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The sad truth is, Tau are the shooty army that isn't shooty. They're easily outshot by IG, SW and DE. Certain builds of orks can, quite easily, outshoot Tau. Low ballistic skill all round+all special weapons mounted on overcosted units that run away after 1 casualty+only 2 LBT that either requires you to sacrifice a railgun shot (the only thing Tau have going for them) or can only be taken once+low numbers=poor shooting.


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Oh, and stupidest tactic I've ever used: Played Auri'Va and fethloads of fire warriors. Against Space Wolves. For laughs.
So, I was using 1000pt list, 200 pts of it was just a huge handicap, with about 50 fire warriors and 4 suits.
Turn 1-Auri'Va dies. 2 of the 5 FW squads run off the table, 1 squad of suits follows. Suit commander eliminated, FW squad eliminated.
Fire back. Kill 1 long fang.
Turn 2-remaining FWs blown to pieces. Game over.

Dont you just LOVE when you unload on a MEQ and they take like 1 or 2 casualties

Mine was definitely charging a group of genestealers with sanguinary guard. I had gotten mad that I moved my assault marines up too far so they were charged and promptly destroyed. I figured the 2+ save from the artificer armor would keep enough around to tear up the 8-ish stealers. 5 rending wounds later I was out a whole lot of points and not very happy

My most stupid move was using Assualt marines to hold a position... while standing still...

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One of my Biggest Lols of all was deep striking terminators and Vanguad Veterans on the same area and both landing off the Board!

Lols

But OMG Marker Lights!!!!! Suddenly you have a squad of Firewarriors rapid-firing and hitting on 2's with S5 weapons!!

True, markerlights are fine, but against an opponent with half a brain, your only going to be getting that bonus for around 3 turns, AND, unless you invest an unholy number in pathfinders, you can only light up around 2 targets a turn

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and wait...you use Firewarriors as your example? why are they out of their tranpsort? bad, tau player, bad

I used tyranids to fight a tau army. I used 1/3 of my army just to take out a squad of stealth suits......then I remembered that my other half of my army was in reserves and basically I was shoot and tankshocked.

P.S putting a trygon prime in front of a tau hammerhead is not the best idea to try.

G00fySmiley wrote:first time playing tyranids once i had battlewagons... i rammed with my deffrollainto a trygon when it deep striked. did not end well for me or the 20 boys inside. lost 14 boys and the rest fo the boys and nob failed thier leadership even with bp

learned my lesson about trying to deff roll monstrous creatues

You charged into a Trygon?!

Scarabs turbo boost and surround a rhino full of plague marines. I shoot it causing it to explode. The guys cannot get out and DIE!

The club then banned scarabs from turbo boosting...

Phototoxin wrote:Scarabs turbo boost and surround a rhino full of plague marines. I shoot it causing it to explode. The guys cannot get out and DIE!

The club then banned scarabs from turbo boosting...

That wasn't a stupid tactic. However, the club was quite unfair, IMO. The necrons need all tricks they can get, don't they?

Saintspirit wrote:

Phototoxin wrote:Scarabs turbo boost and surround a rhino full of plague marines. I shoot it causing it to explode. The guys cannot get out and DIE!

The club then banned scarabs from turbo boosting...

That wasn't a stupid tactic. However, the club was quite unfair, IMO. The necrons need all tricks they can get, don't they?

As far as I know, if you'd wrecked the vehicle that would be the result (entirely fair, and a result that rewards risky and well-coordinated tactics IMO. It's not as if physically surrounding enemy models is easy or risk-free) but since it exploded, he can simply place the passengers in the resulting crater.

Worse moment was in a 1000 point battle I was playing necrons against marines, I didn't bring a lot of units, maybe around 25 altogether. Turn 1 he drops an orbital bombardment onto my warriors killing most of them,, then uses assault troops to lock up my destroyers killing them . I phased out before I had a chance.

trying to kill a broodlord with 5 SM scouts with sniperrifles isn't a great idea.. espescialy when he has a unit of 10 Ymgarl (orso) genestealers around him.. why did i do that anyway??

Joske De Veteraan wrote:trying to kill a broodlord with 5 SM scouts with sniperrifles isn't a great idea.. espescialy when he has a unit of 10 Ymgarl (orso) genestealers around him.. why did i do that anyway??

I didn't think Ymgarl genestealers could take broodlords

flank marching my revenant titan behind a reaver...failed to do much of anything also forgot the reaver could turn around. yup. i ended up modelling a eldar titan head for his reavers base as a kudos.

I used to always drive my trukks 18" before I found out all the passengers die instead of disembarking if it's destroyed, but because I had never really lost many trukks early in the game (mostly due to obscene luck), I kept doing it and still sometimes try for some reason, even though I have suffered the consequences many times now. I also love to shoot ork sluggas before a charge, because I find it hilarious when they kill anything with slugga shots, but sometimes it works too well and the target unit will fall back, especially if they are SM, and so I can't assault.

CODY! wrote:I used to always drive my trukks 18" before I found out all the passengers die instead of disembarking if it's destroyed

This is wrong. You only lose them if you destroy it during your turn. Not your opponent's. So just don't ram anyone and blow up your truck.
Skimmers have it worse in that if they land in terrain they can get destroyed that way too.

BRB FAQ
Q: If a transport vehicle is destroyed in the same turn as it moved flat out what happens to any embarked models? (p70)
A: They are removed as casualties.

BRB, P9
"whenever a rule uses the word 'turn', both in the rule book and in the Codexes, it means 'player turn', otherwise it will clearly state 'game turn'."

I took 2 squads of Sang. Guard, Dante and Mephiston in a 1000 point game, against a mob of Orks. Did not end well...

It was quite funny though.

Ran a 20 man mob of zerkers was lashed then doom sirened.

needless to say i never ran a 20 man squad ever again...

I once moved a vindicator 12" into the open battle field and did not use smoke launchers and didn't hide behind cover. It got wrecked next turn. I rolled for the 4+ to see what would have happened and I rolled a 5. Sigh....

LEEEROYYYYYY... JENNNKINNNNNNNNSSS!

Hurray....a WoW reference.

My most moronic tactic has always been to not attack the unit closest to me, but to try to attack a model 18 inches away.

That was before I ran my wyches with a haemonculi...

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Hurray....a WoW reference.

It is more than a wow reference. It is almost a cultural thing.

If you go on youtube, you'll find Halo, CoD and a $#1T l0@d of other games (probably wargames too) with LJ references.

ramming a landspeeder into a landraider CUZ I GOTZ MY WEAPONS BLOWED UP'ED...sad part is at 12 inches id thougt it would work total r'tard manuver

let me guess, the hit on your speeder rolled a 6?

oh no landraider fine landspeeder..obliterf%^*ked

yeah, thats what i meant


your landspeeder couldn't hurt the landraider unless it moved 24"(and then is glancing on 6s)

your landspeeder couldn't hurt the landraider unless it moved 24"(and then is glancing on 6s)

Except speeders aren't tanks, and hence can't ram.

I once completely ruined my guardian placement. They were both positioned in such a way so a nearby squad of bezerkers in a land raider could assault both without going through cover. Yea need to work on my range guessing.

Also, I stayed put against a BA jumpy army in a multi-objective game instead of advancing on him. We basically didn't move for 3 turns, and then he jumped out and took 2 objectives on the last turn.

oh i thougt you meany i pulled it off sory, Yeah I was still trying to get the hang of that rule ive only ever done like three times but by the time i did it, it was too late

I sent in all my units straight towards my enemy. I got gunned down first turn (Leroy Jenkins)