How many Tau commanders can you have?

Other than that, Tau keep their 8th Edition limitation that each detachment can only contain one COMMANDER, with the exception of Farsight Enclaves, who can have two COMMANDERs per detachment at the cost of not being able to bring Ethereals.
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How many commanders can you have in a 40k?

-You can have only one commander in the kill team. -You can have more than one commander on the roster but only one in the kill team.
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How many commanders are in a Tau army?

Tau lists are still limited to one commander per detachment or two in FSE lists. In fact, you may want to consider spending some Command points to field an additional Detachment to include a second Commander (as the T'au can normally only include one per Detachment).
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What rank is a Tau Commander?

A Tau Commander is the name given by the Imperium in Low Gothic to the two highest ranks of the Tau Fire Caste -- Shas'O and Shas'El. All Tau Commanders possess the authority to lead a Hunter Cadre into combat.
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How big is a Tau Empire commander?

A really good-looking figurine with a decent amount of accessories and options. It also features a little bit of articulation pre-assembly given a little bit work on the joints. My only complaint is the price; for an unpainted figurine, $42.50 is quite steep for something only stands at 3" tall.
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How tall is a riptide battlesuit?

87 inches. However, the box is 2x the sauce of my hand.
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How old are the Tau?

The T'au are a relatively young species (it has been only 6,000 Terran years since Imperial Inquisitors first noted that the T'au had only just mastered fire and the wheel), and they have evolved rapidly over the past few millennia.
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What are Tau Septs?

What is a Tau Sept? A Sept is a term used to refer to world (and/or star system) colonised by Tau forces that operates as a fully-functional, independent, habitable world within the extents of the Tau Empire. Each sept has its unique cultural identity wholly integrated within the greater Tau culture.
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What is a Shas VRE?

Shas'vre (intermediary rank- lieutenant/major. They lead elite teams, and also pilot bigger suits like the riptide or ghostkeel) Shas'el (sub-commander/commander-in-training, sort of like a colonel to a general) Shas'o (commander, highest rank)
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Are Tau Piranhas good?

Although they aren't exceptional at it, Piranhas can also be useful as forward objective-grabbers, able to get to those objectives in the early and mid game when Tau otherwise struggle to be scoring effectively.
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Can you use space marines in a Tau army?

If you mean can you use them in the same army, no, you can't. Your army needs to share a keyword, your space marine army's keywords would be the name of the chapter, "Adeptus Astartes" and "Imperial". None of these keywords are on any tau units, so they cannot be included in the same army.
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Can Tau Battlesuits fall back and shoot?

The Commander Battlesuits have been tweaked. You can now choose between the three variants as follows: Standard Crisis Suit: Cheapest option, allows you to select one Core Crisis Suit unit within 9″ and allows them to fall back and shoot AND charge.
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Will there be 2022 Commander decks?

Perhaps the oddest and most tantalising release of 2022, MTG's Warhammer 40k Universes Beyond crossover is slated for August 12. The set will include four Commander decks: for Necrons, Tyranids, The Imperium of Man, and Chaos. The decks will include both new cards and old cards rethemed to the 41st Millennium.
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Is Warhammer coming to Magic The Gathering?

Warhammer 40,000 Commander Decks is a product in the Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond series released by Wizards of the Coast. Warhammer 40K will be released on August 12, 2022.
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How many Warhammer Commander decks are there?

There are four Commander decks in the Warhammer 40k Universes Beyond release. They are: Tyranid Swarm (Green, Red, Blue) Forces of the Imperium (White, Blue, Black)
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Can you make your own Tau Sept?

Plus, you can build your own version, too! T'au Empire Septs are a lot like the different Chapters of the Space Marines. Each one comes with their own set of special extra rules that provide some bonuses to help you play with a certain style.
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What Colour is Tau blood?

The tau equivalent to haemoglobin contains cobalt, rather than iron, so their blood and viscera vary from dark blue to purple, depending on the degree of oxygenation.
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What colors can you paint Tau?

For Tau models, consider starting with a Citadel Contrast color such as Black Templar, painted over a white or light gray undercoat.
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You can use my reference images as inspiration, or mix and match the colors for your Tau army:
  • Red.
  • Orange.
  • Yellow.
  • Green.
  • Blue.
  • Purple.
  • Brown.
  • Black.
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Have any space marines join the Tau?

Not likely unfortunately. Space marines are born and trained only for war and battle much like orks which is why they have no lasting place in the tau empire and the greater good.
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Does Tau have hair?

Most of them are just bald, yeach, but some not, and reading the tau codex (8th edition, hello a newbie here) i saw most of them, which had hair, were black-haired except for Shadowsun.
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How tall are Tau 40k?

With an average height of 5'5, they have a humanoid body plan, though unlike humans they possess digitigrade legs which end in cloven hooves. The T'au have flat, nose-less faces, with their olfactory organs located inside of their mouths to preserve moisture.
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Are Ghostkeel Battlesuits good?

The Ghostkeel is in an unusual place because it doesn't really bring the overwhelming firepower or survivability that are the hallmarks of most of the other “good” Tau battlesuits. It also, for most of its history, has been pretty poorly costed and thus overshadowed by both larger and smaller brethren.
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What is Tau Armour made of?

All T'au Battlesuits are constructed of a lightweight yet strong nano-crystalline alloy called fio'tak in the T'au Lexicon, which is light, malleable, impact-resistant and corrosion-resistant, reducing the weight of the Battlesuit whilst also providing excellent protection.
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Are Ghostkeels good?

The Ghostkeel is in an interesting place at the moment. It doesn't offer T'au players much in the way of offensive output, but it does offer some useful utility in other areas of the game. Whether this utility makes up for the lackluster shooting of the model is yet to be decided.
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