Editing Battlesuit (section)

==={{anchor|XV46|XV-46}} XV46 Vanguard Void Suit===
[[File:Tumblr Tauman Void Suit Vangard.jpg|190px|right|thumb|Fan art of what the Void Suit would look like, courtesy from Tau Man and ''[[Tumblr]]'' [[Derp|of all things.]]]]

Basically a Tau version of [[Terminator|Terminator armor]], bigger than the XV2 series, smaller than the XV8 and as heavily armoured as XV88 while still light enough to have jetpacks. It is designed solely for operating in spaceborn situations at close quarters, which means boarding action and [[Space Hulk]]-type investigation missions.

The XV46 is highly effective against [[Genestealers|certain xenos species]] that are famous for slaughtering Terminators like they are nothing. With a fuckton of burst cannons, flamers and fusion guns on each of the suits, the little buggers would have a hard enough time getting close, but then there are electroshocks, grav-repulsors, and photon grenades to zap any fuckers lucky enough to break through the walls of fire, all triggered automatically.

To make the Tau version of Space Hulk even less [[grimdark]], these suits are even equipped with smart ejection systems which are programmed to deliver the pilot back on board his ship if his suit gets wrecked. How this works without [[warp]] based tech is a crapshoot. Being both niche equipment and difficult to manufacture critical parts for, XV46s are rarely seen outside of Space Hulk missions. Even rarer is the XV-46-4 Commander variant.

The XV46 doesn't appear in the tabletop wargame; [[Fantasy Flight Games]] made it up for the [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch RPG]]. As a result, there's no images of it. It however is used in [[Battlefleet Gothic Armada]], in which the Tau load them up in the cargo bay of their Mantas before letting them get dropped along with the payload onto enemy ships through their shields.

Which suggests that the Tau in some extent would have capabilities to play a serious game of blue gremlin on the wing with other species, this combination is also particularly enraging for Eldar who have little to no defense against such an unusually bold action from the Tau. Since GW took forever to get the [[Deathwatch]] 7E Codex out. It would be a miracle for other FFG IP to get official rules and a model at all.

There is also the '''XV46-04 Vanguard Commander Battlesuit''' which is a variant of the XV46 intended for Tau Commanders. These suits are equipped with an EMP Blaster and an [[Airbursting Fragmentation Projector]]. Normally meant for wiping out squads with indirect shrapnel. Now imagine in a narrow corridor on a ship.