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HQ
Cadre Fireblade

Troops
10 man fire warrior teams - bonded, pulse rifles
10 man fire warrior teams - bonded, pulse rifles
10 man fire warrior teams - bonded, pulse rifles
devilfish - disruption pods
devilfish - disruption pods
devilfish - disruption pods

Fast Attack
7 man Pathfinder teams - bonded, 1 ion rifle
7 man Pathfinder teams - bonded
Piranhas team - 3 piranhas w/ disruption pods

Heavy Support
Hammerhead - Sms, submunition shots, disruption pods(long strike)
Hammerhead - Sms, submunition shots, disruption pods
2 MissileSides- Sms,high yield missile pods. 4 missile drones

1501 points

Just so you know, 1501 is not 1500.

Devilfish are just so...mehh. They are a solid transport, but are just too overpriced. For 95 points I think I would rather have 10 firewarriors. Plus the fireblade's ability can't be used when they move, so he isn't helping any when they hop out.

Why the one ion rifle? Its kinda random.

I think if you're running piranhas they should have fusion guns. They are fast enough to get real armor shots on tanks with the guns. Plus, a single burst cannon really isn't worth paying 40 points for.

I like the hammerheads. Give the naked one a blacksun filter, its only a single point that makes a world of difference, especially against pesky necrons.

I'm not sure how I feel about missilesides. They do throw out a crazy amount of dakka, but are only 36". I'm not sure if I want such a big expensive unit that close to the enemy.

 PraetorDave wrote:
Just so you know, 1501 is not 1500.

Devilfish are just so...mehh. They are a solid transport, but are just too overpriced. For 95 points I think I would rather have 10 firewarriors. Plus the fireblade's ability can't be used when they move, so he isn't helping any when they hop out.

Why the one ion rifle? Its kinda random.

I think if you're running piranhas they should have fusion guns. They are fast enough to get real armor shots on tanks with the guns. Plus, a single burst cannon really isn't worth paying 40 points for.

I like the hammerheads. Give the naked one a blacksun filter, its only a single point that makes a world of difference, especially against pesky necrons.

I'm not sure how I feel about missilesides. They do throw out a crazy amount of dakka, but are only 36". I'm not sure if I want such a big expensive unit that close to the enemy.

Unfortunately, many of these suggestions add points that are non existent right now. That being said:

HQ should be switched to an ethereal, which will actually help your mobile fire warriors quite a bit and saves you 10 points.

ion rifle-random, get rid of it.

piranha's are pretty much useless without fusion.

One point for a blacksun, not bad at all.

If you come up with any extra points here, putting SMS on as many fish as possible could be interesting

I actually just computed your list, and its only 1453. You must have added something wrong.

With that revelation, you can switch to an ethereal, give your piranhas fusion guns, and all the devilfish SMS. That would leave you with 8 points, maybe give the broadsides Advanced targeting systems to try and pile precision hits on characters? Or possibly give long strike sensor spines so he doesn't immoblize himself on a rock?

So the list would look like:

HQ
Ethereal

Troops
10 man fire warriors- bonded, devilfish w/ dpod, SMS
10 man fire warriors- bonded, devilfish w/dpod, SMS
10 man fire warriors- bonded, devilfish w/ dpod, SMS

Fast attack
7 man pathfinders- bonded
7 man pathfinders- bonded
3 man piranhas team- fusion blasters and dpods

Heavy Support
Hammerhead- SMS, submunitions, Dpod, Longstrike
Hammerhead- SMS submunitions, Dpod, Blacksun
2 MissileSides- SMS, HYMP, 4 Missile drones

1492

I am really liking that revised list. Thanks man.

The reason behind this is I really like the mech based idea behind tau.

I also have a friend who is selling me 2 devilfish a hammer head and 3 piranhas for $70. I could ask for some other stuff. If you can think of a much better list. with a base of at most 15 path finders. And 30 fire warriors. I could ask for other things though if you can think of anything.


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he has

6 devil fish
3 hammerhead
1 etherial
73 fire warriors with long rifles
6 fire warriors with short rifles
6 stealth suits
1 hq in crisis suit
29 drones
32 kroot

and I could buy it off him. What should I add?

Well that 1500 list is really solid, so you would be looking to expand to higher points at that point. Definitely another squad of firewarriors (which would mean another devilfish). Although your friend doesn't have them, you will start to need suits. Right now, it looks like a 3 man squad with Twin link fusion and a plasma rifle is sick. It threatens TEQ/MEQ and punks vehicles, both heavy and light. With some markerlight support they can dominate. You could also add some more pathfinders (firewarriors with short guns work perfectly fine), but you have a good number already.

Ok, thank you for your list. I will continue to acquire the things I need from my friend to fill out this list. And then work towards my 1850 to 2k list. Glad to see my Tau coming so far. They used to just be a small little detachment.