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All right i really need a good competitive army list and i decided to take Tau. I don't know where to start, what core is in the good Tau GT lists?

Basicaly mechanized with Warfish, Hammerheads, Piranhas, and suits. Throw in a Kroot squad here and thier for flavor based on the number of objectives and you should do fine. Pathfinders I take just 6 in 1500 and go up to 8 over 1500. When it comes to suits you need to see what your preference is between crisis configurations and stealth suits?

If I end up going, I will be running 3 deathrain suit squads most likely just with the rediculous amounts of overbearing mech that will be there, suits are def preference, but you will want to max out all of them elite slots...

Alright so you guys have told me the core and thank you so much for doing that. But now i have another question about these core units: how many piranhas in a team and what gun? How many crisis suits in a squad and what weapons, drones etc? How many stealth suits in a squad and fusion blaster or not? And lastly why not broadsides?

Tau won GT heat 3 in UK back in November. It was 1500 points.

HQ XV8
Elite 9 XV8's
Troop 6 FW
10 kroot
10 kroot
Heavy
3 Hammerhead

Well first yes broadsides, always broadsides, it wasnt mentioned because they are given...a MUST have. 1 squad or 2 is preference, I prefer 2, but that is just me, piranhas always use fusion because that super fast tank popping is key, I would also atleast one deathrain if not 2 deathrain crisis suit squads: deathrain= twin-linked missile pod, targeting array, and a team leader with a Hard wired drone controller and x2 shield drones. I would also bond every unit you can.

mattv2099 wrote:Tau won GT heat 3 in UK back in November. It was 1500 points.

HQ XV8
Elite 9 XV8's
Troop 6 FW
10 kroot
10 kroot
Heavy
3 Hammerhead

Where they using 4th ed. rules on that tourney? Because i want 5th edition competitive army.

Bane_Sword wrote:

mattv2099 wrote:Tau won GT heat 3 in UK back in November. It was 1500 points.

HQ XV8
Elite 9 XV8's
Troop 6 FW
10 kroot
10 kroot
Heavy
3 Hammerhead

Where they using 4th ed. rules on that tourney? Because i want 5th edition competitive army.

Thats a solid 5E list at 1500. I would change it a round a bit to have pathfinders + warfish and a 2 man broadside team instead of 1 of the hammers.

Ok thanks for the reply.

HQ XV8
Elite 9 XV8's
Troop 6 FW
10 kroot
10 kroot
Heavy
3 Hammerhead

Can someone tell me what guns and support systems i should take on that 9 suits and commander? And what items at all on the hammerheads? I was thinking are those 6 FW footslogging'

Unless they went crazy with the upgrades on the suits the FW's are probably mounted.

All right, because i am so new to Tau and competitive lists at all (i am a painter) could someone put that army list: with the best wargear possible and some tactics (tactics not necessary)? You may of course change the list if you know of something better
HQ XV8
Elite 9 XV8's
Troop 6 FW
10 kroot
10 kroot
Heavy
3 Hammerhead

The metagame has shifted significantly. That army list...well, kinda has issues now (depending on the Xv8 loadouts).

That army list is lacking anti-tank now. Want tau army list advice? Go to the army list section of the boards and read some of the lists and critiques there. I just posted a 3 page thing on a Tau list there, I'm not going to repeat myself here. =p

I have been checking the army list forum and i can't find anything at tournament standard there. I need someone experienced player to help me out about the army list and tactics. I don't even know where to start if i am gonna make me a army list which is at tournament standard, like i don't know anything about which units are good and work well together, and i don't know what suit combos are good and so on...so i started this log to get the idea of what is in tournament, tactics and suit combos

Dashofpepper wrote:The metagame has shifted significantly. That army list...well, kinda has issues now (depending on the Xv8 loadouts).

AFAIK, he had 12 suits (Commander had two bodyguards), 9 of them were Deathrains with Flamer, rest were "mixed armament" (likely Fireknife?). Crisis teams had shield drones too. I thought it was pretty lean & mean list.

I made a new thread with my version of this army list here is a link:http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/246025.page#803365" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/246025.page#803365

Bane_Sword wrote:Ok thanks for the reply.

HQ XV8
Elite 9 XV8's
Troop 6 FW
10 kroot
10 kroot
Heavy
3 Hammerhead

Can someone tell me what guns and support systems i should take on that 9 suits and commander? And what items at all on the hammerheads? I was thinking are those 6 FW footslogging'

FW were kept in reserve and walked on.