Secret Weapon Establish Their Tau Ceti Base
February 1, 2013 by dracs
Secret Weapon have announced a new set of bases will be coming out later this month. The Tau Ceti bases.
As you can see this base depicts the floor of some weird future building. Is there any particular reason why anyone in the future can't make a level floor? Apart from the fact that it would make a very dull base of course.
As the name might suggest, the general design of this does seem to be aimed at the aesthetic of Games Workshop's Tau force. Of course, it could easily be used with the Aleph in Infinity as well.
What do you think of this base design? What miniatures would you use it with?
We know two things about the far future:
1) There will be no level floors, safety rails, or easy to get to tractor beam levers.
2) There will be skulls… everywhere.
All kidding aside, the name is actually a nod to the classic sci-fi films — including “Barbarella” — that were set in the Tau Ceti system. Any reference to the Tau race from Games Workshop is incidental. Besides, does anyone still play Tau? 😉
I better watch Barbarella again to see if you right. That may be where GW got the name from as well. I like the idea that the future the designers of cities thought of uneven floors as a means to keep us actively fit so we don’t become gamers 😛
Anything to give you an excuse to watch “Barbarella” works for me.
“tau ceti” eh?
clever.
you can’t copyright a letter anyways.
It’s also an actual star system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Ceti
And popular in science fiction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Ceti_in_fiction
what i meant was, they could have used tau without the ceti afterwards, because it cant be copyrighted anyway.
Ooooh. That makes sense too 🙂