The T’au Empire is a dynamic rising force in the galaxy, as yet unburdened by the bloody failures of a long history. United by their shared vision of the Greater Good, the T’au strive to bring enlightenment to other races, even if they must do so at the barrel of a gun.
This section contains all of the datasheets that you will need in order to fight battles with your T’au miniatures. Each datasheet includes the characteristics profiles of the unit it describes, as well as any wargear and abilities it may have. Some rules are common to several T’au units – these are described below and referenced on the datasheets.
Books
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 T’au Empire | ||||
| T’au Empire | Codex | 9 | Indomitus 1.1 | July 2022 |
 The Balance Dataslate | ||||
| The Balance Dataslate | Rulebook | 9 | Q2 2023 | April 2023 |
| Arks of Omen: Farsight | ||||
| Arks of Omen: Farsight | Expansion | 9 | March 2023 | |
 Imperial Armour: Compendium | ||||
| Imperial Armour: Compendium | Index | 9 | Indomitus 1.9 | February 2023 |
 Munitorum Field Manual 2023 Mk I | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual 2023 Mk I | Expansion | 9 | January 2023 | |
 Kill Team: Into the Dark – Kroot Farstalkers | ||||
| Kill Team: Into the Dark – Kroot Farstalkers | Datasheet | 9 | September 2022 | |
| Power Rating Update 2022 | ||||
| Power Rating Update 2022 | Rulebook | 9 | March 2022 | |
 Warhammer Legends: Forge World | ||||
| Warhammer Legends: Forge World | Index | 9 | 1.0 | December 2020 |
 Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress | ||||
| Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress | Boxset | 8 | November 2018 | |
FAQ
Codex: T’au Empire
| Q: | Can a DRONE model have a different <SEPT> keyword to the unit it is attached to? |
| A: | No, when a unit is equipped with a DRONE model, that DRONE model becomes a part of that unit’s datasheet and so must be drawn from the same sept as the rest of the unit. This also means that Commander Shadowsun and Longstrike’s DRONES have the T’AU SEPT keyword. |
| Q: | If a unit contains both DRONE models (which can FLY) and models which cannot FLY – like Pathfinders – can the whole unit move as if it can FLY (e.g. can Pathfinder models move over other models as if they were not there when moving, just because there is a DRONE model in their unit and therefore that unit has the FLY keyword)? |
| A: | No. Only the models that actually have the FLY keyword can move using the Flying rules (e.g. in a PATHFINDER TEAM unit, only DRONE models in that unit can move over other models as if they were not there when that unit makes a move). |
| Q: | Can a unit that is performing an action while under the effects of a rule that lets it count as having Remained Stationary (e.g. Mont’ka) make a Normal Move without that action failing? |
| A: | No. Any action a unit is currently performing, but has not yet completed, will still fail if that unit makes a Normal Move (or Advances, Falls Back, performs a Heroic Intervention or declares a charge), even if it is under the effects of a rule that says it counts as Remaining Stationary. Designer’s Note: This is true for every unit in Warhammer 40,000, and we will be adding this clarification to the next round of updates to the Core Rules, but as it predominantly affects T’au Empire players now due to the actions within their Codex, we wanted to make the answer clear to the upholders of the Greater Good ahead of time. |
The <SEPT> Keyword
Most T’au Empire units are drawn from a sept. When you include such a unit in your army, you must nominate which sept it is from and then replace the <SEPT> keyword in every instance on its datasheet with the name of your chosen sept. This could be one of the septs detailed in a Warhammer 40,000 publication, or one of your own design.
Example: If you include a Cadre Fireblade in your army, and you decide he is from Vior’la, his <SEPT> keyword becomes VIOR’LA and his Volley Fire ability reads: ‘While a friendly VIOR’LA CORE unit is within 6" of this unit’s CADRE FIREBLADE model, each time a CORE model in that unit makes an attack with a pulse weapon, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores one additional hit.’
If your army is Battle-forged, you cannot include units from two different T’au septs in the same Detachment. You can find out more about Battle-forged armies in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.
Philosophies of War
If every unit from your army (excluding T’AU AUXILIARY, SUPREME COMMANDER and UNALIGNED units) is from the same Sept, then at the start of the battle, when you have determined who has the first turn, you can select one of the Tactical Philosophies below. T’AU EMPIRE units (excluding T’AU AUXILIARY units) from your army gain the benefits of that Tactical Philosophy. If both players have a similar ability, the player who has the first turn chooses first.
- Each time this unit makes a Normal Move or Advances in your Movement phase, until the end of your Shooting phase, it counts as having Remained Stationary.
- Each time a model in this unit makes a ranged attack that targets the closest eligible enemy unit within the range shown in the table below, re-roll a wound roll of 1.
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- This unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back, but if it does, then until the end of the turn, each time a model in this unit makes a ranged attack, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.
- Each time a model in this unit makes a ranged attack that targets the closest eligible enemy unit within 12", if that model is not within Engagement Range of any enemy units and did not Fall Back this turn, on an unmodified hit roll of the value shown in the table below, if that attack scores a hit, it scores 1 additional hit.
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Abilities
A unit’s datasheet will list all the abilities it has. Certain abilities that are common to many units are only referenced on the datasheets rather than described in full. These abilities are described below.
Battlesuits
BATTLESUIT models in this unit can make attacks with ranged weapons even when their unit is within Engagement Range of enemy units, but they can only make such attacks against enemy units that they are within Engagement Range of. In such circumstances, those models can target an enemy unit even if other friendly units are within Engagement Range of the same enemy unit.Note that if a BATTLESUIT model has more than one ranged weapon, you can still choose to target units that are not within Engagement Range of its unit, but it will only be able to make the attacks with that weapon if all enemy units within Engagement Range of its unit have been destroyed when you come to resolve those attacks. In addition, when a BATTLESUIT model shoots a Heavy weapon, subtract 1 from the hit rolls when resolving that weapon’s attacks while any enemy units are within Engagement Range of that model’s unit.
Markerlights
Units in your army can perform the following action:‘Fire Markerlights (Action): One or more MARKERLIGHT units from your army can start to perform this action at the start of your Movement phase. AIRCRAFT MARKERLIGHT units can perform this action. The action is completed at the start of your next Shooting phase. If this action is successfully completed, for each model in that unit that is equipped with one or more markerlights, for each markerlight that model is equipped with, select one enemy unit within 36" of that model that would be an eligible target for that model if its unit had been selected to shoot, and roll one D6: on a 3+, that enemy unit gains one Markerlight token.’
While a VEHICLE or DRONE unit is performing the Fire Markerlights action, that unit can move without that action failing. If it does, until the end of the turn, models in that unit without the VEHICLE or DRONE keyword that are equipped with any markerlights are treated as not being equipped with any markerlights for the purpose of the Fire Markerlights action.
Each time a T’AU EMPIRE unit (excluding T’AU AUXILIARY units) is selected to shoot:
- Each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack against a unit with one or more Markerlight tokens, add 1 to that attack’s hit roll.
- After that unit has finished making attacks, for each enemy unit targeted by those attacks, remove one Markerlight token from that enemy unit.
Manta Strike
During deployment, if every model in this unit has this ability, you can set up this unit in a Manta hold instead of setting it up on the battlefield. If you do, then in the Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases you can set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" away from any enemy models.Ambushing Predators
At the start of the first battle round, models in this unit can make a Normal Move of up to 7". They cannot end this move within 9" of any enemy models.Inspired to Greatness
In your Command phase, select one friendly T’AU EMPIRE CORE or T’AU AUXILIARY unit within 6" of this unit’s ETHEREAL model (excluding FARSIGHT ENCLAVES units). Until the start of your next Command phase, while that unit is performing an action, it can make ranged attacks without that action failing.Drones
Many datasheets in this section can be equipped with Drone models. In addition, some Vehicle models can start the battle with any Drones they are equipped with docked with that model.
The profiles, wargear, abilities and keywords for DRONE models can be found below:| NAME | M | WS | BS | S | T | W | A | Ld | Sv | Base | |
| Advanced Guardian Drone, Command-link Drone, Grav-inhibitor Drone, Guardian Drone, Gun Drone, Marker Drone, Missile Drone, Pulse Accelerator Drone, Sniper Drone and Stealth Drone (base: 32mm flying base) | |||||||||||
| Advanced Guardian Drone, Command-link Drone, Grav-inhibitor Drone, Guardian Drone, Gun Drone, Marker Drone, Missile Drone, Pulse Accelerator Drone, Sniper Drone and Stealth Drone | 10" | 5+ | 5+ | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4+ | 32mm flying base | |
| Shield Drone and Shielded Missile Drone (base: 32mm flying base) | |||||||||||
| Shield Drone and Shielded Missile Drone | 10" | 5+ | 5+ | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4+ | 32mm flying base | |
| Interceptor Drone (base: 32mm flying base) | |||||||||||
| Interceptor Drone | 20" | 5+ | 5+ | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4+ | 32mm flying base | |
| Recon Drone (base: 32mm flying base) | |||||||||||
| Recon Drone | 10" | 5+ | 5+ | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4+ | 32mm flying base | |
- A Gun Drone is equipped with: 2 pulse carbines.
- An Interceptor Drone is equipped with: 2 ion rifles.
- A Marker Drone is equipped with: markerlight.
- A Recon Drone is equipped with: burst cannon.
- A Shielded Missile Drone is equipped with: missile pod.
- A Sniper Drone is equipped with: longshot pulse rifle.
WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D | ABILITIES |
Gun Drone | ||||||
| Pulse carbine | ||||||
| Pulse carbine | 24" | Assault 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | - |
Interceptor Drone | ||||||
Ion rifle | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
Ion rifle | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 30" | Heavy 3 | 7 | -2 | 1 | - |
| - Overcharge | ||||||
| - Overcharge | 30" | Heavy 3 | 8 | -2 | 2 | If any unmodified hit rolls of 1 are made for attacks with this weapon profile, the bearer suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. |
| If any unmodified hit rolls of 1 are made for attacks with this weapon profile, the bearer suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. | ||||||
Missile Drone and Shielded Missile Drone | ||||||
| Missile pod | ||||||
| Missile pod | 30" | Assault 2 | 7 | -2 | 2 | - |
Recon Drone | ||||||
| Burst cannon | ||||||
| Burst cannon | 18" | Assault 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | - |
Sniper Drone | ||||||
| Longshot pulse rifle | ||||||
| Longshot pulse rifle | 48" | Rapid Fire 1 | 5 | -2 | 1 | - |
OTHER WARGEAR | ABILITIES | ||||||
Marker Drone | |||||||
Markerlight | |||||||
The bearer gains the MARKERLIGHT keyword. | |||||||
Markerlight | The bearer gains the MARKERLIGHT keyword. | ||||||
ABILITIES | |
ABILITIES |
Manta Strike Valued Sacrifice: Each time a DRONE model in this unit is destroyed, it is ignored for the purpose of Morale tests if this unit also contains models without the DRONE keyword. Artificial Helpers: DRONE models are ignored for the purposes of:
Limited Parameters: If this unit contains only DRONE models, this unit cannot perform actions (excluding the Fire Markerlights action) and loses the Objective Secured ability if it has it, and cannot gain it through any means. Docked Drone: If this model is docked with another:
Keywords:
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ABILITIES (Advanced Guardian Drone) | |
ABILITIES (Advanced Guardian Drone) |
Advanced Guardian Shield Generator: This model has a 4+ invulnerable save. This unit cannot be selected as a target for ranged attacks unless it is the closest eligible target to the firing model.
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ABILITIES (Command-link Drone) | |
ABILITIES (Command-link Drone) |
Command-link: Add 3" to the range of this unit’s aura abilities (to a maximum of 12"). Each time a model in this unit uses an ability in your Command phase (excluding aura abilities), add 3" to the range of that ability.
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ABILITIES (Grav-inhibitor Drone) | |
ABILITIES (Grav-inhibitor Drone) |
Gravity Wave Projector: Subtract 2 from charge rolls made for any unit that declares a charge against this unit.
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ABILITIES (Guardian Drone) | |
ABILITIES (Guardian Drone) |
Guardian Shield Generator: This model has a 4+ invulnerable save. Each time a ranged attack is made against this unit, an unmodified wound roll of 1-2 for that attack fails, irrespective of any abilities that the weapon or the model making the attack may have.
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ABILITIES (Gun Drone) | |
ABILITIES (Gun Drone) |
Threat Identification Protocol: Each time this model makes a ranged attack, it can only target the nearest eligible unit.
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ABILITIES (Pulse Accelerator Drone) | |
ABILITIES (Pulse Accelerator Drone) |
Pulse Accelerator: Each time a model in this unit makes an attack with a pulse weapon, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
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ABILITIES (Recon Drone) | |
ABILITIES (Recon Drone) |
Recon Suite: Each time a model in this unit makes a ranged attack that targets a unit within 18", the target does not receive the benefits of Light Cover against that attack.
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ABILITIES (Shield Drone and Shielded Missile Drone) | |
ABILITIES (Shield Drone and Shielded Missile Drone) |
Drone Shield Generator: This model has a 4+ invulnerable save.
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ABILITIES (Stealth Drone) | |
ABILITIES (Stealth Drone) |
Stealth Field Generator: This unit cannot be selected as a target for ranged attacks unless it is the closest eligible target to the firing model or the firing model is within 18" of it.
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| FACTION KEYWORDS: T’AU EMPIRE, | |
| KEYWORDS: DRONE, FLY | |
| KEYWORDS (Advanced Guardian Drone): ADVANCED GUARDIAN DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Command-link Drone): COMMAND-LINK DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Grav-inhibitor Drone): GRAV-INHIBITOR DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Guardian Drone): GUARDIAN DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Gun Drone): GUN DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Interceptor Drone): INTERCEPTOR DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Marker Drone): MARKER DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Missile Drone): MISSILE DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Pulse Accelerator Drone): PULSE ACCELERATOR DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Recon Drone): RECON DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Shield Drone): SHIELD DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Shielded Missile Drone): SHIELDED MISSILE DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Sniper Drone): SNIPER DRONE | |
| KEYWORDS (Stealth Drone): STEALTH DRONE | |
Weapon Definitions
Some rules refer to ‘ion weapons’ or ‘plasma weapons’ and so on. The definitions of these weapons for the purposes of such rules can be found below:
Burst Weapons
A burst weapon is any weapon whose profile includes the word ‘burst’ (burst cannon, high-output burst cannon, etc.), and any Relic or Prototype System that replaces such a weapon.Ion Weapons
An ion weapon is any weapon whose profile includes the word ‘ion’ (ion cannon, ion rifle, etc.), and any Relic or Prototype System that replaces such a weapon.Missile Weapons
A missile weapon is any weapon whose profile includes the word ‘missile’ (missile pod, smart missile system, etc.), and any Relic or Prototype System that replaces such a weapon.Plasma Weapons
A plasma weapon is any weapon whose profile includes the word ‘plasma’ (plasma rifle, twin plasma rifle, etc.), and any Relic or Prototype System that replaces such a weapon.Pulse Weapons
A pulse weapon is any weapon whose profile includes the word ‘pulse’ (pulse carbine, pulse pistol, etc.), and any Relic or Prototype System that replaces such a weapon. Note that Shade (see Darkstrider datasheet) is also a pulse weapon.Detachment Rules
A FARSIGHT ENCLAVES Detachment is one that only includes models with the FARSIGHT ENCLAVES keyword (excluding models with the T’AU AUXILIARY and UNALIGNED keyword).
- T’AU EMPIRE Detachments gain the Cadre Command ability.
- FARSIGHT ENCLAVES Detachments gain the Independent Power ability.
- T’AU EMPIRE units (excluding T’AU AUXILIARY units) in T’AU EMPIRE Detachments gain the Sept Tenets ability.
- Troops units in T’AU EMPIRE Detachments gain the Objective Secured ability.
Cadre Command
The organisational hierarchy of the Fire Caste places centralised responsibility for tactical deployment of each cadre in the hands of a single Commander, the better to ensure clarity and focus.
- You can include a maximum of one COMMANDER model in each Detachment in your army (excluding FARSIGHT ENCLAVES Detachments).
- You can include a maximum of two COMMANDER models in each FARSIGHT ENCLAVES Detachment in your army.
Independent Power
Unlike the T’au Empire from which they seceded, the Farsight Enclaves have nothing but antipathy for the Ethereal Caste. The feeling, it seems, is exceedingly mutual.
You cannot include any ETHEREAL models in this Detachment.Sept Tenets
Each sept has its own combat philosophy suited to the skills of its warriors.If every unit from your army (excluding T’AU AUXILIARY, SUPREME COMMANDER and UNALIGNED units) is from the same sept, all T’AU EMPIRE units with this ability, and all the models in them, gain a Sept Tenet. The Sept Tenet gained depends upon which sept they are from, as shown below.
Example: A VIOR’LA unit with the Sept Tenets ability gains the Strike Fast tenet.
If your sept does not have an associated Sept Tenet, you must instead create a new Sept Tenet for them, as described here. This allows you to customise the rules for your sept to best represent their fighting style.
In either case, write down all of your Detachments’ Sept Tenets on your army roster.
Septs
WARLORD TRAITS
Each sept has an associated Sept Warlord Trait. If a T’AU EMPIRE <SEPT> CHARACTER model gains a Warlord Trait, they can have the relevant Sept Warlord Trait instead of a Warlord Trait from this section.
STRATAGEMS
Each sept has an associated Sept Stratagem. If your army includes a Sept Detachment (excluding Auxiliary Support, Super-heavy Auxiliary or Fortification Network Detachments), then you will gain access to the relevant Sept Stratagem.
Each sept has an associated Sept Signature System. If your army is led by a T’AU EMPIRE <SEPT> CHARACTER WARLORD, you can give the relevant Sept Signature System to a T’AU EMPIRE <SEPT> CHARACTER model in your army instead of giving them a Signature System Relic. Named characters (such as COMMANDER SHADOWSUN) cannot be given a Signature System Relic.
Note that some Relics replace one of the models existing items of wargear. Where this is the case, you must, if you are using points values, still pay the cost of the wargear that is being replaced. Write down any Signature System Relics your models have on your army roster.
