Astra Militarum 1850pt competitive list- need critique

[Katharon]

You don't get saves of any kind against Markerlights.

It's a type of shooting attack that causes no damage. Under the rules, that's qualifies as getting a cover save.

[Aegwymourn]

It's a type of shooting attack that causes no damage. Under the rules, that's qualifies as getting a cover save.

Actually it doesn't if you read the rules for markerlights it is very specific how they generate tokens "Instead, each time a unit suffers a hit with this special rule, place a markerlight counter next to it (no saves can be taken against these hits)" pg 68. I don't see how that could be any less clear. GW actually learned from their previous version of Markerlights and there are almost not rules quibbles about them this time.

[Katharon]

Actually it doesn't if you read the rules for markerlights it is very specific how they generate tokens "Instead, each time a unit suffers a hit with this special rule, place a markerlight counter next to it (no saves can be taken against these hits)" pg 68. I don't see how that could be any less clear. GW actually learned from their previous version of Markerlights and there are almost not rules quibbles about them this time.

I stand corrected then.

[Aegwymourn]

No worries.

It just gets misunderstood a lot since if you don't have a copy of the Tau codex you'd never know. And the markerlight section is like half a page, so reading it during a game from an opponents book can be rough.