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In reading the rulebook I have seen nothing that prevents the application of multiples of the same wargear to my Tau Hammerhead tank. I would of course have to pay the cost. In most cases doubling up on wargear would be pointless, or "pointful" depending on how you look at it, but in the case of disruption pods and flechette dischargers multiples of the gear could serve as a powerful force multiplier. Unless I have missed something of course. As it stands, it seams I could improve my 5+ cover save from jink to a 2+ cover save by stacking multiple disruption pods. Furthermore I could deter assaulting my vehicles by stacking multiple flechette dischargers to the point of "face pasting" anything too close. Am I wrong or do I smell cheese. I have no intents of using this in friendly or local competitive games as I am not a git. Anything more serious could encourage me to ensure my hammerheads are staying on table. Whether or not the points spent on multiples of wargear would be spent well is not up for debate on this thread, but you can comment to that effect in addition to the main topic.

I do believe you have missed something, but I will need to get back to the Library to give you the exact page quote, as I believe there is a sentence informing us how many of each option you are allowed to take on the second page of the of the Army List section.

Isn't it on the page before the actual army list that explains the abbreviations and options with an example entry?

Well as the Dpod states that a vehicle equipped with a dpod Gaines a +1 to cover, and not that for each dpod. you could give it 200 dpods and only ever get a +1 to cover. and pretty much the same for the FD

Though it would of been funny.

 B0B MaRlEy wrote:
Isn't it on the page before the actual army list that explains the abbreviations and options with an example entry?

Nothing states as such on that page of the Tau Codex. RAW doesn't describe if they would stack or not and RAI could go either way depending on who you play with.

Yea, I reviewed the pages this information normally can be found on and it was lacking. Nothing out right prevents you from taking multiple versions of a single piece of war-gear, thanks to the ability to take multiple items from that list and no restriction on one per entry. I do want to point out that Desubot's point does still stand for all bar a single piece of war-gear, so taking multiple versions of the same thing is just a point sink with no additional benefit. This is because the war-gear rules in question do start with a line stating 'a vehicle in possession of X can do Y.' It is one of the things that has been debated in the past though, if you can have a check list type restriction that prevents more then 1 check next to the rule, so there is that.

Oh and that one piece of war-gear which doesn't contain this wording triggers at initiative 10, so it can be argued the timing prevents you from using more then one.

Point taken. That leaves an arguable potential for assault denial.