We’re starting to see more and more rules revealed for 8th edition. Someone has put out the index for the Tau Empire, come take a look!
Someone apparently got their hands on the Indexes a lot sooner than the rest of us and has posted pics all over the internets. Imgur is holding all the Tau love you can handle.
XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit
The Ghostkeel Battlesuit is pretty solid on the defensive end. It’s Toughness 6, Leadership 8, 10 wounds, and a 3+ Save roll. It has six different weapon attachments to choose from, as well as six different Abilities. The Saviour Protocol is one of the more interesting Abilities. If an MV3 Stealth Drone is within 3″ of a friendly Tau Infantry or Battlesuit It allows you to allocate any wounds to the Drones instead of the target unit.
That’s going to help keep your units alive just that much longer.
TX7 Hammerhead Gunship
This is probably one of the ones we were most looking forward to seeing the new rules for. The Hammerhead is a beefy little ship coming in at 13 wounds, Toughness 7, and a 3+ Save. It wouldn’t be a gunship if it didn’t have guns, which this guy does at 8 different weapon options, 6+ WS, 3+ BS (until you hit 6 remaining wounds, then it drops), and Strength 6.
Get this guy loaded up and put out in the field!
Commander Farsight
Commander Farsight is coming in pretty well rounded with an 8″ move, 2+ WS, 2+ BS, Strength and Toughness 5, 6 Wounds, 4 attacks, Leadership 9, with a 3+ Save, and a 4+ Invulnerable Save. Way of the Short Blade is a really nice Ability allowing you to re-roll hit rolls of 1 for friendly Farsight Enclaves units within 6″ of Commander Farsight in the Fight Phase, unless it’s an Ork unit, then it works in any Phase.
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This was a huge rules leak for the Tau fans out there, we’re finally getting to see more than what Games Workshop wants us to see. You can find the rest of the rules that were leaked over on Imgur.
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