Tidewall Shieldline is a Fortifications unit in the T’au Empire faction for Warhammer 40k.
Points: 85.
In keeping with the Code of Fire, the Tidewall Shieldline provides a mobile fortification that can redeploy during battle. Its refractive field absorbs enemy fire, while its design allows entrenched Fire Warriors to ride the shieldline to a new position when it moves.
Standard kit: This model can be equipped with 1 Tidewall defence platform
M: 4"
T: 8
Sv: 3+
Invulnerable save: 5
W: 10
Ld: 7+
OC: 0
Abilities
Fortification
While an enemy unit is only within Engagement Range of one or more Fortifications from your army:
• That unit can still be selected as the target of ranged attacks, but each time such an attack is made, unless it is made with a Pistol, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
• Models in that unit do not need to take Desperate Escape tests due to Falling Back while Battle-shocked, except for those that will move over enemy models when doing so.
Tidewall Cover
Each time a ranged attack is allocated to a model, if that model is not fully visible to every model in the attacking unit because of this FORTIFICATION, that model has the Benefit of Cover against that attack.
Tidewall Defence Platform
If equipped with a Tidewall defence platform, this FORTIFICATION has a Wounds characteristic of 15.
Core and army rules
Deadly Demise D3 (Core)
Firing Deck 20 (Core)
Wargear options
This model can be equipped with 1 Tidewall defence platform.
Transport
This model has a transport capacity of 11 T’au Empire Infantry models. It cannot transport Battlesuit, Kroot or Vespid Stingwings models. If this model is equipped with a Tidewall defence platform, it has a transport capacity of 22 T’au Infantry models instead.