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===Heavy Support: Dogfish Medium Battle Tank===

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'''Dogfish Tempest'''

The workhorse of the Imperial Army, the Leman Russ Battle Tank was left behind in huge numbers during the Imperium’s extraction from the Damocles Gulf, during the Damocles Crusade, and their rout from the Mining planet of T’ros, and while the Tau Fire Caste looks upon the Leman Russ as slow, and primitive, their Gue’Vesa allies have continued to use the Leman Russ with added modifications by the Tau’s Earth Caste, retrofitting new weapon loadouts, sub-systems, and power sources.

Initially built from the Leman Russ Punisher, the Dogfish Tempest retains the devastating fire rate of its originator, but has been upgraded to carry a set of 4 independently operated Burst Cannons, alongside an inbuilt Point Defence Targeting Relay, allowing the Tempest to act as the Gue’Vesa’s primary defensive tank, capable of beating back hordes of Ork Boyz, Tyranid Gaunts, Elder Warriors, & those still loyal to the Imperium.

'''Dogfish St Elmo'''

The Dogfish St Elmo Incinerator is one of the stranger vehicles in the Gue’Vesa’s arsenal; named after an old Terran superstition, this Tank mounts 2 specialised Incinerator cannons taken from the wrecks of the Hellhound ‘Light Cavalry’ Tank, modified to increase their offensive power at the cost of their range.

Unfortunately the St Elmo has none of the manoeuvrability associated with the Hellhound, and retains most of the weaknesses of the Leman Russ, which when combined with its exceedingly short range makes it an incredibly risky vehicle to field, but many Gue’Vesa commanders feel the risk is worth it for the sheer firepower the St Elmo can bring to bear on its targets should they ever get in range.

'''Dogfish Thunderhead'''

The Tau have long since mastered Plasma, making the Leman Russ Executioner look remarkably primitive in comparison to their own technology, the constant threat of shorting out, venting steam into the crew compartments, discharging the containment field, or just overloading the coupling and exploding making the Tau earth caste engineers & scientists whose job it was to analyse the vehicle shake their heads in disappointment at the crudeness of the weapon, before taking the technology and using it to develop the Thunderhead.

Far more refined than the Executioner Plasma Cannon, the Thunderhead boasts a greater rate of fire & much greater stability; however this upgrade comes at the cost of the Executioners firepower & area of effect, making the Thunderhead an excellent Heavy Infantry hunter, & Light Vehicle killer, while it is unable to deal with threats of the same calibre as its originator.

'''Dogfish Maelstrom'''

The Imperium makes rather extensive use of Melta technology, and while the Tau may know how the technology works enough to mount their own Melta weaponry, the Fusion Blaster, on their Battlesuits, the Imperium maintains a lead on their usage of the this remarkable technology on the Battlefield.
As such, when the Earth Caste managed to salvage an intact Melta Cannon, one the Imperium’s most advanced Melta weapons, they set about trying to reverse engineer it into a far more stable version.

These experiments led to the creation of the Maelstrom Fusion Cannon, a Melta weapon with a range comparable to the Hammerhead’s Railgun, and a stopping power to match the Tau’s previous Fusion Weaponry; however the power requirements of the Maelstrom Cannon have proven too intensive to mount it on the Tau’s Skimmer Tanks without shorting out the Plasma generators that power the Vehicles, and the idea of mounting a separate Plasma Generator solely for the Maelstrom has been shot down as being too dangerous, leading to the Maelstrom being mounted in the Gue’Vesa’s Dogfish tanks until the power requirements can be satisfied.

'''Dogfish Undertow'''

The Riptide’s development history was long, and riddled with difficulties & setbacks, firstly the constant search for a suitable power source, which finally ended with the creation of the Nova Power Core Reactor, and the development of suitable weaponry.

Originally the Earth Caste attempted to make an overgrown version of the Pulse Sub-munition Rifle, mounted on the XV-9 Hazard suit, but the extreme weight of this weapon made it unsuitable for the mobility requirements, while the regular Battlesuit weapons didn’t have the punch that the Riptide was supposed to deliver.

This led the Earth Caste to develop the Ripple Cannon, a prototype phase for the Riptides eventual weapon, the Heavy Burst Cannon. The Ripple Cannon was designed to test the Nova Reactors power limits before the power limiters were released and the initial tests were promising, the Nova reactor providing more than enough power; however when overcharged the Ripple cannon had a near 80% chance of self-destructing, as its internal components were unable to handle the high tolerances demanded by the full power of the Nova Reactor.
As such the Prototype Ripple Cannons were thrown to the side as the Earth Caste worked on the Heavy Burst Cannon, until Gue’Vesa Fio’El Dal’yth Aeron Ron’Shi found the blue-prints, and with permission from his Fio’O supervisor mounted it on a Dogfish with an upgraded Plasma Generator.

Christened the Dogfish Undertow, the Ripple Cannon has proven its worth in combating the heavy infantry of the Ork Hordes, the larger Bioforms of the Tyranid Swarms, & the elite Storm troopers of the Astra Militarum.

'''Dogfish Fogbank'''

The Leman Russ Battle tank is possibly the most versatile vehicle found in the Imperium of Man, however for all of its variants the Tau encountered in the Damocles Crusade, The T’ros Campaign, and the various Brush-Fire conflicts that erupt every so often, the Tau have never noticed a Variant that was able to provide any anti-air fire, that purpose being relegated to the Chimera-Mounted Hydra-Flak Tank.

However in the aftermath of most battles the Hydra’s were too heavily damaged, or recovered by Imperial forces before the Tau earth Caste engineers could find a suitable specimen.
This has led to the Gue’Vesa Engineers working with the Earth Caste to replicate the Hydra-Flak tanks level of Anti-Air fire without access to any blueprints, working examples, or usable templates.

Originally, the Earth Caste thought that the best way to emulate the Hydra’s long range, would be a Heavy Rail-Rifle Battery, mounted on a modified Skyray Tower, allowing for a field of fire that could include Ground-based opponents, however the recoil forced upon the gun tower by the rapid firing rate required was deemed too high for the Materials to handle, and the idea was scrapped in favour of a Modified Smart Missile System which was currently undergoing prototype testing for usage with the Skyray Missile Defence Gunship.
Called the Fogbank Missile Pod, the missiles payload was extensively modified to maximise range, stability and accuracy, allowing it to act as a weaker variant of the Seeker Missile for use in extended campaigns where supplies could run low, while being outfitting with the drone intelligence of the Smart-Missile-System allowed it be fired at targets beyond the wielders Line of Sight without the aid of Markerlight targeting data.

As it is still in its testing phase, the Fogbank Missile Pod has been given to the Gue’Vesa Auxiliaries for the purpose of testing its efficiency on the battlefield, however the Engineers of the Earth Caste have High Hopes for the Weapon, and the Tanks they have outfitted it with.

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{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 align=left
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! Name !! BS !! FAV !! SAV !! RAV !! HP
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| Dogfish Tempest || 3 || 14 || 13 || 11 || 3
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| Dogfish St Elmo || 3 || 14 || 13 || 10 || 3
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| Dogfish Thunderhead || 3 || 14 || 13 || 11 || 3
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| Dogfish Maelstrom || 3 || 14 || 13 || 10 || 3
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| Dogfish Undertow|| 3 || 14 || 13 || 10 || 3
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| Dogfish Fogbank || 3 || 14 || 13 || 10 || 3
|}
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:'''Unit Composition''': 1 Dogfish<br>
:'''Unit Type''': Vehicle (Tank, Heavy) <br>
:'''Wargear (all)''': Blacksun Filter
:'''Wargear (Tempest)''': Quad-Linked Burst Cannons Tempest Array, Point-Defence Targeting Relay
:'''Wargear (St Elmo)''': 2 St Elmo Incinerators, Hull-Mounted Burst Cannon
:'''Wargear (Thunderhead)''': Thunderhead Plasma Cannon, Hull-Mounted Burst Cannon
:'''Wargear (Maelstrom)''': Maelstrom Fusion Cannon, Hull-Mounted Burst Cannon
:'''Wargear (Undertow)''': Undertow Ripple Cannon, Hull-Mounted Burst Cannon
:'''Wargear (Fogbank )''': 2 Fogbank Missile Pods, Velocity Tracker, Early Warning Override
:'''Options''':
* May Choose one of the following Tanks
*: Dogfish Tempest ''150 points''
*: Dogfish Saint Elmo ''130 Points''
*: Dogfish Thunderhead ''140 Points''
*: Dogfish Maelstrom ''160 Points''
*: Dogfish Undertow ''150 Points''
*: Dogfish Fogbank ''150 Points''
* May Purchase 2 Additional Models of Any Dogfish Variant for it's listed cost
* Any Dogfish that doesn't have a Hull-Mounted Weapon may Take a Hull Mounted weapon for the Following costs, if it already has a Hull-Mounted Weapon reduce the weapons cost by 10 points ---
:* Heavy Flamer ''10 Points''
:* Burst Cannon ''10 Points''
:* Heavy Rail Rifle ''20 Points''
* Any Dogfish may Take a Pair of Sponsons armed with ---
:* Tau Plasma Rifles ''30 Points''
:* Burst Cannons ''20 Points''
:* Fusion Blasters ''20 Points''
:* Twin-Linked Flamers ''20 Points''
:* Missile Pods ''30 Points''
* Any Dogfish may take the Following Battle Systems '''WIP'''
:* Networked Cogitators: ''20 Points''
:: A Dogfish Squadron containing a single model with Networked Cogitators counts their BS as one point higher when all firing at the same target.
:* Any Dogfish may take a Tau Flechette Discharger for ''5 Points''
:* Any Dogfish may take a Chaff Decoy Launcher for ''5 Points''
:: Once per game a model equipped with Chaff Decoy Launchers may sacrifice its shooting attack to activate this piece of Wargear; the model, and any other models in the unit, gain a 5+ cover save until the beginning of their next shooting phase, this cover save increases to 4+ against shooting attacks made by Vehicles as the EM Chaff interferes with their targeting systems.

* One Dogfish in each Squadron may take a Dogfish Gue'vesa'El: ''50 Points''
:: A Model equipped with a Dogfish Gue'vesa'El increases its BS by 2, gains the Split-Fire USR, and changes the squadron type to HQ. The Gue'vesa'El may be selected as your warlord, but can never gain a Warlord Trait. In addition, only the model with the Gue'Vesa'El needs to be destroyed in order for your opponent to gain Slay The Warlord, even if it is in a Squadron.