T’au Empire – Tidewall Shieldline
| No | NAME | M | WS | BS | S | T | W | A | Ld | Sv | Base |
80 Tidewall Shieldline (base: Use model) |
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| 1 | 80 Tidewall Shieldline |
- | - | - | 6 | 6 | 10 | - | 10 | 4+ | Use model |
80 Tidewall Defence Platform (base: Use model) |
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| 0‑1 | 80 Tidewall Defence Platform |
- | - | - | 6 | 6 | 10 | - | 10 | 4+ | Use model |
If this unit contains a Tidewall Defence Platform, it has Power Rating 8.
ABILITIES (Tidewall Shieldline and Tidewall Defence Platform) | |
ABILITIES (Tidewall Shieldline and Tidewall Defence Platform) |
Set-up: When this unit is first set up on the battlefield, if it contains a Tidewall Defence Platform, it must be set up within 1" of this unit’s Tidewall Shieldline. TIDEWALL terrain features can be set up within 3" of other friendly TIDEWALL terrain features. Firing Positions: In your Shooting phase, any models embarked within this TRANSPORT can be selected to shoot with; measure distances and draw line of sight from any point on this Building when doing so (embarked models can make attacks with ranged weapons even while this Building is within Engagement Range of enemy units, just as if they had the Big Guns Never Tire rule like a VEHICLE). Mobile Defences: Units from your army can perform the following action: ‘Mobile Defences (Action): At the start of your Movement phase, one unit from your army that is embarked within a TIDEWALL TRANSPORT can start to perform this action (even though units embarked within TRANSPORTS cannot normally perform actions). The action is completed at the end of that phase. If this action is completed successfully, that TIDEWALL TRANSPORT can make a Normal Move as if it had a Move characteristic of 8" and had the FLY keyword.’ |
ABILITIES (Tidewall Shieldline) | |
ABILITIES (Tidewall Shieldline) |
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ABILITIES (Tidewall Defence Platform) | |
ABILITIES (Tidewall Defence Platform) |
Terrain Feature: After it is set up, this unit’s Tidewall Defence Platform (if any) is a Building terrain feature. Wrecked: When this Building is destroyed, roll one D6 before any embarked models disembark and before removing it from play. On a 6 it explodes, and each unit within 6" suffers D3 mortal wounds. On any other result, this Building is wrecked; though the model counts as destroyed for all rules purposes do not remove it from the battlefield. Instead, for the remainder of the battle, it is treated as an Obstacle terrain feature with the following terrain traits:
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TRANSPORT | |
TRANSPORT |
Each Building has a transport capacity of 10 INFANTRY models. Each model with a Wounds characteristic of 3 takes up the space of 2 models. It cannot transport models with a Wounds characteristic of 4 or more. No more than two units can be embarked within this Building. Designer’s Note: When you embark models onto a Tidewall terrain feature, you may find it useful to place some of them on the battlements to remind you which unit(s) are inside the fortification. |
| FACTION KEYWORDS: T’AU EMPIRE, | |
| KEYWORDS (Tidewall Shieldline): TERRAIN, BUILDING, VEHICLE, TRANSPORT, TIDEWALL, SHIELDLINE | |
| KEYWORDS (Tidewall Defence Platform): TERRAIN, BUILDING, VEHICLE, TRANSPORT, TIDEWALL, DEFENCE PLATFORM | |
Datasheet-related Stratagems
SAVIOUR PROTOCOLS1CP
T’au Empire – Epic Deed Stratagem
Drones will dive into the path of incoming fire without a second thought if it means protecting T’au lives.
Use this Stratagem in any phase, when a saving throw is failed for a model in a unit from your army. Select one friendly DRONE model within 3" of that unit, or within 6" of that unit if it contains a model equipped with a drone controller. That DRONE model is destroyed and the Damage characteristic of that attack is changed to 0.
ORBITAL ION BEAM2CP
T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
A kor’vattra cruiser in high orbit unleashes a pulse from an immense ion cannon, engulfing the target in white-hot energy.
Use this Stratagem in your Command phase. Place two Ion Beam markers anywhere on the battlefield within 12" of each other. At the start of your next Command phase, draw a straight, imaginary line between the two Ion Beam markers, and then roll one D6 for each unit that this line crosses over, adding 1 if the unit being rolled for is a BUILDING: on a 2-5, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 6+, that unit suffers 3 mortal wounds. The Ion Beam markers are then removed. You can only use this Stratagem once.
COORDINATED ENGAGEMENT1CP
T’au Empire – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
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.
Use this Stratagem in your Shooting phase, before selecting a unit to shoot with. Select one enemy unit and two units from your army that are within 18" of and visible to that enemy unit. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in one of those units makes an attack:
- 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.
