Editing Tidewall Rampart (section)

===Shieldline===
[[File:Tidewall_Shieldline.jpg|250px|right|thumb|The floating off-ramp. Mind the lack of railings.]]
The most vanilla of the Ramparts. These are your traditional fortress walls in which your little [[Fire Warrior|space weeaboos]] can hide behind its energy field cover and fire away. The field itself is considered by the Tau as a virtually 'impenetrable barrier' of glowing energy. The Tidewall Shieldline slowly moves across the battlefield on repulsor jets, virtually advancing forward and giving the enemy less chance and less room to hide with every inch of gained ground.

If the enemy tries to shoot the defenders behind the Shieldline they risk dying because their fire ricochets from the energy fields and sometimes even [[Just As Planned|rebounding back into the foe's own lines.]] The Tidewall Shieldline also is the bulwark around which the fortification of the Tau networks are built – battlements protected by a Tidewall control platform and shimmering energy field.

Ruleswise, unlike the other forts in the family it (and its Defence Platform, if you take one) are the ONLY ones that can't fit models with more than W4, meaning '''[[Fail|they can't hold characters or battlesuits]]'''. The Shieldline has a 5++ and ''doesn't'' explode or turn into terrain when it dies.

Now a Shieldline can combine with one another to create a '''Tidewall Defence Platform'''. It can be useful if you want to get another fortification on the field without using another detachment slot. The smaller model may be easier to surround in combat. No shield, but ''does'' wreck (explode or terrain) on death, and otherwise is a Shieldline, making it absolutely beyond pointless - taking one of these instead of a Droneport [[Derp|has absolutely no purpose.]]

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