Tau Empire 9th Edition Codex Pdf
Sophie Reynolds
The Codex: Tau Empire is an expansion book for the Games Workshop Table Top game Warhammer 40,000. This book was published for the first time in 2006, and is for the 4th edition of Warhammer 40,000. It was the 4th codex released for that edition of the game.
The codex contains Information pertaining to the Discovery and Evoloution of the Tau, The time of the Mont'au, The Expansion of the Tau Empire and space travel, Imperial Contact Tau Warfare and Culture, Language and Society.
Codices for particular armies were introduced for the second edition of the game. The third edition rendered these obsolete, and a new series began, including introducing codices for battle zones and campaigns. Until superseded by newer versions, the 3rd edition and later codices remained valid for the newer editions of Warhammer 40,000. Games Workshop no longer produce campaign or battle zone codices, instead releasing 'expansions'. 'Codex' is now a term solely used for army books.
At the launch of 8th edition all previous codices were replaced with index books due to a major rules overhaul (as of November 2019 these indices are no longer produced). The indices were subsequently replaced by a new series of codices. As before, these codices remained valid until superseded by newer versions.
Codex supplements provide additional rules for sub-factions of a parent army. These might include special characters or units and other special rules that are only available to that particular sub-faction.
Rules for models produced by Forgeworld are available as part of the Imperial Armour series of books, also published by Forgeworld. Rules for models no longer supported by codices and supplements can be found in Warhammer Legends on the Warhammer Community website.
The range of codices is regularly updated with new editions of armies and occasionally new army codices. Codices designed for a prior edition of Warhammer 40,000 are still valid in the current edition, unless a later version has replaced it. Codex Supplements have their parent faction noted in brackets.
Battlezone codices were rules supplements that dealt with a specialised combat environment, instead of an army. There was only ever one produced. However, material in Codex: Catachans provides rules for jungle warfare. The concept of a battlezone codex was replaced by Games Workshop's Expansions.
The two event codices were released in association with the 2000 and 2003 Worldwide Campaigns. These codices provided background and special gaming rules for the event, along with four "supplemental army lists"; variant armies that required access to certain other codices for use.
Now, this can be taken a few ways and the community at large and rumour mill have no consensus. Games Workshop have been know the use similar phrases in the past and announce a release in a few weeks, and have said something will be imminent it soon and it takes months.
On Balance I am reducing the certainly of my optimistic prediction of Dec 2024- Feb 2025 with a side dish of potentially one Quarter later in the best Case. Failing that end of Edition is the next most likely, however with a sideways chance of earlier if a release slot has been missed and one between the tow opens up and makes sense.
First and foremost, we can be almost certain the codex is coming at some point. The release of Thousand Sons, Death Guard and World Eaters over the last few editions alongside the volume and, in some cases, specificity of rumours can attest to this.
A holiday release for a major faction launch makes sense, and it also puts such a release far enough away from the release of Age of Sigmar 4th Edition to not overly clutter the production schedule (and overload wallets!)
These rumblings were some time ago, and Games Workshop has had made a habit of slipping schedules of late if changing timelines on solid rumours can be believed. Some of these are possibly related some of the production issues with printed materials.
Lately there have been several leaks of sprues and even full books, though often closer to the actual release windows (a few months out, sometimes even only weeks or days before an event). Miniatures, even pictures of them, have been known to leak well in advance though.
For example the recent release of Fulgrim Transfigured made specific note that he cannot be used in Warhammer 40k. Why would that have been noted at all given there is no other model, or even rules, for him?
However the various campaign / storyline advancements, and occasionally White Dwarf, are on firmer ground. The snippet in Arks of Omen where Fulgrim is specifically mentioned as active once more is often cited as some of the earliest foreshadowing of a release, starting another wave of rumours.
Admittedly Eidolon is set in the Horus Heresy (30k), and Black Library links to releases are tenuous as noted previously. However, it still adds another small drip to that Winter 2024-25 date as fleshing out the character, especially given his rather poor showing in the Horus Heresy novel series, makes sense if he were to have a larger (and hopefully more menacing) role in Warhammer 40k.
Should that window pass we could expect the next most likely scenario be for the release to be nearer to the end of the edition. In that case the hope would be that we become the 11th edition launch antagonist bringing with it the associated bumper miniature release.
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