Detachment Rule
Markerlight Precision
The inescapable data-beams of markerlights stab out through the venting steam and boiling smoke of the boarding action, questing to paint enemy targets and direct Tan firepower against them.
Each time a T’AU EMPIRE unit from your army (excluding KROOT units) is selected to shoot, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have their Ballistic Skill characteristic improved by 1 and have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability while targeting an enemy unit that is visible to one or more friendly MARKERLiGHT units that are not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy models.
Stratagems
FIRING LINE
1 CPStarfire Cadre – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit destroys a T’AU EMPIRE unit from your army.
TARGET: One FIRE WARRIOR or PATHfINDER TEAM unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, has not fired Overwatch this turn and is within 9" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but when doing so, models in your unit can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target) and, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit.
TARGET: One FIRE WARRIOR or PATHfINDER TEAM unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, has not fired Overwatch this turn and is within 9" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but when doing so, models in your unit can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target) and, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit.
PULSE BARRAGE
1 CPStarfire Cadre – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Movement or Charge phase
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement or Charge phase.
TARGET: One FIRE WARRIOR or PATHfINDER TEAM unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.
TARGET: One FIRE WARRIOR or PATHfINDER TEAM unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.
RESPONSIVE VOLLEY
1 CPStarfire Cadre – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Movement phase
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a FIRE WARRIOR or PATHfINDER TEAM unit from your army opens a Hatchway.
TARGET: That FIRE WARRIOR or PATHFINDER TEAM unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit wholly on the opposite side of that Hatchway from them, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+, instead of only a 6.
TARGET: That FIRE WARRIOR or PATHFINDER TEAM unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit wholly on the opposite side of that Hatchway from them, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+, instead of only a 6.
RETREATING FIRE
1 CPStarfire Cadre – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One FIRE WARRIOR or PATHfINDER TEAM unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: One FIRE WARRIOR or PATHfINDER TEAM unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.
Enhancements
Target Optimisation Microdrones
0 ptsCADRE FiREbLADE model only. Once per turn, in your Shooting phase, when a friendly FiRE WARRiOR, PATHFiNDER TEAM or CADRE FIREBLADE unit within 6" of the bearer is selected to shoot, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit by 1.
Duty’s Echo
0 ptsETHEREAL model only. At the end of your Shooting phase, you can select one friendly FiRE WARRiOR or PATHFiNDER TEAM unit within 6" of the bearer. If you do, that unit can make a Normal move of up to 3" and then counts as having performed the Set Overwatch Tactical Manoeuvre this turn.