T'au is officially the next codex. What will be their Sept Tactics?

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**Pandabeer**

MinscS2 wrote:
As long as they don't get a "-1 to hit" and/or "+1 to hit when overwatching" Sept Tactics I'm content.

I'd be surprised if they didn't get those. Especially the overwatch thing is really fluffy as well on gunline-style armies.

**Valentine009**

I can see farsight enclaves getting a stratagem that gives them +1 WS for a turn on all battlesuits for 1 or 2 CP.

Warlord trait will probably be reroll hits in assault.

Relic will be one of those lightsaber things from 7th

**davou**

Id take the hell out of a trait that allowed my suits to have the old jetpack move again

**meleti**

Dionysodorus wrote:
A lot of the traits we've seen for other armies aren't great fits for Tau, for a couple reasons. Obviously CC-oriented traits don't make a whole lot of sense, even for Farsight Enclaves. Many of the shooting traits we've seen overlap with markerlights -- maybe they'll get totally reworked, but as-is markerlights provide re-rolls, ignore penalties for moving/advancing and shooting, and ignore cover.

But it's pretty hard to predict what they're going to get because GW doesn't seem to try very hard to come up with sets of traits that are internally balanced or thematic.

That said, there are a couple that they've handed out to multiple factions which would work pretty well for Tau. Obviously the Raven Guard trait is desirable, though GW may want stacking hit mods to be an Eldar thing. Both AdMech and Guard got a 5+ Overwatch trait, and better Overwatch is already a Tau thing. Several subfactions have something like "treat rapid-fire weapons as assault weapons when advancing", maybe also with +1 Ld.

Markerlights, multi-trackers, and Exemplar of the Kauyon completely overlap, but that didn't stop GW from giving index Tau those rules.

davou wrote:
Id take the hell out of a trait that allowed my suits to have the old jetpack move again

That feels like it's guaranteed to be a stratagem.

**NurglesR0T**

More importantly who will get the "reroll failed morale tests" ?

**tneva82**

SirWeeble wrote:
One Sept will be "-1 to hit over 12"

the others will be.... who cares? just take the "-1 over 12."

I've used the +1 option for admech and felt like a cheap choice. Probably won't use it again. No theme to it, no downside. Just 16.6% more wounds for the whole army.

Like tyranids got?