Tau weapons

[blackraven]

is there anything written about tau weapon rules such as

the pulse rifel and pulse carbine
i know there are rules for a pulse pistol or something like that floating around

can someone point me in the right direction please

[MarcoSkoll]

There were a set of rules for Pulse Pistols in the Exterminatus Tau article. A version was recovered off the Spanish SG site and is now in the archives linked in my signature. (Tau.zip in the "SG site articles" section, if I remember correctly).

I never really liked those rules though. Better rules for Pulse weapons are likely to be amongst the additions in the next version of my "Revised Armoury".
I have yet to decide exactly how to represent them - I don't just want to give them a really high damage, as that would make them far too powerful to use in game.

[kaled]

There were 'offiicial' rules for the Pulse Rifle & Carbine in Death of an Angel.

                Type   Range   Mode         Acc   Dam       Shots   Rld   Wt
Pulse Rifle     Basic    H     Single        -    3D6+5      40      2    20
                               Semi (2/3)
Pulse Carbine   Basic    F     Semi (3/4)    -    3D6+5      30      2    15
                               Full(8)

If nothing else though, I'd increase those weights...

[blackraven]

thnaks alot guys

doesn't the carbine have in in built grenade launcher?

i'll be posting pics of all characters ive made within in the next few days

[kaled]

doesn't the carbine have in in built grenade launcher?

That one doesn't but I imagine that, like lasguns, Pulse Carbines come in different patterns.

I wrote an article for Firebase a while ago that I think included a couple of different types of Pulse Carbine - maybe even one with an underslung grenade launcher...

[blackraven]

thanks again
i'll look it up

[blackraven]

a quick question .....
with a granade it gives a Area and a blast profile what are the differences between the two and what do they mean?

[MarcoSkoll]

That's pretty clearly explained in the shooting section of the rulebook. I'd recommend you go and reread that section (it's on pg 30 of the PDF version), but here's a simple version:

Area tells you the radius of the blast in yards.
Blast tells you how many hits anyone within that area takes, but the number of hits is reduced by one for each yard the character is from the centre of the blast.

Make sure you're familiar with the blast scatter rules too if you're using blast weapons - they don't operate like most weapons.
These rules are also explained on page 30, but the modifications made specifically for grenades and/or indirect fire weapons (which grenades can be used as) are on page 31.

[blackraven]

thanks ive the rule book in front of me but couldn't find the page.

Thanks though