Editing Warhammer 40,000/6th Edition Tactics/Tau (section)

====The Eight====
NOTE:  Although the Signature Sytems rule states that only one of each Signature System may be taken per army, this rule "does not apply" to The Eight.  Have fun with running two Earth Caste Pilot Arrays on your Double Riptides.  Also note that ALL eight are Independent Characters, though it's not clear whether you have to start them as one unit or can second them during deployment to other units.

*'''Commander Farsight:''' As Codex:Tau, nothing different in stats. (Only he can take some or all seven samurais, costing exactly 1494 points.)
*'''Commander Brightsword:''' The seventh lunatic to bear this title (the first was killed by a squad from the 13th Penal Legion on an assassination mission.) Has a crisis suit with twin linked fusion blasters (with fusion blades), advanced targeting systems, one shield drone with the warscraper upgrade.
*'''Commander Bravestorm:''' A charred out husk kept alive by his crisis suit, sound familiar? Has a plasma rifle, flamer, shield generator, stim injector, onager gauntlet, iridium armour, and two gun drones.
*'''Shas'o Arra'kon:''' Farsight's would be successor in his absence, canonically the only one in the tall fine cast commander suit. Pilots an enforcer suit with plasma rifle, cyclic ionic blaster, airbursting fragmentation projector, a repulsor impact field, two gun drones, and counter fire defence systems.
*'''Shas'o Sha'vastos:''' Had some slight problems adjusting to the prototype engram nanochip, is better now. Has a crisis suit with a plasma rifle, flamer, shield generator, vectored retro thrusters, two gun drones, and said puretide engram chip.
*'''Sub-commander Torchstar:''' Tau defector and youngest of the Eight, relieves her unrequited feelings for Farsight with her second love: fire. Pilots a crisis suit with two flamers, target lock, multi-spectrum sensor suite, a neuroweb system jammer, drone controller and two marker drones.
*'''Broadside Shas'vre Ob'lotai 9-0:''' A broadside piloted by an AI, nice. It's a broadside with twin-linked high yield missile pods, twin linked smart missile pods, a seeker missile, velocity tracker and two missile drones.
*'''Honour-Shas'vre O'vesa:''' An earth-caste scientist in a riptide. Comes with an ion accelerator, twin-linked fusion blasters, shielded missile drones, an earth caste piloting array, early warning override, and stim injector.