XV88 Broadside Battlesuit

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XV88 Broadside Battlesuit
Race	Tau
Version	Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey B	Build Cost 240 120  3 Build Time 30 s Built From Tau Barracks Unit Size 1 Requires Path to Enlightenment Limit None
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	2250/1
Armour	Infantry Heavy High
Morale	600/10/50
Unit Mass	50 (9000 while Entrenched)
Move Speed	12
Sight Radius	20 (cannot detect)
Weapons
Ranged	2x Missile Launchers (mobile) Twin Rail Guns (entrenched)
Melee	None

Contents 1 XV88 Broadside Battlesuit 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Entrench 4 Weapons 4.1 Missile Launcher 4.2 Twin Rail Guns 5 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

XV88 Broadside Battlesuit

"Setting stablizes, ready to fire."

Somewhere between infantry and a tank, the XV88 Broadside Battlesuit is the Tau army's heavy hitter. Ponderously slow, the Broadsides are able to let loose enormous firepower while entrenched by deploying the Twin Rail Guns mounted on the Battlesuit's rear carapace.

An XV88 Broadside Battlesuit is a modified version of an XV8 Crisis Battlesuit. The weaponry on its arms is replaced with Missile Launchers and a pair of Railguns are added to its back, plus the armor is heavily modified to compensate for the massive kickback of the new weaponry. Thus, it loses the capability to use its jetpacks and is more sluggish in moving. However, it has much, much better firepower to compensate for this. Many enemies of the Greater Good learned the might of the Railguns the hard way. The Broadside is relatively weak when undeployed but the Missile Launchers provides knockback against enemy infantry to buy the mobile artillery time to deploy its big guns.

Tactics

XV88 Broadside Battlesuit can be used to fulfill the function of turrets, which the Tau lack. When not moving to a new location they should always be entrenched for the damage bonus. In general, more than two XV88 Broadside Battlesuits is excessive.

While XV88 Broadside Battlesuit can act as turrets, they take up too much squad cap to just be relegated to base defense. Setting them up in chokepoints or heavy cover and luring units to them is a particularly effective strategy. Pathfinder Teams can augment the power of XV88 Broadside Battlesuit by adding vision to match their range. Because XV88 Broadside Battlesuit are available early on (after building the Path to Enlightenment) and are effective against all units, they can be the "killing blow" that follows a rush.

However, though the Railguns do huge damage to all unit types, its relatively low rate of fire makes it more effective in an anti-vehicular role or for destroying expensive, tough units in conjunction with a Pathfinder Team's Mark Target ability.

In order to move the incredibly slow units around the map, Devilfish Troop Carriers can be used to bring Broadsides up to the front lines quickly or to retreat when the fight turns sour. Bring along a Pathfinder Team for the ride to provide a spotter for the Broadsides once they're deployed. Broadsides have an incredibly short sight radius, so like Fire Warrior Teams, they need spotter units to be used effectively.

Enemy players will most frequently counter with jump units such as Assault Marine Squads that can travel from outside XV88 Broadside Battlesuit range to inside the minimum range in an instant. Keep other units in the area to protect the Broadsides from this tactic. Also, avoid clustering XV88 Broadside Battlesuits close to each other to prevent abilities like Orbital Bombardment from wiping them all out simultaneously.

Abilities

Entrench

	Entrench			Hotkey: E
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Self
	Range	0
	Area of effect	0	Cooldown time	0 s
Effects	The Battlesuits become immobile to bring their Twin Rail Guns to bear. In this state the Missile Launchers are not used. Entrenching requires 6.5s and uprooting requires 5.5s.

Weapons

Missile Launcher

The Broadside is armed with two Missile Launchers, but out of convenience it has only been listed here once.

	Missile Launcher
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 7.3 17.6 14.7 13.2 10.3 4.4 13.2 10.3 7.3 13.2 4.4 4.4 4.4 10.3 4.4 0.5 6 150 185 25
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	30	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	70%	Refire Rate	4 s
Area of Effect	5	Requires	Nothing
Notes	This weapon does knockback (25-35 force) and friendly fire.

Twin Rail Guns

	Twin Rail Guns
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 200.0 200.0 200.0 150.0 100.0 50.0 153.1 153.1 145.5 153.1 62.8 23.0 18.4 58.2 76.6 1 6 1000 2000 50
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	5-40	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	100%	Refire Rate	3 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Entrenched

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