Editing Markerlight

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Laser pointers with attitude, and a key component of [[Tau]] strategies. Not to be confused with the [[Lasgun|angry flashlight]].

Markerlights are dropped on units by units that have a weapon of the same name. It's functionally a laser designator and it puts a Markerlight counter on the target. Markerlight counters can be removed to do one of the following:

* Improve one of your units (which is firing at the markerlighted unit)' BS by one.
* Lower the cover save of the markerlighted unit by one.
* Fire a Smart Missile from a [[Skyray Missile Gunship]] at the markerlighted unit.

And that's not even the full extent of it!

Suffice to say, this is [[Awesome]] and a component of what makes the [[Tau]] fun to play, since the markerlight support is so versatile and useful. Hell, entire combat styles can be built around the strategy of mass-markerlights and using Skyrays as artillery pieces, which frankly, is sweet. There's also a lot of ways to get Markerlights on the tabletop, from the heavily-armored [[Skyray Missile Gunship|Skyray]], to the mobile Pirahna skimmer, to the lowly Pathfinder.

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