Riptide Battlesuit

Riptide Battlesuit is a Vehicles unit in the T’au Empire faction for Warhammer 40k.

Points: 200.

The Riptide combines the armoured resilience and overwhelming firepower of a heavy battle tank with the agility of a swift and skilful warrior. Powered by a thrumming nova reactor, the battlesuit can overcharge its systems at need, while its massed firepower can eradicate entire formations of enemy warriors or armoured vehicles.

Standard kit: This model is equipped with: heavy burst cannon; twin plasma rifle; Riptide fists.

M: 10"
T: 9
Sv: 2+
Invulnerable save: 4
W: 14
Ld: 7+
OC: 4

Weapons

Ranged weapons
Weapon	Range	A	BS	S	AP	D	Abilities
Heavy burst cannon	36	12	4	6	-1	2	-
Ion accelerator – standard	72	6	4	9	-2	3	-
Ion accelerator – supercharge	72	6	4	10	-3	4	hazardous
Twin fusion blaster	12	1	4	9	-4	D6	melta 2, twin-linked
Twin plasma rifle	18	1	4	8	-3	3	twin-linked
Twin smart missile system	30	3	4	5	0	1	indirect fire, twin-linked

Melee weapons
Weapon	A	WS	S	AP	D	Abilities
Riptide fists	6	5	6	0	2	-

Abilities

Battlesuit Support System: The bearer is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.
Nova Charge: Once per battle, when this unit is selected to shoot in your Shooting phase, select one ranged weapon equipped by this model. Until the end of the phase, that weapon has the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
Weapon Support System: Each time the bearer makes a ranged attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to the Hit roll.

Core and army rules

Deadly Demise D6 (Core)
For the Greater Good (Faction)

Wargear options

This model’s heavy burst cannon can be replaced with 1 ion accelerator.
This model’s twin plasma rifles can be replaced with one of the following:
1 twin fusion blaster
1 twin smart missile system
This model can be equipped with up to 2 missile drones.

Damaged 1-4

While this model has 1-4 wounds remaining, each time this model makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

Keywords

Fly
Walker
Battlesuit
Riptide
Vehicle

Faction keywords

T’au Empire