11:48 AM
I wonder if one will show up at the gladitor at adepticon 2007

Not if you convert it out of old Star Wars toys...

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

**feuerdrache**

Posted By Brother Tiberius on 09/04/2006 10:58 AM

The Manta has been designed to have a fully working and detailed interior. The Manta has two decks: the upper deck is where you will find forty-eight seated resin Fire Warriors and six Gun Drones, overseen by a seated Tau Ethereal. They exit through doors that retract into the walls and then down to the landing zone via the hidden extendable ramp. On the lower deck are eight Tau Battlesuits, two Devilfish troop carriers and two Hammerhead battle-tanks. This whole deck drops down so the vehicles and Battlesuits can disembark and deploy rapidly. Further forward, towards the nose, four Air-Caste systems operators and two pilots control the prodigious amount of firepower that the Manta can bring to bear on the enemy. Sixteen Long-Barrelled Burst Cannon, Six Long-Barrelled Ion Cannon, Two Heavy Rail Guns, Missile Pods and battery of Seeker Missiles as well as a Networked Markerlight turret. The kit includes two Devilfish, two Hammerheads, eight Battlesuits, six Gun Drones and one Black and one White Tau decal sheet. The full rules and background for the Tau Manta can be found in Imperial Armour Volume Three: The Taros Campaign.

Yeah, it's the Death Star...

This comment has made me realize just how alike the Empire and the Tau Empire are. :/

I'm never buying this.
I will eat my hat before dropping 895 pounds on one model, even if said model has an army included.

**Bjorn_Stormwolf**

I can only imagine the amount of lung disease and hemorrhaging this resin-monster will cause...

Any fanboys who actually purchase this behemoth deserve the extension to virginity loss it implies.

Besides that, its an ok model. For such a technology wonder you would think it would be more advanced than forcing a rank of batlesuits to remain stuck amidst a large combustible belly of hammerheads, that are not only packed too tight but are made to back out in the heat of battle. It should have been so much more.

Bjorn

**LordOfTheSloths**

Posted By Bjorn_Stormwolf on 09/09/2006 1:18 PM

Besides that, its an ok model. For such a technology wonder you would think it would be more advanced than forcing a rank of batlesuits to remain stuck amidst a large combustible belly of hammerheads, that are not only packed too tight but are made to back out in the heat of battle. It should have been so much more.

That's because GW designers are making toys and have no real understanding of military vehicle design principles.

**Kanluwen**

Aren't Tau vehicles VTOL? The Manta wouldn't have to land...it could just kick the Hammerheads/Devilfishes out for rapid deployment.

I mean we do it with Hummvees and they can't even fly

**Tanarin**

I belive they are, I mean look at some of the art in the codex. Everything (Even the etheral) are jumping out of the Manta, and it isn't crashing either.

**marv335**

they had this behemoth at UKGD for sale.
they sold two of them