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The Observing unit gets nothing, but they’re free to shoot any unit they want, whether it’s been Observed or not. Specifically note that this modifies the BS, not the dice roll, so it gets around the +1/-1 caps on hit modifiers, and can stack with abilities such as Heavy weapons. The Guided unit gets their BS skill improved by 1 when shooting the Observed unit, and worsened by 1 when shooting any other units. The way it works is that a unit, when selected to shoot, can declare that it is Observing an enemy unit, on behalf of a different Tau unit, which is the Guided unit.

This version of the ability doesn’t rely on wargear or stratagems, it’s just an innate ability that units have. The T’au Empire army rule is – stop me if you’ve heard this before – For the Greater Good. Thanks, as always, to Games Workshop for providing an advance copy of the index for us to review. What we ended up getting is still fundamentally Tau in identity – they aren’t good at punching, the shooting is still brutal, and the mobility granted by having your entire army FLY ifs still there – but implemented in a way that makes them perhaps a more engaging army to play, and requires fewer carve-outs in the core rules to get there. So there were a lot of options for their tenth edition incarnation. The Tau Empire have been a lot of things the last few editions: oppressive boogeymen, then a laughingstock, then oppressive again in three or four different ways, and then a mid-tier army that can still get some good hits in but isn’t a joyless slog to play as or against.