Editing Codex - Tau Auxiliary 8th edition (section)

===Heavy Support: Dogfish Battle Tank<span style="color: red"> '''WIP''' </span>===

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"What have they done! The machine spirits scream in the agony of the heresy committed upon them! -Techpriest 33108, upon the recovery of a Dogfish class 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 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 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.

(No tips here. You'll have to make it yourself. On the bright side, so long as it isn't [[Lord of Skulls|stupid looking]], you can build it however you want.)
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! Name !! M !! WS !! BS !! S !! T !! W !! A !! Ld !! Sv
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| Dogfish Medium Battle Tank  || * || 6+ || * || 7 || 8 || 12 || * || 7 || 3+ 
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{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 align=left
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! W !! M !! BS !! A 
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| 7-12 || 10" || 4+ || 3 
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| 4-6 || 7" || 5+ || 1D3
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| 1-3 || 4" || 5+ || 1
|}
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'''Unit Composition''': This Unit consists of one Dogfish Medium Battle Tank
<br>'''Wargear''': A Dogfish Medium Battle Tank is Equipped with a Quad-Linked Burst Cannon Array and 2 Heavy Flamers
<br>'''Weapons'''
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! Name !! Range !! Type !! S !! AP !! D !! Abilities 
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| Quad-Linked Burst Cannon Array || 36" || Assault 16 || 5 || 0 || 1 || --- 
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| Thunderhead Plasma Cannon || 36" || Heavy 5 || 8 || -3 || D3 || ---
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| Undertow Ripple Cannon || 36" || Assault 6 || 6 || -1 || 1 || All wound rolls of 6+ have an AP of -3 
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| Twin Fogbank Missile Pod || 72" || Heavy 12 || 6 || 0 || 1 || Units in cover do not gain any bonus to their saving throws against wounds made by this weapon 
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| Heavy Flamer || 8" || Heavy D6 || 5 || -1 || 1 || This weapon automatically hits
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| Twin Flamer || 8" || Assault 2D6 || 4 || 0 || 1 || This weapon automatically hits
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<br>'''Wargear options'''

A Dogfish Medium Battle Tank may replace its Quad-Linked Burst Cannon array with one of the following options ---
:- A Thunderhead Plasma Cannon
:- A Undertow Ripple Cannon
:- A Twin Fogbank Missile Pod

A Dogfish Medium Battle Tank may replace both its Heavy Flamers with one of the following options ---
:- A Long Barrelled Burst Cannon
:- A Heavy Rail Rifle

A Dogfish Medium Battle Tank may take a pair of the following options ---
: T'au Plasma Rifle
: Burst Cannon
: Fusion Blaster
: Twin Flamer
: Missile Pod

<br>'''Abilities'''
*'''Explodes''': If a Dogfish Medium Battle Tank is reduced to 0 wounds, roll a D6 before removing it from the battlefield. On a 6+ it explodes and each unit within 6" suffers D3 mortal wounds.

<br>'''Faction Keywords'''
:T'au Empire, Gue'Vesa <'''Regiment'''>
'''Keywords''': Dogfish Medium Battle Tank
: Vehicle; Dogfish Medium Battle Tank