Lower Register: Who put the XV in the XV-89 battle suit?

Exigence - or - Why I Felt the Need to Create this Blog

12 August 2012.

Wow. 6th Edition is here, and I feel like it incorporated many facets of our house rules here are the Lower Register.

Go us. GW, you can have those for free.

Plz look for some updates soon as I try to figure out how my precious BA will fit in to the world of Overwatch and Random Charging distances. Gotta say, so far, I am loving the idea of 5 attacks per Death Company Marine (2 base, 2 for charging, 1 for extra weapon).

-Hax out-

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Why Lower Register? Pedro and I started playing various wargames about five years ago, but found that we just didn't have time to complete standard games. We, along with our limited pool of playing partners, decided that we would become good at skirmish games that we could enjoy on a regular basis. So, over time we amassed a body of experience in Kill Team, Warmachine, Infinity, and other such games. This blog is the natural outgrowth of that experience, and our desire to share it with you all.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Who put the XV in the XV-89 battle suit?

So I am currently reading "Savage Scars" a tale that recounts an imperium invasion on a Tau occupied world, told through the perpective of White Scars sergeant Sarik. I must say that it is quite the interesting read, providing some great fluff around the mysterious Tau. A great example of this is origination of th "XV" Crisis Suit, well at least the imperial name for it.

"The Departmento Tacticae reported that the tau term for these particular battle suits, which the crusade had encountered a single example of, was ‘hereks’vre’, which in their tongue meant the ‘mantle of the hero’. Already, the Tacticae had bastardised that term to codify the battle suits as ‘XV’ class rigs, with various sub-classes already identified."

Love coming across these little tid bits of background. Now enough blogging I have an army to paint!

1 comment:

HaxAugust 14, 2011 at 8:12 PM
Hrmmffff... More like xeno-heretics'vre.
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