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I remember that the intent was to strike the 'Tau Supreme Commander' wording as a separate line item in the special rules.
What I don't remember is if there was consensus on whether to place the wording at the end of the Co-fire rule, or just stick Co-fire into the Shas'O notes.
Hena's suggestion (slightly modified by me for clarity) would look like this:
COORDINATED FIRE The Tau are masters of ranged warfare and have several very experienced fighters and specially equipped troops that are able to lead other Tau on an attack, expertly directing their fire against the foe; thus Tau are especially adept at outflanking enemy formations and attacking them from several sides with their deadly coordinated fire.
Some units are noted as being able to call in coordinated fire. Those units can order up to two other formations that have not taken an action this turn, and which are not broken, to follow their own formation when they take an advance, double or sustained fire action, as long as all of the formations have at least one unit within 15cm of the formation containing unit calling for coordinated fire.
Make a single initiative roll for all formations, counting a single –1 modifier if any have blast markers. If the test is failed then the original formation (containing the unit calling for coordinated fire) receives a Blast marker and must take a hold action, but the other formations are unaffected (and may take an action later in the turn).
If the test is passed then all formations concerned are allowed to take either an advance, double or sustained fire action. There is no obligation for all formations to take the same action, and these actions may be resolved in any order, but they must all fire at the same target formation. The formations don’t have to stay within a given distance of each other and will complete their actions one after the other. Each formations action is declared and resolved (including testing to see if the target formation is broken) before moving on to the next Tau formation.
Note that units with this ability confer the Coordinated Fire ability to any formation that they join. For example, a Pathfinder upgrade purchased to be added to a Fire Warrior Cadre, adds the Coordinated Fire ability to all units in the Cadre, including the Fire Warriors. Any Tau unit with the Commander ability replaces that with the Coordinated Fire ability. A Tau unit with the Supreme Commander ability gives the benefit of both the ‘Coordinated Fire’ and ‘Leader’ ability, as well as allowing the Tau player to re-roll one failed initiative test (of any type) once per turn.
(Hena's added verbiage in bold, mine in italics)
This change doesn't save a lot of word-count in the special rules, though.
Otherwise, it's just a note in the Shas'O datasheet:
Shas'O Commander
Character, n/a spd, n/a sv, n/a CC, n/a FF
Commander Plasma Rifle: 30cm AP4+
Notes: Character, Invulnerable Save, Supreme Commander, Coordinated Fire
This would allow a Shas'O commander to call a combined assault, as well as Co-fire, but he's the ONLY one in the tau army that can. Since there are times when it makes more sense to assault than to shoot, I think this is a better fix.
Ah-HAH! On page 6 of the "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" thread, you voted for adding the Supreme Commander verbiage to Co-fire, Honda.
However, I've changed my mind from what I posted in that thread, and now prefer a Note in the Shas'O entry.
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