Tau 500pt army

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**Urilian**

This is my first attempt at a Tau army so any advice on what might be better would be welcome

though iv been told the more Crisis Battle suits the better XD

HQ
Commander Shas'o
Plasma Rifle & twinlinked missle pod
Iridium armour
Stimulant Injector
Hard wired drone controll, multi traker and Target lock
X2 shield drones
183pts

two squads of:
11 fire Warriors
1 Shas'ui
Markerlight
Bonding Knife
EMP Grenade
Hard wired Multi-traker and Target lock
153pts X2
Army total 499pts

**Brothererekose**

Urilian wrote: This is my first attempt at a Tau army so any advice on what might be better would be welcome
though iv been told the more Crisis Battle suits the better XD

Yeah, the list is overdone in many ways.

Urilian wrote:Commander Shas'o
Plasma Rifle & twinlinked missle pod
Iridium armour
Stimulant Injector
Hard wired drone controll, multi traker and Target lock
X2 shield drones

I'd toss the IridArm, Stims & TwinLink. You don't need TwinL as your BS is 5. Demote to Shas'el and add a MT and Target Array. He'll still have BS5 and adding the MT means he can fire two guns.

Urilian wrote:two squads of:
11 fire Warriors
1 Shas'ui
Markerlight
Bonding Knife
EMP Grenade
Hard wired Multi-traker and Target lock
153pts X2
Army total 499pts

At 500 points this will get eaten by nearly any enemy handily. As is, it is two overpriced gun line FWs, and an overpriced HQ. Try thinking many units, but cheap:

BC/MP/MT Crisis Suits, including FireKnife Shas'el )PR/MP/TA hwMT
2 small FW units, maybe Bonded, but little else. Kroot are decent at this low level, too, but it good numbers, around 14 of them.
1 D'fish w/ DisPod or Warfish - SMS, TA, MT, DisPod

All of that ought to come in at 500 or so and pour out a lot more fire power. Plus, at 500 points, it is a *huge* empty table, giving you a lot of room to maneuver, meaning the D'Fish is needed as well as the several suits.