T’au Empire

Advanced Acquisition Cadre

1 CP

Detachment Rules

expert fieldcraft

Enhancements

Negation Emitters (Upgrade)

15 pts

Modules of microcircuitry woven through battlesuit armour plating, these devices mask energy emissions, displace comms signals, and blind enemy sensors with particle scatter.

Stealth Battlesuits unit only. This unit has -3" detection range.

Unmasking Suite (Upgrade)

15 pts

This advanced AI targeting assistant features incredibly powerful active scanners that can locate and pinpoint even the most well‑hidden foes as though they stood revealed in broad daylight.

Ghostkeel Battlesuit/Pathfinder Team/Stealth Battlesuits unit only. When this unit is selected to shoot, you can select one enemy unit within 24" of this unit. That enemy unit has +9" detection range until this unit has shot.

Stratagems

Opponent's Turn

Autoreactive Camouflage

1 CP

Shooting

An experimental new form of portable electrocamouflage generators, these small devices interweave active energy shielding with passive sensor damping to further protect T’au soldiery in hiding.

When:

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly PATHFINDER TEAM/ STEALTH BATTLESUITS unit, if that friendly unit is hidden.

Target:

That Pathfinder Team/Stealth Battlesuits unit.

Effect:

Your unit has +1 Sv.

Your Turn

Marker Beacon

1 CP

Movement

These small devices emit tightbeam triangulation signals for follow‑up waves of incoming T’au forces, silently marking out strategically vital sites to be secured.

When:

End of your Movement phase.

Target:

One friendly Pathfinder Team/Stealth Battlesuits unit.

Effect:

Select one objective your unit is controlling. That objective is secured.

Microdrone Support

1 CP

Shooting

Deployed from overflights of heavier stealth‑capable carrier drones, these tiny machines provide versatile battlefield support for T’au stealth specialists, even in the midst of vicious firefights.

When:

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly Pathfinder Team/Stealth Battlesuits unit starts an action.

Target:

That Pathfinder Team/Stealth Battlesuits unit.

Effect:

That action does not prevent your unit from being eligible to shoot.