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I have no real access to a Tau codex but I know I'll have a chance of facing one of three in an upcoming tournament. Problem is I run Deep Strike and know at least two of them run Interceptor, one of them managed to low away everything I deepstruck in on the first turn. Admittedly I dropped these things right on his front line because the only Deep Strike counter I knew about at the time was Deathmarks and being a Tau army it was unlikely he had them. The question mostly lies in how it triggers and does it ignore cover or line of sight?

Interceptor is described in the main rule book, which this forum isnt a substitute for.

As for tau specific things, any battle suit has the ability to buy (for very cheap) the interceptor ability...though it takes a slot, and they only have so many slots on each suit...and a lot of the other options are good. If you show up and he has Early Warning Overrides (the wargear that gives him interceptor) on everything that can have it he's likely tailored his list against you.

TheSnowmanInHell wrote:
Interceptor is described in the main rule book, which this forum isnt a substitute for.

As for tau specific things, any battle suit has the ability to buy (for very cheap) the interceptor ability...though it takes a slot, and they only have so many slots on each suit...and a lot of the other options are good. If you show up and he has Early Warning Overrides (the wargear that gives him interceptor) on everything that can have it he's likely tailored his list against you.

I honestly thought it was a Tau specific thing.
Anyway, found it, thanks for the help. Looks like all I really have to do is drop my stuff behind something LOS blocking and it's less problematic.
I'd be flattered but I doubt that very much. I go alright but there is no way anybody from this tournament would know to or bother to tailor against me. Biggest tournament I've ever been in and I won't know anyone there.

Honestly, a Tau player that leaves Early Warning Override at home before a tournament is asking to have his butt handed to him.

I don't think I've ever played against a Tau player that didn't bring EWO.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Good thing one of my Dreads will be arriving in a Lucius pattern and the other will be dropped out of LOS.

Does Lucius pattern mean the dreads don't have to disembark?

 Griddlelol wrote:
Does Lucius pattern mean the dreads don't have to disembark?

That is correct. The pod also has shrouding the turn it comes in.

The new Drone network formation gives normally four groups of four marker drones interceptor too, so they can easily have BS5 ignores cover on the intercept.

Ignores cover is cute but the dread is still in a vehicle so you'd have to either blow the pod away first or get it with blasts that are strong enough to damage the pod and the dreadnought.

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
Ignores cover is cute but the dread is still in a vehicle so you'd have to either blow the pod away first or get it with blasts that are strong enough to damage the pod and the dreadnought.

Blasts don't hit inside open topped vehicles, only flame templates do (unless it's something special about that kind of drop pod). So he's probably safe from anything the tau have as long as the pod is alive. Don't forget the big thing about interceptor, he can't shoot in the next shooting phase, so he's got a choice of trying to decide between blasting your pod to bits, and possibly hurting your dread, or waiting until next turn after you have a chance to step out and smash some of his gunline.

 Palleus wrote:

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
Ignores cover is cute but the dread is still in a vehicle so you'd have to either blow the pod away first or get it with blasts that are strong enough to damage the pod and the dreadnought.

Blasts don't hit inside open topped vehicles, only flame templates do (unless it's something special about that kind of drop pod). So he's probably safe from anything the tau have as long as the pod is alive. Don't forget the big thing about interceptor, he can't shoot in the next shooting phase, so he's got a choice of trying to decide between blasting your pod to bits, and possibly hurting your dread, or waiting until next turn after you have a chance to step out and smash some of his gunline.

p173 No Escape 'If a template hits a building's Fire Point or an Open-topped vehicle and there's a unit inside that building or vehicle, then in addition to any other effects that unit suffers D6 hits, resolved at the Strength & AP of the weapon. These hits are allocated randomly.'
It would be nice if it specified flame templates, then you'd be right and destroying the pod would be the only way of getting at the dread.

That rule is a sub-rule for Template special rule; which clearly defines exacly what it is talking about.

It does not exist for blasts.