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I have been considering collecting a cadre of gue'vesa (human) auxilliaries, because I like the fluff of non-chaos imperial guard renegades. If I use them in apocalypse, it would be fine to chop and mix the imperial guard and tau empire codexes, however in a normal game of 40k what do you think the best rules to represent them would be?

A) Imperial Guard codex - lots of vetrans to represent tau-trained men, led by straken to represent a tau in a special close assault battlesuit to fit the more toe-to-toe role of the gue'vesa. Maybe even with advisers representing a water-caste translator (astropath), and air-caste liaison (master of the fleet). Obvious drawbacks being that I could include any attached fire-warriors or cool tau tech.

B) Tau empire codex - Use the kroot stats to represent the guard, with a fluff rationalisation for the improved stats and beefed-up weaponry. This would allow me to include a few fire-warriors and battlesuits to go with my humans, but would obviously just play like a kroot-heavy tau army :(

C) Some other clever suggestion by the wise people of dakka-dakka?

Any comments or advise would be GREATLY appreciated.

Or you can use the old Chapter Aproved rules.

Cheers nOt_u, they would defiantly work,though they're only legal for friendly games

I guess outside of friendly games you could use them for Kroot. Just having the Lasguns improved by the Tau, besides humans are better at cc than the Tau are anyway.

Kroot are stronger than men (S4), and the improved las guns would work with a spot of re-modelling

You could always represent the extra strength with some sort of power assisted suit designed to provide a bit of extra CC support