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What's the best tactics for Tau, Orks, and Space marines as seperate teams in your opinion?

Best tactics for Tau are to load up on railguns and deep striking plasma/fusion suits, with maybe some deathrains, and to semi-gunline.

Orks have a lot of good tactics. Among them:
4 -5 Battlewagon lists. 3 mobs of 20 shoot boyz, + a nob squad + a big mek = 4 extremely killy AV14 vehicles with a 4+ cover save, rushing your lines. With points to spare.
Horde lists. 120 boyz at 1k points? OMFG.
Nob rush. 2 Warbosses, 2 squads of nobs (bikers optional), lootas to flavor.
Trukk rush. 6 trukks, all with a KFF cover save, + nobz, lootas, deffkoptas, etc. to flavor.
Kan Wall/Dredd Bash. 2 Big Meks, 2 Deff Dredds as troops, 3 more or 9 kans as HS.

Space Marine have plenty of good tactics too, and quite a few REALLY good ones. Among them:
Vulkan. Hard to go wrong.
Shrike + CC scouts as well as a bunch of other CC troops for turn 1-2 charges.
3-5 Land Raider Lists.
And if you don't have any drop pods in your list, work a single drop pod + a basic MM dread. for 140 points it is an EXCELLENT investment.

I'm a Tau player and it really depends on what your opponent is. I'm not going to go Flamer-heavy vs Chaos Marines.

Best tactic I've learned is to go minimum Firewarrior, load them in a Devilfish, then have them take objectives. Suits will do most of the killing.

I've learned to take Broadsides moreso than a Hammerhead. That re-roll has saved my arse many times so far.

Vespid, I use mostly against MEQ's.

And I'm slowly falling in love w/Stealth Suits. I usually field 6 w/1 suit equipped with a Fusion Blaster. But I'm thinking I'm gonna go w/3 more for a total of 9.