Tau Signature Systems on Intercept

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**grendel083**

Drunkspleen wrote:
grendel083 wrote:
Trasvi wrote:
So a battlesuit with 3 weapons and interceptor can fire all three of them on intercept, because it's not the shooting phase! this is awesome.

And by the same logic can't use any of the rules found in the "Shooting Phase" section. So no wound allocation, or even rolls to hit.

Why do you think this is a parallel to the Shooting Phase section while the C&C node is not?

The rules on page 51 are no more an inherent part of the shooting action than the rules for a Command and Control Node, both appear well outside the basic set of steps for a shooting action, even if one is arguably more general than the other.

Why does one thing which specifies "in the shooting phase" apply at all other times but another thing doesn't?

It's one thing to accept the application of the basic shooting process referring to the shooting phase when it might fall beyond that scope, but you have to do much more than you have done to justify the inconsistency with which you are applying the use of the phrase "in the shooting phase" to rules external to that.

The Interceptor allows you to fire a weapon.
In order to do so you need to use the relevent rules "Firing" and "Weapon".
The rules on page 51 concern weapons, so are relevent when firing one.

The C&C node is relvent to the shooting phase, but is not a required rule for firing a weapon.

Do you concider a Run Move to be acceptable in place of an Interceptor shot?

**Miri**

grendel083 wrote:

Do you concider a Run Move to be acceptable in place of an Interceptor shot?

I'm actually out of the argument, as I said, waiting and hoping GW doesn't delay an FAQ update. What I am wondering though, up until this Tau codex gave the ability to grant Interceptor to an Infantry model, were there any non vehicle/non fixed weapon emplacement models with Interceptor?

**MarkyMark**

Yep, hyperios have interceptor and skyfire/

**Miri**

MarkyMark wrote:
Yep, hyperios have interceptor and skyfire/

Never heard of them, what army are they from so I can go look it up at the store tomorrow?

**Happyjew**

Imperial Armour Aeronautica, page 39.

It is available to SM, DA, BT, SW and BA.

As well as the Contemptor-Mortis Dreadnought, but you did say no vehicles