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a question concerning Tau special rules
thurse	Post subject: a question concerning Tau special rules Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:18 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:13 pm Posts: 185 Location: Dundee, Scotland	Hi all, after a battle this sunday against the lost and damned ( I'll try to post a report, or at least some comments on the game and tau units, as I'm a bit short in time ). I had some questions concerning the tau rules... 1) drones Let's say I have a formation of crisis with a drone upgrade. I'm being shot at and 1 drone is destroyed. So as the rules says, I dont take a blastmarker for the dead drone beacause BM due to drone losses are divided by 2. Later in the turn I lose another drone. Do I receive a blast marker ( considering that a total of 2 drones are dead ) or none as I lost only 1 drone during this action? 2) hero cruiser pin-point A hero cruiser has 2 pin points attacks. So, as it is stated in the rules, it can target 2 differents WE formations, putting 1 BM on each because the units are being shot at. If I target twice the same WE, does its formation receive 2 BM? 3) Hero cruiser orbital missiles. Can the 4 missiles be shot at different targets, thus causing 1BM for each shot? if the missiles are shot at the same target, do I put 4 BM on it? ( I hope NO! ) Thanks for the answers.
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Post subject: a question concerning Tau special rules Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:46 pm

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Quote (thurse @ 06 Mar. 2006 (09:18)) @thurse, Great questions! 1) drones Let's say I have a formation of crisis with a drone upgrade. I'm being shot at and 1 drone is destroyed. So as the rules says, I dont take a blastmarker for the dead drone beacause BM due to drone losses are divided by 2. Later in the turn I lose another drone. Do I receive a blast marker ( considering that a total of 2 drones are dead ) or none as I lost only 1 drone during this action? A. If the crisis formation comes under fire, you receive a BM. If the firing formation only kills a single drone, you receive no further BM from that enemy formation's fireing. (Total 1 BM on the crisis) B. If the crisis formation comes under fire a second time in the same turn as above, the crisis formation receives a second BM for coming underfire from a second formation. (2 BM on the crisis formation now). C. If the crisis lose only a single drone from the second enemy formation that's firing at them, they do not sustain any further BM from that second enemy formation. They must remove 2 drones for the formation that's currently firing on them in order to have a BM placed. 2) hero cruiser pin-point A hero cruiser has 2 pin points attacks. So, as it is stated in the rules, it can target 2 differents WE formations, putting 1 BM on each because the units are being shot at. If I target twice the same WE, does its formation receive 2 BM?

You would only place a single BM for each enemy formation coming under fire. So in this case, both pin-point attacks on the same formation would generate a single BM on the targetted WE formation in question.

3) Hero cruiser orbital missiles.
Can the 4 missiles be shot at different targets, thus causing 1BM for each shot? if the missiles are shot at the same target, do I put 4 BM on it? ( I hope NO! )

Very similiar to question 2.

First - each enemy formation that comes under fire from your single formation (ship)  would receive 1 BM.

Second - All gravitic tracer missiles from a ship must all be targeted at the same enemy target currently.

In theory, the vessel could say I'm going to fire all tracers at enemy infantry Formation A because they are marked... I'm going to fire my first pin-point attack at enemy WE Formation B... and my final pin-point attack will be at enemy WE formation C.

Note however, you only place a single BM on each enemy formation that comes under fire from your vessel - even if you are firing multiple weapon systems at the target.

Cheers,