Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4948356-20130607162058/@comment-3580035-20130608033313

The Tau have always been monitoring Imperial use of their technologies in this system, and have secret bases within Delta Station and Echo Station protected by huge stealth and cloaking fields and are deep underground. Each base has 30 Hunter Cadres manned and at the ready.

The Commander is Shas'O Ionus, veteran of the Third Sphere of Expansion. Our overall aim is to destroy or capture all of the Ion weapon batteries with surgical raids, whilst preventing other forces from taking them until they have all been neutralised. Once this is completed, the Tau will pull out and consider it a success.

Both Tau bases contain stockpiles of advanced weapons for use in emergencies, a selection of experimental technolgies that will be tested, and advanced sensor arrays that can detect virtually all force movements on nearby worlds.

A small Tau fleet and two Tau security orbitals are on standby and hidden in an asteroid field just outside of the system.

4 regiments of Imperial Guard stationed on the fortress world are secretly loyal to the Tau and will turn agains the Imperium if given the order. For now, they are simply stationed as defence assets for the planet


 * Out of character*

Are the cannons located on the surface of the planet?

The Imperial numbers are also seriously out of whack. 600 regiments would be something contributed into a sector-wide conflict, not a system wide. Something like 50-100 would be more appropiate for this scale.

There is no way there can be 750 strike cruisers. The average for a planetary invasion would be 2-3. Since there are only 5 planets, I reckon anything past 20-25 is too much (and thats being generous). Marine escort vessels would then need to be scaled appropiately.

Going beyond the current numbers of marines would be pushing it too far (if any more marines join). They already are getting close to outnumbering the Chaos marines 2-1