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Codex: Tau
Author(s)	Andy Chambers, Pete Haines, Graham McNeill
Cover Artist	Adrian Smith
Illustrator(s)	Alex Boyd, Paul Dainton, Jes Goodwin, Karl Kopinski
Released	2001
Pages	64
Followed by	Codex: Tau Empire (4th Edition)

Contents 1 The General Structure 2 Contents 2.1 Army List 2.2 Background 2.3 Special character models 2.4 Hobby Section 3 Other Publications

The General Structure

The Codex Tau is an expansion book for the Games Workshop Table Top game Warhammer 40,000. This book was published for the first time in 2001, and is for the 3rd edition of Warhammer 40,000.

The book has 64 pages ( not including cover, rear and the inside cover and rear) and the cover is printed in colour while the majority of the book remains in black and white, although there are usually several pages of colour images of miniatures.

Contents

Army List

This book contains a complete army list for using a tau army. Further special rules, equipment as well as this is included.

Background

This book contains background information and fiction on: The Tau history, the Defence of Fio'vash, Tau language and alphabet, the Damocles Gulf Crusade, Tau letters to one another, a map of Tau space and various battles.

Special character models

This book has information, background and rules for the special characters;

• O'Shovah
• Aun'shi.

Hobby Section

This book contains hobby information on: Building and painting your miniatures, colour schemes, what to collect, information on how each unit works and a showcase of models.

Other Publications

• Codex, a general overview of all Codex publications.