Editing Farsight (section)

===9th Edition===
[[File:Farsight_(2023).jpg|300px|thumb|right|Farsight's new [[XV86 Supernova Battlesuit|9th edition model]]. Now in plastic and with 100% more [[Skub|tactical]] [[Deep Rock Galactic|rock]] and [[Weeaboo|samurai vibes]].]]

With the new Codex Farsight lost his Supplement and with it came a tragedy worthy of Shakespeare: [[FAIL|no more fusion blades]]. Otherwise the subfaction is awesome! You get the classic "Markerlights within 9 inches" and a single wound reroll per unit. In addition you get to bring 2 Suit Commanders, one of which can be good ol' Farsight himself. Your relic, The Talisman of Arthas Moloch, is an auto take if your opponent has any psychic prowess with its free DTW with an innate +1 once every turn. The strategem is also ''phenomenal'' with the full rerolls it grants to Crisis Suits that Manta Strike. Lastly, Master of the Killing Blow is a fun alternative to Precision of the Hunter as it grants -3 AP with a wound roll of 6 and makes it impossible for your wounds to be ignored.

For a brief but glorious moment, the FSE were even one of the more broken subfactions, 
mostly because of how broken Farsight's preferred philosophy of Mont'ka was: rerolling wound rolls of 1, additional AP, and being able to count yourself as stationary for the first three turns gave them a considerable advantage, especially when you consider that Kauyon players had to wait til turn 3 before they could even get started. GW quickly nerfed them to force some variety in Tau lists, but FSE are still quite good despite it all. <s>However, there's even more hope for FSE because [[Games Workshop|GeeDubbs]] seems to be tickling our balls with hints at a supplement for FSE again so join the prayer in the return of Fusion Blades.</s> We go diddly and fucking squat in terms of new rules; not even new rules for Far Sight’s new model! Hopefully 10th brings something good for us.

Even if we don't get that supplement, FSE has retained that wonderful CQB flow from 8th which is still tons of fun if we can't laser everyone to death. One of the best Commander builds right now is a Commander with a special-issue 2D flamer that can [[Awesome|act as a melee weapon]], with all of those attacks being extra to your Onager Gauntlet (which isn't limited to 1A anymore!). One of these Commanders, fully-kitted out with complementary guns and WLT, can be a wonderful distraction to keep the heat off Farsight for once. They also may update his rules to be on-par with Shadowsun and other Supreme Commanders considering they gave him a larger base.

Once you're done wacking one out to the new Farsight model, go and play some games and have some fun.

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