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So Dakka, I have a question: what constitutes "the rest of the unit", in the instance of the Split Fire USR?

The scenario in which this came up:

I was drafting up an Enclaves allied detachment, designed to DS in and be a general hindrance, while adding some much-needed Long Range firepower to my armies (Necrons* and Space Marines) in the form of Broadsides and a Riptide. So, in tru tau format, I need some markerlights in this allied detachment.
The Commander plus a cloud of Markerdrones is the best way forward, but I was wondering this: if I took a Crisis Command Team, every one of the 3 suits taking two gun drones, and the two bodyguards taking Target Locks as their support, could those two suits fire at the same target unit, since the Commander & the drones are "the rest" of the unit, or would each of these two suits have to target something different from each other, in addition to being different from the commander plus the drones

Thanks in advance



*Yes, I know Necrons are fine on their own, but we still only have 2 guns above 24" in range

Doesn't Tau have a special snowflake version of split fire?

its been a while.

Well, it just says "a model with a Target Lock can shoot at a different model to the rest of his unit"

 IHateNids wrote:
Well, it just says "a model with a Target Lock can shoot at a different model to the rest of his unit"

Hmm oh i see what ya mean about the rest of his unit.

Not sure how to resolve.

 IHateNids wrote:
Well, it just says "a model with a Target Lock can shoot at a different model to the rest of his unit"

"can"

It's simple. You nominate the unit to make a shooting attack.
You nominate the target. This is the unit's target. Any model with Target Lock, can then opt to fire at a different target.

IMO, though, at least one model in the unit still needs to shoot at the unit's target.

 Happyjew wrote:
It's simple. You nominate the unit to make a shooting attack.
You nominate the target. This is the unit's target. Any model with Target Lock, can then opt to fire at a different target.

IMO, though, at least one model in the unit still needs to shoot at the unit's target.

I would agree, however, someone could also make a RAW argument that you can nominate a unit with a single model and use a Target Lock to fire on something else.

This seems to be overthinking things bit. the operative word here is "can", so you can shoot at all different if you want, or two at one, and one at another.