TAU EMPIRE - 10th Edition Faction Focus Breakdown with Bricky

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[@BananenbaumEY]

Bricky, you wont have the fear to kill the spotted unit and waste the ability ... because the guided unit shoots first. edit: ok you realized it too :) edit 2: lmao you even called it out.

[@anothergalaxy799]

I bet there is going to be a stratagem that blocks the target lock. Like giving the targeted unit stealth or something

[@JerichoFaust]

"They shoot like trains" -Bricky 2023 I never trusted trains but I never knew why until today

[@murillomartins1247]

Lmao hahaha

[@RSBurgener]

I cocked my head to the side like a puppy when I heard that. I guess the German Paris Gun was mounted on railroad tracks, so I guess it works.

[@Sorain1]

The single most scary thing to hear from a Pathfinder: "I like trains."

[@Bluecho4]

Why do you not trust trains? It's _cars_ you should distrust.

[@ZackSavage]

@@Bluecho4 Based

[@Bluecho4]

23:08 "You're not allowed to split fire." Nick from Play On Tabletop is going to be devastated. Even the game itself is telling him not to split fire.

[@TrackerRoo]

It never pays off for him. Now they just need a rule to help with his dice rolls

[@michaelbrodeur7506]

He’s still going to do it

[@TnTRapeist]

Split fire with flamers fuck everything everybody tells you not to do!!!!

[@the_long_chris]

The "for the greater good" rule is a great example for GWs inability to write easy to understand rules.

[@mikeyp266]

They can write it this way for the rules lawyers, but they really should've bullet pointed this too

[@vahlok2568]

*laughs in Khornate yahtzee*

[@lemonworm]

Real shit I've been trying to comprehend the kill team obscuring rules for the past two days and I still don't get it

[@Bluecho4]

There are so many rules, in this edition and previous ones, that aren't that difficult conceptually. GW just approaches explaining them in the most needlessly complicated way. They could have said: "When you choose a non-Observer unit (the Guided unit) to fire, choose a friendly unit (so long as it's not a Fortification, Battle-shocked, or an Observer) to be your Observer. Choose an enemy unit (the Spotted unit). You get [Bonuses] when firing on that Spotted unit, and [Detriments] when firing on any other unit."

[@theswarmsquad3606]

konami writing a whole-ass novel on a single yugioh card:

[@kip_c]

Like it or not, Bricky has now become a morning person

[@Flummoxed_Buffoon87]

You either die a night owl or live long enough to become a morning boomer

[@NameIsDoc]

God Emperor help us all.

[@Xynth25]

It takes 21 days to form a habit...we're 9 in since he stacked some focuses together

[@Driftingsiax]

Dread it, run from it, morning always arrives.

[@spookytime8961]

I love the stratagem the idea the tau just a see a world eater screaming as they charge towards them and they say "fuck this shit im out" and hide in a truck and the world eater just has to go " well..... fuck" and decide to punch the vehicle there instead while yelling about them being cowards

[@spookytime8961]

Tau 1: you here something Khorne berserker: aaaaaahhhhhh Tau 2: oh shit Tau 1: get in the godamn truck Khorne beserker: god fuckin DAM IT Proceeds to punch the shit out of the truck Khorne beserker: come out and fight COWARDS!!! Tau 1: you wanna fight that Tau 2: fuck no do you Tau 1: well shit.... guess we're waiting Proceeds to wait out the entire battle in a truck while an angry man punches it over and over again

[@SWProductions100]

​@spookytime8961 Sounds like a buddy-comedy with Tau who've been around long enough to get a little jaded.

[@spookytime8961]

@SWProductions100 can definitely see that i think itd be a funny skit or something

[@GoldRider4265]

DoW Dark Crusade and Soulstorm T'au creeping ever closer to becoming reality. At least models can be left behind unlike in the game where if 1 model of a squad touched the Devilfish, then entire squad teleported in. XD

[@mnbvg2]

Hey Bricky, perfect thumbnail as always! I don't think the observer needs to fire the same unit as the guided unit, they jsut both need to have line of sight on the same enemy unit. You could chose to shoot the guided unit first, if it destroys its target shoot the observer at something else entirely. Edit : I refuse to edit it telling you you figured it out!! (Nice save though)

[@ElStinkador]

i think this is correct

[@VengefulJan]

@@ElStinkador Yes, this is correct.

