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Post subject: Stealth Teleport Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:54 pm

Brood Brother Joined: Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:14 pm Posts: 390

Quote (Tactica @ 10 Nov. 2005 (20:15)) + + + searches archives collected from sympathetic imperial agents of the Greater Good + + + rocking horse stool doesn't appear in even early gothic low speak... Rocking horses are not known for the amount of excrement they produce.  Real horses on the other hand...  (Although there will always be exceptions where the army is based round lots of stealth suits...) Yes, and a good game of 'kick the newby' is always fun every now and again.

Given that I fight scenario/campaign based battles rather than tournament games there are occasions that a stealth based army would be the ideal choice. For example if I was attacking a supply column at night.

more like less common than other Tau troop types (Fire Warriors, Crisis, Broadside, Pathfinders), both in terms of numbers and in usage. I suspect many Tau armies will feature most, if not all, of the above units - the proportion that have stealth's, and the number of stealth units (where present), will be less.
I'll buy that.
So you're saying that they are rare when compared to other Tau infantry.

@Everyone: Can we now leave the exact semantics of common and rare behind, please?  Much as I love arguments discussions over semantics this is not the time, place or pertinent issue here - Thanks

I've got Codex: Tau and IA3 open in front of me and I can't find anything in either about the battle suit training ladder and how XV15's fit in.  However, IA3 does confirm that Shas'ui that have been trained in the use of the XV8 can transfer to XV88's.  Experience in a Broadside is considered important before promotion to Shas'vre, again no mention of Stealth's so no explicit help there.

My impression was that there was little crossover between Stealth and Crisis pilots as, despite both being battle suits and, unlike Crisis and Broadsides, they are very different in terms of form and function.  Stealth's are described as the lone wolves of the Tau army and team leaders are described as being somewhat eccentric and are renowned for employing new and unpredictable tactics - not particularly Tau.  However, to maintain the greater good it is necessary to include 'rogue' elements as complete uniformity would lead to a stale society and, it seems to me, that the best way to manage these elements is to provide a clear and defined place for them to express their individuality without upsetting the ordered society (in effect you are ordering the disorder as simply denying it's existence and expecting non-conformists to conform would be counter productive).  Were I an ethereal I would select XV15 pilots at an early stage for specialist training that most suited (no pun intended) their talents.  Putting these personality types into XV8's would not be the best use of personnel for the greater good.  Similarly, putting less independent personalities in XV15's would not be the best use of their inherent talents to serve the greater good.

Not that any of the above solves the numbers issue but I think that there appears to be a consensus that, however useful they are for specific situations, Stealth should not become a 'must have' killer unit choice for the Tau in Epic.

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