Editing Tau Drones (section)

== Technical Drone ==
[[File:TechnicalDrone.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Technical Drones: The wet dream of any Tau converter.]]
'''DX-4 Technical drones''' are the only drones without rules of their own and are used by Tau commanders and Fire Warrior teams on the battlefield as a mobile engineering unit. In place of weaponry each Technical Drone carries repair and sensor equipment, and can be used to fix damaged or destroyed equipment in the field, sort of like a Imperial [[Trojan Support Vehicle|Trojan Support Vehicle]] but smaller.

They will also commonly be found assisting Fire Warrior combat engineer teams, especially during dense urban combat. Some Drone perimeter defense detachments also utilize specially outfitted DX-4 Drones to provide maintenance and support to other static Drone-controlled emplacements, such as Remote Sensor Towers and Drone Sentry Turrets.

They are by far the most rugged and stripped down Drone out there. Because of this, some have taken to giving them the moniker "floating [[Star Wars|R2-D2s]]" because they look like one and they behave like one.

DX-4 Technical Drones attached to a Tau Stealthsuit Team are always upgraded with stealth field generators, which allows them to operate without compromising the Stealthsuit Team's own ability to remain undetected.

[[Forge World]] suggests using them to represent certain stratagems in [[Cities of Death]] games, and there's an [[Apocalypse]] formation that uses them to repair drone sentry turrets, but for regular games of [[Warhammer 40,000]], they're really only good for decoration. Maybe they could be used by an [[Earth Caste]] who [[counts as]] a [[tech-priest]] or [[Techmarine]] from an allied detachment, or just homebrew a similar Tau unit.
* They have rules in 8e, letting them heal wounds on vehicles and battlesuits.