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Bound List: Hunter Contingent
Formations; they are as stated in the book, allowed to be made from units within the Contingent, therefore using a Riptide Wing and Drone network. One drone squad is an auxiliary unit.

Buff's:
Re-roll warlord
If 3 or more units fire the same target as 1, they get a boost in BS
Run and shoot when near cadre or commander. (Applies to all but 1 drone squad)
Increased supporting fire range. (Apples to all but 1 drone squad)
Riptide squad gains BS boost due to fire squad, and an additional if firing at the same target.
Hellfire attack from riptide's
Re roll nova reactors.
All drones get a boosted BS
Extra buffs for drones in Drone Net formation.

While being a bound list, it boasts incredible buffs.

+ HQ (207pts) +
Cadre Fireblade (60pts)
Commander (147pts) - Drone Controller, 2 middle pods, 2x Marker Drone


+ Elites (675pts) +
3x Riptide Shas'vre - Ion Accelerator, SMS, stimulant injector, early warning override
(All in seperate units taking up all 3 elite spots)

+ Troops (261pts) +
Strike Team (90pts) [10x Fire Warrior with Pulse Rifle]
Strike Team (90pts) [10x Fire Warrior with Pulse Rifle]
Strike Team (81pts) [9x Fire Warrior with Pulse Rifle]

+ Fast Attack (280pts) +
Drones (70pts) [5x MV7 Marker Drone]
Drones (70pts) [5x MV7 Marker Drone]
Drones (70pts) [5x MV7 Marker Drone]
Drones (70pts) [5x MV7 Marker Drone]

+ Heavy Support (195pts) +
XV88 Broadside Battlesuits
3x Broadside - Twin-linked High-Yield Missile Pod, Velocity tracker.

+ Fortification (170pts) +. (May be unbound, idk how to fit this in, I could make this a seperate detachment as the book states tau faction members may only control it, not friendly tau models)
2x Tidewall Gunrig (85pts)


The Plan
Commander has only drone controller, he is to join the 5 drone squad and give BS 5. Him and all drone will light up the enemy like a Christmas tree, drones also in the Drone Net formation.

Cadre Fireblade will join a squad of 9.

Strike squads, 2 positioned in Gunrings they can sit near objectives while the railgun fires away. The Other squad will move in on a further objective, though ruins.

Riptide's, they will take centre stage and take the most central route, releasing their hellfire formation one off first turn, then then move centre keeping the opponents focus. Broadsides backing them up from behind.

Drone are to weave between buildings, marker lights everywhere.

How are you obtaining the Tidewall Gunrigs? I can't locate them as an option in any of the Hunter Contingent formations?

Riptide wing illegal, they need to be 3 units of riptide not a unit of 3; thus you can switch out the TL for EWO; the fort illegal as mentioned, you need a CAD for it.

You should drop 1 drone from each of marker drones to add a piranha tax for your hunter contingent, then make the drones from drone net to gain special rules.

Edit: you also need to make the hunter cadre FE thus a Dawn contingent, as formation riptide wing is neither a auxiliary in dawn or hunter contingent, but the drone net is a aux in the dawn contingent.

In order to satisfy how you want your list, as in a hunter contingent, you need to add a auxiliary formation from the hunter contingent, and a CAD for the forts, note the CAD and the fort doesn't gain the hunter contingent rules.

Edit2: looking over your OP, it looks like you're confused about how the Hunter Contingent works, check out the link here for clarification(3rd post):
http://advancedtautactica.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=24648

Besides the legalities other guys pointed out:

a. TideWall
Check with your tourney's TO if it is even allowed as a lot of tourneys have exceptions when it comes to monkeying terrain around. An AegisDLine can have an ammo dump. Base your Riptide Wing next to that, especially with HBCs, and not worry about Gets Hot! so much.

b. Velocity Tracker - an HBC riptide will be better at taking down fliers with more shots (S6 will glance most things death, oh, wait, Rending ) than the IonTides 3 shots from the IonAccel. ** And the SMS won't hurt most fliers at all. If you're going to want to take down fliers, go with a HBC & Fusion B load out.

That aside, EWO is better (on an IonTide) because of Drop Pods and all other manner of enemies arriving from Reserves.

c. 8 versus 9
Maybe shave off a Stealth Suit for an extra FW to make those strike teams 9 dudes instead of 8. The smaller unit has to take Morale on two dead, whereas a unit of 9 guys needs three to die before a Morale Check.


**
Was there an ITC ruling on models with Skyfire being able to hit fliers with templates? Was that a GW FB FAQ?

I'm not sure if I'm the only one who saw this but, quoting from the codex, "although units cannot normally belong to more then 1 detachment, units from a formation that is part of the hunter contingent are an exception. They count as part of the detachment and the formation".
Therefore even though units in the hunter contingent are part of that detachment, you can pick models from that grouping to be in formations. If your looking for where it says this look above where it has the hunter contingent. However I still had to amend the list.

The way I interpreted what your saying is that models in the hunter contingent cannot be in formations, where as the rule book says that they can. As for the Gunrings, I need to work that out, Mabey a fortification detachment?

go to the link in my previous post from the tau forum, it explains very clearly how contingent-formation works.

You should organize your list via formations, not categories, it will be easier to read if its legal.

 Valken wrote:
I'm not sure if I'm the only one who saw this but, quoting from the codex, "although units cannot normally belong to more then 1 detachment, units from a formation that is part of the hunter contingent are an exception. They count as part of the detachment and the formation".
Therefore even though units in the hunter contingent are part of that detachment, you can pick models from that grouping to be in formations. If your looking for where it says this look above where it has the hunter contingent. However I still had to amend the list.

The way I interpreted what your saying is that models in the hunter contingent cannot be in formations, where as the rule book says that they can. As for the Gunrings, I need to work that out, Mabey a fortification detachment?

I may have missed something, but I think the only way to get a fortification for a bound Tau army is to utilize a CAD.

 Sarigar wrote:

 Valken wrote:
I'm not sure if I'm the only one who saw this but, quoting from the codex, "although units cannot normally belong to more then 1 detachment, units from a formation that is part of the hunter contingent are an exception. They count as part of the detachment and the formation".
Therefore even though units in the hunter contingent are part of that detachment, you can pick models from that grouping to be in formations. If your looking for where it says this look above where it has the hunter contingent. However I still had to amend the list.

The way I interpreted what your saying is that models in the hunter contingent cannot be in formations, where as the rule book says that they can. As for the Gunrings, I need to work that out, Mabey a fortification detachment?

I may have missed something, but I think the only way to get a fortification for a bound Tau army is to utilize a CAD.

U are right but I was talking about formations within the hunter contingent which would allow me to use a riptide wing but them being in the hunter contingent

I do remember in the past a fortification detachment, which I'm going to try find

But you cant take ANY formation as part of the Hunter, only those stated in the codex...