Mortal Wounds
Some attacks inflict mortal wounds – these are so powerful that no armour or force field can withstand their fury. Each mortal wound inflicts 1 point of damage on the target unit, and they are always applied one at a time. Do not make a wound roll or saving throw (including invulnerable saves) against a mortal wound – just allocate it as you would any other attack and inflict damage to a model in the target unit. Unlike damage inflicted by normal attacks, excess damage from mortal wounds is not lost. Instead, keep allocating damage to another model in the target unit until either all the damage has been allocated or the target unit is destroyed.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.
Saving Throw
The player commanding the target unit then makes one saving throw by rolling one D6 and modifying the roll by the Armour Penetration (AP) characteristic of the weapon that the attack was made with. For example, if the weapon has an AP of -1, then 1 is subtracted from the saving throw roll. If the result is equal to, or greater than, the Save (Sv) characteristic of the model the attack was allocated to, then the saving throw is successful and the attack sequence ends. If the result is less than the model’s Save characteristic, then the saving throw fails and the model suffers damage. An unmodified roll of 1 always fails.
Invulnerable Saves
Some models have an invulnerable save. Each time an attack is allocated to a model with an invulnerable save, you can choose to use either its normal Save (Sv) characteristic or its invulnerable save, but not both. If a model has more than one invulnerable save, it can only use one of them – choose which it will use. If you use a model’s invulnerable save, it is never modified by a weapon’s Armour Penetration value.- 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.
Engagement Range
Engagement Range represents the zone of threat that models present to their enemies. While a model is within 1" horizontally and 5" vertically of an enemy model, those models are within Engagement Range of each other. While two enemy models are within Engagement Range of each other, those models’ units are also within Engagement Range of each other. Models cannot be set up within Engagement Range of enemy models.- Engagement Range: 1" horizontally + 5" vertically.
- Models cannot be set up within Engagement Range of enemy models.
Charging with a Unit
Once you have chosen an eligible unit to declare a charge with, you must select one or more enemy units within 12" of it as the targets of its charge. The target(s) of this charge do not need to be visible to the charging unit. You then make a charge roll for your unit by rolling 2D6. This is the maximum number of inches each model in the charging unit can now be moved if they can make the charge move. To make a charge move, the unit’s charge roll must be sufficient that it is able to end that move in unit coherency and within Engagement Range of every unit that was a target of its charge, without moving within Engagement Range of any enemy units that were not a target of its charge. If this is possible, then the charge is successful and the models in the unit make a charge move so as to fulfil the above conditions. If this is impossible, the charge fails and no models in the charging unit move this phase.- 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 T’AU EMPIRE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
HQ
Dedicated Transport
Elites
Fast Attack
Flyers
Heavy Support
Fortifications
and others...
The keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
HQ
Dedicated Transport
Elites
Fast Attack
Flyers
Heavy Support
The and DRONE keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
HQ
Dedicated Transport
Elites
– if equipped with Drones this unit may have DRONE models.Army List
Datasheets collatedHQ
Dedicated Transport
Elites
Fast Attack
Heavy Support
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
HQ
Elites
Heavy Support
Normal Move
When a unit makes a Normal Move, each model in that unit can move a distance in inches equal to or less than the Move (M) characteristic shown on its datasheet, but no model can be moved within Engagement Range of enemy models.- Normal Move: Models move up to M".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
Flying
If a unit’s datasheet has the FLY keyword, then when it makes a Normal Move, an Advance or it Falls Back, its models can be moved across other models (and their bases) as if they were not there, and they can be moved within Engagement Range of enemy models. In addition, any vertical distance up and/or down that they make as part of that move is ignored. However, these models cannot finish their move either on top of another model (or its base) or within Engagement Range of any enemy 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.
Fall Back
When a unit Falls Back, each model in that unit can move a distance in inches equal to or less than the Move (M) characteristic shown on its datasheet, and when doing so you can move it within Engagement Range of enemy models, but it cannot end its move within Engagement Range of any enemy models – if it cannot do this then it cannot Fall Back. A unit cannot declare a charge in the same turn that it Fell Back. A unit cannot shoot or attempt to manifest a psychic power in the same turn that it Fell Back unless it is TITANIC.- 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.
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Dedicated Transport
Elites
Advance
When a unit makes an Advance, make an Advance roll for the unit by rolling one D6. Add the result in inches to the Move (M) characteristic of each model in that unit until the end of the current phase. Each model in that unit can then move a distance in inches equal to or less than this total, but no model can be moved within Engagement Range of enemy models. A unit cannot shoot or declare a charge in the same turn that it made an Advance.- Advance: Models move up to M+D6".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of enemy models.
- Units that Advance cannot shoot or charge this turn.