[@GreyMASTA]

The Tau Empire's superior technology has just perfected its latest cutting-edge Stratagem of "GETTING THE EFF' OUT"

[@Bodya_CN]

GET TO DA CHOPPER!!!

[@XenostheStranger]

Deploying squad formation: F*@& DIS S@?$ I’M OUT!

[@AutumnSorcerer]

The secret Joestar family technique.

[@colthuhn2523]

Regarding the rail gun, I could see the hammerhead having a datasheet ability that says "If guided, this model's Rail gun weapon has Anti-"guided unit type" X

[@Lothrean]

The fact that the Tau are still the "new guys" is so funny - when I started playing they just got released. That was ~14 years ago.

[@TonyRedgrave]

Same here bro. Still got my 3rd edition Tau codex.

[@Lothrean]

@@TonyRedgrave that time I was so pissed that I just started with black templars (the poster boys of that edition) as a child it didn’t came to my mind to sell the BTs and start with Tau instead. Now I own Necrons, WE, Harlequins and just started a Votann army. All my BTs catch dust somewhere at my parents place XD

[@Nukefandango]

Same here!!

[@RattlesnakeRose]

Man seeing how battleshocked Tau are unable to benefit from For The Greater Good makes me wish that battleshocked Space Marines are unable to benefit from Oath of Moment. I wonder if it would be fair if battleshocked units were unable to benefit from most army/detachment rules for most if not all armies in the game

[@AnEnormousNerd]

This would definitely make sense!

[@lemonworm]

The space marines are literally the only faction that has gotten buffed in these focuses. every other faction has had massive nerfs

[@goopygoblin117]

@@lemonwormOn jah. I was surprised to see the basic Bolter get the benefits of the auto-bolter AND the stalker bolter, making it an incredibly versatile and useful weapon. But admech and tau battleline infantry look like they’re suffering horribly, relying on their army abilities to get them out of BS:4+ now. And I can’t get over how much I hate Oath Of Moment. It’s so stupidly overpowered and really boring and flavorless, both unfun to play and to play against. I’ve always been 50/50 on playing Space Marines or Chaos Marines as I love and collect both, but I’m *really* leaning towards Chaos after all these rule previews

[@AndrewSmith-nj8zh]

@@lemonwormDaemons also appear to be buffed. At least, as a Nurgle daemon player, I see it as a massive buff over the warp storm table. And normal invulns without “ignore invulns” beats daemon saves.

[@inamerica55585]

Battleshocked units can actually still be guided, they just need to have a non-battleshocked unit to be their observer.

[@Taytorthot]

Very sad they didn't show off Farsight since he got a new model recent. Also showing Kauyon instead of Mont'Ka. Overall i'm underwhelmed. They didn't really show any corner stone units in the previews (No breachers. No Suits. No commanders. No riptide). And while the army ability is VERY fluffy and seems like it can be super good, it just feels. idk. I'll have to wait and see what their full bredth of abilities are, but i'm very underwhelmed. Pushing pathfinders as being a viable unit is good. They basically exist as a cheap backfield objective holder that gives markerlights at this point. So having use for the scout units is good. Drones not being something that can be killed and counted as scored kills is good, and simplfying them is good. But I just wish they gave me a bit more. Wish they showed suits.

[@Thesp_The_Thesp]

This makes me wanna play Tau Just so I can say "and that will be 48 mortal wounds" Just that one time I roll constant 6's lol

[@I2dios8]

Bricky is 100% correct. As an admech player, I am seething that Tau have a 4+ save, but my little bionic boyos do not. This is a great injustice.

[@alexscholz3438]

Greater Good superiority

[@arly803]

If the transport can observe thats a fun little package: move disembark shoot guided and hide in the minivan if they try to charge you.

[@ChaoticLaughter7]

I think this is the faction focus that informed us the least somehow. They essentially told us "Marklights are still a thing but different, drones are gutted, heres a cool weapon". Which leaves me with so many questions, with drones being gutted, how are we even gonna survive into turn 3 to make use of the detatch ability? They didnt even show a single mech datasheet, but maybe toughness will be taken into consideration here? The marklights not working with battleshocked units is a huge nerf, by turn 3 everything will likely be below half strength which means what seems at first like "half the army is affected due to pairs" might turn into a 1/3rd or less if your roll badly. Dunno, just doesnt seem to synergize well with itself. Points will also reveal more of the story, but these rules would deffinatly benifit an overall points reduction for some of the more baseline troops and battlesuits.

[@firemonkey4685]

Small edit. You Fire with the Guided Unit first. You don’t have to fire at the Spotted unit with the Observer Unit.

[@christopherclayton5500]

I will also note that Guided units can become Observers later in that turn, so if you set up a chain correctly, then you can potentially make all but one of your units Guided.

[@vekk513]

@@christopherclayton5500 They can't because the first criteria is "eligible to shoot" and if it's guided its already shot, which means not eligible.

[@christopherclayton5500]

​@vekk513 Thank you, I had just noticed that and was coming to correct myself.

[@danielrivera5291]

Got marketlights wrong. You pick riptide first and then a unit to spot for it. Riptide gets +1 BS if shoots the marked unit and -1 if anything else. Then the marker unit gets to shoot.

[@MegaApostel]

Best pic so far. XD Honestly like the army rules - finality reason to bring pathfinders and other scout units Also the change for drones - tau players don’t need to pay amount of points just for markers and even better can’t lose them + enemie doesn’t scores easy kills with them

[@ElDesperado7]

The new greater good boils down to Tau shouting "WITNESS ME!!" before shooting.

[@Francis5795]

The same way that eldar and sisters have similar rules, I get the feeling that Tau and Genestealer Cults will probably be similar

[@veroernox3907]

Absolutely Banger Thumbnails

[@Brodie337]

Bricky slowly getting more unhinged...

[@Robo-kz3nr]

Admech and DG getting durability debuffs, mean while pathfinder getting 4+ sv...

[@AllThingsCubey]

It's utterly ridiculous. The worst case is for Admech because they nerfed their invulns, they nerfed their armour save, they nerfed their ballistic skill, and they nerfed their weapon profiles... All at the same time, whilst Skitarii are already an extremely expensive horde army that requires a massive investment of money and time, and is very tiring to play due to how many models and rules layers are needed. What are GW even trying to achieve by making Skitarii as weak as a Guardsman? Make everyone just stop playing the faction for good?

[@ovidiudiumea4012]

@@AllThingsCubey The funny thing is that even with the strong skitarii of 9th and 3+ army wide ballistic skill, AdMech is still on the weak side for an army... Now with these nerfs, they look really bad for 10th.

[@caucheka]

As for guided getting penalty to shoot a different target, im sure some stratagems might make your original target unable to be shot

[@caucheka]

Yeah, the csm dark obscuration stratagem gets used when you picked targets, and if used on a nurgle unit you can't shoot them outside 12"

[@zarkon4927]

My understanding is, if you select the riptide to shoot it IS the guided unit. The other unit you select is the observer, which will prob end up being fire warriors or pathfinders. Think shooter and spotter. The spotter is feeding battlefield information to the riptide to increase accuracy.

[@zarkon4927]

You dont even have to shoot with the observer unit, it only needs to have line of sight on the enemy unit it is spotting. This means you'll likely be deploying pathfinders forward to spot, then shooting first with the battlesuits taking advantage of the pathinders ability to select a second spotted unit.

[@Teeleer]

the biggest thing that i dislike about the change is the change to shield drones, right now in 9th you get 4+ invuls 2 extra wounds with the possibility to ignore more because the drone is considered a model. Since damage doesnt carry over except in specific instances like mortal wounds, a 6 damage hit against a unit with a shield drone or any drone will just nullify it. If the trade off was more even, like shield drones gave 2 wounds and 4+s i think i would be ok with that. right now im just worried about the survivaility of my crisis suits, since the wargear they have now, although you can give them 4+s, you cant also give them the improved Overwatch ability. If we got the improved overwatch ability as a stratgem(since Tau are kinda known for that), that might be ok too. Everything else they showed im ok with, id still like the Hammerhead to have anti-vehicle and anti monster, maybe not 4+ but 5+ but considering the point difference with the harpoon, i think its fine.

[@Lord_Wateren]

It will be interesting to see which units can or cannot be Observers. Like for example, can my Ethereal or Fireblade, both with negligible shooting, act as Observer for my actual killy units? Also wonder if it will interact with Kroot/Vespids.

[@gaaaarg633]

I know these single entities are now attached to other units, so I don't think thats how it works. They just be treated as the unit their attached to.

[@Lord_Wateren]

@@gaaaarg633 True, i forgot to consider that!

[@TheNecronmancer]

The improvement to ballistic skills is insane cause if that weapon has heavy, you improve by 2 so most weapons will be 2+ or 3+

[@kennethbarrett2389]

core rules being leaked, you can only improve BS by 1

[@ubermenschen01]

Heavy gives +1 to hit, which is different from improving a unit's BS. You would gain both benefits

[@kennethbarrett2389]

@@ubermenschen01 how would the be different modifiers?

[@monolithichashies7477]

However they account for this by making the heavy weapons we see a base BS of 5 so FtGG gets it to BS4 and heavy if you stay still gets it up to 3+ you can't get it up to 2+ with either of these weapons and I think that makes sense. Heavy has always been a debuff, they just changed the way it's worded

[@supinearcanum]

What it mean in the guided/Oberserver setup is that, YOU CAN'T PICK THE SAME UNIT TO BE AN OBSERVER TO MULTIPLE UNITS. This is important because an Observer for 1 group can be guided by another observer unit. So if you have 3 units, Unit 1 can get Unit 2 to observe for them, then Unit 2 can have Unit 3 Observer for Unit 2's shooting, but Unit 3 cannot get an Observer because now all other units (1 & 2) now have the Observer tag, & therefore do not qualify.

[@clasthemarksman7529]

As someone who owns Admech I can confirm and malding slightly at them having 4+ save

[@jinguini8001]

I literally just woke up and saw the post from warhammer and thought “wonder if bricky got this done already”

[@memnarch129]

The Observer does NOT have to target the spotted unit, just the Guided unit. So Pathfinders can spot a Termi unit for a Riptide and still shoot up the cultists.

[@chicago928]

The factions I play seem to be coming out fun and fluffy. Looking forward to 10th. Hoping they don't mess this up with the points cost.

[@lemonworm]

this edition is about as fluffy as a lawyer in a knife store

[@Sarean1001]

Maybe it gets figured out later in the video, but i think you've got the order of For the Greater good backwards when you say observer picks guided. It seems to say when a unit shoots you can designate an observer for that unit, so the guided will shoot first and your example of hurting yourself by the observer killing the guided and then leaving them with -1 BS shouldn't happen. I could absolutely have misheard/read though

[@JohnnyMayHymn]

oh Observer and Guided units are like a spotter and a sniper, they just worded it weird to enforce pairs

[@misterc1099]

me: Goes to Bricky ep 2 page to see if he posted yet No? Ok go to home page 1 minute ago:

[@mini_acrylics]

Thought about getting Tau as a wishlist/backlist army for painting/playing. If they could refresh the auxillaries like Kroot and Vespid, I'd love em even more if they really want to show off the collective of the Tau

[@TheSpoonyCroy]

Yeah its odd they went with the mech angle while the Tau could honestly play a bigger role like a Covenant analog from halo since that is sort of what the lore points to since they basically are willing to cooperate with anyone willing to fight for the greater good.

[@MrSarcasticGaming]

"My brothers were being charged by Orks! Quick, board the Toyota!"

[@ham9236]

"as if it were eligible to shoot" Makes sense now as to why pulse carbines on the path finders lost assault

[@monolithichashies7477]

Kauyon is way better since there's no longer the 12" but hasn't fallen back restriction which killed it compared to montka

[@vicio19995]

12:08 i was calmy waching the video then i saw it, What in the machine spirt??? 4+ save while the Bionic skittles have the same as guard?? *angrt static noises*

[@andrewdowns9047]

I was gonna correct you, but you called me out at 23:50 when you predicted that I would do that lol

[@TheElleP]

Bricky should rename this channel to “Bricky Ep. 40K” branding bay bay!

[@avmang2222]

The Farsight Enclaves touches down to face the White Scars and Billy the Ogryn... Who is totally also a a Space Marine, and he refuses to have anyone tell him otherwise.

[@ovidiudiumea4012]

As an AdMech player I can confirm the seething. It is real.

[@Xynth25]

The way the rule reads, Pathfinders going to be very good. Send them forward to spot for your Riptide, Yvarra, Hammerhead, Manta...

[@Bodya_CN]

Only if they retain the ability to move after shooting/spotting. Otherwise it's a one use only unit.

[@CrussaderGrarl]

drones are like the mines in an incursor spacemarine squad now nice

[@lorenzolupusdei8372]

The first thing i wanted to do after reading that preview is rename "For the Greater GooD" by "The Power of Friendship", and then i remembered Bricky introducing T'au while "wearing" anime legs.

[@Gigasius]

"They're kinda new" I was like yeah, it wasn't that long when they came out, I remember that day quite well. So when did they come out? **Checks** 2001. Over 20 years ago. ... Soooo, it turns out we're old.

[@salmonroe5608]

For the greater algorithm ! Man, every time I see or hear of the tau, I want to start painting again. Just sad that they didn't show a single character. I want more developped tau characters man.

[@Streygenmoment]

I feel like Admech may be a good counter against Tau actually, especially with rad bombardment against the Kauyun detatchment. Because Tau usually wanna play defensively (unless you're running all battlesuits), having a rule that makes the opponent have to play more aggressively will certainly put them in a pickle

[@Awesomotron2k]

You mean to say the faction that has ignore cover on almost everything, puts skitarii to a 5+ or 6++ save, has a large volume of shots, access to ignore LoS, has 750 points of deep strike crisis suite and can effectively nullify their Advance+Charge strat will have a hard time with admech? I think this the other way around, Tau don't care about rad bombardment at all, and they win the shoot out, and have a way to stop charging units.

[@ZeroEdge69]

There is a few more factions to be covered, as they will have their own Indexes and Codexes (just like Thousand Sons, World Eaters, and Death Guard), on the Loyalist side, for the more divergent Space Marine legions: Blood Angels, Dark Angels, Space Wolves, and Black Templar. I expect while you CAN run these legions (or chapter in one case) as a standard Oath of Moment Gladius Strikeforce Adeptus Astartes detachment, using the more generic Space Marine offerings (Intercessors, Terminators, etc.), to run any of their respective unique units (which there is plenty), they will be running under their own army faction banner and detachment rules, as all of those units will likely have the Faction Keyword of "Blood Angels" or "Black Templar", much like the Khorne Berserker, while technically being a Chaos Space Marine, is not factioned for Heretic Astartes, only World Eaters. So, 4 more spotlights still to come, in addition to those you listed.

[@chasechristensen7617]

I genuinely like the rules it just sucks that we already basically had markerlights and an army rule and now we just get marker lights and no army rule. So its just a plain nerf, it's very similar to Votann in terms of taking away and having okay rules to replace it.

[@alphadeltaroflcopter]

Every army is getting boiled down to a MTG card. In a lot of ways it feels pretty bad. We will have to see the full army rules.

[@SilverHwk7]

Bag of Tokens: The Lock-on tokens for X-Wing would be perfect for this

[@nilliks6]

I enjoy that there seems like there'll be a REAL trade off for the Farsight Enclaves. Ethereals with Failure is Not an Option attached to a unit giving them potentially a 5+ leadership would be huge. Granted we don't know if Ethereals will be leaders, if they'll have FiNaO, or if they'll have 5+ LD. I'm hoping though.

[@varthalgamekiin4931]

Commander Foresight twerking down the battle lines: "Bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin makes me feel good!"

[@GambeTama]

Dat railgun be makin' my shoota da big shoota, an I gotz to git me 'ands onnit. Ya know, for dah "greatah good."

[@davidjaxzun581]

Nice hair brickster

[@ominousmecha500]

shield drones on a Crisis team raises them to 4 wounds per model that gos from 9 to 12 holy shit and if you can multi stack shield drones it's even higher

[@555tork]

actually going to 5 wounds per model since crisis suits already have 4.

[@TecoEvi]

I was one of those people that typed up a comment and took it back when you got it right. Damn you, Bricky!

[@avenger1312]

it is important to note that chaos has a dtrategem to essentially stop you shooting at units. Potentially meaning they could bait you into nerfing your own hits with guidance

[@Dramatic_Gaming]

Shield Drone on a multi-model unit. If there's a way to stick one on a squad of Fire Warriors, you've doubled their durability.

[@thefloridaman41]

I have to say I think you are underrating the Daemon index Bricky. I think it and Elves are the best, Knights look strong but a lot of the other index’s have pretty strong counter plays. Elves are strong because it just has generically good rules; but Daemon’s are strong because they have good rules that break this edition. I mean Flamers will probably have the flamer rules to force battleshock so they are effectively getting damage + a potential 3MWs afterwards. Flamer Spam + Bel’lakor somehow got better in 10th.

[@StevenCarusone]

"Four inches!?" You are a king amongst men bricky

[@ahoyturtle]

"You're no longer incentivized to split fire" ...Tau Nick, no!

[@TuShan18]

There’s also the non codex compliant marines. Dark angels, blood angels, black Templars, and space wolves. I’m honestly shocked they haven’t done at least one of those per week.

[@d.t.m8393]

Apparently none of them are getting a Faction preview. Some GW people Tweeted or Facebooked about it.

[@johnmillar6820]

⁠@@d.t.m8393 I hope that’s not true. They should be separate factions

[@d.t.m8393]

@@johnmillar6820 Oh they'll still be separate factions I'm pretty sure. Just not getting a preview is all.

[@TuShan18]

@@d.t.m8393 ah, ok. That’s a little interesting.

[@jacobgale4792]

Yea DW DA BA SW and BT aren't getting Faction Focuses unfortunately

[@Azrael-XIII]

Guys, before you comment about the For the Greater Good rule, he figures out he has it backwards later in the vid so chill lol

[@juanfranciscovillarroelthu6876]

FOR THE GREATER GOOD!!

[@BlitzKriegBeta]

Observer unit to Guided unit: Mr. Broadside, send him to the principals office and have him DESTROYED!

[@CowardlyViking]

Don't forget that the Hammerhead also benefits from Kauyon. That's 3 shots for the price of one when guided!

[@tenebrisnarud9738]

What a power walk at the beginning

[@jamessimpson9798]

Love your wording for The Greater Good 👍🏾

[@FhtagnCthulhu]

Excited for genestealers and drukhari. Never had too much love for GSC until I listened to the adeptus ridiculous on the individual cults. Now I see more of the in world lore appeal.

[@HELWINTER333]

Still have the Wolves, blood angels, dark angels death watch and black templars

[@alexandrudorries3307]

Bricky: “We’ve kind of moved past the ‘Tau new’ phase…” Exasperated T’au player: “My brother in Christ, they’re over 20 years old at this point!”

[@ConfusCat]

The brick that beat the auspex once again

[@Flixl2000]

"I'm Leman Russ man" -Bricky 2023

[@ScarriorIII]

Dear Brick, Would you consider looking into Mantic's Warpath: Firefight, at least from an study perspective? I suspect that, aside from GW's predatory practices, Mantic has been cutting into their market share a bit with the cheaper models and simplified rules. I'd love to see you do a test run and compare rulesets, factions, lore etc.

[@XDarkLordXP]

You have it backwards. You shoot with the Guided unit first. "**this** unit becomes Guided" "**that** unit becomes an Observer"

[@MrHoneuma]

33:48 damn, Death Guard are now the measuring stick for being bad. 😢

[@garyjense3678]

This is kind of like current genestealer cults crossfire.

[@FhtagnCthulhu]

I am at work, and these videos are a godsend.

[@vanillaconfusion89]

New shield drone on a fireteam making them 2 wounds each 👀

[@afiblacksails23]

I wonder if the T’au have that delicious blue milk that Luke Skywalker likes to snack on

[@Triptides77]

Pathfinders havent had their grenade launche since like 6th or 7th edition. Happy to see it return

[@vashoom]

What are you smoking? They have it right now.

[@Triptides77]

@vashoom you ever hear of mistakes? People make them. No need to come off so rude man.

[@SirFryStirFry]

This guided stuff I'm gonna need crayons and a flowchart to figure that shit out

[@lullabygully4621]

Tau better innovate some bipods for those Rail Rifles and kick that BS up to 4+

[@amateurishauthor2202]

For the Greater Good looks like (may be getting this wrong) you can have one observer unit effect multiple guided, what with the 'select another unit' one of the exclusions is an observer unit, so one fire warriors can be an observer for two riptides, and etc. Edit: Nope, just woke up. you can't use the same observer multiple times, my mistake

[@lukecook402]

Unless they are Pathfinders.

[@amateurishauthor2202]

@@lukecook402 Yup, I thought the initial rule allowed for one unit to be used multiple times base, but it was not the case. Excluding Pathfinders. I think we're going to be seeing more Pathfinders than we do now

[@lukecook402]

@@amateurishauthor2202 bingo. We can also see more Sniper units doing the same thing.

[@beatooze8025]

Roll up the windows Vern! Chaos is running at us!

[@ryc03]

Hmmm.... So what should people do with the drones now that they are not needed on the table? I guess you can still keep them as a reminder of what wargears were taken, and everyone just need to remember to ignote them when checking line of sight...

[@Mr._Idiot440]

So I main tau and I must say "From whats previewed" this just seems like a straight nerf or promotes unfun Tau gameplay. I do like some minor changes, but assuming EVERYTHING costs the same and current rules will follow similar: Markerlights: feels like a simpler side-grade. Pros: easier to remember and perform, can get to 2+, pathfinders feel less necessary, more consistent. Cons: Guaranteed 1/2 of army MAX can get buffed to hit on 3's. Kauyon worries me: Pros: less restrictions and now double exploding 6's cool with no range requirement yay! Cons: No range requirement, means the optimal play for a BAD MELEE army with strong, long range weapons, that get their MAIN buff is to camp til turn 3. Drones kinda saddens me, but i understand. Pros: wargear is simpler to remember for rules. Cons: Cuts down survivability by 1/4 to 1/3. Not only aren't the drones tanking shots by default. The shield drones that gave light Infantry roughly a turns worth of survivability is gone. Hammerhead railgun, straight nerf. Pros: none Cons: The T7 "Tank"s turret weapon is now very suboptimal in dealing with light, medium, heavy units with 3 or more models and anything with an invulnerable save and now has less damage reliability for dedicated tank busting. If nothing else on the Hammer Head changes (doubtful but still) then this loadout is being shelved for competitive play until further notice. Pulseblaster - Pulseblaster Honestly whats been shown has generated feelings of having an arm and a leg removed, however the remaining limbs have gained 20% effectiveness. Hopefully the full rules showcase alot more! ^^

[@Mr._Idiot440]

Also pathfinders went from a 5+ to a 4+ armor save. Get Rekt Admech

[@555tork]

Pathfinders regaining their 4+ save was not something I expected for the unit, Guardian drones can only be taken by Strike teams and Breacher Teams, Shadowsun has an Advanced guardian drone.

[@CataclysmDM]

T'au looking pretty good! Unlike my stinky bois. RIP DG.

[@stormblaze9122]

So the army we got left are: Chaos Sorcerer money gang DA BOIZ And Banana Guard

[@James_randomleters]

Can’t wait to play my melee themed armies and not get to actually play with them at all. So much fun.

[@Enos666]

0:17 I still laugh when I hear people say that tau are new these days. I remember when they first released over 20 years ago back before I was even a teenager

[@sirbaconbuster]

I have usually interpreted that as "new to the galactic fustercluck that is the setting." I mean, the Tau are about 6,000 years old. Compare that to the Imperium's like 50,000 at _minimum_ or the Eldar's/Necron's ~60,000,000 and 6,000 is relatively new.

[@hyde1352]

I believe there will be a lot more factions, (I can be wrong) I thought GW stated the Dark Angels, Blood Angels, Black Templars, Deathwatch, and Space Wolves would get their own book, and thus their own faction focus. Custode, Wolves, Blood, Dark, Templars, Xeno hunters, Chaos Knights, Orks, Dark Aeldar, TSons, Stealers, Gary Knights, and Agents of Imperium make a few weeks worth of content.

[@speetza6265]

That haircut has no right to be Bob looking so good. Brilliant discussion as always!

[@aordinaryperson8098]

For the greater good is literally the cross fire of genestealer cult but better