Example: A Battle-forged army includes a T’AU EMPIRE Detachment in which every unit has the VIOR’LA keyword. A CHARACTER model in that Detachment that is given a Warlord Trait can instead be given the Academy Luminary Warlord Trait. You also have access to the Hot-blooded Stratagem and can spend CPs to use it, and if the army’s Warlord is selected from this Detachment, then a VIOR’LA CHARACTER model in your army that could be given an Signature System Relic can instead be given Automated Armour Defences.
T’au Sept
The warriors of T’au Sept are all-too-aware of their status as the exemplars of their race’s military philosophy. It is a duty they take extremely seriously. Their cadres manoeuvre with slick efficiency, smoothly establishing flowing gun lines that hammer the enemy with an unrelenting rain of fire until the outmatched foe are reduced to corpses and blazing wreckage.
So exceptionally drilled and responsive are the warriors of T’au Sept that their fields of fire shift and overlap with inescapable efficiency.
- Each time a unit with this tenet is selected to shoot or fight, you can re-roll one hit roll or one wound roll when resolving that unit’s attacks.
- Add 3" to the range of aura abilities of models with this tenet (to a maximum of 12").
- Each time a model with this tenet intones an invocation that is not an aura, or uses an ability in your Command phase that specifies a range, add 3" to the range of that invocation or ability (to a maximum of 12").
WARLORD TRAIT: STRENGTH OF CONVICTION
This warlord’s dedication to the T’au’va is so great that they will not allow themselves to die with their duty undone.
Each time this WARLORD would lose a wound, roll one D6: on a 5+, that wound is not lost.This enhanced movement system can be adapted for both battlesuits and vehicles. It consists of multiple high-output thruster nozzles, each hardwired into the pilot’s neural interface, allowing them to react with startling speed to any changes in the strategic situation.
BATTLESUIT model only.- Add 2" to the bearer’s Move characteristic.
- Once per battle round, when the bearer is selected as a target of a charge, if it is not within Engagement Range of any enemy units it can use this Relic. If it does, it can make a Normal Move. Until the end of the phase, the bearer cannot fire Overwatch or Set to Defend. Your opponent can select new targets for the charge.
T’au Sept doctrine heavily emphasises the massed concentration of fire upon a single target at a time, obliterating each component of the enemy force in succession with a series of unrelenting barrages.
Vior’la
The Vior’lan T’au push the limits between blistering aggression and perilous incaution. Renowned for their hot-blooded tendencies, these natural warriors prefer proactive battle strategies that set the enemy onto the back foot from the very beginning, and keep them off balance until their inevitable defeat amidst a hurricane of firepower and swiftly redeploying T’au cadres.
The Commanders of Vior’la harness their warriors fiery temperament by embracing a highly mobile and aggressive form of warfare, taking the fight to the heart of the enemy.
- At the start of your first turn, for each unit from your army that is wholly within your deployment zone, until the end of the turn, add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit.
- You can re-roll Advance rolls and charge rolls made for units with this tenet.
WARLORD TRAIT: ACADEMY LUMINARY
This Warlord has been marked for greatness by the exacting Fire Caste tutors of Vior’la, exhibiting a swift and decisive grasp of grand strategy that sees them outmanoeuvre their foes with deceptive ease.
While this WARLORD is on the battlefield, each time you spend a Command point to use a T’au Empire Strategic Ploy or T’au Empire Wargear Stratagem, roll one D6: on a 3+, that Command point is refunded.These Al-targeted micro-laser defence systems deploy from pods sited between interlocking armour plates, providing point-defence fire as the wearer plunges into the enemy’s midst.
COMMANDER model only. At the start of your Shooting phase, roll one D6: on a 2-4, the closest enemy unit within 18" of and visible to the bearer suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, the closest enemy unit within 12" of and visible to the bearer suffers D3 mortal wounds.The daredevil Fire Warriors of Vior’la stray dangerously close to enemy formations in order to maximise the killing power of their pulse volleys.
Sa’cea
The warriors of Sa’cea make a virtue of their willingness to plunge into the most gruelling campaigns amidst close and difficult terrain, and to carve out victory from such punishing war zones in the name of the Greater Good.
There are few more perilous and nightmarish battlefields than those created when a tangled cityscape is plunged into ruinous war. Yet it is amidst such conditions that the T’au of Sa’cea Sept excel. They make an art of fighting through half-collapsed cities, knowing just how to exploit this inimical environment to their advantage.
- Each time a ranged attack targets a VEHICLE unit with this tenet, if the attacker is more than 18" away, then the target is treated as having the benefits of Dense Cover against that attack.
- Each time a ranged attack targets an INFANTRY unit with this tenet, if the attacker is more than 12" away, then the target is treated as having the benefits of Dense Cover against that attack.
- VEHICLE and BATTLESUIT models with this tenet do not suffer the penalty incurred to their hit rolls for firing Heavy weapons at enemy units that are within Engagement Range of them.
WARLORD TRAIT: STRATEGIC CONQUEROR
This warlord appreciates the strategic value of seizing static battlefield assets amidst the distinctly un-T’au-like grind of urban warfare.
In your Command phase, select one friendly SA’CEA unit within 9" of this WARLORD. Until the start of your next Command phase, that unit gains the Objective Secured ability. If that unit already has this ability, models in that unit counts as one additional model when determining control of an objective marker.It was Commander O’Jir of Sac’ea who first utilised the Grav-inhibitor Field during the defence of Laguna Shard against Ork raiders. The gravitic-field generator mounted upon the Commander’s battlesuit unleashed waves of battering kinetic force, disrupting each and every attempt by the be’gel to overwhelm his position.
- At the start of the Fight phase, all enemy units within Engagement Range of the bearer are not eligible to fight this phase until after all eligible units from your army have done so.
- Each time a melee attack is made against the bearer, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.
Sa’cean cadres maintain close contact with Air Caste spotters in low orbit whose intelligence scans augment the accuracy of the Fire Caste.
Dal’yth
The armies of Daly’th Sept are renowned for their high concentrations of alien auxiliary forces, and for the diversity of technologies and armaments such allies bring.
Closer integration of alien auxiliaries sees Dal’yth cadres benefit from shared defensive technologies and unusually well-coordinated tactics.
- Each time a ranged attack is made against an INFANTRY unit with this tenet, if the attacker is not within Engagement Range of that unit, models in that unit receive the benefit of Light Cover against that attack.
- If you selected a Tactical Philosophy at the start of the battle, T’AU AUXILIARY units that are in the same Detachment as units with this tenet benefit from your army’s selected Tactical Philosophy.
WARLORD TRAIT: UNIFYING INFLUENCE
This warlord is held in the highest favour by the alien auxiliaries serving alongside them.
This WARLORD gains the following abilities:Diplomatic Excellence (Aura): While a friendly DAL’YTH or T’AU AUXILIARY unit (excluding CHARACTER units) is within 6" of this WARLORD, add 1 to the Leadership characteristic of models in that unit.
Integrated Command Structure (Aura): While a friendly T’AU AUXILIARY unit is within 6" of this WARLORD, that unit is treated as not having the T’AU AUXILIARY keyword for the purpose of the Markerlights rule.
Commanders hailing from Dal’yth prefer stealth and subterfuge to overt aggression, and their demands for improved camouflage technology have led to the development of the Dynamic Mirror Field. This advanced prototype is based upon the refraction technology utilised to such tremendous effect by Ghostkeel battlesuits, adapted for alternative armour chassis. Armour nodes project multiple light-distortion fields, creating false images of the bearer to draw enemy fire.
- The bearer cannot be selected as a target for ranged attacks unless it is the closest eligible target to the firing model or the firing model is within 12" of it.
- The bearer has a 5+ invulnerable save.
Inspired by the fieldcraft of alien auxilia, the warriors of Dal’yth are practised in subtly encircling their foes.
Bork’an
The cadres of Bork’an Sept epitomise the T’au application of technological supremacy as the solution to every challenge. The fearless progressives of their Earth Caste experiment and refine constantly to ensure that, when the armies of Bork’an march to war, they are armed and armoured with the highest specification wargear in the T’au Empire.
From Bork’an Sept’s renowned applied science divisions come the most advanced and ingenious weapon prototypes, and the finest suits of combat armour, field tested by elite contingents of Fire Caste soldiers.
- Add 4" to the Range characteristic of ranged weapons that models with this tenet are equipped with.
- Each time a ranged attack is made with a weapon that has a Strength characteristic of 7 or less against a VEHICLE or BATTLESUIT unit with this tenet, subtract 1 from the Strength characteristic of that attack.
WARLORD TRAIT: SEEKER OF PERFECTION
Conscious that they wield the finest tools of war available to any T’au, this warlord seeks to be equal in skill to the weapons it is their privilege to bear.
Each time this WARLORD makes a ranged attack:- Improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
- An unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts 1 mortal wound on the target in addition to any normal damage (to a maximum of 3 mortal wounds per phase).
Hyper-capacitors based upon micro-engineered Nicassar defence battery technologies provide this battlesuit’s wearer with triggered surges of additional offensive power.
COMMANDER model only. Select up to two ranged weapons this model is equipped with. Each time the bearer makes a ranged attack with one of those weapons that targets a unit within half range, add 1 to that attack’s wound roll.Bork’an scientists have distributed the latest prototype weapons amongst their sept’s Fire Caste contingents, optimised to increase range and accuracy.
Farsight Enclaves
The armies of the Farsight Enclaves fight in a manner that echoes the dynamic heroism and fearless determination of their leader and beloved hero, Commander Farsight.
O’Shovah’s mastery of Mont’ka has bled into the martial culture of the Farsight Enclaves. Its warriors are experts in the deadly art of engaging the enemy in close confines.
- Each time a model with this tenet makes a ranged attack that targets a unit within 9", the target is treated as having a Markerlight token.
- Each time a unit with this tenet is selected to shoot or fight, you can re-roll one wound roll when resolving that unit’s attacks.
WARLORD TRAIT: MASTER OF THE KILLING BLOW
This warlord knows that cutting the head from the snake is a sound battlefield tactic in any war, and they pursue enemy commanders and warlords relentlessly. Once they are successful in their hunt, their enemies’ forces collapse into disarray and are easy prey.
Each time this WARLORD makes an attack:- On an unmodified wound roll of 6, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 3.
- The model that attack is allocated to cannot use any rules to ignore the wounds it loses.
The artefact world of Arthas Moloch was little more than a devastated wasteland when the Farsight Expedition arrived. Yet the T’au recovered a number of strange relics there, amongst them a hexagrammatic talisman. Farsight has seen first-hand that this arcane object protects its wearer and those around them from baleful energies, though neither he nor his advisors have the faintest idea of how it does so.
- In your opponent’s Psychic phase, the bearer can attempt to deny one psychic power as if it were a PSYKER.
- Add 1 to Deny the Witch tests taken for the bearer.
O’Shovah’s warriors have mastered the art of the drop-zone assault. There are few more imposing sights than a cadre of battlesuits raining from low orbit, jump-jets blazing and cannons spitting death at the helpless foe.
Expanding Empire
Service to the Greater Good requires that the T’au Empire’s borders expand ever outwards, and that the T’au themselves innovate constantly. For all this, the lack of warp travel and careful direction of the Ethereal Caste tends to see new ideas, technologies and strategies flow steadily across the empire like directed flows of water.
- That tenet cannot be from the same Sector as the first tenet that you chose.
- That tenet must be selected from a list corresponding to a Sector that is adjacent (as shown on the map below) to the one you selected your first tenet from.
- Each time a melee attack with an Armour Penetration characteristic of -1 or -2 is allocated to a model with this tenet, if that model was charged this turn, that attack has an Armour Penetration characteristic of 0 instead.
- Each time a model with this tenet makes a ranged attack that targets a unit within 12", the target does not receive the benefits of Light Cover against that attack.
Allied World
Select one of the following septs and use the tenet of that sept (if you choose the Farsight Enclaves sept, then your Detachments will also gain the Independent Power Detachment ability and are treated as Farsight Enclaves Detachments for the purpose of the Cadre Command ability:
If a CHARACTER model with this tenet gains a Warlord Trait, they can have the Sept Warlord Trait associated with the sept that you selected, instead of a Warlord Trait from this section. If it does so, replace all instances of the sept keyword on that Warlord Trait (e.g. VIOR’LA), if any, with the name of the sept that the CHARACTER is from.
Unless the only units with this tenet are part of an Auxiliary Support, Super-heavy Auxiliary and/or Fortification Network Detachment, you will gain access to the Sept Stratagem associated with the sept that you selected. When using such a Stratagem, replace all instances of the sept keyword on that Stratagem (e.g. VIOR’LA) with the sept that the units with this tenet are from.
Strike Swiftly
At the start of the first battle round, before the first turn begins, INFANTRY units with this tenet that start the battle wholly within your deployment zone can make a Normal Move of up to 6". They cannot end this move within 9" of the enemy deployment zone or any enemy models.Play Their Part
- BATTLESUIT models with this tenet that have a Wounds characteristic of 9 or less count as 3 models when determining control of an objective marker.
- BATTLESUIT models with this tenet that have a Wounds characteristic of 10 or more count as 5 models when determining control of an objective marker.
Adherents to the Teachings
- Add 3" to the range of aura abilities of models with this tenet (to a maximum of 12").
- Each time a model with this tenet intones an invocation that is not an aura, or uses an ability in your Command phase that specifies a range, add 3" to the range of that invocation or ability (to a maximum of 12").
Camouflage Experts
Each time a ranged attack is made against an INFANTRY unit with this tenet that is entirely on or within a terrain feature, if the attacker is more than 12" away, then the unit with this tenet is treated as receiving the benefits of Dense Cover against that attack.Defensive Doctrines
Each time a melee attack with an Armour Penetration characteristic of -1 or -2 is allocated to a model with this tenet, if that model was charged this turn, that attack has an Armour Penetration characteristic of 0 instead.Blocking Tactics
Each time a CORE INFANTRY unit with this tenet makes a charge move, until the start of your next Charge phase, CORE models in that unit have the Objective Secured ability. If such a model already has this ability, that model counts as one additional model when determining control of an objective marker.Fire Caste Marksmen
Each time a model with this tenet makes a ranged attack with a pulse weapon, on an unmodified wound roll of 6, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.Sector C
EVASION MANOEUVRES
Each time a unit with this tenet Advances, until the start of your next Movement phase, models in that unit that can FLY have a 5+ invulnerable save against ranged attacks.
Pinpoint Targeting
Each time a model with this tenet makes a ranged attack that targets a unit within 12", the target does not receive the benefits of Light Cover against that attack.Disengagement Protocols
Each time an INFANTRY unit with this tenet is selected to Fall Back, select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of that INFANTRY unit and roll one D6: on a 2-5, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.Fire Saturation
Each time a model with this tenet makes a ranged attack with a burst weapon that targets a unit within 12", add 1 to that attack’s hit roll.Reliable Weaponry
Each time a unit with this tenet is selected to shoot, you can re-roll one wound roll when resolving that unit’s attacks.Defenders of the Cause
Each time a model with this tenet (excluding DRONE models) would lose a wound as the result of a mortal wound, roll one D6: on a 5+, that wound is not lost.Reinforced Armour
Each time a ranged attack is made with a weapon that has a Strength characteristic of 7 or less against a VEHICLE or BATTLESUIT unit with this tenet, subtract 1 from the Strength characteristic of that attack.Hardened Warheads
Each time a model with this tenet makes a ranged attack with a missile weapon, the target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack.Loyal to the End
- Add 1 to the Leadership characteristic of models with this tenet.
- Each time a Morale test is taken for a unit with this tenet, you can re-roll that test.
Rapid Retreat
Each time a unit with this tenet Falls Back, add 3" to the distance that every model in that unit can move.Enriched Reactors
Each time a model with this tenet makes a ranged attack with a plasma weapon, an unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts 1 mortal wound on the target in addition to any normal damage.Stratagems by Phase
EMERGENCY DISPENSATION (T’au Empire – Requisition)
PROMISING PUPIL (T’au Empire – Requisition)
Battle Round
BACKUP AI (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
BRANCHED NOVA CHARGE (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
DESIGNATED TASKING (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
ORBITAL ION BEAM (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
COMBAT DEBARKATION (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
WISDOM OF THE MANY (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
DROP THREAT ACQUISITION (T’au Empire – Battle Tactic)
DYNAMIC OFFENSIVE (T’au Empire – Battle Tactic)
FIRING LINE (T’au Empire – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy)
WALL OF MIRRORS (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
DROP ZONE CLEAR (Farsight Enclaves – Battle Tactic)
OUTFLANK (Dal’yth – Strategic Ploy)
WISDOM OF THE MANY (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
ON-BOARD SENSORS (T’au Empire – Battle Tactic)
POINT-BLANK VOLLEY (T’au Empire – Battle Tactic)
STRIKE AND FADE (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
WISDOM OF THE MANY (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
POINT-BLANK VOLLEY (T’au Empire – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)
BREACH AND CLEAR (T’au Empire – Battle Tactic)
COORDINATED ENGAGEMENT (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
FREQUENCY LOCK (T’au Empire – Wargear)
IONISED SHOCKFIELD (T’au Empire – Wargear)
NEUROWEB SYSTEM JAMMER (T’au Empire – Wargear)
PULSE ONSLAUGHT (T’au Empire – Battle Tactic)
RECON SWEEP (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
RELENTLESS FUSILLADE (T’au Empire – Battle Tactic)
SHOCKING FIRESTORM (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
SUBMUNITIONS (T’au Empire – Wargear)
PULSEFIRE DRILL (T’au Empire – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)
EXPERIMENTAL WEAPONRY (Bork’an – Epic Deed)
FOCUSED FIRE (T’au Sept – Battle Tactic)
HOT-BLOODED (Vior’la – Battle Tactic)
ORBITAL UPLINK (Sa’cea – Strategic Ploy)
COUNTERFIRE DEFENCE SYSTEM (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
WISDOM OF THE MANY (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
PHOTON GRENADES (T’au Empire – Wargear)
REPULSOR IMPACT FIELD (T’au Empire – Wargear)
PHOTON GRENADES (T’au Empire – Boarding Actions – Wargear)
A TRAP WELL LAID (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
A TRAP WELL LAID (T’au Empire – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy)
WISDOM OF THE MANY (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
THE GRISLY FEAST (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
THE BLOODY GORGING (T’au Empire – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)
THE GRISLY FEAST (T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy)
THE BLOODY GORGING (T’au Empire – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)
WISDOM OF THE MANY (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
FAIL-SAFE DETONATOR (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
SAVIOUR PROTOCOLS (T’au Empire – Epic Deed)
Stratagems
If your army includes any T’AU EMPIRE Detachments (excluding Auxiliary Support, Super-heavy Auxiliary or Fortification Network Detachments), you have access to these Stratagems, and can spend CPs to use them.
