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So yeah, my brother and his friends talked me into start playing warhammer, and in about a month we're going to a sommer cottage to spend an entire week playing the game.. I don't want to be completely humiliated, so im asking for your help

I will be fighting Orcs, Chaos Thousand sons and Spacemarines. I figured I would swap some weapons like plasma rifles and fusion blasters for twin linked burst cannons, when fighting orks.

The list:
HQ
Commander R'Myr 160
Shield Drone 15

Total: 175

Elites
Crisis Battlesuit Team
2 Shas'ui + 1 Shas'vre 60
Twin-linked fusion blaster 18
Twin-linked plasma rifle 30
Cyclic Ion Blaster 15
Plasma Rifle 20
1 Hardwired Multitracker 5
3 Shield Generators 60
Iridium Armor Plates 20

Total: 233

Stealthsuit Team
2 Stealthsuits + 1 Shas'vre 100
Hardwired Dronecontroller 0
Marker Drone 30

Total: 130

Troops
Fire Warrior Team
11 fire warriors + 1 leader 130
Markerlight 10

Total: 140

Fire Warrior Team
11 fire warriors + 1 leader 130
Markerlight 10
Dedicated Transport: Devilfish80
Disruption Pod 5
Seeker Missile 20

Total: 245

Fire Warrior Team
11 fire warriors + 1 leader 130
Markerlight 10

Total: 140


Fast attack
Gundrone Squadron
8 Gundrones 96

Heavy Support
Broadside Battlesuit Team
1 Broadside Suit + 1 Leader 145
Railguns
Smart Missile System
Hardwired Drone Controllers
2 Shield Drones 30

Total: 175

Railhead 140
Disruption pod 5
SMS 20

Total: 165


All in all: 1494


Anyways, thanks for reading, and thanks in advance

I'm going to give you just a few tips because I've only fought Tau a handful of times and don't know much about them. when playing orks you need something that will take out large numbers of them at once like a weapon that fires a large blast template because you are probably going up against 80 boyz. With thousand sons you need some heavy hitting weapons since they have 4+ invulnerable saves. Last with space marines it depends on how the person you are playing them equips them but i would say you should focus on trying to use some devilfish as shields in front of troops and your guys can fire under them since they are skimmers. Hopefully this helps and good luck.

So, against Orks i could go with twinlinked flamers for my suits?

Also, shooting under my own skimmer vehicles yeah, but can't the enemy shoot under them as well?


And, should I swap my gundrones for another devilfish? It'll be hard to cut down points anywhere else.. And I imagine i wont be pinning much, since orks got that mobs rule, and the chaos are fearless

Not sure about the skimmer rules. I would drop the gundrones for the devilfish. Tau is a shooty army so the more fire power and cover you have the better. Watch for infiltrators like Snikrot from the orks. He has mowed through squads of my guys like butter. Close combat is not your friend so stay out of it as much as you can.

I took your advice and made a few tweaks; Here's how its looking now

HQ
Commander R’Myr +
Shield Drone 175

Elites
Crisis Battle Suit Team
2x shas’ui + 1 shas’vre 60
Twin linked plasma rifle 30
Twin linked plasma rifle 30
Twin linked fusion blaster 18
3 shield generators 60

Total: 198

Stealthsuits
2 shas’ui + shas’vre 100
Shas’vre markerlight 10

Total: 110

Troops
9 FW incl leader 100
Markerlight 10

Total: 110

12 FW incl leader 130
Markerlight 10
Devilfish 80
Disruption pod 5
Seeker missile 20

Total: 245

12 FW incl leader 130
Markerlight 10
Devilfish 80
Disruption pod 5
Seeker missile 20

Total 245

Heavy support
Broadside Team
1 suit + shas’vre 145
Advanced
stabilization system 20

total: 165

Railhead 140
Disuption pod 5
SMS 20

total: 165

Sniper Drone Team 80

Total: 1493