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If i use the normal tau hunter contingent, can I still get the benefits of coordinated firepower for everything within the tau-decurion even if I include a formation that isn't in part of that decurion in my larger army?

See, I want to include a drone net in my tau army, and I'm also including a hunter cadre and retaliation cadre, and I want to know if the retaliation and hunter cadre would still get co-ordinated firepower even if I included a drone net.

No formation outside of the contingent would get CFP. Only Auxiliary, core, and command detachments withing the contingent get any benefits of CFP. Drone net woudl not benefit, but would not prevent Aux or Core detachments from benefitting.

A Battleforged army consists of any number of Detachments, in any combination. Remember that a Formation on it's own is also a Detachment.

A Hunter Contingent is a single Detachment, made up of a number of Formations and/or non-Formation choices, and Coordinated Firepower affects everything under the "umbrella" of the Hunter Contingent.

You can quite happily add a second (or third... etc.) Detachment to the army without losing Coordinated Firepower, although remember that it will not be given to units from outside the Hunter Contingent.

Here comes the "but": But, if you take a unit that is not part of a Detachment, nor a Formation, causing the army to become Unbound, the Hunter Contingent loses it's Command Benefits (inc. Coordinated Firepower) - for more info, check out the Detachments rules in the rulebook (page 118 for physical copies).

 Quanar wrote:
A Battleforged army consists of any number of Detachments, in any combination. Remember that a Formation on it's own is also a Detachment.

A Hunter Contingent is a single Detachment, made up of a number of Formations and/or non-Formation choices, and Coordinated Firepower affects everything under the "umbrella" of the Hunter Contingent.

You can quite happily add a second (or third... etc.) Detachment to the army without losing Coordinated Firepower, although remember that it will not be given to units from outside the Hunter Contingent.

Here comes the "but": But, if you take a unit that is not part of a Detachment, nor a Formation, causing the army to become Unbound, the Hunter Contingent loses it's Command Benefits (inc. Coordinated Firepower) - for more info, check out the Detachments rules in the rulebook (page 118 for physical copies).

Alright, thank you. In this case my army should work, as I'm using the mont'ka drone formation as the thing that would be outside the hunter contingent.

I have never had an issue with it. You likely are not firing 3 marker drone teams at one target anyway. And even if you could include them, the other units firing at the same time could not benefit from those markers because they are simultaneous.