Breacher Teams excel at clearing enemy-held structures with blinding photon grenades and disciplined bursts of pulse fire.
- The target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack.
- You can re-roll the wound roll.
With mechanical efficiency instilled by endless drills, the T’au maintain a punishing fire rate even when engaging the enemy at long range.
- Instead of following the normal rules for Rapid Fire weapons, models in that unit shooting pulse rifles make double the number of attacks.
- Each time a CORE model in that unit makes a ranged attack, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
The active sensor-nets employed by Devilfish transports are able to instantly outlink to nearby friendly forces to triangulate visible targets for elimination.
‘Sensor Link (Aura): While a friendly <SEPT> FIRE WARRIOR TEAM unit is within 6" of this model, each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack against the selected enemy unit, re-roll a hit roll of 1.’
Engaging all systems, skilled battlesuit pilots can surge into battle in a blaze of deadly-accurate firepower.
- Each time that unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit.
- Models in that unit do not suffer the penalty to hit rolls incurred for firing Assault weapons in the same turn that their unit has Advanced.
Rather than charge into hand-to-hand combat, T’au soldiery instead intensify their fire patterns and systematically lay waste to the foe.
Some T’au perform complex drills in which they train to operate their weapons at extremely close range.
Even as they descend from on high with thrusters blazing, battlesuit pilots are already locking onto hostile targets and computing fire solutions.
Drones will dive into the path of incoming fire without a second thought if it means protecting T’au lives.
This prototype power router floods the intense energy generated by a nova reactor to multiple engine systems.
Though the technique is frowned upon as dangerously reckless, the most dedicated or aggressive Fire Warriors sometimes spring from their moving transports, roll with the impact of landing, and come up with pulse weapons already blazing.
- If you selected the Mont’ka Tactical Philosophy at the start of the battle and it is the first, second or third battle round, select up to three DEVILFISH models from your army.
- If you selected the Kauyon Tactical Philosophy at the start of the battle and it is the third, fourth or fifth battle round, select up to three DEVILFISH models from your army.
- Otherwise, select one DEVILFISH model from your army.
In their wisdom, the T’au Ethereals know how powerful the combined strength of the four other castes can be.
The battlesuits of high value T’au operatives are equipped with a fail-safes that ensure the pilot cannot be taken alive for interrogation.
Many T’au war engines and martial technologies incorporate backup Al that can lend support to pilots in extremis.
Multiple advanced prototypes and ultra-rare technologies have been provided for the war effort by Ethereal decree.
The Fire Caste academies imbue in all Fire Warriors the importance of raising up the particularly skilled of their number.
A kor’vattra cruiser in high orbit unleashes a pulse from an immense ion cannon, engulfing the target in white-hot energy.
The T’au Stealth Cadres utilise interwoven obfuscation fields and wide-band refraction beams to mask their advance. This process is known as mesme’j’kaara - the wall of mirrors.
By devouring the flesh of fallen foes, Kroot believe they also absorb the enemy’s vigour and vitality.
T’au combined arms groups are called Hunter Cadres for good reason. Working in close coordination, they hunt and destroy the most dangerous enemy targets.
- That attack can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
- Improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
The Kroot have long perfected the art of ambush hunting, and are not above using allied forces as their bait.
- Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of models in that unit.
- That unit is eligible to perform Heroic Interventions as if it were a CHARACTER.
- That unit is eligible to perform a Heroic Intervention if it is within 6" horizontally of an enemy unit, and when performing a Heroic Intervention move with that unit, you can move each model in that unit up to 6". All other rules for Heroic Interventions still apply.
Pathfinders are the eyes and ears of the T’au war machine, always operating ten steps ahead of the foe.
Having intentionally allowed the foe a false sense of security, the T’au now shatter that ill-founded confidence with a focused fusillade.
Point-defence systems trigger as incoming fire is detected, blasting projectiles from the air and blunting the onslaught.
Drone Al are adaptive enough to be assigned individual missions by their masters.
If any of those DRONE models are docked with another model, set them up within 1" of the model they are docked with before splitting the unit. Those DRONE models are no longer docked with that model.
T’au are experts at harrying and outmanoeuvring their foes, bleeding them with accurate bursts of fire before fading away into the shadows.
If that unit contains 5 or fewer models (excluding DRONE models), this Stratagem costs 1CP; otherwise, it costs 2CP.
Seeker missiles are designed to lock onto the remote targeting beacon provided by a markerlight beam and ride the signal all the way to their target, even bypassing and evading intervening terrain in the process.
- That attack can target units with one or more Markerlight tokens that are not visible to the attacking model.
- Add 1 to that attack’s wound roll.
This device emits an intense neurostatic jamming field, scrambling the enemy’s senses and fouling their aim.
Detecting an incoming enemy assault, the pilot’s battlesuit unleashes a hammer-pulse of kinetic energy strong enough to shatter bone.
By modulating their weapons’ settings, skilled T’au marksmen can cause an ionised energy pulse to erupt from the point of impact to inflict neurological and wave-field disruption upon the foe.
Hammerhead railguns are able to fire short-ranged fragmentation rounds for anti-personnel defence.
Hurling a volley of photon grenades, the T’au leave their enemies dazzled and disorientated, unable to close the distance into combat at a crucial moment.
- Subtract 2 from that unit’s charge rolls.
- Each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.
Prototype Systems
- COMMANDER models
- Crisis Shas’vre models
- Crisis Bodyguard Shas’vre models
- Ghostkeel Shas’vre models
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Note that some Prototype Systems replace one of the model’s existing items of wargear. Where this is the case, you must, if you are using points values, still pay the cost of the wargear that is being replaced.
Named characters cannot be given Prototype Systems. Each model can only have one Prototype System. An army (or a Crusade force) cannot include the same Prototype System more than once. Prototype Systems are not considered to be Relics for any rules purposes - this means a CHARACTER model can be equipped with both a Relic and a Prototype System.
A Crusade force cannot start with any models having Prototype Systems - to include one in a Crusade force you must use the Prototype System Requisition.
Starflare Ignition System
The ignition thrusters on selected Coldstar Battlesuits are augmented with optional feed-selectors, allowing the pilot to release a jet of enriched accelerant upon take-off. The result is an angled blast of ferocious propellant-flames that erupt out from beneath the battlesuit like a stellar flare even as it soars skywards and leaves its victims to writhe and burn.
COLDSTAR COMMANDER model only. Once per battle, when the bearer starts or ends a move, or when it uses its High-altitude Manoevures ability (before removing it from the battlefield), it can use this Prototype System. If it does, roll one D6 for each other unit within 3" of this model: on a 2+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.Sensory Negation Countermeasures
This matrix of inlaid nodes is triggered when the foe approach at close-quarters, discharging a flurry of blinding light pulses, audio-disruption and neuro-electrological chaff that can overwhelm even the hardiest foes and leave them flailing about themselves in ill-directed panic and fury. This effect is extremely powerful, but currently burns out the node-matrix with a single discharge.
COMMANDER or CRISIS model only. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, the bearer can use this Prototype System. If it does, select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit. Until the end of the next turn, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.Alternating Fusion Blaster
This remarkable weapon employs a multi-state oscillating energy wave to project its fusion blast not only into and through unfortunate targets, but also in arcing secondary streams that flow around each impacted victim and onwards to the next. The effect is a coiling column of fusion energy capable of flowing through entire enemy formations.
COMMANDER or CRISIS model equipped with one or more fusion blasters only. This Prototype System replaces one fusion blaster and has the following profile:WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D |
| Alternating fusion blaster | |||||
| Alternating fusion blaster | 12" | Assault 1 | 8 | -4 | D6+2 |
Abilities: Each time an attack is made with this weapon, if a hit is scored, draw a straight line between the closest point of this model’s base (or hull) and that of the closest model in the target unit. Make one wound roll against the target unit, and each other unit this line passes over. | |||||
DW-02 Advanced Burst Cannon
This burst cannon is augmented with additional power accelerators and recoil-absorption modules, enabling it to unleash more firepower with every deadly salvo.
COMMANDER or CRISIS model equipped with one or more burst cannons only. This Prototype System replaces one burst cannon and has the following profile:WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D |
| DW-02 Advanced Burst Cannon | |||||
| DW-02 Advanced Burst Cannon | 18" | Assault 8 | 6 | -1 | 1 |
Abilities: Each time an attack made with this weapon is allocated to a model, that model cannot use any rules to ignore the wounds it loses. | |||||
Novasurge Plasma Rifle
This plasma rifle couples liquid hydrogen cooling flows with containment micro-field technology derived from the Sun Shark Bomber. These shielding measures allow the plasma generated within the weapon to reach far greater temperatures before being unleashed in searing blasts that few foes can long withstand.
COMMANDER or CRISIS model equipped with one or more plasma rifles only. This Prototype System replaces one plasma rifle and has the following profile:WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D |
| Novasurge Plasma Rifle | |||||
| Novasurge Plasma Rifle | 30" | Assault 1 | 8 | -5 | 3 |
Abilities: Each time an attack is made with this weapon, invulnerable saving throws cannot be made against that attack. | |||||
Thermoneutronic Projector
This device is fuelled by canisters of volatile stellar gas syphoned from coronae of neutron stars. The result, when the weapon is fired, is a sheet of blinding white flame that burns so ferociously hot that it can reduce the armour of a battle tank to molten slag.
COMMANDER or CRISIS model equipped with one or more T’au flamers only. This Prototype System replaces one T’au flamer and has the following profile:WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D |
| Thermoneutronic Projector [shooting) | |||||
| Thermoneutronic Projector [shooting) | 12" | Assault D6+2 | 4 | -2 | 2 |
| Thermoneutronic Projector [melee) | |||||
| Thermoneutronic Projector [melee) | Melee | Melee | 4 | -2 | 2 |
Abilities: Each time the bearer fights, it makes D6+2 additional attacks with this weapon. | |||||
Dominator Fragmentation Launcher
Viewed with distaste by some amongst the Fire Caste, this insidious weapon launches fragmentation munitions laced with psychoreactive skin-contact agents and neural micro-dampers. Those foes not slain by the initial blast are reduced to a state of terrified incomprehension that shatters their morale or leaves them catatonic.
COMMANDER or CRISIS model equipped with one or more airbursting fragmentation projectors only. This Prototype System replaces one airbursting fragmentation projector and has the following profile:WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D |
| Dominator Fragmentation Launcher | |||||
| Dominator Fragmentation Launcher | 24" | Assault D6 | 5 | -2 | 1 |
Abilities: Blast. This weapon can target units that are not visible to the bearer. Each time the bearer shoots with this weapon, if any hits are scored, until the end of the turn, subtract 4 from the Leadership characteristic of models in the target unit. | |||||
Internal Grenade Racks
These experimental battlesuit thigh-plates house deployment rails of highly explosive bomblets. As the pilot jets over the foe, the racks can be triggered and the explosives deployed.
Once per turn, after this model has moved in your Movement phase, you can select one unit it moved across and roll one D6: on a 2+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.Resonator Warheads
Missiles fitted with these warheads emit pulsing shock waves of sonic and kinetic force upon detonation, leaving survivors dazed, staggering and ill-coordinated.
COMMANDER or CRISIS model equipped with one or more missile pods only. This Prototype System replaces one missile pod and has the following profile:WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D |
| Resonator Warheads | |||||
| Resonator Warheads | 30" | Assault 3 | 8 | -2 | 2 |
Abilities: Each time the bearer shoots with this weapon, if any hits are scored against an INFANTRY, BEAST or CAVALRY unit, until the start of your next Shooting phase, halve the Move characteristic of models in that unit (if models in that unit are affected by any other modifiers to their Move characteristic, this ability cannot reduce it to less than half). | |||||
E-H Disruption Suite
Abbreviated from ‘Event Horizon’ Disruption Suite, this highly experimental package employs salvaged alien tech to nullify energy-pulses, signal bursts and other more esoteric energies.
GHOSTKEEL BATTLESUIT model only. Once per battle, in your Command phase, the bearer can use this Prototype System. If it does, until the start of your next Command phase, it gains the following ability:E-H Disruption (Aura): While an enemy unit is within 12" of this model, each time your opponent selects that unit for a Stratagem and each time your opponent uses a Stratagem when that unit is selected to shoot or fight, increase the CP cost of that Stratagem by 1CP. Note that the CP cost is only increased by 1CP for that use of the Stratagem, any future usages of it cost the normal amount of CPs.’
Stimm Injectors
This system injects the battlesuit pilot with a carefully measured dose of chemical stimulants intended to temporarily accelerate their phsyical aptitude and pain tolerances.
COMMANDER or CRISIS model only. Once per battle, when a saving throw is failed for the bearer, the bearer can use this Prototype System. If it does, until the end of the turn, each time the bearer would lose a wound, roll one D6: on a 4+, that wound is not lost.Wide-spectrum Scanners
This additional scanning package predicts enemy threat vectors and directs harassing fire patterns accordingly.
Model equipped with early warning override only. At the end of the Reinforcements step of your opponent’s Movement phase, if the bearer is not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, it can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but it can only target a single eligible enemy unit that was set up as Reinforcements this turn and is within 12" of the bearer.Invocations of the Ethereals
Before the battle, generate the invocations that each ETHEREAL model from your army knows using the table below. You can either roll one D6 to generate each invocation randomly (re-rolling duplicate results), or you can select which invocations the ETHEREAL knows.
| D6 | INVOCATION |
| 1 | STORM OF FIRE The steady gaze of the Ethereal reminds those of the Fire Caste that there lies within the heart of every storm a zone of silence that remains serene even as fury rages all about it. So inspired, they apply themselves to their assigned tasks with hard-eyed calm even as they continue to hammer the foe with unrelenting firepower. If this invocation is inspiring, select one friendly T’AU EMPIRE CORE unit (excluding FARSIGHT ENCLAVES units) within 6" of this ETHEREAL. That unit can make ranged attacks without any action it is performing failing. |
| 2 | SENSE OF STONE As stone resists the onslaught of the other elements in their endless quest to wear it away, so do the T’au exhibit that same unbending resilience. The result is a nigh-supernatural fortitude that sees them shrug off even the most punishing blows. If this invocation is inspiring, select one friendly T’AU EMPIRE CORE unit (excluding FARSIGHT ENCLAVES units) within 6" of this ETHEREAL. Each time a CORE model in that unit would lose a wound, roll one D6: on a 5+, that wound is not lost. |
| 3 | ZEPHYR’S GRACE As a breath of air slips unseen and unheard through blades of grass in a night-time forest, so do the T’au filter swift and silent across the battlefield. If this invocation is inspiring, select one friendly T’AU EMPIRE CORE unit (excluding FARSIGHT ENCLAVES units) within 6" of this ETHEREAL. Each time a ranged attack is made against that unit, if it did not Remain Stationary in your previous Movement phase, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll. |
| 4 | POWER OF TIDES It is not only the T’au who are inspired by the presence of the Ethereals. As surely as a world’s moons govern the tides of its oceans, so are even the strangest alien auxiliaries given fresh heart by such a serene presence. If this invocation is inspiring, select one friendly T’AU AUXILIARY unit within 6" of this ETHEREAL. Each time a model in that unit makes an attack, add 1 to that attack’s wound roll. |
| 5 | UNIFYING MANTRA (AURA) With simple eloquence does the chanting of the Ethereal remind their comrades of their place within the Greater Good, and of how those of all castes are stronger when they stand shoulder to shoulder against adversity than when they strive alone. If this invocation is inspiring, then while a friendly T’AU EMPIRE CORE unit (excluding FARSIGHT ENCLAVES units) is within 6" of this ETHEREAL:
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| 6 | WISDOM OF THE GUIDES An unspoken sense of serene enlightenment flows through the T’au ranks. None questions its source, for all understand this is the wisdom of the Ethereals made manifest amongst them. Thus offered the calm for fresh perspective amidst the mayhem of battle, the T’au commanders swiftly glean insights into the strategic ebb and flow. If this invocation is inspiring, you gain 1 Command point. |
Warlord Traits
If a <SEPT> CHARACTER model is your WARLORD, you can use the T’au Empire Warlord Traits table below to determine what Warlord Trait they have. You can either roll one D6 to randomly generate one, or you can select one. If a KROOT CHARACTER model is your WARLORD, you can instead use the Kroot Warlord Traits table below to determine what Warlord Trait they have in the same manner.
When you have determined a Warlord Trait for a T’AU EMPIRE CHARACTER model, replace all instances of the <SEPT> keyword in their Warlord Trait (if any) with the name of the sept that your model is from.
T’au Empire Warlord Traits
| D6 | WARLORD TRAIT |
| 1 | PRECISION OF THE HUNTER This warlord prowls the battlefield like a high-tech apex predator, stalking and assessing their quarry before they strike. When they do launch their assault, their every shot and blow is informed by their careful observations, perfectly aimed where they will do the greatest harm. Each time this WARLORD makes an attack, you can re-roll the hit roll and you can re-roll the wound roll. |
| 2 | THROUGH UNITY, DEVASTATION (AURA) Having studied every nuance of the art of applied mass-firepower, this warlord has mastered its deployment. Under their calm tutelage and stern gaze, warriors of the Fire Caste maximise every shot they fire, creating a blizzard of deadly-accurate energy that can pick apart even the most heavily armoured targets. While a friendly <SEPT> CORE unit is within 6" of this WARLORD, each time a CORE model in that unit makes a ranged attack, on an unmodified wound roll of 6, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. |
| 3 | A GHOST WALKS AMONG US Whether through application of personalised active camouflage or hard-earned stealth techniques mastered over dozens of missions behind enemy lines, this warlord can become virtually invisible to the foe should they choose to. They reveal themselves only when the moment is right to strike, exploding from the shadows with sudden and shocking ferocity.
