Editing Warhammer 40,000/7th Edition Tactics/Tau (section)

===Warlord Traits===
Tau WTs are heavily geared towards Battlesuit commanders, but the best are available for all - sadly, those are One Use only. If your warlord rolls a Tau WT they can't use, they'll just reroll it, Battleforged or not (though you should be). This is most noticeable with Ethereals.
#'''Precision of the Skilled Hunter:''' Enemies can't use Look Out, Sir! when shot at by your Warlord. Useful for sniping the enemy Warlord if he is a coward and a fewl and hides in a [[METAL BOXES|METAL BAW]]- I mean, if he hides in a unit.
#'''Through Unity, Devastation:''' For one shooting phase, all Tau within 12" reroll To Hit rolls of 1 — Particularly useful if you're deploying as a nice castled-up gun line. Can stack to ludicrous levels if you combine it with Markerlights (''which you should''), formations and Ethereal or/''and'' Cadre Fireblades +1 shot to pulse rifles/carbines for true devastation®. Note that in 7th edition, there now exists a WT in the base rulebook (Target Priority from the Command Traits table) that provides the exact same benefit but is not single-use, meaning this trait just became far less special.
##Extremely useful, provided the situation involves lots of Gets Hot weapons. Want your Riptide to fire its Nova-charged Heavy Burst Cannon without killing itself, while you overcharge all nearby Ion weapons at the same time? Well now is the time. ''Maybe it is worth the risk, roll for Target Priority, good luck!'' Anything targeted by this combination is dead, ''dead'', '''dead''', and you run no real risk to yourself by doing it. Some [[cheese]]monger who concentrates all their points in some kind of super-unit will explode with [[rage]] when hit by this. Make your standard-issue Tau tear collection cup handy before doing it.
#'''A Ghost Who Walks Among Us:''' The Warlord and his unit move 3D6" with their Jet Packs. It makes them much less likely to suffer a snake-eyed fail of a thrust move. Commander Shadowsun gets this trait by default if taken as your warlord.
#'''Exemplar of the Selfless Cause:''' Once per game, all units that have gone to ground stand back up and act normally. This means you can weather a turn of enemy shooting, then stand right back up and shoot him in the face; needless to say, this is one of the better Warlord Traits. If you took bucket loads of Battle suits it has less use for you, but then you'd be rolling Farsight Enclaves' WTs instead. Aun'Do and Aun'Va get this trait by default if taken as your warlord.
#'''Predator of the Skies:''' For one shooting phase, your Warlord and his squad get Skyfire - which you might [[Fail|already have]] from a Velocity Tracker or Coldstar, but you do have Ideal Mission Commander...right? It's not ''that'' bad if your Warlord's unit has Markerlights, tho.
#'''Through Boldness, Victory:''' Your Warlord and his unit don't scatter on Deep Strike. If you're planning to do a Commander-bomb, this is the one you should fervently hope/pray for. Commander Farsight gets this trait by default (if taken as your warlord), and can deepstrike with NINE Crisis/Bodyguard suits, all their drones, a second Commander with drones if you're feeling saucy, and with guaranteed no-mishap. Hell, cut on some Crisis, add a Riptide and some Broadsides and that's a '''Retaliation Cadre''' with no scatter. Screw tear cups, you'll need tear ''pools''.
*'''X: The Assassin:''' O'Ra'lai has Preferred Enemy (Independent Characters). As of the latest BRB FAQ, Preferred Enemy on any model in the target unit grants Preferred Enemy against the entire unit.