The only thing that artillery (without the keyword) hate more than a shot to the face is to be touched in combat, even by something as martially inept as T’au.

If you can manage to get slightly closer beforehand, so that you don’t have to Advance to get within range (still feasible due to M20″), what you don’t outright kill with the four fusion blasters, you can charge. Because of its relatively small base size (compared to other units who can move 40″ in a single turn) many opponents will be caught off guard that your Coldstar has just enough room to land amongst their high-value siege units. Does your opponent have a couple of Manticore’s parked behind some far off building out of line of sight? Zoom your Coldstar over there to deal with them. With the 40″ movement, you can reliably get within 9″ of your target for the “roll two dice for damage and discard lower” perk. In lieu of CIB’s, the most obvious choice would be to load a Coldstar with four FB’s. Even though they cannot take T’au most versatile weapon (CIB’s), their incredible movement, excellent BS, and access to multiple strong stratagems, weapons, and relics results in a “scalpel” of a unit that nearly every T’au list would benefit from. The Coldstar Commander is one of the top three best T’au units right now. When this model Advances, add 20″ to its Move characteristic for that Movement phase instead of rolling a D6.Standard deep strike ability as long as you come in >9″ from an enemy unit, at the end of your Movement phase.For the remainder of the turn, Tau sept units within 6″ of the Commander can reroll failed To-Hit rolls, but cannot move for any reason.T’au sept units within 6″ of the Commander can both advance and shoot as if they have not moved.

Master of War, once per battle choose one of the below choices by declaring Mont’ka or Kauyon.

Allows units within 6″ of a charged unit to fire overwatch as if they were the target of the charge, at the cost of not being able to fire overwatch again that turn.

The Enforcer Commander’s special abilities include:

Add 1 for To-Hit rolls when the bearer shoots at something with the keyword.

The model may also Advance and fire Rapid Fire weapons, but must subtract 1 from To-Hit rolls.

The bearer doesn’t suffer the penalty for moving and firing a Heavy weapon or for Advancing and firing and Assault weapon.

Reroll To-Hit rolls of 1 in the Shooting phase for the bearer if it fires all its weapons at the same target and that target contains 5 or more models.

teleporting to the battlefield), then at the end of that phase, the bearer may immediately shoot at one of those units as if it were your shooting phase, but subtract 1 from To-Hit rolls.

If any enemy units are set up with 12″ of the bearer as a result of an ability that allows them to arrive mid-battle (i.e.

Add 1 for To-Hit rolls for any Drones within 6″ of the bearer.

Reroll failed hit rolls when firing overwatch.

For all the bearer’s weapons (included the “unarmed weapon” used in close combat), make the AP one better (e.g.

Support Systems list (p.89 of the T’au Empire Codex) *Note, the Coldstar Commander may not take Cyclic Ion Blasters (CIB’s)

If within half range, roll two dice for damage and discard lower.

This weapon can target units not visible to the bearer.

Airbursting fragmentation projector (AFP).

Ranged Weapon list (p.89 of the T’au Empire Codex) It may also take two additional items from the Ranged Weapon and/or Support Systems lists. Further, it may be accompanied by up to 2 Tactical Drones (p.109) It may replace these two weapons with choices from the Ranged Weapon and/or Support Systems lists. The Coldstar Commander is equipped with a high-out burst cannon and missile pod. On the tabletop, the Coldstar Commander is an incredibly agile and lethal single model unit. The Coldstar battlesuit is best equipped for those commanders seeking high-velocity aerial warfare. Once the rank of Shas’o (Commander) has been obtained, this chosen T’au will serve his sept until death or until he has earned honored retirement.

Today we’re talking about the fastest battlesuit in the T’au arsenal, the Coldstar Commander.Ĭharlie here from 40kDiceRolls, here again to discuss one of the T’au Empire’s leader battlesuits, the XV86 Coldstar.

Fire commander battle suit