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| 4 | THROUGH BOLDNESS, VICTORY This warlord favours courageous, some would say reckless, tactics that see them close swiftly on the foe and eliminate them through violent and decisive action. Enemies fall before their thunderbolt offensive, barely realising they are under attack before they have been slain in the name of the Greater Good. In your Command phase, select one friendly <SEPT> CORE unit within 9" of this WARLORD. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a CORE model in that unit makes a ranged attack, an unmodified hit roll of 6 automatically wounds the target. |
| 5 | EXEMPLAR OF THE KAUYON Long meditation upon the tenets of the Patient Hunter have seen this warlord master the application of this cunning ambush strategy. When they take to battlefield, they embody the teachings of the Kauyon, much to the dismay of their luckless prey. After both players have deployed their armies and determined who has the first turn, select up to one friendly <SEPT> unit, or up to three friendly <SEPT> units if you selected the Kauyon Tactical Philosophy this battle, and redeploy them. If the mission uses the Strategic Reserves rules, any of those units can be placed into Strategic Reserves without having to spend any additional CPs, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves. If both players have abilities that redeploy units, roll off: the winner chooses who redeploys their units first. |
| 6 | EXEMPLAR OF THE MONT’KA This warlord has studied the strategic and tactical precepts of the Mont’ka, the art of the Killing Blow. They both lead and fight accordingly, formulating swift and decisive battle-plans and leading their cadres from the front in aggressive strikes that send the enemy reeling. In your Command phase, select one friendly <SEPT> CORE unit within 9" of this WARLORD. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a Core model in that unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit within 9", or 12" if you selected the Mont’ka Tactical Philosophy this battle, you can re-roll the wound roll. |
Kroot Warlord Traits
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| 1 | MASTER OF THE HUNT (AURA) This warlord is an accomplished tracker of prey through even the most treacherous terrain or most extreme of weather conditions. They can detect camouflaged foes at fifty paces through a blizzard, employing only fieldcraft and instinct, and direct the warriors under their control to strike and slaughter their hapless quarry accordingly. While a friendly KROOT unit is within 6" of this WARLORD, each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack that targets a unit within 12", the target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack. |
| 2 | PACK LEADER (AURA) Rugged and rough-mannered, this warlord is more at home amongst the rank and file of their followers than attending high-level briefings. In battle they fight fierce and dirty, leading their warriors from front and centre, and urging them into the fray with a carnivore’s ferocious hunger. While a friendly KROOT unit is within 6" of this WARLORD, each time you make a charge roll for that unit, roll one additional D6 and discard one of the dice. |
| 3 | NOMADIC HUNTER (AURA) This warlord keeps their warriors always on the move, tracking fresh prey whose bodies may be consumed in order to claim their strength. His followers have become adept at the loping pursuit, snapping off harassing fire even as they tirelessly and mercilessly run their victims to ground. While a friendly KROOT unit is within 6" of this WARLORD, each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack, if that unit did not Fall Back this turn, it counts as having Remained Stationary during its previous Movement phase. |
Named Characters and Warlord Traits
If one of the following characters gains a Warlord Trait, they must have the one shown below:| CHARACTER | WARLORD TRAIT |
| Aun’Shi | Academy Luminary |
| Aun’Va | Through Unity, Devastation (Aura) |
| Commander Farsight | Exemplar of the Mont’ka |
| Commander Shadowsun | Exemplar of the Kauyon |
| Darkstrider | A Ghost Walks Among Us |
| Longstrike | Through Boldness, Victory |
| Shas’o R’alai | Inspiring Leader (Aura) |
| Shas’o R’myr | Inspiring Leader (Aura) |
Chapter Approved Rules
If every model in your army (excluding UNALIGNED units) has the T’AU EMPIRE keyword, and your WARLORD has the T’AU EMPIRE keyword, you can, if you are playing a matched play battle that instructs you to select secondary objectives (e.g. a mission from the Eternal War mission pack in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book), select one of them to be from the T’au Empire secondary objectives listed below.
Like all other secondary objectives, each of the secondary objectives listed below has a category, and they follow all the normal rules for secondary objectives (for example, when you select secondary objectives, you cannot choose more than one from each category, you can score no more than 15 victory points from each secondary objective you select during the mission etc.).
Shadow Operations
As efforts to secure this region continue, we must site sensor-beacons so as to help coordinate combined arms assaults and guide in orbital fire support and aerial combat assets.
Units in your army can perform the following action:
‘Install Targeting Relay (Action): One or more INFANTRY units from your army can start to perform this action at the end of your Movement phase. Each unit from your army that starts to perform this action must be within 6" of the centre of a different Aerospace Designation marker that has not had a targeting relay installed at it (see below). The action is completed at the start of your next Command phase or at the end of the battle, whichever comes first. If this action is successfully completed, that Aerospace Designation marker is said to have had a targeting relay installed at it.’
At the end of the battle, you score a number of victory points based on how many targeting relays were installed, as shown below:
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Battlefield Supremacy
Effective strategy requires not just the successful capture of crucial battlefield assets, or their denial to the enemy, but also proper implementation of the Code of Fire in matters of strategic timing. We must demonstrate our mastery of all these principles if we are to best serve the Greater Good.
If you selected the Kauyon Tactical Philosophy at the start of the battle, then at the end of your turn in battle rounds three, four and five, score 4 victory points if you control half or more of the total number of objective markers on the battlefield.
No Mercy, No Respite
A sloppy and costly victory is, to the T’au, no victory at all. We must execute the battle plan with faultless efficiency, and in so doing avoid unnecessary losses.
- 1 victory point if one or more enemy units were destroyed that battle round.
- 3 victory points if three or more enemy units were destroyed that battle round.
- 1 victory point if one or more enemy units were destroyed that battle round.
- 3 victory points if three or more enemy units were destroyed that battle round.
Crusade Rules
In this section you’ll find additional rules for playing Crusade battles with T’au Empire, such as Agendas, Battle Traits and Crusade Relics that are bespoke to T’au Empire units. You can find out more about Crusade armies in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.
Expanding the Empire
If your Crusade force includes T’AU EMPIRE units, it can embark upon the task of expanding the burgeoning T’au Empire, bringing new star systems into the fold for the betterment of all concerned. Your Crusade force can only work on integrating one star system at a time. If at any point your Crusade force finds itself without an active star system to assimilate, you can generate one as described below.GENERATING A NEW STAR SYSTEM
Creating a new star system involves the three following steps:1. Determine the temperament of the system’s inhabitants.
2. Determine the number of planets.
3. Determine what each of those planets are.
PLANETS
Each planet has the following characteristics:
Diplomat Power and Military Power: Over the course of your Crusade games you will bring each of these planets into the fold, either through the efforts of the Water Caste’s diplomats or the force of will of the Fire Caste’s warriors as you see fit. The difficulty of achieving these tasks will be determined by a planet’s Diplomat Power and Military Power respectively. Your Crusade force will use Agendas to build up Diplomatic and Military points through your games, which can be used to assimilate planets into your growing empire. Each time you start a new star system, both your Diplomat and Military points are reset to 0.
Each time you win a battle, your Crusade force gains 1 Military point.
Assimilation Abilities: You will encounter many different types of planet over the course of your journey, so vast and diverse is the universe, and each will have Assimilation Abilities that trigger when you take over that planet. These can either help or hinder your progress in that star system, so plan your strategy carefully.
Supply Line Effect: Each planet will also have a Supply Line Effect. Once a star system has been fully brought in line with the teachings of the Ethereals, it is possible to incorporate it into your force’s supply lines in order to aid you in future conquests. To do this, you can select one planet from the conquered star system and use the Set Up Supply Lines Requisition to gain the benefits of its Supply Line Effect.
In addition to the above, each system has one Core World. This will be the first planet that you generate and you cannot attempt to take it over by any means, until all other planets within the system have been brought into the fold first.
When Andrew’s forces entered the system of Hayol, they discovered that it had six planets inhabitated by a Prideful people. As such he was unable to use the Show of Force Requisition while bringing the system into the fold. He began by taking over the civilian world of Drel Kan through diplomatic means, which reduced the Military Power of Hath’mai. Wanting to grow his forces for the coming battles he then performed a military takeover of the research world of Emyin’orl, earning his Crusade force some precious Requisition points. Unfortunately, the planet was razed in the fighting, making it impossible to set up a long-term supply line there. He then set his sights on the agri world of Zol-eng, which offered little resistance. Its capitulation reduced the Diplomat Power at Hath’mai and allowed his forces to recover using the Repair and Recuperate Requisition. Andrew plans to conquer Uhs next, further weakening the Diplomat Power at Hath’mai, and making it susceptable to a Diplomat Takeover.
Determine the Temperament of the Inhabitants
The T’au have encountered many different races and cultures in their journey across the stars, and incorporating each of them into the unifying power of the Greater Good always poses unique challenges to both the diplomats of the Water Caste and the warriors of the Fire Caste. When generating a new star system you must first determine the temperament of its inhabitants by rolling one D6 and consulting the table below:
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Once you have determined the temperament of this system’s inhabitants, you must work out the number of planets that lie in this star system.
Determine Each Planet
For each of the planets in your current star system, you must determine what type of planet it is. To do this, roll a D33 to determine one of the planets below. To do so, roll two D3s one after the other: the first dice result determines your ‘tens’ and the second your ‘units’. For example, if you rolled two D3s and the first result was a 2 and the second was a 1, then the D33 result is a 21.
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Shrine World
This world is pivotal to the faith of the local populace, be it a site of pilgrimage or of religious governance. Its conquest may shake the faith of some foes, but will likely stoke the fervour and fury of others.
Diplomat Power: 5Military Power: 2
Assimilation Abilities
Shaken Faith: Select up to three planets; subtract 1 from the Diplomat Power of each of those planets (to a minimum of 1).
Stir the Flames: Add 1 to the Military Power of all planets.
Supply Line Effect
Collapse of Faith: While assimilating your Crusade force’s next star system, each time you perform a diplomatic takeover, you gain 1 Requisition point.
Mining World
Made rich by its mineral deposits and the labour of countless unlucky souls, this world - and the military forces who guard and oversee excavations - have become lazy and easily corrupted. Conquering this planet will effectively starve the enemy war machine across the wider system.
Diplomat Power: 3Military Power: 4
Assimilation Abilities
Harvest Resources: Gain D3 Requisition points.
Starve the War Machine: Select up to two planets; subtract 1 from the Military Power of each of those planets (to a minimum of 1).
Supply Line Effect
Spoils of War: Your Crusade force gains D3+1 Requisition points.
Civilian World
Worlds such as this boast large population centres, but are typically less well-defended than are more strategically valuable worlds. Conquering this planet will cut off a stream of recruits for local military forces, but will also spur neighbouring planets to accelerate their own martial preparations, fearing they may be invaded next!
Diplomat Power: 3Military Power: 2
Assimilation Abilities
Threat of Invasion: Add 1 to the Military Power of other Civilian World planets.
Recruitment Down: Subtract 1 from the Military Power of Fleet Installation and Military Base planets (to a minimum of 1).
Supply Line Effect
A Mingling of Cultures: Select up to three units from your Order of Battle with the Battle-ready or Blooded ranks. Each of those units gain 5 experience points.
Military Base
The fall of such a pivotal military strongpoint would weaken local defences enormously. Of course, overcoming this world’s conventional fortifications may prove extremely challenging. Other, subtler methods of conquest may prove more efficacious.
Diplomat Power: 4Military Power: 6
Assimilation Abilities
Force to the Table: Subtract 1 from the Diplomat Power of each other planet (to a minimum of 1).
Military Supplies: You can use the Fresh Recruits Requisition once without spending any Requisition points.
Supply Line Effect
Repurposed Infrastructure: Increase your Crusade force’s Supply Limit by 15 Power.
Fleet Installation
A powerful and valuable voidborne stronghold, this location acts as not only a centre for military might in the system but also a nexus for intelligence gathering and contingency planning. Its conquest would hurt the enemy both strategically and tactically, and likely produce a rich bounty of valuable information.
Diplomat Power: 5Military Power: 5
Assimilation Abilities
Invasion Plans: Select one planet; halve the Military Power of that planet (rounding up).
Orbital Dominance: You can use the Rearm And Resupply Requisition once without spending any Requisition points.
Supply Line Effect
Fleet Intel: After you generate your Crusade force’s next star system, subtract 1 from the Military Power of all planets in that system (to a minimum of 1).
Agri World
It is a truism that lines of supply win or lose wars. Capturing this breadbasket world will threaten enemy planets throughout the system with potential starvation, while also ensuring the invaders’ supplies are replenished and their warriors fed.
Diplomat Power: 2Military Power: 2
Assimilation Abilities
Empty Bellies: Select up to one Civilian World planet and up to one Military Base or Fleet Installation planet, subtract 1 from the Diplomat Power of each of those planets (to a minimum of 1).
Full Stomachs: You can use the Repair And Recuperate Requisition once without spending any Requisition points.
Supply Line Effect
Rest and Recuperation: Select up to three units from your Order of Battle. Remove one Battle Scar from each those units.
Political Centre
From this well-defended world do the local rulers govern their system-wide empire. The conquest of such a world will have huge ramifications, undermining the positions of local rulers on neighbouring worlds while bolstering the morale of the invaders as they see the heart of the enemy power structure laid low.
Diplomat Power: 6Military Power: 3
Assimilation Abilities
Sell-outs: Select one planet; halve the Diplomat Power of that planet (rounding up).
Belief in the Cause: You can use the Warlord Trait Requisition once without spending any Requisition points.
Supply Line Effect
Diplomatic Contacts: After you generate your Crusade force’s next star system, subtract 1 from the Diplomat Power of all planets in that system (to a minimum of 1).
Traders’ Hub
Worlds such as this are no easy prize. Success in trade requires finely honed negotiating skill, while the combination of private contractors and heavy military investment ensures impressive defensive forces always on station. Should such a well-protected world fall, however, the shock waves will ripple through the rest of the system to great effect.
Diplomat Power: 4Military Power: 4
Assimilation Abilities
Indirect Influence: Select one planet; switch the Diplomat Power and the Military Power of that planet.
Supply Line Effect
Trade Networks: After you generate your Crusade force’s next star system, your Crusade force gains 2D3 Diplomat points and D3 Military points.
Research World
Whether it is an industrial manufacturing centre or an enclave of high-minded scientific experimentation, the technological advancements this world will yield to its conquerors are more than worth the military expenditure required to seize them.
Diplomat Power: 4Military Power: 3
Assimilation Abilities
Review Research: Gain 2D3 Requisition Points.
Supply Line Effect
Scientific Integration: Select up to three T’AU EMPIRE models from your Order of Battle. Each of those models can be given one Prototype System. These must still be Prototype Systems that those models can have, and, if a Prototype System replaces a weapon, it cannot replace a weapon a model is equipped with if that weapon has been upgraded by a Weapon Enhancement or a Crusade Relic (e.g. Artificer Weapon). Make a note of these Prototype Systems on those models’ Crusade cards and increase their Power Rating appropriately. You cannot give a model a Prototype System in this manner if doing so would cause your total Power Level to exceed your Crusade force’s Supply Limit.
Taking Over a Planet
Each time you win a battle, you can choose for your Crusade force to take over one of the unconquered planets. If you do, select one planet in the currently active system and decide whether you want to perform a diplomatic takeover or a military takeover.Diplomatic Takeover
There are times when words may prove a greater weapon than any quantity of bombs or bullets. A world overthrown through diplomatic means enters the fold willingly and unmarred by the devastation of war, sending the message to all that meek compliance may spare the defenders many horrors.
If your Crusade force has a number of Diplomat points equal to or higher than that planet’s Diplomat Power, subtract that planet’s Diplomat Power from your Crusade force’s Diplomat points total and your Crusade force takes over that planet. Remember to apply that planet’s Assimilation Abilities when it is taken over.Military Takeover
Those who will not accept the message of the T’au’va, and who cannot see the benefits of willing assimilation into the T’au Empire, must be rendered compliant through military force. They will still fall, of course, as battlesuit teams drop from the heavens with guns blazing and Hunter Cadres sweep unstoppably from one battlefront to the next. Regrettably, however, such conflicts may reduce the world’s infrastructure to ruins before they are done.
If your Crusade force has a number of Military points equal to or higher than that planet’s Military Power, subtract that planet’s Military Power from your Crusade force’s Military points total and your Crusade force takes over that planet. Remember to apply that planet’s Assimilation Abilities when it is taken over.Each time a planet is taken over in this way, roll one D6: on a 1-3, that planet has been razed by the conflict and cannot be selected for the Set Up Supply Lines Requisition. Make a note of this on your System Crusade card.
Requisitions
If your Crusade force includes any T’AU EMPIRE units, you can spend Requisition points (RPs) on any of the following Requisitions in addition to those presented in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.Should local defenders begin to waver, and an opportunity be spotted to shatter their morale without further bloodshed, then the Air and Fire Castes will gladly engage in the necessary theatrics. Sometimes all it takes is a little posturing and implied threat to see the hostile forces stand down and peace talks to begin in earnest.
The T’au make little distinction between void fleets intended for military conquest, and those set up for rapid colonisation. When an enemy world is brought to heel, therefore, all the necessary Earth, Air and Water Caste assets are already on hand to establish new supply lines.
If you selected a Core World for this Requisition, this Requisition costs 1RP; otherwise, it costs 2RP.
After purchasing this Requisition, generate a new active star system for your Crusade force.
It is considered no small privilege to field-test one of the Earth Castes many powerful experimental weapon systems or other pieces of military hardware. Some T’au Commanders will selflessly request the honour through a desire to further the Greater Good. Others humbly accept such a vital responsibility when they are chosen for it as a reward for their military achievements.
You can give that model one Prototype System. The Prototype System the model is given must be one that it can have, and, if a Prototype System replaces a weapon, it cannot replace a weapon a model is equipped with if that weapon has been upgraded by a Weapon Enhancement or a Crusade Relic (e.g. Artificer Weapon). Make a note of the Prototype Systems on the model’s Crusade card and increase its Power Rating appropriately. You cannot give a model a Prototype System in this manner if doing so would cause your total Power Level to exceed your Crusade force’s Supply Limit.
