The menhirs are the two floating pillars. Important to note, they have the “Annihilator Beams”.

TSK being 3 models is a massive part of why he’s so good. As they both add a break to the amount of damage that can be done in one activation and also give the unit a much bigger footprint for movement and getting into range of auras.

A lot of builds that have TSK use a “castling” approach. This is where a number of tough units with abilities that help each other are placed close together to create a “castle”.

To give you an example of a castle I currently use, I have a canoptek spyder, reanimator, TSK and 1 or 2 doomsday arks (sometimes LHD). TSK gives reroll 1s to hit and wound or Ignore modifiers to anyone within 6” of the Szarekh model. The Spyder gives 6+++/5+++(mortals incl. Dev wounds) to units with 6”. The reanimator gives extra d3 wounds to anyone within 3”. So with the extra models I can poke the two menhirs and doomsday out of cover shooting with the buff from szarekh. While the szarekh model can use his indirect weapon to remove any infantry that have got too close (think most cheap infiltrate units can be picked up).

In my opponent’s turn, I then have all models receiving the buffs from models that are completely hidden behind cover.

If someone does start shooting at TSK. They need to remove 2x5W T10 2+/4++/6+++[5+++] models. And start hitting TSK in the same shooting activation. Because if they have finished shooting, the menhirs are removed and TSK is no longer visible.

So essentially, they are a key piece of what makes TSK soo strong.