Tindalos Interactive‘s most excellent space RTS Battlefleet Gothic: Armada will get the Tau Empire faction in an upcoming DLC pack, and interested players can try out the beta for it now.

Gamers who purchased Battlefield Gothic: Armada before June 21, 2016 will get the DLC pack for free, while people who got the game after the cutoff date will be able to purchase it for a yet unknown price (probably US$ 6.99, considering that’s the price for the Space Marines DLC which was also free for early adopters)

Instructions to access the Tau Empire Beta:

• Open your Steam library
• Right-click Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, and select ‘Properties’
• Navigate to the ‘Betas’ tab
• Under ‘Select the beta you would like to opt into:’, select ‘tau_beta – Tau Public Beta’

• Close the properties window
• An update will begin downloading for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
• Once the update has finished, check that ‘Battlefleet Gothic: Armada – Tau Empire BETA’ is ticked under the DLC section

The beta will last until early next week.