T’au Commanders must master the piloting of many different marks of battlesuit during their career, donning a new mantle with thankful humility each time a fresh tactical challenge requires its particular tactical strengths.
Through a long period of serene meditation upon the nature of the T’au’va, an Ethereal may unlock new revelations within their own psyche and thus gain a deeper understanding of the castes that make up T’au society.
Agendas
If your Crusade army includes any T’AU EMPIRE units, you can select an Agenda from the T’au Empire Agendas, listed below. This is a new category of Agendas, and follows all the normal rules for Agendas (for example, when you select Agendas, you cannot choose more than one from T’au Empire Agenda).Some amongst the enemy’s command structure are more open to the message of the Ethereals than others. Such contacts must be encouraged and exploited.
‘Secret Meeting (Action): At the end of your Movement phase, the selected ETHEREAL’s unit can start to perform this action if it is within 3" of the centre of the battlefield. This action is completed at the start of your next Movement phase. When this action is completed, that unit gains 3 experience points and your Crusade force gains D3 Diplomat points. If this action is completed within the first three battle rounds, your Crusade force gains 3 Diplomat points, instead of D3.’
Whether they be defecting enemy officers or T’au diplomats or scientists who have been caught woefully out of position, these individuals must be secured swiftly.
- Not within 9" of each other.
- Not within 9" of any models from your army.
- Not within 9" of your deployment zone.
At the end of the battle round, for each of the high-ranking political figure objective markers, if that objective marker is not controlled by you, subtract 1 from its life total. If an objective marker’s life total reaches 0, it is destroyed; remove it from the battlefield.
At the end of the battle:
- If only one high-ranking political figure objective marker is on the battlefield, your Crusade force gains D3 Diplomat points.
- If both high-ranking political figure objective markers are on the battlefield, your Crusade force gains 3 Diplomat points and you can mark one additional unit from your army to be Marked for Greatness after the battle.
An enemy without the food, munitions or fuel to keep fighting is one more swiftly brought to heel with minimal loss of life on either side.
‘Damage Supply Line (Action): One or more units from your army can start to perform this action at the end of your Movement phase. Each unit from your army that starts to perform this action must be in range of a different objective marker that has not yet been damaged. This action is completed at the end of the turn. When this action is completed, that unit gains 1 experience point and that objective marker is damaged.’
At the end of the battle:
- If units from your army damaged at least half the objective markers, your Crusade force gains D3 Military points.
- If units from your army damaged all of the objective markers, your Crusade force gains 3 Military points, instead of D3.
The Code of Fire dictates that stand-up battles of attrition are a last resort, and that speed and clever manoeuvre should always be employed in preference.
It is incumbent upon T’au Commanders to embody at all times the teachings of the Code of Fire, and to follow their tenets with skill and flair.
- If you select the Mont’ka Tactical Philosophy at the start of the battle, each time a unit from your army destroys an enemy unit in the first battle round, that unit from your army gains 1 experience point.
- If you select the Kauyon Tactical Philosophy at the start of the battle, each time a unit from your army destroys an enemy unit in the last battle round, that unit from your army gains 1 experience point.
Battle Traits
When a T’AU EMPIRE unit gains a Battle Trait, you can use one of the tables below instead of one of the tables in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book to determine what Battle Trait the unit has gained. To do so, roll one D6 and consult the appropriate table, or choose a Battle Trait from the appropriate table that tells the best narrative for your unit. All the normal rules for Battle Traits apply (e.g. a unit cannot have the same Battle Trait more than once). As with any Battle Honour, make a note on the unit’s Crusade card when it gains a Battle Trait and increase its Crusade points accordingly, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.
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Crusade Relics
When a T’AU EMPIRE CHARACTER model gains a Crusade Relic, you can instead select one of the Relics listed below. All the usual rules for selecting Crusade Relics, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book, apply.Artificer Relics
A T’AU EMPIRE CHARACTER model can be given one of the following Artificer Relics instead of one of the ones presented in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.Seismic Destabiliser Designed to undermine fortified positions and drive enemy soldiers from cover, the Seismic Destabiliser emits an ultra-low resonating frequency that causes localised earth tremors. The targeted structure is riven by a spider’s web of fractures, and any garrisoned troops must evacuate or risk being buried under tonnes of rubble. At the start of your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of the bearer that is on or within a BUILDING or an Area Terrain feature. Roll one D6, adding 2 to the roll if the unit is on or within a BUILDING or an Area Terrain feature that has the Obscuring terrain trait: on a 3-5, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 6+, that unit suffers 3 mortal wounds. |
Serenity This simple and elegant staff of office is said to have been carved through the erosion of flowing water over a thousand years. The touch of an Ethereal seems to awaken something within the stave, sending ripples of enlightened calm rolling outward to bring peace to all nearby T’au. ETHEREAL model only. Once per battle, in your Command phase, the bearer can use this Relic. If it does, until the start of your next Command phase, it gains the following ability: |
Antiquity Relics
A T’AU EMPIRE CHARACTER model of Heroic rank or higher can be given the following Antiquity Relic instead of one of the ones presented in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book. Add 1 to a unit’s total Crusade points for each Antiquity Relic it has - this is in addition to the +1 from gaining a Battle Honour, for a total of +2.Supernova Launcher The Supernova Launcher was developed during the bloody fighting against Hive Fleet Gorgon. Unable to get close enough to effectively deploy anti-armour ordnance against the Tyranids’ deadliest bio-organisms, Earth Caste scientists adapted several fragmentation launchers to hurl experimental plasma grenades. Launched high into the air, these projectiles drop amongst the enemy and explode in a coruscating fireball that evaporates metal and flesh alike. Recent advancements upon the original prototypes have seen the payload augmented with thrassium targeting flares, which burn bright in multiple spectra to light up the target for T’au targeting systems. Model equipped with an airbursting fragmentation projector only. This Relic replaces an airbursting fragmentation projector and has the following profile:
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Legendary Relics
A T’AU EMPIRE CHARACTER model of Legendary rank can be given the following Legendary Relic instead of one of the ones presented in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book. In addition, in order to give a model a Legendary Relic, you must also pay 1 Requisition point (if you do not have enough Requisition points, you cannot give that model a Legendary Relic). Add an additional 2 to a unit’s total Crusade points for each Legendary Relic it has - this is in addition to the +1 from gaining a Battle Honour, for a total of +3.Sceptre of Unity This stave was originally crafted for the legendary Aun’Wei by the grateful Jagordian technisists as thanks for bringing their world into the T’au’va. It is said to impart all-encompassing wisdom upon its bearer, fit to match Aun’Wei’s own. ETHEREAL model only.
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Boarding Actions
A relatively young race on the galactic stage, the T’au are a highly driven and ambitious race, determined to bring as many worlds into the fold of the Greater Good as possible backed by their highly advanced weaponry.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
When mustering a Boarding Patrol, if your Faction is T’AU EMPIRE, then the following rules apply when adding units to your Boarding Patrol Detachment, and they take priority over the normal rules for mustering a Boarding Patrol.- All <SEPT> units in your Boarding Patrol must be from the same sept.
- You can upgrade an ETHEREAL to have a hover drone, even though it has the FLY keyword.
- You can include COMMANDER FARSIGHT, even though he has the FLY and JET PACK keywords.
- You can include one STEALTH BATTLESUIT or CRISIS unit, even though they have the FLY and JET PACK keywords.
- You can include one Fast Attack slot, but only if it is a PATHFINDER TEAM or TACTICAL DRONES unit (even though it has the FLY keyword).
- You cannot include Support Turret or DRONE models (unless they are in a TACTICAL DRONES unit).
- You can only add KROOT units if your Boarding Patrol Detachment includes at least one KROOT CARNIVORES unit. If you do so, you can include one unit of KROOTOX RIDERS, even though it has the CAVALRY keyword, and it can contain up to 3 models.
- You cannot upgrade any models in your army to have any Prototype System upgrades.
- When forming Boarding Squads, do not split KROOT units into separate units.
Rules Adaptations
If your Faction is T’AU EMPIRE, then the following rules adaptations apply to T’au Empire rules found in Codex: T’au Empire.- KROOT HOUND units cannot perform actions (including the Operate Hatchway action).
- Models with the FLY keyword lose it while they are on the battlefield and have a Move characteristic of 6".
- Models with the Manta Strike ability lose that ability for the battle.
- When an enemy model makes a ranged attack at a unit with the Masters of Urban Warfare (Sa’cea) or Camouflage Experts Sept Tenets, that unit is treated as having the benefits of cover against that attack if the attacking model is more than 6" away from its target.
- For the purpose of the Strike Fast (Vior’la) tenet, your Entry Zones are considered your deployment zone.
- COMMANDER FARSIGHT has an Attacks characteristic of 3.
Enhancements
If your WARLORD has the T’AU EMPIRE keyword, then when mustering your Boarding Patrol, they can be given one of the following Enhancements instead of one from Arks of Omen: Abaddon.ADVANCED TARGETING PROTOCOL SYSTEM This piece of advanced technology collects targeting telemetry based on the weapons not of the wearer but those of nearby allies, which they can use to destroy their foes all the more swiftly. <SEPT> model only. In your Command phase, select one friendly T’AU EMPIRE CORE unit within 9" of the bearer. Each time a CORE model in that unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit within half range, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. |
GUIDANCE OF THE AUN Merely knowing that an Ethereal is on the battlefield is enough to inspire T’au warriors to acts of great courage. ETHEREAL model only. Each time the bearer intones an invocation, if it is inspiring and when resolving that invocation it says to select a friendly unit within 6" of the bearer, you can select an equivalent unit anywhere on the battlefield, instead of just within 6". |
PICK UP THE SCENT Lethal and skilled hunters, the Kroot press hard into the pursuit, stopping at nothing to get to grips with their prey. KROOT model only. In your Command phase, select one friendly KROOT unit within 9" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase:
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Boarding Action Stratagems
If your Faction is T’AU EMPIRE, then when playing a Boarding Action game you will have access to the following Stratagems, and can spend CP to use them.Some T’au perform complex drills in which they train to operate their weapons at extremely close range.
Through the consumption of the enemy’s flesh, Kroot are revitalised and absorb a portion of the foe’s strength.
T’au are trained to dominate the battlefield with relentless volleys of overlapping pulsefire.
The Kroot have long perfected the art of ambush hunting, and are not above using allied forces as their bait.
- Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of models in that unit.
- That unit is eligible to perform Heroic Interventions as if it were a CHARACTER.
Even when under intense pressure, T’au warriors remain calm and resolute to break enemy charges with salvoes of fire.
Hurling a volley of photon grenades, the T’au leave their enemies dazzled and disorientated, unable to close the distance into combat at a crucial moment.
- Subtract 2 from the charging unit’s charge rolls (this is not cumulative with any other reductions to the charge roll).
- Each time a model in the charging unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.
Signature Systems
If your army is led by a T’AU EMPIRE WARLORD, you can, when mustering your army, give one of the following Signature Systems to a T’AU EMPIRE CHARACTER model in your army. Named characters cannot be given any of the following Relics.
When a model in your army is given a Signature System, replace all instances of the <SEPT> keyword on that Relic’s rules (if any) with the name of the sept that your model is drawn from.
Note that some Relics replace one of the models existing items of wargear. Where this is the case, you must, if you are using points values, still pay the cost of the wargear that is being replaced. Write down any Signature Systems your models have on your army roster.
ADVANCED EM SCRAMBLER
The alien race of the Nin’aenh possessed the uncanny ability to scramble electrical systems with a single touch. Defeated after a brutal war, the Earth Caste have worked tirelessly to integrate their abilities with technology.
- Enemy units that are set up on the battlefield as Reinforcements cannot be set up within 12" of the bearer.
- In your Command phase, select one enemy unit within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, that unit cannot be affected by the aura abilities (excluding those that are psychic powers) of other units from your opponent’s army.
BORTHROD GLAND
The Kroot found the flesh of the Borthrod super-predators so irresistible that, despite the creatures’ terrifying nature, they hunted them to extinction, This preserved gland from a bull Borthrod still exudes pheromones that drive nearby Kroot into a ravenous frenzy.
KROOT model only. Once per battle, in your Command phase, the bearer can use this Relic. If it does, until the start of your next Command phase, the bearer gains the following ability:‘Alien Glands (Aura): While a friendly KROOT unit is within 6" of this model, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic and add 1 to the Strength characteristic of models in that unit.’
KA’CHAK’TARR
Kroot legend has it that the ornate rifle known as Ka’chak’tarr has consumed numerous weapons just as Kroot devour their foes, gaining ever more power and poise from each such supposed feast. It is beautifully balanced, a tool of such precision marksmanship that it only renders the violent detonations of each impacting shot all the more shocking.
Model equipped with Shaper Kroot rifle only. This Relic has the following profile:WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D |
| Ka’chak’tarr | |||||
| Ka’chak’tarr | 24" | Rapid Fire 2 | 5 | -2 | 2 |
Abilities: Each time you select a target for this weapon, you can ignore the Look Out, Sir rule. Each time an attack is made with this weapon, an unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts 1 mortal wound on the target in addition to any normal damage. | |||||
MULTI-SENSORY DISCOURAGEMENT ARRAY
The Multi-Sensory Discouragement Array was first designed as a non-lethal response to quell rioting civilians. The device resembles a pulsing sensor beacon, and emits both sub-sonic frequencies and scatter-bursts of ultraviolet colour, stunning and nauseating targets and rendering them compliant.
At the end of your Movement phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of the bearer and roll 3D6: if the result is greater than the enemy unit’s Leadership characteristic, select one of the results below to take effect until the start of your next Movement phase:- The selected unit loses the Objective Secured ability.
- Halve the Move characteristic of models in that unit and halve charge rolls made for that unit.
- Each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack, it can only target the closest eligible target.
NEURO-EMPATHIC NULLIFIER
This device was fashioned for Aun’Jash during the troubled War of Integration against the Pohu-Agg of the Batrazadji Cluster. Though they had much to offer and gain by accepting the Greater Good, the sheer ferocity of the Pohu-Aggfouled any effort at Water Caste diplomacy. Only by employing the Neuro-empathic Nullifier was Aun’Jash finally able to render the aliens docile long enough to open their minds to the offer of unity that the T’au brought.
ETHEREAL model only. Once per battle, in your Command phase, the bearer can use this Relic. If it does, select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to the bearer and roll one D6: on a 2+, until the start of your next Command phase, the target cannot perform actions (if that unit is currently performing an action, it immediately fails).OHR’TU’S LANTERN
Shas’vre Bork’an Ohr’tu was a renowned Pathfinder who made some distinctly non-standard modifications to his markerlight. The finest minds of the applied sciences division have yet to replicate his mystifying feat, but it cannot be argued that - while occasionally unreliable - the modified markerlight is remarkably improved.
Model equipped with a markerlight only. Each time this model performs the Fire Markerlights action, roll five additional D6s (each of which causes the enemy unit to gain one Markerlight token on a roll of 3+).ONAGER GAUNTLET
Onager gauntlets were developed during the Damocles Crusade to counter the massed heavy armour spearheads of the Imperium. Armed with such a weapon, a warrior could punch straight through the thick armour of a tank, though the technology proved successful, the casualty rate amongst bearers was extremely high, and of the original twelve prototypes, only one remains.
BATTLESUIT model only. This Relic has the following profile:WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D |
| Onager Gauntlet | |||||
| Onager Gauntlet | Melee | Melee | 12 | -4 | 3 |
PURETIDE ENGRAM NEUROCHIP
Commander Puretide was undoubtedly the most gifted T’au war leader of all time. The T’au were unwilling to lose his tactical and strategic brilliance, and upon his death, his mind was scanned and his accumulated memories committed to a holostoragepersonality unit on his birth world of Dal’yth. A sliver of that genius has been crafted into a bio-chip. When surgically implanted into the brain of a Fire Caste Commander, the bearer can access much of the wisdom of Puretide himself, drawing upon a great reservoir of tactical acumen.
While the bearer is on the battlefield, each time you spend a Command point to use a T’au Empire Battle Tactic or T’au Empire Epic Deed Stratagem, roll one D6: on a 3+, that Command point is refunded.SOLID-IMAGE PROJECTION UNIT
A recent innovation by T’au science divisions is the solid-image projection unit. This miniaturised holowave-emitter drone projects beams of so-called ‘heavy light’, forming an utterly convincing illusory image that is solid to the touch, while simultaneously masking the true target with an advanced refraction field. Many foes have been fatally wrong-footed by this cunning device.
- Once per turn, the first time a saving throw is failed for the bearer, the Damage characteristic of that attack is changed to 0.
- The bearer has a 4+ invulnerable save.
THE BE’GEL HUNTER’S PLATE
Rumour has it this armour-cladding incorporates plates salvaged from one of Commander Puretide’s own battlesuits, piloted by the martial savant during his wars against the Orks during the Second Sphere Expansion. It emphasises protective fortitude, rerouting gravitic micro-buffering and ionised counter-surges in response to incoming impacts. The result is personal protective plating that adapts and reacts to the enemy’s attacks with impressive speed.
- Add 1 to armour saving throws made for the bearer.
- Each time the bearer would lose a wound, roll one D6: on a 5+, that wound is not lost.
THE HUMBLE STAVE
This unadorned baton was once the only symbol of office born by the softly spoken Aun’Ghu. Its mere presence reminds T’au of their humble status within the Greater Good.
ETHEREAL model only.- In your Command phase, if the bearer is on the battlefield, it can intone one additional invocation it knows from the Invocations of the Ethereals that has not already been intoned by a friendly model that turn.
- Each time the bearer intones an invocation, add 1 to the roll to see if it is inspiring.
THE KINDLED BLADE
It is said of the Kindled Blade that it was employed in the very first ta’lissera ritual ever performed. During times of peace it rests in state in one or other of the septs’ Fire Caste academies, being transferred to a new location every thirty-three years. In battle, the blade carries tremendous significance; brandishing it aloft symbolises a ta’lissera bond between all of the Fire Caste who are present.
