![]() Swiftflame's breath came in ragged gasps as he scanned around. The Space Marine struggled upright, slashing a dust-caked Breacher's head from his neck just as the Commander blew the Imperial warrior to pieces. The bright blue-white of pulse energy lit the crumbling bastion as he rejoined the fight, his battlesuit taking a quadruple stab wound to the thigh even as he backhanded another clawed assailant into the wall. The Commander's blacksun filter neutralised the dust's obscuring effects as he fell backwards into a nearby alley, the beam of his fusion blaster catching a Space Marine in mid-leap and cutting him in two at the waist. Three night-black Space Marines rode the wreckage down to slash crackling talons through Swiftflame's Breachers. There was a crash, and the rockcrete ceiling gave way in a cloud of dust. In the face of the Breacher Team's pulse blasters, however, even Humanity's super-warriors came apart like burst sacks of meat. These warriors were formidable indeed they were the first enemy troops the Tau had encountered capable of striding through pulse rifle fire without harm. The shots painted the Commander's battlesuit with Imperial blood. Swiftflame's cyclic ion blaster tore away half of the Space Marine's torso just as one of the Breachers discharged his own weapon into the warrior's helm. Their expertise made them all but impossible to track, let alone to drive out of their defences. In response, the Raven Guard made a masterful use of the cover afforded by the ruined bastion complex. Accompanying them was the blinding energy discharge of a new and unseen assailant that could blast a Space Marine into little more than a cloud of superheated vapour. Each shimmering mirage seen in the ruined bastion complexes was a precursor to a terrifying barrage of pulse weapon fire. Appalled, Swiftflame sent in his Stealth Teams. Mid-leap, they triggered the krak charges they had seeded throughout the Lawhall, and collapsed the entire structure upon their would-be killers. As the Pathfinders opened fire, the Space Marines leapt from their vantage points - heavy weapons and all - to an adjacent building's roof. Their orders were to neutralise the Tactical and Devastator squads raining death into the advancing Tau from its wide rooftop. Armoured Interdiction Cadre - Armored speartip launched at enemy lines.As his cadre made haste into the bastion network girdling the great hive, Swiftflame's Pathfinders infiltrated the Lawhall Atlassi.Consists of two teams of Broadside Battlesuits and a Riptide Firebase Support Cadre - Used to assault weak spots in enemy lines.Optimised Stealth Cadre - Stealthsuit Teams and an XV95 Ghostkeel.Consists of two KV128 Stormsurges and a XV95 Ghostkeel Heavy Retribution Cadre - Used to annihilate the mightiest enemies.Infiltration Cadre - Pathfinder Teams and Stealthsuit Teams force supported by Sniper Drones and Piranha's used for reconnaissance and guerrilla warfare.Retaliation Cadre - Groups teams of Battlesuits into a single force ideal for rapid insertion drops and counter-attacks.Hunter Cadre - The most common type of Tau Cadre.Cadres are combined arms groups under a Tau Commander mostly consisting of standing formations of professional soldiers several Cadres may form together into a Contingent, or Tio've. This article is about the Tau military formation for the Short Story by Josh Reynolds, see Cadre (Short Story).Ĭadre or Kau'ui in Tau, is the basic organizational structure of the Tau Empire's military.
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