Transport Capacity
All TRANSPORT models have a transport capacity listed on their datasheet. This determines how many friendly models, and of what type, can embark within them. A model’s transport capacity can never be exceeded.Units can start the battle embarked within a TRANSPORT instead of being set up separately – declare what units are embarked within a TRANSPORT model before you set it up.
- Transport capacity: Maximum number of models that can embark within the Transport.
- Units can start the battle embarked in a TRANSPORT.
Disembark
If a unit starts its Movement phase embarked within a TRANSPORT model, that unit can disembark in that phase so long as the model itself has not yet made a Normal Move, an Advance or has Fallen Back that phase.When a unit disembarks, set it up on the battlefield so that it is wholly within 3" of the TRANSPORT model and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
Units that disembark can then act normally (move, shoot, charge, fight, etc.) in the remainder of the turn, but its models count as having moved that turn, even if they are not moved further (i.e. they never count as having Remained Stationary).
- Units that start their Movement phase embarked in a TRANSPORT can disembark this phase.
- A unit must disembark before their TRANSPORT moves.
- Disembarking units must be set up wholly within 3" of their TRANSPORT and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
- Units that have disembarked count as having moved this turn.
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Dedicated Transport
Flyers
This datasheet has Fortifications Battlefield Role. Full list of T’au Empire units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:
The TIDEWALL keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Embark
If a unit makes a Normal Move, an Advance or it Falls Back, and every model in that unit ends that move within 3" of a friendly TRANSPORT model they can embark within it. A unit cannot embark within a TRANSPORT model that is within Engagement Range of enemy models, and it cannot embark if it has already disembarked from a TRANSPORT model in the same phase. Remove the unit from the battlefield and place it to one side – it is now embarked within the model.Units cannot normally do anything or be affected in any way while they are embarked. Unless specifically stated, other units’ abilities have no effect on units while they are embarked, and Stratagems cannot be used to affect units while they are embarked. For all rules purposes, units that are embarked within a TRANSPORT model that has made a Normal Move, Advanced, Fallen Back or Remained Stationary also count as having made the same kind of move that turn.
- Units can embark in a friendly TRANSPORT if every model ends a Normal Move, an Advance or a Fall Back within 3" of it.
- A unit cannot embark within a TRANSPORT that is within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
- A unit cannot embark and disembark in the same phase.
- Units cannot do anything, or be affected in any way, while they are embarked within a TRANSPORT.
The TIDEWALL and TRANSPORT keywords are used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
Obstacles
Obstacles include Barricades, Ruined Walls and other battlefield debris that your models have to move over or around. Models can move up, over and down Obstacles following the normal rules for movement. A model on or behind an Obstacle uses the normal rules for determining if another model is visible to it, or if it is visible to another model. Obstacles cannot be chosen as the target of an attack.An INFANTRY, BEAST or SWARM model receives the benefits of cover from an Obstacle while it is within 3" of that terrain feature unless, when you resolve an attack that targets that model's unit, you can draw straight lines, 1mm in thickness, to every part of that model’s base from a single point on the attacking model’s base (or hull) without any of those lines passing over or through any part of this terrain feature.
- Models move over Obstacles using normal rules for movement.
- Models use normal rules to determine if model behind an Obstacle is visible.
- Obstacles cannot be attacked.
- INFANTRY, BEASTS and SWARM models receive the benefits of cover while within 3", unless a Straight line can be drawn from the attacker to all parts of the target model without it passing over or through this terrain feature.
Difficult Ground
If a unit makes a Normal Move, Advances or Falls Back, and any of its models wish to move over any part of this terrain feature, subtract 2" from the Move characteristic of every model in that unit (to a minimum of 0), even if every part of this terrain feature is 1" or less in height. If a unit declares a charge, and any of its models wish to move over any part of this terrain feature as part of its subsequent charge move, subtract 2 from that unit’s charge roll, even if every part of this terrain feature is 1" or less in height. These modifiers do not apply if every model in the moving unit can FLY. These modifiers do not apply if every model in the moving unit is TITANIC and this terrain feature is less than 3" in height. The height of a terrain feature is measured from the highest point on that terrain feature.- Subtract 2" when making a Normal Move, Advance, Fall Back or charge move over this terrain feature (unless the moving unit can FLY, or if the moving unit is TITANIC and the terrain feature is less than 3" in height).
Exposed Position
Models never receive the benefits of cover while they are on top of this terrain feature, but they can gain the benefits of cover while they are behind it.- Models do not receive benefits of cover while on top of this terrain feature.
Unstable Position
Models cannot be set up or end a move on top of this terrain feature (they can move up, over and down this terrain feature, but they cannot end a move on top of it).- Cannot be set up or end a move on top of this terrain feature.
The TERRAIN keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The BUILDING keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
The TIDEWALL keyword is used in the following T’au Empire datasheets:
