Editing XV-8 Crisis Battlesuit (section)

== Description ==
[[File:9cc4.jpg|thumb|left|350px|Death in six different tastes dropping in from above!]]
The XV8 is the Tau's general-purpose workhorse battlesuit. It's big enough to fit the pilot in its chest and tough enough to sustain punishment that could kill a [[Space Marine]]. It has four hard points (two on the hands and two on the shoulders) that can be used to install a dazzling variety of weapons and/or support systems, although most suits only have the reactor output and computing power for three weapon systems, but the "Enforcer", Coldstar, and commander variant can support up to four. The most common loadout for Crisis suits is three weapons and one support system. The suit also comes with jump jets that allow it to bypass dangerous/impassable terrain to quickly shoot at enemies and jump back to safety before the enemy has any time to react, a tactic known as Jump-Shoot-Jump. Crisis suits are usually deployed in teams of three, known as Ta'Ro'Cha, which are usually composed of close friends who have served together since they were Shas'la. Occasionally a pilot who has lost both his comrades can become a solitary warrior, or Monat (“Lone Hero”). Having to [[Warhammer_40,000:_Fire_Warrior|face a greater daemon]] can cause a [[Shas%27o_Kais|similar behaviour]]. Depending on how the death of his fellows affected him, he can become either a Rambo or a Kamikaze.

The XV8 was created during the First Sphere of Expansion, but was only used very sparely because the energy generators at the time were too weak to power the heavy suit for longer than an hour or so at a time. On top of that, the anti-gravity drive wasn't invented yet, so it was a [[Dreadnought|ponderous piece of junk]]. Later, the XV8 got both a powerful internal generator and a gravitic drive, and its reputation among Tau military technology climbed until it became the mainstay battlesuit of the Tau Empire.

Unlike the Imperium, Tau tech actually goes forward, thus Crisis in more recent editions come stock with Multitrackers (akimbo), Blacksun filters (those eagle-eye glasses) and can control drones without needing an outdately-named Drone controller (which now provides ''enhanced'' control), freeing a lot of hardpoints. It's also interestingly that formerly experimental weapon often gets into wider production as more general use options such as the [[Airbursting Fragmentation Projector]] or Stimulant injectors as one of the few times fluff and crunch line up. [[Games Workshop|Disregarding the fluff a little]], a Crisis team can be 10-tau strong, and cannot eject anymore due to not having access to that item in the codex. But they get yet more guns and stuff.