Similar to 40k, there are five possible effects for Markerlight tokens. Enemies still get Markerlight tokens the same way – you spend 1 AP to put a Markerlight token on an enemy operative and can only shoot that operative if you opt to shoot something – but now Operatives lose one Markerlight token each Initiative phase.

Pathfinder Kill Teams have their own version of markerlights, which cares about the number of markerlight tokens on an enemy Operative. If you thought the mechanics for markerlights in the Compendium was too simple well, you’re in luck. We’ll come back to these operatives in a bit.

You also have the option of six different types of drone – gun, shield, marker, grav-inhibitor, pulse accelerator, and recon, the last of which takes up two of your slots. Shas’la pathfinders are your regular yabbos, able to be picked up to twelve times, and you can have up to two Weapons Experts, who come with either an ion rifle or rail rilfe, and the rest are one-per team. Pathfinder Kill Teams are made up of one Pathfinder Shas’Ui and 12 operatives chosen from a list of 15 possible choices and of those, some can be taken twice. So are these new, expanded Pathfinder Kill Teams ultimately the Greatest Good for T’au players, or does the loss of Stealth Suits and Fire Warriors leave them wanting? Join us as we go through the rules and find out.īefore we dive in, we’d like to thank Games Workshop for sending us a preview copy of the Kill Team Chalnath boxed set, which included these rules and models for the Pathfinders kill team. As with those teams, Pathfinder kill teams sacrifice much of their flexibility from the Compendium for raw power, custom Tac Ops, and their own rules for Spec Ops. Kill Team Chalnath gives us two brand-new kill teams, and while the Sisters kill team is made of all-new models, the T’au kill team continues the trend we’ve seen in recent issues of White Dwarf, giving us an updated, more focused kill team using existing models.

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