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ENRICHED REACTORS
"Each time a model with this tenet makes a ranged attack with a plasma weapon, an unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts 1 mortal wound on the target and the attack sequence ends."

It looks like the intent is to add a mortal for every unmodified 6, but the way its written, I read it as an unmodified 6 is 1 mortal and the attack sequence ends which then means no normal damage is done by the weapon.

they have an example of the case where unmodified 6 deals 1 additional mortal in the same book.

BORK'AN WL trait
"An unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts 1 mortal wound on the target in addition to any normal damage (to a maximum of 3 mortal wounds per phase)."

notice the text, in addition to any normal damage, which is clearly missing in the top quote.

So that means the enriched reactors is a huge nerf not a benefit because plasma rifles, twin plasma rifles, and the nova surge plasma rifle all deal 3 damage but if they roll a 6 on wounding they don't deal their damage according to RAW and just deal 1 mortal and the attack sequence ends.

Yes, enriched reactors would only deal 1MW.

Yup, RAW it's a nerf.

Probably a copy/paste error, or perhaps it was written for an older draft of the codex after which they buffed plasma weapons and didn't think to change the trait.

It's not the only similar error in the codex, Crisis Bodyguards in particular are riddled, we'll just have to await the "day 1" FAQ.

From the Codex T'au FAQ:

Page 65 – Enriched Reactors
Change to read:
‘Each time a model with this tenet makes a ranged attack with a plasma weapon (pg 130), an unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts 1 mortal wound on the target in addition to any normal damage.’

Nice.