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It's quite simple, we are doing a tournament this weekend where you and a buddy fight together. 2k per side. He is bringing Space wolves and plans on getting close and personal, I want to provide fire support with my Tau.

I am on a riptide kick at the moment. I think the three buffed by the commander should do that fine and the other suits can provide a perimeter.

The low altitude deployment may be wasted some games for we may want to hold wolves back and outflank them instead. (Someone needs to be deployed first turn). We are still talking strategy.




+++ Riptides small (1000pts) +++

++ Tau Empire: Codex (2015) (Formation Detachment) ++

+ Formation +

Retaliation Cadre
····Commander
········XV8 Commander Crisis Suit [Command and Control Node, Flamer, Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite, Onager Gauntlet, Puretide Engram Neurochip, Shield Generator, Vectored Retro-Thrusters]
····XV104 Riptide Battlesuits
········Riptide Shas'vre [Counterfire Defence System, Ion Accelerator, Target Lock, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]
········Riptide Shas'vre [Counterfire Defence System, Ion Accelerator, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]
········Riptide Shas'vre [Counterfire Defence System, Ion Accelerator, Target Lock, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]
····XV8 Crisis Battlesuits
········Crisis Shas'ui [Fusion Blaster, Plasma Rifle]
····XV8 Crisis Battlesuits
········Crisis Shas'ui [Fusion Blaster, Plasma Rifle]
····XV8 Crisis Battlesuits
········Crisis Shas'ui [Fusion Blaster, Plasma Rifle]
····XV88 Broadside Battlesuits [2x MV8 Missile Drone]
········Broadside [Twin-linked Heavy Rail Rifle, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]

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A few suggestions here. First the commander cant join the Riptides to provide buffs as ICs cant join Monsterous Creatures. If you want to win/cheese put your 3 Riptides into a wing and take a Farsight CAD with a commander with buffs/join him to a unit of missile pod/plasma rifle crisis suits. Take a few single suits with double fusion to deep strike for tanks and thats pretty much a 1000pts. If you want to take a broadside take double missiles as its way better than the rail riflle and its free.

I did not know that, thanks!

You can run three riptides in 1000 points? *CSM players dick shrivels.*

Missiles on the XV8s might be a better pairing. Let the Space Wolves get up close and personal while you control the back field.