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Let’s say we have a standard (as much as you can say that sort of thing) Imperial world in the fringes, and the T’au want it. Diplomats try to convince a peaceful joining-of-the-Empire, but the planet isn’t swayed.

How many soldiers, AFVs, aircraft, and suits/other military resources does the T’au Empire commit to take this planet in the ‘typical’ scenario?

What does the standard T’au invasion look like and operate like?

 Apple Peel wrote:
Let’s say we have a standard (as much as you can say that sort of thing) Imperial world in the fringes, and the T’au want it. Diplomats try to convince a peaceful joining-of-the-Empire, but the planet isn’t swayed.

How many soldiers, AFVs, aircraft, and suits/other military resources does the T’au Empire commit to take this planet in the ‘typical’ scenario?

What does the standard T’au invasion look like and operate like?

I don't think we have typical numbers for this sort of thing, and in general numbers for stuff involving conflict with the Tau are generally more akin to those seen in regional 20th century conflicts (on all sides) usually in the realm of tens of thousands of combatants on each side, making very little sense when put in their proper scale.

Depends on who is writing.

The largest listed tau assault force consisted of (at the highest interpretation):

1440 fire warriors (120 devilfish transports)
~120 Stealth suits
40 pathfinder teams
40 crisis teams
60 hammerheads
60 Skyray gunships
80 Razorsharks
80 Riptides
22 Mantas
15 Orcas

Unspecified numbers of Sunshark bombers, tiger sharks, and barracudas. Unspecified numbers of krrot and vespid.

(also 5 carriers, 12 warships, 24 transports, and support ships)

Note that the actual force may have been significantly smaller as this is taking the Shadowsuns initial vanguard force and multiplying it by the listed 20 cadres - however Shadowsuns cadre was listed as having twice the troop support of the official cadre structure - so actual assets committed may be only half those listed above (aside from the mantas and orcas which are listed separately)

According to Forge World Taros Campaign (and we know FW loves number and is more realistic and committed then usual GW):
https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Taros_Campaign

 godardc wrote:
According to Forge World Taros Campaign (and we know FW loves number and is more realistic and committed then usual GW):
https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Taros_Campaign

Troop numbers for the 100 cadres roughly correlates to 5x the 20 listed in the Tau book.

The main difference being that Taros was a wasteland mining colony with around 12 million human and abhuman workers and minimal defenses that turned traitor and was defended by entrenched tau forces. Agrellan always sounded like some backwater agri-world that the tau assumed was a 'hive world' on the grounds of it having some semblance of actual civilization.