T’au Empire — army rules

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or Fight phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot or fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each attack a model in your unit makes may re-roll a Wound roll of 1; if it is a Kroot or Vespid Stingwings unit, you may re-roll the whole Wound roll instead.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the turn ends, your unit may shoot in a turn in which it Advanced; if it is a Kroot or Vespid Stingwings unit, it may also declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit (excluding Kroot and Vespid Stingwings units) from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, add 1 to the Strength of ranged weapons carried by models in your unit, or add 2 instead if your unit is wholly within 9" of one or more KROOT or VESPID STINGWINGS units from your army.

WHEN: End of the Fight phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army that was eligible to fight this phase. EFFECT: If your unit is outside Engagement Range of all enemy units, it may make a Normal move of up to 6"; otherwise it may make a Fall Back move. It cannot embark within a Transport at the end of this move if it disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One Kroot or Vespid Stingwings unit from your army not yet chosen to move this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time your unit Advances, do not roll for the Advance; instead, until the phase ends, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or Fight phase. TARGET: One Kroot or Vespid Stingwings unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot or fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, improve the Armour Penetration of weapons carried by models in your unit by 1.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time you roll one or more dice to determine the number of attacks made by a weapon carried by a model in your unit, you may re-roll the result.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One T'au Empire Battlesuit unit from your army chosen as a target of one or more of those attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time an attack targets your unit, if the attack's Strength exceeds your unit's Toughness, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

WHEN: Command phase. TARGET: One T'au Empire Battlesuit unit from your army. EFFECT: Pick one BATTLESUIT model in your unit; it recovers up to D3+1 lost wounds.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One T'au Empire Crisis unit from your army chosen as a target of one or more of those attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit can only be targeted by a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Pick one of the following to apply to your unit until the phase ends: improve the Strength of ranged weapons carried by its models by 1; or improve the Strength and Armour Penetration of those weapons by 1 and give them the [HAZARDOUS] ability. RESTRICTIONS: You cannot target the same unit with both the Experimental Ammunition and Threat Assessment Analyser Stratagems in the same phase.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Pick [SUSTAINED HITS 1] or [LETHAL HITS]; until the phase ends, ranged weapons carried by models in your unit gain that ability. Alternatively, pick [SUSTAINED HITS 1], [LETHAL HITS] and [HAZARDOUS] to apply to those weapons until the phase ends. RESTRICTIONS: You cannot target the same unit with both the Experimental Ammunition and Threat Assessment Analyser Stratagems in the same phase.

WHEN: End of your opponent's Fight phase. TARGET: One Stealth, Ghostkeel or Commander Shadowsun unit from your army. EFFECT: Remove your unit and place it in Strategic Reserves. RESTRICTIONS: Cannot target a unit within Engagement Range of any enemy units.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. The first time you use this Stratagem, also pick one objective marker not in your opponent's deployment zone; until the battle ends this is your Trap objective marker. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each ranged attack a model in your unit makes against an enemy unit within range of your Trap objective marker gets +1 to the Wound roll. RESTRICTIONS: Cannot be used during the first or second battle rounds.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army that has just been chosen as an Observer unit (see For the Greater Good). EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each attack a model in your unit makes against their Spotted unit improves its Ballistic Skill by 1, and if your unit has the Markerlight keyword that attack gains the [IGNORES COVER] ability.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each ranged attack a model in your unit makes against an enemy unit within 9" improves its Armour Penetration by 1. RESTRICTIONS: Cannot be used during the first or second battle rounds.

WHEN: Your opponent's Charge phase, just after an enemy unit declares a charge. TARGET: One T'au Empire Grenades unit from your army chosen as one of that charge's targets. EFFECT: That enemy unit must immediately take a Battle-shock test, and until the phase ends subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for it.

WHEN: Your opponent's Charge phase, just after an enemy unit declares a charge. TARGET: One T'au Empire Infantry unit from your army chosen as one of that charge's targets, plus one friendly Transport. EFFECT: Your unit may embark within that TRANSPORT; if it does, your opponent may pick new targets for that charge. RESTRICTIONS: Every model in your T'AU EMPIRE INFANTRY unit must be within 3" of that TRANSPORT and there must be room to embark the whole unit.