CADRE FIREBLADE model only. Once per battle, in your Command phase, the bearer can use this Relic. If it does, until the start of your next Command phase, it gains the following ability:‘Bonding Ritual (Aura): While a friendly <SEPT> FIRE WARRIOR TEAM unit is within 6" of this model, that unit automatically passes Morale tests.’
Many of the units you will find on this page reference one or more of the following wargear lists (e.g. Ranged Weapons). When this is the case, the unit may take any item from the appropriate list below. | ||
Optional Wargear
Wargear Reference
Ranged Weapons
WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D | ABILITIES |
| Accelerator bow | ||||||
| Accelerator bow | 18" | Assault 1 | 6 | -2 | 1 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon, you can re-roll the wound roll. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon, you can re-roll the wound roll. | ||||||
+0..5 Accelerator burst cannon | ||||||
+0..5 Accelerator burst cannon | 18" | Assault 8 | 6 | -1 | 1 | - |
+8..10 Airbursting fragmentation projector | ||||||
+8..10 Airbursting fragmentation projector | 24" | Assault D6 | 4 | -1 | 1 | Indirect Fire. Blast. This weapon can target units that are not visible to the bearer. |
| Indirect Fire. Blast. This weapon can target units that are not visible to the bearer. | ||||||
+0..10 Burst cannon | ||||||
+0..10 Burst cannon | 18" | Assault 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | - |
| Cluster rocket system | ||||||
| Cluster rocket system | 48" | Heavy 4D6 | 5 | -1 | 1 | Blast |
| Blast | ||||||
+0..18 Cyclic ion blaster | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
+0..18 Cyclic ion blaster | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 18" | Assault 3 | 7 | -2 | 1 | - |
| - Overcharge | ||||||
| - Overcharge | 18" | Assault 3 | 8 | -2 | 2 | Each time an unmodified hit roll of 1 is made for an attack with this weapon profile, the bearer’s unit suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. |
| Each time an unmodified hit roll of 1 is made for an attack with this weapon profile, the bearer’s unit suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. | ||||||
Cyclic ion raker | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
Cyclic ion raker | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 36" | Heavy 6 | 7 | -2 | 2 | - |
| - Overcharge | ||||||
| - Overcharge | 36" | Heavy 6 | 8 | -2 | 3 | Each time an unmodified hit roll of 1 is made for an attack with this weapon profile, the bearer’s unit suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. |
| Each time an unmodified hit roll of 1 is made for an attack with this weapon profile, the bearer’s unit suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. | ||||||
| Defensive charge | ||||||
| Defensive charge | 12" | Assault 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | - |
| Destroyer missile | ||||||
| Destroyer missile | 72" | Heavy 1 | 12 | -5 | 2D3 | The bearer can only shoot with each destroyer missile it is equipped with once per battle. Each time the bearer is selected to shoot, it cannot shoot with more than two of the destroyer missiles it is equipped with. |
| The bearer can only shoot with each destroyer missile it is equipped with once per battle. Each time the bearer is selected to shoot, it cannot shoot with more than two of the destroyer missiles it is equipped with. | ||||||
| Dispersed fusion blaster | ||||||
| Dispersed fusion blaster | 18" | Assault 2 | 7 | -4 | 2 | Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of 3. |
| Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of 3. | ||||||
| Dvorgite skinner | ||||||
| Dvorgite skinner | 12" | Assault D6 | 4 | -1 | 1 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon, that attack automatically hits the target. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon, that attack automatically hits the target. | ||||||
Experimental pulse submunitions rifle | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
Experimental pulse submunitions rifle | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - EMP | ||||||
| - EMP | 24" | Assault 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon against a VEHICLE unit, on a successful hit roll, the target suffers 3 mortal wounds and the attack sequence ends. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon against a VEHICLE unit, on a successful hit roll, the target suffers 3 mortal wounds and the attack sequence ends. | ||||||
| - Hyper density sabot | ||||||
| - Hyper density sabot | 36" | Assault 2 | 9 | -2 | 2 | - |
| - Ionic cluster-beam shell | ||||||
| - Ionic cluster-beam shell | 24" | Assault D6 | 6 | -1 | 1 | Blast |
| Blast | ||||||
| Fireblade pulse rifle | ||||||
| Fireblade pulse rifle | 36" | Rapid Fire 1 | 5 | -2 | 2 | - |
+5 Flamer | ||||||
+5 Flamer | 12" | Assault D6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon, that attack automatically hits the target. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon, that attack automatically hits the target. | ||||||
| Flechette launcher | ||||||
| Flechette launcher | 18" | Assault 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | - |
| Fletchette pod | ||||||
| Fletchette pod | 12" | Assault 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | - |
| Fragmentation cluster shell launcher | ||||||
| Fragmentation cluster shell launcher | 36" | Heavy 3D6 | 5 | -1 | 1 | Blast |
| Blast | ||||||
+0..15 Fusion blaster | ||||||
+0..15 Fusion blaster | 18" | Assault 1 | 8 | -4 | D6 | Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+2. |
| Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+2. | ||||||
+10 Fusion cascade | ||||||
+10 Fusion cascade | 12" | Assault D3 | 8 | -4 | D6 | Blast. Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+2. |
| Blast. Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+2. | ||||||
| Fusion collider | ||||||
| Fusion collider | 24" | Heavy 3 | 9 | -4 | D6 | Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+2. |
| Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+2. | ||||||
| Fusion eradicator | ||||||
| Fusion eradicator | 24" | Heavy 5 | 8 | -4 | D6 | Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+2. |
| Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+2. | ||||||
| Grenade belt | ||||||
| Grenade belt | 6" | Grenade 2D6 | 5 | -1 | 1 | Blast. The bearer can only shoot with this weapon once per battle. |
| Blast. The bearer can only shoot with this weapon once per battle. | ||||||
| Heavy burst cannon | ||||||
| Heavy burst cannon | 36" | Heavy 12 | 6 | -2 | 2 | - |
| Heavy rail cannon | ||||||
| Heavy rail cannon | 72" | Heavy 2 | 14 | -5 | D3+6 | Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers D3 mortal wounds in addition to any other damage. |
| Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers D3 mortal wounds in addition to any other damage. | ||||||
| Heavy rail cannon array | ||||||
| Heavy rail cannon array | 120" | Heavy 2 | 18 | -5 | D6+6 | Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers 3 mortal wounds in addition to any other damage. |
| Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers 3 mortal wounds in addition to any other damage. | ||||||
| Heavy rail rifle | ||||||
| Heavy rail rifle | 60" | Heavy 2 | 9 | -4 | D3+3 | Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers 1 mortal wound in addition to any other damage. |
| Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers 1 mortal wound in addition to any other damage. | ||||||
| High intensity markerlight | ||||||
| High intensity markerlight | 36" | Heavy 3 | - | - | - | Markerlight |
| Markerlight | ||||||
| High-energy fusion blaster | ||||||
| High-energy fusion blaster | 24" | Assault 1 | 8 | -4 | D6 | Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+2. |
| Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+2. | ||||||
| High-intensity plasma rifle | ||||||
| High-intensity plasma rifle | 36" | Assault 2 | 8 | -4 | 3 | - |
+15 High-output burst cannon | ||||||
+15 High-output burst cannon | 18" | Assault 10 | 5 | -1 | 1 | - |
+0..10 High-yield missile pod | ||||||
+0..10 High-yield missile pod | 30" | Heavy 4 | 7 | -2 | 2 | - |
+10 Ion accelerator | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
+10 Ion accelerator | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 72" | Heavy 6 | 7 | -3 | 3 | - |
| - Overcharge | ||||||
| - Overcharge | 72" | Heavy 6 | 8 | -3 | 4 | Each time an unmodified hit roll of 1 is made for an attack with this weapon profile, the bearer’s unit suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. |
| Each time an unmodified hit roll of 1 is made for an attack with this weapon profile, the bearer’s unit suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. | ||||||
+0..10 Ion cannon | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
+0..10 Ion cannon | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 60" | Heavy 3D3 | 7 | -2 | 2 | - |
| - Overcharge | ||||||
| - Overcharge | 60" | Heavy 3D3 | 8 | -2 | 3 | Blast. Each time an unmodified hit roll of 1 is made for an attack with this weapon profile, the bearer’s unit suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. |
| Blast. Each time an unmodified hit roll of 1 is made for an attack with this weapon profile, the bearer’s unit suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. | ||||||
Ion rifle | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
Ion rifle | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 30" | Heavy 3 | 7 | -2 | 1 | - |
| - Overcharge | ||||||
| - Overcharge | 30" | Heavy 3 | 8 | -2 | 2 | If any unmodified hit rolls of 1 are made for attacks with this weapon profile, the bearer suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. |
| If any unmodified hit rolls of 1 are made for attacks with this weapon profile, the bearer suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. | ||||||
Ionic discharge cannon | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. You can only select the Nova profile as described in this model’s Nova Reactor ability. | ||||||
Ionic discharge cannon | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. You can only select the Nova profile as described in this model’s Nova Reactor ability. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 24" | Heavy 6 | 8 | -1 | 2 | - |
| - Nova | ||||||
| - Nova | 24" | Heavy 6 | 9 | -1 | 3 | If any unmodified hit rolls of 1 are made for attacks with this weapon profile, the bearer suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. |
| If any unmodified hit rolls of 1 are made for attacks with this weapon profile, the bearer suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. | ||||||
| Kroot bolt thrower | ||||||
| Kroot bolt thrower | 36" | Assault 6 | 6 | -1 | 1 | - |
| Kroot gun | ||||||
| Kroot gun | 48" | Heavy 2 | 7 | -1 | 2 | - |
| Kroot hunting rifle | ||||||
| Kroot hunting rifle | 36" | Heavy 1 | 6 | -1 | 2 | Each time you select a target for this weapon, you can ignore the Look Out, Sir rule. Each time an attack is made with this weapon, an unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts 1 mortal wound on the target in addition to any normal damage. |
| Each time you select a target for this weapon, you can ignore the Look Out, Sir rule. Each time an attack is made with this weapon, an unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts 1 mortal wound on the target in addition to any normal damage. | ||||||
| Kroot pistol | ||||||
| Kroot pistol | 12" | Pistol 1 | 5 | -1 | 1 | - |
| Kroot pistol (Kroot Farstalkers) | ||||||
| Kroot pistol (Kroot Farstalkers) | 12" | Pistol 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | - |
| Kroot rifle (shooting) | ||||||
| Kroot rifle (shooting) | 24" | Rapid Fire 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | - |
| Kroot scattergun | ||||||
| Kroot scattergun | 18" | Assault 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | - |
| Light missile pod | ||||||
| Light missile pod | 24" | Assault 2 | 7 | -1 | 2 | - |
| Londaxi tribalest | ||||||
| Londaxi tribalest | 18" | Heavy 3 | 7 | -1 | 1 | Each time an attack made with this weapon is allocated to a VEHICLE model, that attack has a Damage characteristic of 3. |
| Each time an attack made with this weapon is allocated to a VEHICLE model, that attack has a Damage characteristic of 3. | ||||||
36" | Heavy 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| Longshot pulse rifle | ||||||
| Longshot pulse rifle | 48" | Rapid Fire 1 | 5 | -2 | 1 | - |
| Markerlight | ||||||
| Markerlight | 36" | Heavy 1 | - | - | - | Markerlights |
| Markerlights | ||||||
| Miniaturised flechette pod | ||||||
| Miniaturised flechette pod | 12" | Pistol 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | - |
+0..15 Missile pod | ||||||
+0..15 Missile pod | 30" | Assault 2 | 7 | -2 | 2 | - |
| Neutron blaster | ||||||
| Neutron blaster | 18" | Assault 2 | 5 | -3 | 2 | - |
| Nexus missile launcher | ||||||
| Nexus missile launcher | 60" | Heavy 3D6 | 6 | -3 | 1 | Blast |
| Blast | ||||||
| Phased ion gun | ||||||
| Phased ion gun | 30" | Assault 4 | 6 | -1 | 1 | - |
Phased plasma-flamer | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. You can only select the Nova profile as described in this model’s Nova Reactor ability. | ||||||
Phased plasma-flamer | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. You can only select the Nova profile as described in this model’s Nova Reactor ability. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 12" | Heavy 2D6 | 6 | -2 | 1 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon profile, that attack automatically hits the target. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon profile, that attack automatically hits the target. | ||||||
| - Nova | ||||||
| - Nova | 12" | Heavy 3D6 | 6 | -2 | 1 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon profile, that attack automatically hits the target. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon profile, that attack automatically hits the target. | ||||||
| Piranha burst cannon | ||||||
| Piranha burst cannon | 18" | Assault 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | - |
+10 Piranha fusion blaster | ||||||
+10 Piranha fusion blaster | 18" | Assault 1 | 8 | -4 | D6+2 | Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+4. |
| Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a Damage characteristic of D6+4. | ||||||
+0..10 Plasma rifle | ||||||
+0..10 Plasma rifle | 30" | Assault 1 | 8 | -4 | 3 | - |
+10 Pulse blastcannon | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
+10 Pulse blastcannon | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Focused shot | ||||||
| - Focused shot | 24" | Heavy 2 | 16 | -4 | 12 | - |
| - Dispersed shot | ||||||
| - Dispersed shot | 48" | Heavy 6 | 12 | -2 | 4 | - |
Pulse blaster | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
Pulse blaster | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Close range | ||||||
| - Close range | 8" | Assault 2 | 6 | -2 | 1 | - |
| - Long range | ||||||
| - Long range | 14" | Assault 2 | 5 | -1 | 1 | - |
| Pulse carbine | ||||||
| Pulse carbine | 24" | Assault 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | - |
| Pulse driver cannon | ||||||
| Pulse driver cannon | 72" | Heavy 3D3 | 10 | -4 | 3 | Blast |
| Blast | ||||||
Pulse ordnance driver | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
Pulse ordnance driver | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Concentrated | ||||||
| - Concentrated | 90" | Heavy 2 | 10 | -4 | 5 | - |
| - Dispersed | ||||||
| - Dispersed | 72" | Heavy D6 | 8 | -2 | 2 | Blast |
| Blast | ||||||
| Pulse pistol | ||||||
| Pulse pistol | 12" | Pistol 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | - |
| Pulse rifle | ||||||
| Pulse rifle | 36" | Rapid Fire 1 | 5 | -1 | 1 | - |
Pulse submunitions cannon | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. You can only select the Nova profile as described in this model’s Nova Reactor ability. | ||||||
Pulse submunitions cannon | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. You can only select the Nova profile as described in this model’s Nova Reactor ability. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 60" | Heavy 3D3 | 6 | -2 | 2 | Blast |
| Blast | ||||||
| - Nova | ||||||
| - Nova | 60" | Heavy 9 | 7 | -2 | 2 | Blast |
| Blast | ||||||
Quad ion turret | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
Quad ion turret | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 30" | Assault 8 | 7 | -2 | 1 | - |
| - Overcharge | ||||||
| - Overcharge | 30" | Assault 8 | 8 | -2 | 2 | Each time an unmodified hit roll of 1 is made for an attack with this weapon profile, the bearer suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. |
| Each time an unmodified hit roll of 1 is made for an attack with this weapon profile, the bearer suffers 1 mortal wound after shooting with this weapon. | ||||||
| Quill grenades | ||||||
| Quill grenades | 6" | Grenade D6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | Blast |
| Blast | ||||||
+0..2 Rail rifle | ||||||
+0..2 Rail rifle | 30" | Heavy 1 | 8 | -4 | 3 | Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers 1 mortal wound in addition to any other damage. |
| Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers 1 mortal wound in addition to any other damage. | ||||||
| Railgun | ||||||
| Railgun | 72" | Heavy 1 | 14 | -6 | D3+6 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon, invulnerable saving throws cannot be made against that attack. Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers 3 mortal wounds in addition to any other damage. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon, invulnerable saving throws cannot be made against that attack. Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers 3 mortal wounds in addition to any other damage. | ||||||
| Remora seeker missile | ||||||
| Remora seeker missile | 72" | Heavy 1 | 8 | -2 | D3 | This weapon can be used once per battle. |
| This weapon can be used once per battle. | ||||||
+0..5 Seeker missile | ||||||
+0..5 Seeker missile | 72" | Heavy 1 | 9 | -3 | 2D3 | The bearer can only shoot with each seeker missile it is equipped with once per battle. |
| The bearer can only shoot with each seeker missile it is equipped with once per battle. | ||||||
| Seeker missile rack | ||||||
| Seeker missile rack | 72" | Heavy D3+1 | 9 | -3 | 2D3 | - |
Semi-automatic grenade launcher | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
Semi-automatic grenade launcher | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Fusion grenade | ||||||
| - Fusion grenade | 20" | Assault 1 | 6 | -1 | 3 | - |
| - EMP grenade | ||||||
| - EMP grenade | 20" | Assault 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | Each time a successful hit roll is made for an attack with this weapon, if the target is a VEHICLE unit (excluding TITANIC units) whose characteristics change as it loses wounds, then, until the start of your next Shooting phase, it halves the number of wounds it has remaining when determining what characteristics to use. |
| Each time a successful hit roll is made for an attack with this weapon, if the target is a VEHICLE unit (excluding TITANIC units) whose characteristics change as it loses wounds, then, until the start of your next Shooting phase, it halves the number of wounds it has remaining when determining what characteristics to use. | ||||||
| Shade | ||||||
| Shade | 24" | Assault 2 | 5 | -2 | 2 | - |
| Shaper Kroot rifle | ||||||
| Shaper Kroot rifle | 24" | Rapid Fire 2 | 4 | -1 | 1 | - |
+25 Skyspear missile rack | ||||||
+25 Skyspear missile rack | 72" | Heavy D6 | 6 | -2 | 2 | Blast |
| Blast | ||||||
+0..5 Smart missile system | ||||||
+0..5 Smart missile system | 30" | Heavy 4 | 5 | -1 | 1 | Indirect Fire. This weapon can target units that are not visible to the bearer. Each time an attack is made with this weapon, the target does not receive the benefits of Light Cover against that attack. |
