Farsight Enclave detachments can instead take two COMMANDERs per detachment. While the rule of three obviously means you can’t just take six of the same type, a mix of Enforcer, Coldstar and Crisis suited one lets you fill this up. Sept Tenets Stratagem – Hot Blooded 2CP: A VIOR’LA INFANTRY unit can shoot twice as long as it targets the nearest enemy unit. Blooded Through War: Enclaves units with Bonding Knife Ritual within 12″ of the warlord auto-pass Morale on a 4+ rather than 6+. Cute, and makes your small infantry squads essentially morale immune, but doesn’t really justify the trait slot. C The Start Collecting! sets from Games Workshop are the best way to learn the games of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000. The great value boxes include everything you need to start playing, with a good amount of models and the rules easy to find online. What's more, they even sometimes contain exclusive sculpts that you can use on the tabletop! Sniper Drone Team (Heavy Support) - small, powerful and camouflaged, these units are a powerful addition to any army. If you have spare gun drones and rail rifle Pathfinder models, you could convert them into Sniper Drones (a Fire Warrior and the Stealth Suit sprues could be converted into the Spotter).

Sense of Stone and Storm of Fire are the clear winners here, and which one you want will depend on your strategy – although as of TGG you can just spend 1CP on Wisdom of the Many and have both. Because re-rolling To Hit rolls of 1 is the easiest ability to get for T’au (since it comes off a single markerlight), you’ll often find that it only benefits you when your plan is to go wide and shoot at targets without markerlights. Instead, the ability to give multiple units the 6+ feel no pain save can dramatically extend the longevity of units and make your Riptides that much more of a pain in the ass to take down. Access to Coordinated Engagement, allowing them to count their targets as having maxed-out markerlights and massively reducing the support they need. With the Ethereals firmly in charge, the T’au became truly united and their technological progress leapt forward, propelling them into the heavens. Protected by their army – known as the Fire Caste– settlers began to take over systems and assimilate other species under the banner of the Empire, in successive ‘spheres of expansion’. The Mirrorcodex: Re-roll hits within 18″. Another somewhat redundant ability, and a very difficult sell over a prototype. CIf you combine this collection with the battleforce, you’ll have choices for your HQ, (An ethereal or a battlesuit commander), an assortment of the Medium sized suits for the Tau, (no stormsurges or Riptides, but those are always options), and a mix of Tau infantry. You’ve also got a Devilfish Transport to give you enhanced mobility on the tabletop. It’s a neat mix of options and choices for a budding commander, so take a look and see if it’s what you’re looking for to get started. It’s an interesting mix of battlesuits and favors the stealthy aspect of the Tau game play style. Using the Pathfinders, the Ghostkeel, and the Stealth suit team to get marker lights on a target for the Battlesuit Commander and Broadside battlesuit to destroy at range would be a very typical way for a Tau unit to operate. I imagine that the Ghostkeel and the Broadside are listed as squads in the formation, and you can add additional suits to those teams (up to formation limits). How does this interact with the start collecting set for Tau? Let’s take a look.

Contents: 1 Terminator Captain (HQ), 10 Tactical Marines (Troops), 1 Venerable Dreadnought (Elites) Now, in the 41st millennium, the T’au are continuing their expansion drives, using their superior technology to force-multiply their relatively small armies in skirmishes with the Imperium, Orks, and Tyranids. Their Empire has become diverse, welcoming many humans and other species into the fold, accepting any who willingly pledge themselves to the Greater Good. Soon you'll see how limited the Tau Troop choices are. There's a Chapter Approved article from the White Dwarf magazine describing the Tau Human Auxiliaries, the Tau Gue'Vesa (great for Tank Busting). These are interesting options, and could be modeled from Imperial Guard units, like the Cadians or Catachans, which could be cheap if bought as push-fit models.When an enemy unit declares a charge, a unit with this ability that is within 6″ of any of the charging unit’s targets my fire overwatch as if they were also targeted. A unit that does so cannot fire overwatch again in this turn. This ability is found on nearly every T’au unit outside their vehicles, and is one of their key strengths. Used by a unit in the T’au Sept this is effectively a second shooting phase, almost assuredly targeting one of the enemy’s key units. Against a melee-heavy opponent care needs to be taken that Overwatching to hit the first charge doesn’t open up further free charges, but many times there will only be the single charging unit. Keep multiple units fairly close to each other to take maximal advantage of this and provide supporting fire to deter charges that might hit your most valuable units. Also, when firing FtGG, make sure to fire any markerlights you want to use first, as adding re-roll 1s makes the rest of your shooting better.

Defence in Numbers 2CP: A Crisis team gets a 5+++ for a phase. Not cheap, and the cost of what you want to do with your Crisis team on the turn they come in really adds up, but this is such a big boost to the survivability, especially when used on a big squad, that it’s worth making sure you have the CP to blow it. Because of the weird way wound reduction maths works, this essentially increases the number of wounds your team has by 50% when your opponent is trying to burst them down, and is also especially good when used against fixed damage weapons such as the dreaded Pulse Laser (about the worst thing for Crisis teams to face). It would be nice if this scaled in cost like Veteran Cadre, but ultimately a big defensive boost to what’s likely one of your key units is a great tool to have B+ The Nurgle box is pretty good value. If you’re collecting Nurgle Daemons you want Plaguebearers and Nurglings en masse, and at least one Poxbringer too. If you’re going to buy those things, you might as well buy this box, and basically get the Plague Drones for free. A very respectable set which gives you pretty much what you want to get going with the faction – perfect. XV8 Crisis Bodyguards: They’re Crisis Suits which can also act like shield drones. Just take shield drones.Orbital Ion Beam – 3CP: Once per battle in your shooting phase, a stationary commander can draw a 2D6″ line on the battlefield. Then you deal d3 MWs on a 4+ (5+ for CHARACTERS) to anything it crosses. A little too expensive for its variable length. C