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More specifically what is the easiest way to kill an imperial guard valkyrie or basilisk, im a tau player and have recently been killed by IG mainly the valkyrie and the basilisk.

any easy ways to kill IG?

You can deep strike in next to the basilisks with your suits. If you shoot the rear of it, pretty much any weapon will do. The fushion blasters (melta) would be great on anything, but since a basilisk is weak in the rear, Id go for plasma rifles. Str6 and rapid fire will down a basilisk with little problems.

I dont know the stats on a Valkyrie tho, but Id imagine broadsides rail guns would blow that thing right out of the sky. Or marker light it and use the skyray missles. Str8 is pretty nice, and you can hide the thing anywhere as long as a marker light is on the Valkyrie.

Neither of these vehicles should be that much trouble to take down as both have mediocre armor. Like mentioned above just deepstrike something, anything, next to the basilisk; it has 10 side and rear armor so anything St5 and higher can blow it up. The valkyrie has extra armor default, and a 12-12-10 armor statline so its somewhat tougher to take down, but because it sits so high off of the table, any broadside anywhere can easily draw LOS to it and tear through it. Good luck in your next IG match!

Ahh so thats the stats of a Valkyrie? Thats nothing mate lol. Seriously when ever your Tau run into a problem that the normal army cant get through, introduce said problem to the business end of a Broadside.
Youd need a 2 for a glacing hit, and a 3+ for a penetrating hit. So a single team of Broadsides will pretty much end a Valkyrie ina single turn.

KingCracker wrote:Seriously when ever your Tau run into a problem that the normal army cant get through, introduce said problem to the business end of a Broadside.

Exactly. The broadside can solve all of your high toughness and armored vehicle needs. It even wastes Land Raiders and Leman Russ tanks with the slightest of ease. Thats if they dont die turn one of course; these guys are high profile targets and need to be guarded well.

Railguns are indeed bad news versus armor but against AV14 you still need some good dice to pen.

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Also, if he is going flat out with his valk, some marker lights can negate the cover save, making it more more likely to come crashing down in a heaping pile.