The ZunTzu gamebox is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?at8jtapopo8fyi9

You should be able to unzip this to get the graphics for printing.

Check out the Pathfinder Beginner Box. I know you're already familiar with RPGs, so some of it may be a little simple for you, but it comes with dice, a flip mat and markers for all the most-used monsters. A good way to break into face-to-face roleplaying.

Find a local games store and ask.
If you have a Games Workshop, ask them as well, many of staff are rpgers in their hobby lives.
Failing that, a comic store.
Then get a starter game like
Pathfinder Starter Set, or Savage Worlds pocket edition, or even Tunnels and Trolls.
Read, then try out on victims.

Or new Mindjammer game when it comes out, that's totally transhuman, post modern SF, but it'll be a little while.

>>30388
5 wycheswith haywire nades in a venom 125pts Cry as a troop choice takes it out in one turn.

>>29883
Retreats, and a bit to the left so it has do drive trough my minefield.

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Meh, I play Green Tide Orks. Two linked Lascannons and a Heavy Bolter? I lose a maximum of five models per turn. It'll never make it's point cost back even with perfect shooting. And if it tries to close in for that Flamer to work it will meet happy Power Klaw wielding Nobs.

Pic unrelated

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>>38229
Just dropping by to incite rage with canon female space marines. Oh, and there were half-eldar space marines as well (Tigurius, Navarre). The game's lore is so jacked that you can't tell where the fail ends and the uberfail begins.

>>40189
Ah Rogue Trader. Completely invalidated by 2nd Edition, but still awesome in its stupidity.

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>>40189
May I direct your attention toward these little guys?

Shouldn't that be rats? I'm thinking Rise of the Runelords.

>>39725
I'm so glad I got out when the millennium turned. Everything's turning shittier and shittier.

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So, I'm back. Conclusions:

Even with Overwatch shooting and Furious Charge having lost the initiative bonus Orks still overwhelm Tau in close combat easily (if he hadn't fielded some allied marines it would've been quite one-sided indeed)

Cover saves of Tau antigrav Tanks is annoying so taking them down in close combat is needed (even if flechette system makes that a bit painful)

Ork Artillery is nice and cheap (well, Zzap not as much but the rest is A-OK)

Be sure to have some fast Ork stuff to entangle Tau quickly, but be wary of markerlights reducing cover saves.

Orks can compete with Tau in ranged combat given the right choices.

Picture shows deployment (and some Orks still in reserve)

OP:

You're facing the problem of the edition having just recently changed. Tau are slated to be one of the next few army books released, and they are likely to get the Necron treatment. Tau armies are going to get significantly better later this year, one way or another, since they will be getting access to a new Flyer unit coming out in White Dwarf.

I would recommend you google "Rise of the Tau," a ridiculously well-written fanfic in which the Tau more or less conquered the Imperium after Farsight took over. The specific bit I think you'd be interested in is that the Tau had created a crossbreed with the Orks, genetically similar enough for the Ethereals to control them. With this in mind, Tau with gray-skinned Ork auxilia would be a fabulous army on the table (Also, Orks look great painted gray).

My advice to you as far as army composition would be to throw a lot of Tau Battlesuits around with allied Ork Shoota Boyz mobs to provide you with infantry support, and of course the mandatory Fire Warrior squads. Take Broadsides and Lootaz for heavy support, and a Big Mek with a force field to keep all your infantry safe.

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A picture for some inspiration

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One more.

that's essentially it. lot's of cloudy days, lot's a empty hulks, snow on anything. The cities will look like that, though it takes place chiefly out in the sticks. There are kriegers fortifying the large spaceports though,

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>>38650
well, there's Ral'Ya, which is my personal favorite. Or perhaps Xan Lak'Tu?

What about some critter that has been unearthed by miners... Old ones? Sarlac pits? Large pissed off elemntals returning to find a city on their nursery?

The politics are always good to flesh out and have a good sense of political angles ahead of time so that you can build upon it. If the city started as a trade city then the laws that developed are likely to support trade unless other political factions gained power in the city over time due to the consolidation of wealth and power. Is this city originally built around one 'royal' family of tradesmen, company of treadesmen or did someone take it for their own in the past. Often the past tends to repeat itself if those that live it never learned from it...so it goes.

Most of this is rhetorical, really but very important in developing the specific dynamic of the huge city and eventually how and what it became later...and what sort of regions and goodies are hidden in the rubble.

Also, where did the trade go after the fall of the city...it's likely a large blow to the economy of the world but trade does continue. So where and how? What other settlements also exist outside of this city that the players may be from or have heard of, and what's their purpose as a city? It'll add flavor and a bit more realism to the adventure if if feels more like a living world with news from afar (that travels a lot more slowly and less accurately then now days).

I really like the concept though, good work so far. And I know the focus is in the ruins of it, not the living city but how those peoples legacies in what they left behind could be great inspiration for different regions of the city in how and surviving areas will be flavored and what they'll have, aside from the ore of course.

Also, if the city is widely know to be a haven for adventurers (depending on how heavily populated the world is) you could look into Mordheim a bit in the Warhammer universe. It's similar as a risky 'gold mine' for adventurers but doesn't have the same history or back round really. Depends on what your vision of the place is, honestly.

I found some racial traits at the game wiki:

Velik's Horn
Any elin of sufficient level can teleport at will to Velika, the federation's capital. 1 hour cooldown.

Soothing Presence
If they move slowly and carefully, elins can sneak by monsters. 1 hour cooldown.

Horizon Run
Elins hate to waste time, and can speed up their movement out of combat. 30 minute cooldown.

Botanist
Their tight connection to nature helps elins to gather plant resources faster than other races.

Friendly Current
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Make a female-only template for halflings that gives cat ears, a bunny tail, and maybe a bonus of some sort for not wearing pants.

Seriously though, tera races are mostly all the same by design and the racial abilities aren't meant to make a big difference. Make it a halfling, or a gnome, or a human with small size (and the +2 dex -2 str that usually goes with that)it won't really matter, and none of those are more or less Elin-y than any other because the primary defining feature of Elin is the way they look, and that's got no mechanical relevance.