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T’au Empire

Kauyon

Rules
Stratagems
Enhancements
1
A Tempting Trap
Shooting Phase - Battle Tactic
Target

One T’AU EMPIRE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase. The first time you use this Stratagem, you must also select one objective marker that is not in your opponent’s deployment zone; until the end of the battle, this becomes your Trap objective marker.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit within range of your Trap objective marker, add 1 to the Wound roll.

Restriction

You cannot use this Stratagem during the first or second battle rounds.

1
Point-blank Ambush
Shooting Phase - Battle Tactic
Target

One T’AU EMPIRE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit within 9", improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

Restriction

You cannot use this Stratagem during the first or second battle rounds.

1
Coordinate to Engage
Shooting Phase - Battle Tactic
Target

One T’AU EMPIRE unit from your army that has just been selected as an Observer unit (see For the Greater Good).

When

Your Shooting phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets their Spotted unit, improve the Ballistic Skill characteristic of that attack by 1 and, if your unit has the Markerlight keyword, that attack has the [IGNORES COVER] ability.

1
Combat Embarkation
Charge Phase - Wargear
Target

One T’AU EMPIRE INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as one of the targets of that charge, and one friendly TRANSPORT.

When

Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit has declared a charge.

Effect

Your unit embarks within that TRANSPORT.

Restriction

Every model in your INFANTRY unit must be within 3" of that TRANSPORT and there must be sufficient transport capacity to embark the entire unit.

1
Photon Grenades
Charge Phase - Wargear
Target

One T’AU EMPIRE GRENADES unit from your army that was selected as one of the targets of that charge.

When

Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit has declared a charge.

Effect

That enemy unit must immediately take a Battle-shock test, and until the end of the phase, subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for that enemy unit.

Restriction

You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

1
Wall of Mirrors
Fight Phase - Battle Tactic
Target

One STEALTH, GHOSTKEEL or COMMANDER SHADOWSUN unit from your army.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Restriction

You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Exemplar of the Kauyon
20 pts

T’AU EMPIRE model only (excluding KROOT SHAPER models). While the bearer is leading a unit, the Patient Hunter Detachment rule applies to that unit from the second battle round onwards instead of from the third.

Precision of the Patient Hunter
15 pts

T’AU EMPIRE model only. Each time the bearer makes a ranged attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. From the third battle round onwards, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.

Solid-image Projection Unit
30 pts

T’AU EMPIRE model only. After both players have deployed their armies, select up to three T’AU EMPIRE units from your army and redeploy them. When doing so, you can set those units up in Strategic Reserves if you wish, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves.

Through Unity, Devastation
40 pts

T’AU EMPIRE model only (excluding KROOT SHAPER models). While the bearer is leading a unit, each time that unit is an Observer unit, until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in a Guided unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability while targeting their Spotted unit.

Patient Hunter

During the third, fourth and fifth battle rounds, ranged weapons equipped by T’AU EMPIRE models from your army have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. During the third, fourth and fifth battle rounds, while a unit is a Guided unit (see For the Greater Good), each time a ranged attack is made by a model in that unit that targets a Spotted unit, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack’s Ballistic skill characteristics and/or all modifiers to the Hit roll.