| Indirect Fire. This weapon can target units that are not visible to the bearer. Each time an attack is made with this weapon, the target does not receive the benefits of Light Cover against that attack. | ||||||
| Supremacy railgun | ||||||
| Supremacy railgun | 72" | Heavy 2 | 12 | -4 | D3+3 | Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers D3 mortal wounds in addition to any other damage. |
| Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers D3 mortal wounds in addition to any other damage. | ||||||
+35 Swiftstrike burst cannon | ||||||
+35 Swiftstrike burst cannon | 36" | Heavy 12 | 6 | -1 | 1 | - |
+50 Swiftstrike railgun | ||||||
+50 Swiftstrike railgun | 48" | Heavy 2 | 10 | -4 | D3+3 | Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers 1 mortal wound in addition to any other damage. |
| Each time a successful wound roll is made for an attack with this weapon, the target suffers 1 mortal wound in addition to any other damage. | ||||||
+0..5 T’au flamer | ||||||
+0..5 T’au flamer | 12" | Assault D6+2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon, that attack automatically hits the target. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon, that attack automatically hits the target. | ||||||
Tri-axis ion cannon | ||||||
Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | ||||||
Tri-axis ion cannon | Before selecting targets, select one of the profiles below to make attacks with. | |||||
| - Standard | ||||||
| - Standard | 60" | Heavy 9 | 7 | -2 | 2 | - |
| - Overcharge | ||||||
| - Overcharge | 60" | Heavy 3D6 | 8 | -2 | 3 | Blast. Each time the bearer shoots with this weapon profile, if any unmodified hit rolls of 1 are made for attacks with this weapon, the bearer suffers D3 mortal wounds after shooting with this weapon. |
| Blast. Each time the bearer shoots with this weapon profile, if any unmodified hit rolls of 1 are made for attacks with this weapon, the bearer suffers D3 mortal wounds after shooting with this weapon. | ||||||
+5 Twin airbursting fragmentation projector | ||||||
+5 Twin airbursting fragmentation projector | 24" | Assault 2D6 | 4 | -1 | 1 | Indirect Fire. Blast. This weapon can target units that are not visible to the bearer. |
| Indirect Fire. Blast. This weapon can target units that are not visible to the bearer. | ||||||
+5 Twin burst cannon | ||||||
+5 Twin burst cannon | 18" | Assault 12 | 5 | 0 | 1 | - |
| Twin hazard burst cannons | ||||||
| Twin hazard burst cannons | 18" | Assault 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | - |
+10 Twin heavy fusion cannon | ||||||
+10 Twin heavy fusion cannon | 24" | Heavy 2 | 9 | -4 | D6+2 | Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a damage characteristic of D6+4. |
| Each time an attack made with this weapon targets a unit within half range, that attack has a damage characteristic of D6+4. | ||||||
| Twin Kroot gun | ||||||
| Twin Kroot gun | 48" | Rapid Fire 2 | 7 | -1 | D3 | - |
| Twin plasma rifle (Legendary) | ||||||
| Twin plasma rifle (Legendary) | 24" | Rapid Fire 2 | 6 | -3 | 1 | - |
+10 Twin plasma rifle | ||||||
+10 Twin plasma rifle | 30" | Assault 2 | 8 | -4 | 3 | - |
+15 Twin smart missile system | ||||||
+15 Twin smart missile system | 30" | Heavy 8 | 5 | -1 | 1 | Indirect Fire. This weapon can target units that are not visible to the bearer. Each time an attack is made with this weapon, the target does not receive the benefits of Light Cover against that attack. |
| Indirect Fire. This weapon can target units that are not visible to the bearer. Each time an attack is made with this weapon, the target does not receive the benefits of Light Cover against that attack. | ||||||
+25 Twin swiftstrike burst cannon | ||||||
+25 Twin swiftstrike burst cannon | 36" | Heavy 16 | 6 | -1 | 1 | - |
| Twin T’au flamer | ||||||
| Twin T’au flamer | 12" | Assault 2D6+4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon, that attack automatically hits the target. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon, that attack automatically hits the target. | ||||||
+10 Twin T’au plasma cannon | ||||||
+10 Twin T’au plasma cannon | 48" | Heavy 6 | 7 | -3 | 2 | - |
Melee Weapons
WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D | ABILITIES |
| Crushing bulk | ||||||
| Crushing bulk | Melee | Melee | +1 | -1 | 1 | - |
| Crushing feet | ||||||
| Crushing feet | Melee | Melee | User | -2 | 2 | Make 3 hit rolls for each attack made with this weapon, instead of 1. Each hit roll is treated as a separate attack. |
| Make 3 hit rolls for each attack made with this weapon, instead of 1. Each hit roll is treated as a separate attack. | ||||||
Dawn Blade | ||||||
Each time an attack is made with this weapon, select one of the profiles below to make that attack with. | ||||||
Dawn Blade | Each time an attack is made with this weapon, select one of the profiles below to make that attack with. | |||||
| - Strike | ||||||
| - Strike | Melee | Melee | x2 | -3 | 3 | - |
| - Sweep | ||||||
| - Sweep | Melee | Melee | +1 | -2 | 1 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon profile, make 2 hit rolls instead of 1. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon profile, make 2 hit rolls instead of 1. | ||||||
| Fidelity | ||||||
| Fidelity | Melee | Melee | +2 | -2 | 2 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores one additional hit. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores one additional hit. | ||||||
| Ghostkeel fists | ||||||
| Ghostkeel fists | Melee | Melee | +1 | -1 | 2 | - |
| Great Knarloc beak and talons | ||||||
| Great Knarloc beak and talons | Melee | Melee | User | -4 | 3 | - |
| Honour stave | ||||||
| Honour stave | Melee | Melee | +2 | -1 | 2 | Each time an attack is made with this weapon, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll. |
| Each time an attack is made with this weapon, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll. | ||||||
| Knarloc beak and talons | ||||||
| Knarloc beak and talons | Melee | Melee | +2 | -2 | 2 | Each time the bearer fights, it makes 2 additional attacks with this weapon and no more than 2 attacks can be made with this weapon. |
| Each time the bearer fights, it makes 2 additional attacks with this weapon and no more than 2 attacks can be made with this weapon. | ||||||
| Kroot rifle (melee) | ||||||
| Kroot rifle (melee) | Melee | Melee | User | -1 | 1 | - |
| Krootox fists | ||||||
| Krootox fists | Melee | Melee | User | -2 | 2 | - |
| Ripping fangs | ||||||
| Ripping fangs | Melee | Melee | User | -1 | 1 | - |
| Riptide fists | ||||||
| Riptide fists | Melee | Melee | +1 | -2 | 2 | - |
| Ritual blade | ||||||
| Ritual blade | Melee | Melee | +1 | -1 | 1 | - |
| Stingwing claws | ||||||
| Stingwing claws | Melee | Melee | User | -1 | 1 | - |
| Supreme honour blade | ||||||
| Supreme honour blade | Melee | Melee | +2 | -1 | 2 | - |
| Thunderous footfalls | ||||||
| Thunderous footfalls | Melee | Melee | User | -2 | 2 | - |
Other Wargear
OTHER WARGEAR | ABILITIES | ||||||
+5 Advanced targeting system (Legendary) | |||||||
A model equipped with an advanced targeting system increases the AP characteristic of all of its weapons by 1 (e.g. an AP of 0 becomes -1, an AP of -1 becomes -2). | |||||||
+5 Advanced targeting system (Legendary) | A model equipped with an advanced targeting system increases the AP characteristic of all of its weapons by 1 (e.g. an AP of 0 becomes -1, an AP of -1 becomes -2). | ||||||
Advanced targeting system | |||||||
Each time the bearer makes a ranged attack, an unmodified hit roll of 6 automatically wounds the target. | |||||||
Advanced targeting system | Each time the bearer makes a ranged attack, an unmodified hit roll of 6 automatically wounds the target. | ||||||
Baggage harness | |||||||
The bearer gains the following ability: ‘Baggage Harness (Aura): While a friendly KROOT unit is within 6" of this model, each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores 1 additional hit.’ | |||||||
Baggage harness | The bearer gains the following ability: ‘Baggage Harness (Aura): While a friendly KROOT unit is within 6" of this model, each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores 1 additional hit.’ | ||||||
+0..10 Counterfire defence system | |||||||
The bearer gains the COUNTERFIRE DEFENCE SYSTEM keyword. | |||||||
+0..10 Counterfire defence system | The bearer gains the COUNTERFIRE DEFENCE SYSTEM keyword. | ||||||
+10 Counterfire defence system (Legendary) | |||||||
A model equipped with a counterfire defence system re-rolls failed hit rolls when firing Overwatch. | |||||||
+10 Counterfire defence system (Legendary) | A model equipped with a counterfire defence system re-rolls failed hit rolls when firing Overwatch. | ||||||
+0..5 Drone controller | |||||||
In your Command phase, you can select one DRONE unit within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase:
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+0..5 Drone controller | In your Command phase, you can select one DRONE unit within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase:
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+5 Drone controller (Legendary) | |||||||
DRONE units within 6" of any friendly models equipped with a drone controller add one to their hit rolls. | |||||||
+5 Drone controller (Legendary) | DRONE units within 6" of any friendly models equipped with a drone controller add one to their hit rolls. | ||||||
+5 Early warning override (Legendary) | |||||||
If any enemy units are set up within 12" of a model from your army equipped with an early warning override as the result of an ability that allows them to arrive mid-battle (i.e. teleporting to the battlefield), then at the end of that phase the model may immediately shoot at one of those units as if it were your Shooting phase, but you must subtract 1 from hit rolls when resolving these shots. | |||||||
+5 Early warning override (Legendary) | If any enemy units are set up within 12" of a model from your army equipped with an early warning override as the result of an ability that allows them to arrive mid-battle (i.e. teleporting to the battlefield), then at the end of that phase the model may immediately shoot at one of those units as if it were your Shooting phase, but you must subtract 1 from hit rolls when resolving these shots. | ||||||
+0..10 Early warning override | |||||||
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+0..10 Early warning override |
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Flare launcher | |||||||
Each time the bearer would lose a wound as the result of a ranged attack with a Strength characteristic of 7 or more, roll one D6: on a 5+, that wound is not lost. | |||||||
Flare launcher | Each time the bearer would lose a wound as the result of a ranged attack with a Strength characteristic of 7 or more, roll one D6: on a 5+, that wound is not lost. | ||||||
+5 Homing Beacon | |||||||
If this unit is equipped with a homing beacon, it can perform the following action: ‘Homing Beacon (Action): In your Command phase, any number of units from your army that are equipped with homing beacons can start to perform this action. The action is completed at the start of the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase. When it is completed, the unit performing the action loses its homing beacon and one friendly CRISIS CORE unit that was setup in a Manta hold (see Manta Strike) can be set up on the battlefield within 3" of the unit and more than 9" away from any enemy models, even if it is the first battle round.’ We recommend placing a Homing Beacon model next to the unit as a reminder, removing it once this action has been completed (a Homing Beacon does not count as a model for any rules purposes). | |||||||
+5 Homing Beacon | If this unit is equipped with a homing beacon, it can perform the following action: ‘Homing Beacon (Action): In your Command phase, any number of units from your army that are equipped with homing beacons can start to perform this action. The action is completed at the start of the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase. When it is completed, the unit performing the action loses its homing beacon and one friendly CRISIS CORE unit that was setup in a Manta hold (see Manta Strike) can be set up on the battlefield within 3" of the unit and more than 9" away from any enemy models, even if it is the first battle round.’ We recommend placing a Homing Beacon model next to the unit as a reminder, removing it once this action has been completed (a Homing Beacon does not count as a model for any rules purposes). | ||||||
+5 Hover drone | |||||||
The bearer has a Move characteristic of 10" and the FLY keyword. | |||||||
+5 Hover drone | The bearer has a Move characteristic of 10" and the FLY keyword. | ||||||
+10 Iridium battlesuit | |||||||
The bearer has a Save characteristic of 2+. | |||||||
+10 Iridium battlesuit | The bearer has a Save characteristic of 2+. | ||||||
Markerlight | |||||||
The bearer gains the MARKERLIGHT keyword. | |||||||
Markerlight | The bearer gains the MARKERLIGHT keyword. | ||||||
+0..5 Multi-tracker | |||||||
Each time a ranged attack made by the bearer targets a unit containing 6 or more models, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores 1 additional hit. Maximum 1 per model. | |||||||
+0..5 Multi-tracker | Each time a ranged attack made by the bearer targets a unit containing 6 or more models, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores 1 additional hit. Maximum 1 per model. | ||||||
Neuroweb system jammer | |||||||
The bearer gains the NEUROWEB SYSTEM JAMMER keyword. | |||||||
Neuroweb system jammer | The bearer gains the NEUROWEB SYSTEM JAMMER keyword. | ||||||
Pech’ra | |||||||
Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a ranged attack, the target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack. | |||||||
Pech’ra | Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a ranged attack, the target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack. | ||||||
Positional relay | |||||||
Once per battle round, when you set up a friendly Strategic Reserves unit, the bearer can use this wargear item. If it does, that unit counts the battle round number as one higher than the current battle round number for the purpose of determining where it is set up, but when doing so it must be set up within 6" of the bearer. | |||||||
Positional relay | Once per battle round, when you set up a friendly Strategic Reserves unit, the bearer can use this wargear item. If it does, that unit counts the battle round number as one higher than the current battle round number for the purpose of determining where it is set up, but when doing so it must be set up within 6" of the bearer. | ||||||
+0..10 Shield generator | |||||||
The bearer has a 4+ invulnerable save. | |||||||
+0..10 Shield generator | The bearer has a 4+ invulnerable save. | ||||||
Stabilised optics | |||||||
The bearer does not suffer the penalty to hit rolls incurred for firing Heavy weapons in the same turn that their unit has moved, and does not suffer the penalty to hit rolls incurred for firing Heavy weapons at a target that is within Engagement Range of their unit. | |||||||
Stabilised optics | The bearer does not suffer the penalty to hit rolls incurred for firing Heavy weapons in the same turn that their unit has moved, and does not suffer the penalty to hit rolls incurred for firing Heavy weapons at a target that is within Engagement Range of their unit. | ||||||
+0..10 Target lock | |||||||
Each time the bearer makes a ranged attack, the target does not receive the benefits of Light Cover against that attack. | |||||||
+0..10 Target lock | Each time the bearer makes a ranged attack, the target does not receive the benefits of Light Cover against that attack. | ||||||
+0..10 Velocity tracker | |||||||
Each time a ranged attack is made by the bearer against a unit that can FLY, add 1 to that attack’s hit roll. Maximum 1 per model. | |||||||
+0..10 Velocity tracker | Each time a ranged attack is made by the bearer against a unit that can FLY, add 1 to that attack’s hit roll. Maximum 1 per model. | ||||||
Glossary
Below you will find a glossary that contains a number of terms used in this Codex.
Burst weapon: A weapon whose profile includes the word ‘burst’, or a Relic that replaces a burst weapon.
Cadre Command: Detachment ability for T’AU EMPIRE Detachments.
Farsight Enclaves Detachment: A Detachment in a Battle-forged army where every model has the FARSIGHT ENCLAVES keyword (excluding models with the T’AU AUXILIARY or UNALIGNED keywords).
From: The sept that a unit belongs to is the sept they are from. A unit is from a certain sept if they have that sept’s name listed on its Faction keyword line.
Independent Power: Detachment ability for T’AU EMPIRE Detachments.
Ion weapon: A weapon whose profile includes the word ‘ion’, or a Relic that replaces an ion weapon.
Markerlights: Markerlights allow a unit to perform the Fire Markerlights action in order to give enemy units Markerlight tokens.
Missile weapon: A weapon whose profile includes the word ‘missile’, or a Relic that replaces a missile weapon.
Plasma weapon: A weapon whose profile includes the word ‘plasma’, or a Relic that replaces a plasma weapon.
Prototype Systems: A unique upgrade that can be given to COMMANDER, Crisis Shas’vre, Crisis Bodyguard Shas’vre or Ghostkeel Shas’vre models (excluding named characters).
Pulse weapon: A weapon whose profile includes the word ‘pulse’, or a Relic that replaces a pulse weapon.
Sept: T’AU EMPIRE units with the <SEPT> keyword will belong to one sept (or Farsight Enclaves). When you include such a unit in your army, you must select a sept’s keyword or FARSIGHT ENCLAVES to replace this keyword with.
Sept Detachment: A T’AU EMPIRE Detachment in which every T’AU EMPIRE unit that is from a sept is from the same sept.
Sept Signature System: A Signature System associated with a specific sept. These are only available to CHARACTER models that are part of a sept Detachment (and only if they, and your WARLORD are drawn from the associated sept).
Sept Stratagem: A Stratagem associated with a specific sept. These are only available if your army includes a Sept Detachment of the associated sept. All Sept Stratagems have the T’au Empire label.
Sept Tenets: Detachment ability for T’AU EMPIRE Detachments.
<SEPT> unit: A unit that is from a sept and has the name of a sept as a Faction keyword on its datasheet. Note that units that are from, a specified sept, such as named characters like Aun’shi, are also <SEPT> units. Farsight Enclaves units with the FARSIGHT ENCLAVES Faction keyword are also <SEPT> units.
Sept Warlord Trait: A Warlord Trait associated with a specific sept. These are only available to WARLORDS that are part of a Sept Detachment (and only if they are from the associated sept).
Stratagem label: A Stratagem’s labels are written beneath its title and can include: T’au Empire; Battle Tactic; Epic Deed, Strategic Ploy; Requisition; Wargear. A Stratagem can have more than one label; for example, a Stratagem with ‘T’au Empire - Wargear Stratagem’ has both the T’au Empire and Wargear labels.
T’au Empire Detachment: A Detachment in a Battle-forged army where every model has the T’AU EMPIRE keyword (excluding models with the UNALIGNED keyword).
T’au Empire secondary objectives: Additional secondary objectives that can be used in certain matched play mission packs, if every Detachment in your army is a T’AU EMPIRE Detachment.
Reference
Below you will find a bullet-pointed summary of several T’au Empire rules.
- When you include a unit with the <SEPT> keyword, nominate which sept (or FARSIGHT ENCLAVES) it is from.
- Replace every instance of the <SEPT> keyword on that unit’s datasheet with the name of your chosen sept.
CADRE COMMAND
- If your army is Battle-forged, for each Detachment with this ability (excluding FARSIGHT ENCLAVES Detachments), that Detachment cannot contain more than one COMMANDER model.