WHEN: Any phase. TARGET: One Kroot Infantry or Kroot Hounds unit from your army that was just destroyed (you may use this Stratagem on it though it is destroyed). EFFECT: Add a new unit identical to the destroyed one to your army, in Strategic Reserves, at its Starting Strength. RESTRICTIONS: Cannot be used to return destroyed Character units to Attached units. Once per battle only.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or Fight phase. TARGET: One Kroot unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot or fight this phase. EFFECT: After your unit resolves its attacks this phase, pick one enemy unit hit by one or more of them. Until the phase ends, each attack a KROOT model from your army makes against that enemy unit improves its Armour Penetration by 1, unless the attacking unit is Battle-shocked.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Kroot unit from your army that destroyed one or more enemy units this phase. EFFECT: In your opponent's next Command phase, each enemy unit within 6" of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, with -1 to the test if that unit is Below Half-strength. Units affected by this Stratagem do not take any other Battle-shock tests that phase.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a Kroot unit from your army Falls Back. TARGET: That KROOT unit. EFFECT: Until the turn ends, your unit may shoot and declare a charge.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One Kroot unit from your army chosen as a target of one or more of those attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit can only be targeted by a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or Fight phase, just after an enemy VEHICLE unit is chosen to shoot or fight. TARGET: One Kroot Grenades unit from your army within 8" of that enemy VEHICLE unit. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, worsen the Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill of that enemy VEHICLE unit's weapons by 1.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One KROOT unit from your army not yet chosen to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, improve the Armour Penetration of melee weapons carried by models in your unit by 1. Also, each attack a model in your unit makes improves its Armour Penetration by a further 1 on a Critical Wound.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a KROOTOX RIDERS unit from your army opens a Hatchway. TARGET: That KROOTOX RIDERS unit. EFFECT: Roll one D6 for each unit within 3" of that Hatchway, if the Hatchway is visible to it and it is wholly on the far side from your unit: on a 2-4 that enemy unit takes 1 mortal wound; on a 5+ it takes 2 mortal wounds.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One KROOT unit from your army not yet chosen to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each Pile-in or Consolidation move a model in your unit makes may be up to 6" instead of up to 3". Also, when making a Consolidation move, that model may end within Engagement Range of the closest enemy unit that was not visible to its unit when the move began.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One KROOT unit from your army. EFFECT: Pick one enemy unit within 9" of and visible to your unit and roll one D6: on a 2+, until the start of your next Shooting phase, halve the Move characteristic of its models and halve Advance and Charge rolls made for it.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army not yet chosen to move this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, if your unit Advances, do not roll for the Advance; instead, until the phase ends, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.

WHEN: Any phase. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit (excluding Kroot units) from your army that was just destroyed (you may use this Stratagem on it though it is destroyed). EFFECT: For the rest of the battle, each attack a T'AU EMPIRE unit (excluding KROOT units) from your army makes against the enemy unit that destroyed your unit may re-roll the Hit roll.

WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase. TARGET: Two T'AU EMPIRE units from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase, plus one enemy unit. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each attack a model in either of your units makes may only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target), and that attack improves its Armour Penetration by 1. RESTRICTIONS: Cannot be used during the fourth or fifth battle rounds.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'au Empire Infantry unit from your army that disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each attack a model in your unit makes against the closest enemy unit may re-roll the Wound roll.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'au Empire Infantry unit (excluding Kroot units) from your army that has just shot, plus one enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) hit by one or more of those attacks. EFFECT: Until the end of your opponent's next turn, that enemy unit is shaken. A shaken unit has -2 to its Move characteristic and -2 to Advance and Charge rolls made for it.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army chosen as a target of one or more of those attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time an attack is allocated to your unit, subtract 1 from that attack's Damage characteristic.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'au Empire Battlesuit unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each attack a model in your unit makes against an enemy unit of 6 or more models gains the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability, or against an enemy unit of 11 or more models gains the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability instead.

WHEN: Any phase, just after a T'au Empire Battlesuit model from your army is destroyed. TARGET: That destroyed model's unit (you may use this Stratagem on it even if the unit is destroyed). EFFECT: Before removing your model, if it has the Deadly Demise ability, do not roll for it; instead choose whether the result is a 1 or a 6. If it lacks Deadly Demise, roll one D6 for each unit within 6" of it: on a 4+ that unit takes D3 mortal wounds.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One T'au Empire Battlesuit unit from your army arriving via Deep Strike this phase. EFFECT: Your unit may be set up anywhere on the battlefield more than 6" horizontally from all enemy models. RESTRICTIONS: A unit targeted by this Stratagem cannot declare a charge that turn.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One T'au Empire Battlesuit unit from your army that can FLY whose attacks have been resolved this phase. EFFECT: If your unit is outside Engagement Range of all enemy units, it may make a Normal move; if it does, it cannot declare a charge this turn.

WHEN: Your opponent's Charge phase, just after an enemy unit declares a charge. TARGET: One T'au Empire Battlesuit unit from your army chosen as a target of that charge. EFFECT: That enemy unit must immediately take a Battle-shock test, and you roll one D6 for each model in it: for each 6, that enemy unit takes 1 mortal wound.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One T'au Empire Battlesuit unit from your army chosen as a target of one or more of those attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, models in your unit gain the Feel No Pain 6+ ability.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a FIRE WARRIOR or PATHFINDER TEAM unit from your army opens a Hatchway. TARGET: That unit. EFFECT: Until the turn ends, each ranged attack a model in your unit makes against an enemy unit wholly on the far side of that Hatchway scores a Critical Hit on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ instead of only a 6.

WHEN: Your opponent's Movement or Charge phase. TARGET: One FIRE WARRIOR or PATHFINDER TEAM unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each Overwatch attack a model in your unit makes hits on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ instead of only a 6.

WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit destroys a T'AU EMPIRE unit from your army. TARGET: One FIRE WARRIOR or PATHFINDER TEAM unit from your army that is outside Engagement Range of all enemy units, has not fired Overwatch this turn and is within 9" of that enemy unit. EFFECT: Your unit may shoot as though it were your Shooting phase, but its models may only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target), and each attack hits only on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One FIRE WARRIOR or PATHFINDER TEAM unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit may shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.