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Here's my latest army (Or should I say first posted?):


HQ:

Battlesuit Commander (Shas’o)
- Fusion Blaster
- Plasma Rifle
- Shield Generator
- Hard Wired Multi-Tracker
- Iridium Armor
- Stimulant Injector

Points – 162


Elites:

- Crisis Battlesuit Team (3 Shas’ui)
- Missile Pods (3)
- Plasma Rifles (3)
- Multi Trackers (3)
- Targeting Arrays (3)

Stealth Team (3 Shas’ui)
- Fusion Blaster
- Burst Cannon (2)
- Drone Controller
- Targeting Array (2)
- Marker Drone

Points – 338


Troops:

Fire Warrior Team (12)

Kroot Carnivore Squad
- 12 Kroot
- 6 Kroot Hounds
- 1 Krootox Rider

Points – 261


Fast Attack:

Gun Drone Squadron (4)

Points - 48


Total Points - 809


This army has served me pretty well. The last game I did was vs. Space Marines, and it served me well. What do you think?

Would anyone perchance know of some really useful units against nids?

depends on the nid army youre going against, if its a mob army, flamers and missile pods are great, if its nidzilla, broadsides. if you want to be ready for either, go for a hammerhead, 10S AP1 shot or 6S 4AP large blast

A agree with the railhead. That would be wonderful for anything.

The nid player I'm going against likes getting a shooty fex, six warriors, and genestealer brood (Very upgraded to be tough and nasty in CC), and lots of Spinegaunts.


So, to sum it up, I likes a little bit of everything, some stuff for armour, some stuff for troops, and some stuff to soak up enemy fire.

Just out of curiosity, why no devilfish?

hmmm, your commander seems a bit mismatched. He has a long ranged gun (plasma) and a close up an' personal one (fusion). Why? It makes sense to me if he either takes a missile pod with the plasma or a flamer with the fusion.

Im also not a big fan of kroot (but thats just me), apart from that it looks reasonable....Although you could separate 1 of your crisis suits to be a bodyguard and equip him the same as your HQ, that way you can have a 2 man tank killer team or 2 separate squads of snipers.

As a nid player I have to say you are really only focussing on one end of the spectrum. Lots of plasma is great for dealing with marines, but against warriors/gaunts its wasted. Also not that reliable against MCs as well since they are only S6. Best bet is to put in a hammerhead and a couple of teams of broadsides. Outfit some guys with flamers and your ready to massacre hordes and MCs.

how would missile pods be good against horde? Isn't it assault 2?

yeah...flamers are the way to go...along with the hammerhead large blast template.

Nid weapons:

1. Fragmentation Airbursting Launcher (ignores cover - stick it on Shas'o)

2. Submunition template

3. Flamers (less so)


Also, why 800 points? Why not 1,000 points or 1500 points, or a standard 1750 or 1850?

Some of the guys I play with are just starting, and they can only take that much and be effective still.

Thanks for the tips.

your crisis battlesuits are using 4 hardpoints, when your only allowed to use 3. The helios 'O makes sense, but only against Meq's or Teq's. take Airbursting Frag and Cyclic Ion, plus a Shield Gen and a HW multi. this built has an effective range of 24", and will slaughter so many spinegaunts its not funny.
VH

Eldar Vampire Hunter wrote:your crisis battlesuits are using 4 hardpoints, when your only allowed to use 3. The helios 'O makes sense, but only against Meq's or Teq's. take Airbursting Frag and Cyclic Ion, plus a Shield Gen and a HW multi. this built has an effective range of 24", and will slaughter so many spinegaunts its not funny.
VH

You said I can only use three? Is this a rule I'm missing?

Yeah your list is illegal. You cannot take that many weapon/support systems on a standard crisis suit. Page 34 codex...

I don't really want to discuss all of that.

Its a complex rules interpretation. I've read many discussions on it.


Basically, there are those who translate that to "You can only get a max of three" and there are others who say "It doesn't say you can't have more than that." Also, on bottom right of page 53, that was changed in the Tau Errata and FAQ section of the games workshop site, it was changed to "any number of support sytems and weapon sytems." If you want to read it in more detail go to the site and you should be able to find it pretty easily.

"many different" systems doesn't mean "any number" of systems. Crisis suits get exactly three hard points with exactly three systems, plus wargear for suits above 'Ui rank.

The only way to get more than 3 systems is to use hard wired ones. But not all crisis suits have access to that.

I think It's good exept for the Shas'O (You Can't have that mank choices, you can only have 3). Also, I would put more anti infantry.
Other than that I think it's pretty good (Don't forget about tau hop)

What? How is this open to interpretation. The rule is suepr clear for GW:

"Each team membe...must select three battlesuit weapons systems and support systems"

No "up to", no "at least", no "or more", just "must take three". You can't go cheap and take one, you can't go big and take 4 or 5. MUST TAKE THREEE RAAAR.

Also, the page 53 errata has nothing to do with this. It isn't a rule, "many" fits inside the rules, and it's fixing a glaring error in the codex where it was telling you that you can only have two weapons and one support system, as opposed to three weapons or one weapon and two support systems.

Are hammerheads really effective at killing nids for their points?



I just made a 1000 point army, I edited the suits to make them legal.

Quick Tau Army

HQ

Battlesuit Commander (Shas’o)
- Fusion Blaster
- Plasma Rifle
- Shield Generator
- Hard Wired Multi-Tracker
- Iridium Armor
- Stimulant Injector

Points – 162


Elites

Crisis Battlesuit Team (3 Shas’ui)
- Missile Pods (3)
- Plasma Rifles (3)
- Multi Trackers (3)

Crisis Battlesuit Team (3 Shas’ui)
- Flamers (3)
- Burst Cannons (3)
- Multi Trackers (3)

Points – 336


Troops

Fire Warrior Team (12)

Kroot Carnivore Squad
- 11 Kroot (w/ 6+)
- Shaper
- 6 Kroot Hounds (w/ 6+)

Points - 278


Fast Attack

Gun Drone Squadron (7)

Points - 60


Heavy Support

Hammerhead
- Railgun
- Smart Missile System
- Multi-Tracker
- Disruption Pods
- Decoy Launchers

Points - 165


Total Points - 1001

looks good to take on nids just open fire from a distacne and charge kroot at them lol