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Hunter cadre- 800
|Commander 113
+VT
+Drone Controller

|3 strike teams 135
+pulse carbines

|Crisis Suit 22

|Pathfinders 44

|Drones 56
+Marker Drones

|1 Stormsurge - 430
+Pulse Driver
+EWO
+Shield Gen

CAD - 1045
|Darkstrider - 100

|2 strike teams 90

|Ta'unar Supremacy Armor - 600
+2 Tri-axis Ion Cannons

|Tidewall Gunfort - 255


Tactics and what the hell is going on -
The general jist of the gunrig/gunfort tactics is in my gunrig exploitation cadre thread, and this adds to it slightly. The Commander with only velocity trackers has one purpose - anti-air. On the gunrig. Since model rules transfer to the emplaced weapon, the railgun can skyfire. S10 AP1 skyfire, and if I fire all three gunrigs at the same flyer, they all get armorbane. The only downside to this list is that I have a whole 2 Markerlights. Thats it... and they aren't super-mobile either.

VT Commander is on one rig with marker drones
Darkstrider on another rig with pathfinders
And the single crisis on the last rig.

And a Ta'unar because why not. It reduces my available Interceptor by 1/2 compared to the previous list, but for 10 T9 wounds, I'm ok with that.

I love it. Maybe swap the Piranha for Pathfinders? Perhaps try to find room for a PEn Chip too?

I'm working on something similar, tell me. Is the hunter contingent tau empire and the CAD farsight enclaves?

Also if you fire all three gun rigs at the same flyer only the one with the commander gets to use skyfire right? The other two would have to fire snapshots I think. Could be wrong though...

Lastly why the stormsurge without heavy marker support? I find that the best thing they have going for them is the destroyer missle alpha strike. I agree with scrapping the pirahna for pathfinders, at least that way your markers are slightly more survivable being in two seperate units.

As to the question of ion vs fusion I would take the ion all day long. Better range and you don't ever want anything to be close enough to take advantage of the melta special rule anyway. Plus you already have the D shots from your shoulder mounted guns so I wouldn't worry about not having enough anti vehicle. The fusions just seam like massive overkill against anything but warlord/reaver Titans.

Pathfinders might put me over by a couple points, I think this list came out to 1848. You're definitely right about the ML support, and that is definitely where this list falls short.


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FlingitNow wrote:I love it. Maybe swap the Piranha for Pathfinders? Perhaps try to find room for a PEn Chip too?

Not sure about the PENchip, the only thing I have left to remove from a unit is the Shield gen on the stormsurge It would depend on whether or not the loss of durability outweighs the increased ability to take out vehicles or MCs.

Epartalis wrote:I'm working on something similar, tell me. Is the hunter contingent tau empire and the CAD farsight enclaves?

Also if you fire all three gun rigs at the same flyer only the one with the commander gets to use skyfire right? The other two would have to fire snapshots I think. Could be wrong though...

Lastly why the stormsurge without heavy marker support? I find that the best thing they have going for them is the destroyer missle alpha strike. I agree with scrapping the pirahna for pathfinders, at least that way your markers are slightly more survivable being in two seperate units.

As to the question of ion vs fusion I would take the ion all day long. Better range and you don't ever want anything to be close enough to take advantage of the melta special rule anyway. Plus you already have the D shots from your shoulder mounted guns so I wouldn't worry about not having enough anti vehicle. The fusions just seam like massive overkill against anything but warlord/reaver Titans.

No, the CAD is regular Tau.

I'm pretty sure only the commander can use skyfire... like 90% sure. It'd be pretty cheesy otherwise lol. You're definitely right about the lack of markerlights in the original list - I added a bunch more, so the 'surge will be much more supported! For the Supremancy Armor I agree about the eradicators - the stormsurge missile and the multi driver should do most of the heavy lifting. If I happen to fun into a wraithknight, the 6 S9 AP2 shots should put a dent in it.

I just realized that this and my other list are illegal if I want to stay battle forged; I am required to have an auxiliary formation if I want to use the Hunter contingent.

Give commander target lock and put marker drones with him

Can he still operate gunfight as a unit? If so markers fire then commander uses target lock to fire the gun rig.

Think this is still battle forged as your using a cad and a formation though you are right it is not a contingent so your not getting the special rules for that