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1-Shas'o
cyclonic ion blaster,Plasma Gun, Missle pod
hard wired multi-tracker,hard wired drone controller (2 gun drones)

2-Shas'vre bodyguards
Plasma Gun, Missle Pod
Hard wired multi-tracker, hard wired drone controller (4 gun drones)

3-Crisis Suits
leader/ bonding knife, Plasma Gun, Missle Pod, Multi tracker, hard wired drone controller (2 gun drones)
the other suits Plasma Guns, Missle Pod, Multi trakcer

3-Stealth Suits X2
Leader/bonding knife, Target lock, Marker light, Fusion blaster
other suits standard burst cannons

8-Pathfinder Unit
Shas'ui w/hard wired target lock, bonding knife.
3 w/ Rail Rifles and hard wired target lock.
Mounted in a Devil Fish w/ Decoy launchers, Disruption Pods, Multi Tracker, Smart Missle System.

12-Fire Warriors Unit X3
Shas'ui w/hard wired target lock, bonding knife, pulse carbine, Marker light.
the rest have pulse rifles
Mounted in Devil Fish w/decoy launchers, disruption pods, Multi tracker, smart missle system.

1-Hammer Head Tanks X3
Rail gun, distrupiton pods, decoy launchers, Multi tracker, smart missle system.

It roughly comes out to a little under the 2500pt limit.

the plan is to have the stealth suits outflank and go tank hunting. while i lay waste to the enemy, and use the devil fish to help my units post up on objectives. the crisis suits are to back up the fire warriors with anything that gets through my hammer heads. I wanted to take kroot but i didnt have the points and i dont think they would be included in a mobile army.

23 Kill points available with only 3 troop choices. in senarios 1 & 3 all the oppenent has to do is kill 3 devilfish and 36 fire warriors to stop you from having any chance of winning.

Do you need 2 stealth units? one 6 man squad will only give up 2 Kill points instead of 4.

Drop the decoy launchers for a target lock on the hammerhead, some turns you might need to shoot the big gun at a tank while shooting the SMS at something closer.

Why the Shas'ui with all the gear on the fire warriors if they are going to stay mounted?

I'm also more of a fan of shield drones instead of gun drones, when the instakill shots come the gun drones go POOF!

I also would concider changing at least some of your plasma guns on suits to fusion, give your suits alittle more anti-tank capability.

yeah i thought of only taking 1 stealth squad but i mainly took 2 small squads for the marker lights that they can move and shoot with. you have a point about their kill pts for such small squads. the shas'ui on the other hand im not keeping the squads in the trasport for the whole game and i need the marker lights they have. hopefully the hammer heads will make it safe enough by turn 2 or 3 for them to get out.

Bring more FW in Devilfish.

At 2500 you should have at least 4 or 5. The guys inside aren't the game winners, the Devilfish are.

They don't need to be 12 man either if you have the Devilfish models to put down.

Having 8 Fish and 3 Railheads is a real nasty army.

This may sound ridiculous, but at 2500 points, if you expect to see orks or genestealers you may want to put flechette dischargers on some or all of your tanks. especially the devilfish which will eventually need to be forward trying to contest objectives. There is a lot of stuff on the board at 2500 points and a lot of annoying flanking things around - you're going to get some tanks charged. You will kill more than 10 points worth of enemies with them, trust me. Just don't feel like you have to use them, it's still better not to get charged

I have to agree with Stelek here. Running 6 troops of 6 in SMS fish is the play. you don't need big squads, they just need to get you a fish.

AAAAAND the Flechete discharger is awesome

unfortunatly when i started buying the army i bought 2 battle force boxes which actully come with devil fish and the devil fish dont come with sms! I mean thats crap i gotta buy a hammer/sky ray to get the stupid missles and i looked online and anyone selling them is just as expensive or more so than buy'in the sprue from gw. its makes me mad to pay 12 dollars (not including shipping) for A pair of SM's. and i have yet to find a tau player thats all like "yeah ill sell you some sms." that just aint gunna happen.

Glue a missile pod on the bottom of a drone.

Put drone on tank in right spot...

SMS done you can make all the SMS you need... if you have the pods

would that qualify for wysiwyg? if so great idea.

I think it would qualify just fine you are making a "conversion" The thing I've done in the past is only put one SMS launcher on a tank if I loss one or don't have enough.

Uhh no one but Tau players will know it's not a missile launcher system, bud.