- If your army is Battle-forged, for each FARSIGHT ENCLAVES Detachment with this ability, that Detachment cannot contain more than two COMMANDER models.
DETACHMENT ABILITIES
- If your army is Battle-forged, T’AU EMPIRE Detachments gain the Sept Tenets and Cadre Command abilities.
- If your army is Battle-forged, FARSIGHT ENCLAVES Detachments gain the Independent Power ability.
- If your army is Battle-forged, Troops units in T’AU EMPIRE Detachments gain the Objective Secured ability.
- In Crusade, when assimilating a star system, each of the planets will have a Diplomat Power. This represents the number of Diplomat points your Crusade force needs to earn in order to perform a Diplomatic Takeover of that planet.
- If your army is Battle-forged, for each Detachment with this ability, that Detachment cannot contain any ETHEREAL models.
- MARKERLIGHT units can perform the Fire Markerlights action.
- Action begins at the start of your Movement phase, ends at the start of next Shooting phase.
- When action is completed, for each MARKERLIGHT model, select one enemy unit within 36" that is eligible for a ranged attack and roll one D6: on a 3+, that enemy unit gains a Markerlight token.
- VEHICLE and DRONE models can move without the action failing, but only those models can fire their markerlights in their respective units.
- When a unit with Markerlight tokens is targeted by ranged attacks by a T’AU EMPIRE unit (excluding T’AU AUXILIARY units), add 1 to hit rolls and afterwards remove one token.
MILITARY POWER
- In Crusade, when assimilating a star system, each of the planets will have a Military Power. This represents the number of Military points your Crusade force needs to earn in order to perform a Military Takeover of that planet.
- Philosophies of War only applies if every model in your army is from the same sept (excluding T’AU AUXILIARY, SUPREME COMMANDER and UNALIGNED models).
- At the start of the battle, select either the Mont’ka or Kauyon Tactical Philosophy.
- Until the end of the battle, T’AU EMPIRE units (excluding T’AU AUXILIARY units) gain new abilities based on the Tactical Philosophy that was selected and the current battle round number.
- If your army is Battle-forged, you can upgrade COMMANDER, Crisis Shas’vre, Crisis Bodyguard Shas’vre or Ghostkeel Shas’vre models with a Prototype System.
- Doing so increases a model’s Power Rating and points value.
- A model cannot have more than one Prototype System.
- Your army cannot contain more than one model with the same Prototype System.
- Crusade armies must use the Prototype System Requisition to gain Prototype Systems.
- You cannot give named characters Prototype Systems.
SEPT TENETS
- If every unit in a Detachment is drawn from the same sept, all T’AU EMPIRE units in that Detachment that are drawn from that sept gain a Sept Tenet.
- The Sept Tenet gained depends on what sept they are from.
- If a sept does not have an associated Sept Tenet, you must create one for them. To do so, select two tenets from this section.
The DRONE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with Drones this unit may have DRONE models.- FLY models can move over other models when they make a Normal Move, an Advance or when they Fall Back.
- FLY models ignore vertical distances when they make a Normal Move, an Advance or when they Fall Back.
The PATHFINDER TEAM keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
- Remain Stationary: Models cannot move this phase.
- Normal Move: Models move up to M".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
- Advance: Models move up to M+D6".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of enemy models.
- Units that Advance cannot shoot or charge this turn.
- Fall Back: Models move up to M".
- Units that Fall Back cannot charge this turn.
- Units that Fall Back cannot shoot or manifest psychic powers this turn unless they are TITANIC.
- Heroic Intervention: Move up to 3".
- Must end closer to the closest enemy model.
- Engagement Range: 1" horizontally + 5" vertically.
- Models cannot be set up within Engagement Range of enemy models.
- Declare targets of the charge (must be within 12").
- Charge roll = 2D6".
- If insufficient to move charging unit into Engagement Range of all targets, charge fails.
- If charge successful, models make their charge move.
- Cannot make a charge move within Engagement Range of any unit that was not the target of the charge.
The keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The VIOR’LA and CORE keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The CADRE FIREBLADE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
If an attack is made with a weapon that has an ability that says it ‘automatically hits the target’, no hit roll is made – that attack simply scores one hit on the target unit. An unmodified hit roll of 6 always scores a hit, and an unmodified hit roll of 1 always fails. A hit roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1. This means that if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a hit roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be -2 or worse, it is changed to be -1. Similarly, if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a hit roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be +2 or better, it is changed to be +1.
The T’AU AUXILIARY keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The SUPREME COMMANDER keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The datasheets using UNALIGNED keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Unaligned: Unaligned.Imperium: Astra Militarum, Space Marines.
The UNALIGNED keyword is used in the following datasheets:
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If the result of the wound roll is less than the required number, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends. An unmodified wound roll of 6 always successfully wounds the target, and an unmodified wound roll of 1 always fails. A wound roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1. This means that if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a wound roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be -2 or worse, it is changed to be -1. Similarly, if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a wound roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be +2 or better, it is changed to be +1.
The BATTLESUIT keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
When an INFANTRY model shoots a Heavy weapon, subtract 1 from the hit rolls when resolving that weapon’s attacks if the firing model’s unit has moved for any reason this turn (e.g. it made a Normal Move this turn).
- Subtract 1 from hit rolls if firing model is INFANTRY and its unit has moved this turn.
The MARKERLIGHT keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with the Markerlight the bearer gains the MARKERLIGHT keyword.The AIRCRAFT and MARKERLIGHT keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with the Markerlight the bearer gains the MARKERLIGHT keyword.The VEHICLE and MARKERLIGHT keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with the Markerlight the bearer gains the MARKERLIGHT keyword.The DRONE and MARKERLIGHT keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with the Markerlight the bearer gains the DRONE keyword.– if equipped with the Markerlight the bearer gains the MARKERLIGHT keyword.The T’AU EMPIRE and CORE keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The FARSIGHT ENCLAVES keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Pulse carbine used in the following datasheets:
If a unit includes any models equipped with Assault weapons, that unit is still eligible to shoot with in your Shooting phase even if it has Advanced this turn, but you can only resolve attacks using those Assault weapons when you select that unit to shoot with. If a model shoots an Assault weapon in the same turn in which its unit has Advanced, subtract 1 from hit rolls when resolving that weapon’s attacks.
- Can be shot even if firing model’s unit Advanced.
- Subtract 1 from hit rolls if the firing model’s unit Advanced.
Ion rifle used in the following datasheets:
If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, resolve the normal damage first. If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, but the normal damage is subsequently saved, the target unit still suffers the mortal wounds, as described before. If an ability modifies the damage inflicted by a weapon, and that weapon can inflict mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, the modifier does not apply to any mortal wounds that are inflicted (unless the rule specifically states otherwise).
- Each mortal wound inflicted on a unit causes one model in the unit to lose one wound.
- No saving throws can be made against mortal wounds.
- Mortal wounds inflicted by attacks in addition to normal damage always apply, even if normal damage saved.
Missile pod used in the following datasheets:
– may take Missile pod as an option.Burst cannon used in the following datasheets:
– may take Burst cannon as an option.When a model shoots a Rapid Fire weapon, double the number of attacks it makes if its target is within half the weapon’s range.
- Double number of attacks made if target is within half range.
Markerlight used in the following datasheets:
- Morale test = D6 + number of models destroyed this turn.
- Unmodified roll of 1 always a success (no models flee).
- If Morale test exceeds unit’s Ld, one model flees and other models must take Combat Attrition tests.
- A friendly unit that contains 1 or more VEHICLE or MONSTER models with a wounds characteristic of 10 or more.
- A friendly non-CHARACTER unit that contains 1 or more VEHICLE or MONSTER models.
- A friendly non-CHARACTER unit that contains 3 or more models.
- Cannot shoot at an enemy CHARACTER with 9 or less wounds while it is within 3" of a friendly unit that contains 1 MONSTER, 1 VEHICLE or 3+ other models (excluding CHARACTER models with 9 or less wounds) unless it is the closest target.
‘Fire Markerlights (Action): One or more MARKERLIGHT units from your army can start to perform this action at the start of your Movement phase. AIRCRAFT MARKERLIGHT units can perform this action. The action is completed at the start of your next Shooting phase. If this action is successfully completed, for each model in that unit that is equipped with one or more markerlights, for each markerlight that model is equipped with, select one enemy unit within 36" of that model that would be an eligible target for that model if its unit had been selected to shoot, and roll one D6: on a 3+, that enemy unit gains one Markerlight token.’
While a VEHICLE or DRONE unit is performing the Fire Markerlights action, that unit can move without that action failing. If it does, until the end of the turn, models in that unit without the VEHICLE or DRONE keyword that are equipped with any markerlights are treated as not being equipped with any markerlights for the purpose of the Fire Markerlights action.
Each time a T’AU EMPIRE unit (excluding T’AU AUXILIARY units) is selected to shoot:
- Each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack against a unit with one or more Markerlight tokens, add 1 to that attack’s hit roll.
- After that unit has finished making attacks, for each enemy unit targeted by those attacks, remove one Markerlight token from that enemy unit.
- Objective Secured: Player controls objective marker if any of their models in range have this ability.
- Invulnerable save: Saving throw that is never modified by attacking weapon’s AP.
- A model with an invulnerable save can use it instead of its normal Sv.
- +1 to saving throws against ranged weapons.
- Invulnerable saving throws unaffected.
The T’AU EMPIRE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
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The keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The DRONE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with Drones this unit may have DRONE models.The FLY keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with the Hover drone this unit gains the FLY keyword.The GUARDIAN DRONE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with Drones this unit may have GUARDIAN DRONE models.The GUN DRONE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with Drones this unit may have GUN DRONE models.The MARKER DRONE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with Drones this unit may have MARKER DRONE models.The SHIELD DRONE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with Drones this unit may have SHIELD DRONE models.The SHIELDED MISSILE DRONE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with Drones this unit may have SHIELDED MISSILE DRONE models.The COMMANDER keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The T’AU EMPIRE, and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The COMMANDER and SHADOWSUN keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
- Points values: Detailed measure of a unit's efficacy.
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- Starting number of Command points varies with battle size.
- Overwatch: Before charge roll made, all charge targets that can fire Overwatch can do so.
- Can never fire Overwatch while enemy units are in Engagement Range.
- When firing Overwatch, shoot with unit, but attacks only hit on unmodified 6s.
If every model in an INFANTRY unit is within 3" of an Obstacle terrain feature with this trait, then it can either Hold Steady or it can Set to Defend (see below) when an enemy unit declares a charge against it if, were you to draw a straight line, 1mm in thickness, between the closest parts of the bases (or hulls) of the two closest models in the two units, that line would pass over or through that terrain feature.
A unit cannot Hold Steady or Set to Defend while it is within Engagement Range of any enemy units.
If a unit Holds Steady, any Overwatch attacks made by that unit this phase will score hits on rolls of 5+. If a unit Sets to Defend, it cannot fire Overwatch this phase, but you add 1 to hit rolls when resolving attacks made with melee weapons by models in that unit until the end of the next Fight phase.
- INFANTRY units can Hold Steady or Set to Defend (if no enemy within Engagement Range).
- Hold Steady: Overwatch attacks hit on 5+.
- Set to Defend: Cannot fire Overwatch but add 1 to hit rolls in next Fight phase.
The T’AU SEPT and CORE keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Models do not suffer this penalty to their hit rolls when making an attack with a ranged weapon that targets an AIRCRAFT unit, or a unit that includes any models with a Wounds (W) characteristic of 18 or more, even if this terrain feature is between it and the firing model (note that the reverse is not true).
- Subtract 1 from hit rolls made for ranged weapons if at least 3” tall.
- Does not apply to models that are only shooting through their own terrain feature.
- No penalty when shooting at AIRCRAFT and units with W characteristic of 18+.
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The DAL’YTH and CORE keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
- Deny the Witch: Passed if 2D6 exceeds result of the opposing PSYKER’s Psychic test.
- Only one attempt can be made to deny each psychic power.
The FARSIGHT ENCLAVES and BATTLESUIT keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The CORE and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The T’AU EMPIRE and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Multiple advanced prototypes and ultra-rare technologies have been provided for the war effort by Ethereal decree.
The Fire Caste academies imbue in all Fire Warriors the importance of raising up the particularly skilled of their number.
Many T’au war engines and martial technologies incorporate backup Al that can lend support to pilots in extremis.
The RIPTIDE BATTLESUIT keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
This prototype power router floods the intense energy generated by a nova reactor to multiple engine systems.
Drone Al are adaptive enough to be assigned individual missions by their masters.
If any of those DRONE models are docked with another model, set them up within 1" of the model they are docked with before splitting the unit. Those DRONE models are no longer docked with that model.
The BUILDING keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
A kor’vattra cruiser in high orbit unleashes a pulse from an immense ion cannon, engulfing the target in white-hot energy.
The DEVILFISH keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Though the technique is frowned upon as dangerously reckless, the most dedicated or aggressive Fire Warriors sometimes spring from their moving transports, roll with the impact of landing, and come up with pulse weapons already blazing.
- If you selected the Mont’ka Tactical Philosophy at the start of the battle and it is the first, second or third battle round, select up to three DEVILFISH models from your army.
- If you selected the Kauyon Tactical Philosophy at the start of the battle and it is the third, fourth or fifth battle round, select up to three DEVILFISH models from your army.
- Otherwise, select one DEVILFISH model from your army.
In their wisdom, the T’au Ethereals know how powerful the combined strength of the four other castes can be.
Even as they descend from on high with thrusters blazing, battlesuit pilots are already locking onto hostile targets and computing fire solutions.
The CRISIS and BATTLESUIT keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Engaging all systems, skilled battlesuit pilots can surge into battle in a blaze of deadly-accurate firepower.
- Each time that unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit.
- Models in that unit do not suffer the penalty to hit rolls incurred for firing Assault weapons in the same turn that their unit has Advanced.
Even when under intense pressure, T’au warriors remain calm and resolute to break enemy charges with salvoes of fire.
The STEALTH BATTLESUITS keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The GHOSTKEEL BATTLESUIT keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The T’au Stealth Cadres utilise interwoven obfuscation fields and wide-band refraction beams to mask their advance. This process is known as mesme’j’kaara - the wall of mirrors.
O’Shovah’s warriors have mastered the art of the drop-zone assault. There are few more imposing sights than a cadre of battlesuits raining from low orbit, jump-jets blazing and cannons spitting death at the helpless foe.
Inspired by the fieldcraft of alien auxilia, the warriors of Dal’yth are practised in subtly encircling their foes.
The active sensor-nets employed by Devilfish transports are able to instantly outlink to nearby friendly forces to triangulate visible targets for elimination.
‘Sensor Link (Aura): While a friendly FIRE WARRIOR TEAM unit is within 6" of this model, each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack against the selected enemy unit, re-roll a hit roll of 1.’
The FIRE WARRIOR TEAM keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Some T’au perform complex drills in which they train to operate their weapons at extremely close range.
The T’AU EMPIRE and JET PACK keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
T’au are experts at harrying and outmanoeuvring their foes, bleeding them with accurate bursts of fire before fading away into the shadows.
If that unit contains 5 or fewer models (excluding DRONE models), this Stratagem costs 1CP; otherwise, it costs 2CP.
The BREACHER TEAM keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Some T’au perform complex drills in which they train to operate their weapons at extremely close range.
Breacher Teams excel at clearing enemy-held structures with blinding photon grenades and disciplined bursts of pulse fire.
- The target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack.
- You can re-roll the wound roll.
T’au combined arms groups are called Hunter Cadres for good reason. Working in close coordination, they hunt and destroy the most dangerous enemy targets.
- That attack can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
- Improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Seeker missiles are designed to lock onto the remote targeting beacon provided by a markerlight beam and ride the signal all the way to their target, even bypassing and evading intervening terrain in the process.
- That attack can target units with one or more Markerlight tokens that are not visible to the attacking model.
- Add 1 to that attack’s wound roll.
By modulating their weapons’ settings, skilled T’au marksmen can cause an ionised energy pulse to erupt from the point of impact to inflict neurological and wave-field disruption upon the foe.
The NEUROWEB SYSTEM JAMMER keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with the Neuroweb system jammer the bearer gains the NEUROWEB SYSTEM JAMMER keyword.This device emits an intense neurostatic jamming field, scrambling the enemy’s senses and fouling their aim.
Rather than charge into hand-to-hand combat, T’au soldiery instead intensify their fire patterns and systematically lay waste to the foe.
Pathfinders are the eyes and ears of the T’au war machine, always operating ten steps ahead of the foe.
The STRIKE TEAM keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
With mechanical efficiency instilled by endless drills, the T’au maintain a punishing fire rate even when engaging the enemy at long range.
- Instead of following the normal rules for Rapid Fire weapons, models in that unit shooting pulse rifles make double the number of attacks.
- Each time a CORE model in that unit makes a ranged attack, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Having intentionally allowed the foe a false sense of security, the T’au now shatter that ill-founded confidence with a focused fusillade.
The HAMMERHEAD keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Hammerhead railguns are able to fire short-ranged fragmentation rounds for anti-personnel defence.
T’au are trained to dominate the battlefield with relentless volleys of overlapping pulsefire.
Bork’an scientists have distributed the latest prototype weapons amongst their sept’s Fire Caste contingents, optimised to increase range and accuracy.
T’au Sept doctrine heavily emphasises the massed concentration of fire upon a single target at a time, obliterating each component of the enemy force in succession with a series of unrelenting barrages.
The daredevil Fire Warriors of Vior’la stray dangerously close to enemy formations in order to maximise the killing power of their pulse volleys.
Sa’cean cadres maintain close contact with Air Caste spotters in low orbit whose intelligence scans augment the accuracy of the Fire Caste.
The COUNTERFIRE DEFENCE SYSTEM keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
– if equipped with the Counterfire defence system the bearer gains the COUNTERFIRE DEFENCE SYSTEM keyword.Point-defence systems trigger as incoming fire is detected, blasting projectiles from the air and blunting the onslaught.
The PHOTON GRENADES keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets: