Editing Gauss (section)

====Railgun====
[[File:RailgunHammerhead.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Railgun]]
The Railgun is the iconic [[Tau]] heavy weapon, mounted on [[Hammerhead Gunship]]s (and ''[[Battlesuit]]s'', in previous editions) to cause massive damage to enemy armor (72", S10, AP1). At its most basic form the railgun is a linear accelerator using standing wave acceleration along a number of cylindrical superconductive electrodes surrounding a barrel (duh).

A Broadside Battlesuit Team used to be able to carry up to 3 twin-linked railguns in one Heavy Support slot (nerfed to the S8 heavy rail rifle, see below, in their 6E codex), while the Hammerhead can only carry one, but the Hammerhead has enough ammunition capacity to also carry a S6 AP4 Large Blast submunition round for dealing with infantry blobs. (Squad of guardsmen a turn anyone?)

With the 9th Edition Tau Codex coming out soon these guns got a humble buff to '''72" S14 AP-6 D1d3+6 WITH AND ADDITIONAL FLAT 3 MORTALS WITH THE ENTIRE GUN ALSO IGNORING INVULNERABLE SAVES AND GETTING A REROLL TO HIT!''' Knights tremble before this gun and hide behind their terrain, praying to Big E that the tank it's attached to looks the other way. Though the stats are pretty damn good, Broadsides (with the Heavy Rail Rifle) outperform it when you throw in point costs. This makes the Railgun more of a psychological tool to strike fear into the previously mentioned Knights.