Today we’re getting a look at some new T’au rules rumors. Come find out what the internet has to say about new traits that will be inside the covers of the upcoming Codex.
The T’au codex will be out shortly and today we’re getting a look at the latest rules rumors courtesy of xxhikaru123 over on Dakka Dakka.
First, let’s take a look at what he had to say about some of the points changes in the upcoming codex. But, please remember that these are just rumors and nothing has been confirmed, so don’t forget to add a little salt.
Riptide points down 24, HBC down 20, Ion Accelerator down 42.
Gun Drones +4
Shield Drones +2
Marker Drones same.
Broadside -20 HRR -27 HYMP -16 SMS-5
Skyray -19 Hammerhead -17
So it looks like we’ll be seeing a couple point drops for the T’au, but the Shield and Gun Drones are both going to be slightly increased in points.
We also got a look at some rumored traits from the upcoming T’au codex courtesy of xxhikaru123.
Warlord Traits
1) reroll wounds 1 against Monster or Vehicles
2) your shooting phase, pick a visible enemy unit to your warlord, each time any friendly <sept> unit within 6′ of warlord makes a wound roll of 6, add 1 to AP of attack
3) Add 6 to Advance instead of rolling dice.
4) If warlord within 12′ of enemy unit at start of shooting phase, you can reroll hits for your warlord until end of phase.
5) reroll hits for warlord, if they have not moved this turn. if they move for any reason, they lose the trait until the start of next turn.
6) warlord can advance and shoot as if he hasn’t advanced.
Sept Warlord Traits
Tau : 5+ save against Mortal Wounds
Vior’la : If warlord has master of war, Volley Fire or Failure is Not an Option ability, the range increased to 9″. additionally, if your army is battleforged, +1 command pt
Dal’yth: While within 12″ of Warlord, friendly Kroot and Vespid units gain For The Greater Good ability
Sa‘cea: Friendly Sa‘cea unit within 6″ of warlord, reduce the number of model that flee as a result of morale by 1
Bork’an: For each hit roll made by warlord, +1 to wound for that hit
Farsight: Warlord can perform 6″ heroic intervention. Additionally, if your warlord has charged , was charged or heroic intervened, until end of phase, can reroll hits.Sept Traits:
Tau: Overwatch on a 5 regardless of firing model BS or any modifiers.
Vior’la : Treats all RF weapons as assault weapons (RF 1 treated as assault 1). Additionally, no penalty to advance and fire the assault weapons.
Dal’yth : Unit that does not manta strike, move , fall back, charge , pile in or consolidate this turn may claim the benefit of cover even while in the open.
Sa‘cea: +1 LD, Additionally, in shooting phase, you can reroll a single failed hit roll for each Sa‘cea unit
Bork’an : Add 6″ to maximum range of any Rapid Fire and Heavy weapon they are armed with.
Farsight: Reroll wounds of 1 against models that are within 6’ of the firing (farsight) model.
The new traits seem like they’re going to make the T’au even faster, not to mention deadly. Overall, there’s a lot of things here for T’au fans to look forward to. That is… If they are true…
How do these line up with the rumors we saw last week? Let’s take a look:
Haeichi over on Advanced Tau Tactica was more than happy to share some details of the new Tau codex, claiming to have seen it already.
I saw our codex… It’s meh =/. And I’m not allowed to say anything about it =[
I apologize for saying that everybody. I was drunk and wrote without thinking first. You’ll find really good changes in this codex.
I lost track of this topic for a while, but Arka told me someone dropped a rumour about Gun Drones not having saviour protocols and Rail weapons being the same price.I can tell you both are false. Although there is a small change to saviour protocols.I’m not going to rate it because that would be too subjective. All I can tell is that I have a massive tournament coming in two months and I’m dropping my Custodes and Thousand Sons list to play T’au instead. Also buy Riptides and a couple Hammerheads (with Ion Cannons) if you don’t have them.
Burst-or Iontide…?
Either and both. The firepower of both has skyrocketed while the point cost dropped hard. Plus there’s two insane stratagems for them.The change to Saviour Protocols is something similar to what Crisis Bodyguards do and Shadowsun’s rule with Stealths suits.
Sorry, that was a bit confusing. Savior Protocols is the same as before, but happens only on a 2+.
If people are already complaining about T’au, here a few negative things haha.
1 commander per detachment
No changes to the markerlight table
No improvement to BS across the board
Railguns are the same
Don’t get alarmed though, there are far more upsides that we will get to soon-ish. I’m just waiting for GW to officially announce the codex to get more into details.
The upsides will come from massive point drops on base costs and weaponry, and massive buff to weapons characteristics. Sometimes both, which can make for some crazy stuff.
Like a Heavy 18 S6 -1 2dmg gun for 35 points
*BAD WORD DELETED*, this is why I didn’t want to say anything.
I like ATT, and I love T’au, so I’m sharing things with you as a form of excitement. I don’t want that *BAD WORD DELETED!* all over the internet. I guess I’m out.
Aaaaand, that’s it, people from my community have noticed. I’m screwed.
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