All are welcome at the T’au Empire table of success this Grotmas – just remember that you’ll be expected to share. Exemplify the spirit of giving with the Auxiliary Cadre.
The T’au’va emphasises cooperation, integrating alien auxiliaries into Fire Caste operations wherever they are of greatest value. This typically sees units of Kroot, Vespid, and other aliens fighting as specialists alongside predominantly T’au formations or deployed in dedicated warbands, such as the Kroot Hunting Packs.
In the case of Auxiliary Cadres, however, the doctrine of unity is realised on a grand scale. These forces comprise a majority of alien auxiliaries, fighting alongside limited numbers of T’au specialists and heavy combat assets and provided with overall T’au strategic command. Such integrated cadres provide versatile response forces to plug gaps in Fire Caste lines of battle, blunt enemy aggression in dense terrain, and selflessly act as lures in grand Kauyon ambushes to spare valuable T’au lives.
The Auxiliary Cadre boasts an Integrated Command Structure – the Detachment rule – which grants non-Auxiliary T’au Empire units extra Armour Penetration when they target an enemy unit within 9” of their Auxiliaries. In return for placing themselves in harm’s way, the Auxiliaries themselves cannot be targeted by units more than 18” away, as long as they remain within 6” of a non-Auxiliary unit.
This theme of courageous allies working together in the face of the foe continues with the Enhancements and Stratagems. The Admired Leader Enhancement allows a non-Auxiliary character to increase the Leadership and Objective Secured characteristics of a Kroot or Vespid unit, instilling discipline to rival any Fire Caste unit. The Guided Fire Stratagem meanwhile grants a significant increase to the Strength of the ranged weapons of a non-Auxiliary unit if there is a Kroot or Vespid unit within 9”.
An Auxiliary Cadre presents the ideals of the Greater Good for all to see, with T’au, Kroot and Vespid working together in a harmonious whole. But if you feel that this whole ‘spirit of giving’ is too wishy-washy, namby-pamby and hippy-dippy, tomorrow brings festive wrath in the form of the Black Templars.
