New T’au Empire Detachment First Look! | Warhammer 40K Grotmas Calendar
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We’re on to the final few days of the Grotmas calendar and today is all about the T’au Auxiliaries!
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Scoring secondaries usually requires you to be in the midboard anyway. Scoring primaries, or denying your opponent primaries, definitely requires you to be in the midboard. So why not send your auxiliaries up into the midboard to do those things, and while they’re at it they just give the rest of your army +1AP against anything nearby while they do it? It means not sacrificing your spotters or gunline units to score points. That’s where that OC enhancement shines. Sending up a 65 point unit of 5 Vespids with 2 OC each means taking pretty much any point and forcing… Read more »
Ok look. On the one hand i dont play auxiliaries cause i know painting them would be a chore. Thats literally the only reason i don’t. That being said im glad there is now a combined arms detachment for Auxiliary and Tau forces. Its fluffy if nothing else and helps lean into one of the things the tau should have going for them which is multiple xeno races and by extension their traits working to a common goal. That being said like you chef i was hoping for something stealth focussed. Dont get me wrong stealth suits and ghostkeels are… Read more »
I don’t have the models to run this detachment, unfortunately, but personally, I really like the “synergistic geometry” play style that these rules demand. T’au are difficult to gamify it seems and this could be one of the better translations. On the alternatives: While I would love to see stealth and mechanised detachments, I think the datasheet pools are a bit shallow for both. So another stealth suit unit and something like T’au earth caste combat engineers* (+Devilfish variants) might be needed first to make those ideas viable? Generally, I’m happy with the non-mecha/gundam parts of the army being fleshed… Read more »
It’s cute I guess. I fall on the side of the fence that T’au auxiliaries don’t exist because the choices we have are either meh or just bad. So I won’t be using this but I wish anyone giving it a go a hearty glhf.
Better late than never 😉
But, in all seriousness, props to you guys for working so hard to get these out every day.