![]() ![]() The Ranged Support Cadre does exactly what it says on the label: itlays down a lot of strong firepower at medium ranges and brings its own Markerlight support to ensure maximum efficiency. As the Pathfinders are often placed well outside your deployment zone and away from other units, this can be quite handy a bucketful of twin-linked shots will often discourage people from throwing incidental charges into your units, though it probably won’t stop a dedicated assaulter. This is absolutely huge, since it means that even a single hit from the Pathfinders on a target will turn the XV88s into absolute killing machines- it’s especially devastating when shooting flying targets or otherwise snapfiring.įinally, the Broadsides can use Supporting Fire at any distance for their smaller companions in the formation, provided that they are in weapon range and line of sight. Second, the Broadside units in the formation gain double benefit from the Markerlights of the Pathfinders teams this means that a mere one counter raises them up to BS5 (or BS4 in the case of the drones) and another one will give them Ignores Cover. As Pathfinders typically want to be standing still and lighting up enemies at every opportunity anyways this isn’t really a big limitation at all, and it lets you make sure that your Markerlights are exactly where you want them to be on the battlefield. The first, and perhaps most important, is that the formation’s Pathfinders benefit from the Infiltrate, Stealth, and Shrouded rules however, they lose the latter two if they make any movements (including Scouting) or fire a weapon other than their Markerlights. The formation features several different special rules that give it a lot of hitting power and synergy within itself. Although it’s featured in the Farsight Enclaves book, it is not required to be a Farsight detachment (unless you take in a Dawn Blade Cadre, of course)- though the Broadsides can benefit a lot from Bonding Knives, since they typically run large numbers of Drones in the squads. The basic setup for the formation is pretty forgiving: three units each of Pathfinders and Broadsides, in any configuration. It’s a powerful formation that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention so far, but with Paul McKelvy taking a top slot at TSHFT using it and other Tau players starting to take an interest, I feel like it’s poised to break into the general meta in the near future if LVO doesn’t completely shake things up. The Ranged Support Cadre, however, manages to combine the two together in a way that makes them both effective without fundamentally rewriting the rules for either. On the other, you have T3/5+ infantry with no real protection at all and weapons that force them to stay static while being guaranteed to be any competent general’s first target to get rid of even their own codex entry admits that Pathfinders are pretty much doomed to die straight away. (Perhaps Vespid and Stormsurges?) On the one hand, you have the epitome of Tau firepower efficiency with eight twin-linked shots coming off a single model, all with an above-average statline and special rules. Broadsides and Pathfinders, working together- it’s the wacky buddy-cop comedy of the 40K world.īroadsides and Pathfinders you’d be hard-pressed to find two more diametrically opposed units in the Tau codex. ![]()
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