The Twin Lance

(Unit)
Type: unit
Category: Epic Hero
Categories: Epic Hero, Vehicle, Walker, Fly, Character, Battlesuit, Faction: T'au Empire, Non-Kroot, The Twin Lance
LinkId: 08d6-68c2-1e1d-0c12
Hidden: false
Costs: 205 pts

Constraints:

max(roster): 1
Options (4)
Rules (5)
Sustained Hits
This ability always takes the form **[SUSTAINED HITS X]**. Each time an attack made with a **[SUSTAINED HITS]** weapon results in a **critical hit**, that attack results in a number of additional hits on the target as denoted by **X**.
***Example: An attack made with a **[SUSTAINED HITS 2]** weapon results in a **critical hit**. That attack therefore hits the target three times (once from the **critical hit**, and twice more from the **[SUSTAINED HITS 2]** ability).
For The Greater Good
If your Army Faction is **T’AU EMPIRE**, at the start of your Shooting phase you can select units from your army with this ability to become Observer units.

During your Shooting phase, for each Observer unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase and is eligible to shoot (excluding **FORTIFICATION** and Battle-shocked units) select one enemy unit that is visible to be marked as their Spotted unit until the end of the phase. Each enemy unit can only be marked as a Spotted unit once per phase.

Units from your army with the For the Greater Good ability (excluding Observer units) are Guided units while targeting one or more Spotted units.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model from your army in a Guided unit makes an attack that targets a Spotted unit, improve the Ballistic Skill characteristic of that attack by 1 and, if the Spotted unit was marked by an Observer unit that has the Markerlight keyword, that attack has the **[IGNORES COVER]** ability.
Scouts
This ability always takes the form **Scouts X"**. In the Resolve Pre-battle Abilities step, if every model in a unit has this ability, you can do one of the following: 
- If that unit is in **strategic reserves**, you can set up that unit anywhere that is wholly within your deployment zone. 
- If that unit is wholly within your deployment zone, it can make a **scout move** (see below). 
- If that unit is embarked within a **DEDICATED TRANSPORT** that is wholly within your deployment zone, and if every model embarked within that **DEDICATED TRANSPORT** has the Scouts ability, that **DEDICATED TRANSPORT** can make a **scout move**.
Ignores Cover
Each time an attack is made with an **[IGNORES COVER]** weapon, the target cannot have the **benefit of cover** against that attack (13.08), including from rules that give a model or unit the **benefit of cover** (e.g. **Stealth**).
Deep Strike
Each time this unit makes an **ingress move** (20.04), if every model in this unit has this ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units, even if that is within your opponent’s deployment zone.

Profiles:

Abilities
Neocapacitor Shields:

At the start of your opponent’s Charge phase, you can select one visible enemy unit (excluding MONSTER and VEHICLE units) within 12" of this unit. That unit must take a Battle-shock test and, until the end of the turn, subtract 1 from Charge rolls made for that unit.

Exemplars of Mont’ka:

Each time a model in this unit makes a ranged attack that targets the closest eligible target, that attack has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.

Retro-thrusters:

At the end of the Fight phase, if this unit was eligible to fight this phase, this unit can either make a Normal move of up to 6" or a Fall Back move.

Modifiers:

append annotation Superior Craftmanship in self.entries.recursive.profiles.Ranged Weapons
1+ selections of Experimental Prototype Cadre in force (recursive)
increment Range 6 in self.entries.recursive.profiles.Ranged Weapons
1+ selections of Experimental Prototype Cadre in force (recursive)
set hidden true
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