>>96427884
Just kitbash them man it's literally the easiest most basic kitbash anyone can humanly come up with and at least half of all serious tau players have done 1 or 2
>>96427898
This is what we should get new models for
>>96418924
I actually hate covenant tau. Tau should be neoimperialist dipshits abusing the everloving fuck out of their auxilliary allies who do so out of necessity rather than brotherhood (or outright brainwashing like the vespids or SOME gue'las), they should by all means be second class citizens in an already caste based society, the lowest of the low designated to do the dirty work that drones are too expensive for and no other caste is resignated to do, like mining and bullet sponging. So far GW has done a stellar job at this because warhammer fans are too retarded to notice it being subtler like in the older codexes.
However... Battlesuit wank can get really repetitive. I believe adding some new auxilliaries to spice things up tabletop-wise is absolutely the correct choice for their faction moving forward, alongside giving us some much needed updated battlesuits. Vespids and kroot hounds are an absolute joy to fight with and they really do feel like they patch the holes the tau themselves don't fill, which just compliments the fluff-tabletop dynamic oh so nicely. It's more of a gameplay issue than a fluff issue im fine with them being second place specially since the tau themselves are way more interesting as a society and culture than any other of their second hands.