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Ok, this is mostly a VASSAL project if anything, so I doubt I'll start tau IRL.

Anyway, I was cruising around the interwebs and stumbled upon a thing called "ninja tau".
Put quite simply this army "abuse" the reserve rules aswell as the tau wargear Positional Relay.
This means that small, needed, elements of the army will trickle in during the first few turns and the whole thing will move in t4-t5.
Of course, taking second is always great with this one.

And the list:

Shas'el, Positional Relay, Iridium Armour, 2 Shield Drones, Missile Pod, Flamer
Will start on the field every game, except maybe DoW. Maxed out for survivability. The focal point of the army.

2 XV8's with Twinlinked Fusion Blasters, Targetting Array, Teamleader with Target Lock
3 XV8's with Plasma, Fusion, Multitracker
3 XV8's with Plasma, Missiles, Multitracker

Will deep strike, taking out things that needs to be taken out. Comes in after one of the PF fishes.

10 Kroots, 7 Hounds
10 Kroots, 7 Hounds
10 Kroots, 7 Hounds
Outflanking, cheap troops that hide in forests, what's not to love?
6 Fire Warriors, Devilfish with SMS, Dis pods, Multitracker and Targetting Arrey
Need to take 'em, and gives a quick moving fish. Comes in from the table edge.

6 Pathfinders, Devilfish with SMS, Dis Pods, Multitracker and Targetting Arrey
6 Pathfinders, Devilfish with SMS, Dis Pods, Multitracker and Targetting Arrey
Will either outflank or move in from the normal edge, might start one of them on the field.

2 Broadsides, SMS, ASS, Team Leader with a Shield Drone and Target Lock
Railhead with Burst Cannons, Dis Pods and Multitracker
Ionhead with Burst Cannons, Dis Pods and Multitracker
The heavy guns, will come in from the own edge, as far away from the enemy troops as possible. Everything can move and fire. Broadsides will probably move in t2.

The thing I'm afraid of is that I lack big guns and that I might be too heavy on the kroots and pathfinders...Any feedback is welcome.

I like this list. I would totally play this any day.

The only thing I might change is the unit with TL Fusion Blaster and TA. I would change it to a deathrain, which has TL Missile pods and a Flamer.

Aaahkkk.

Okay, generally you will never be using devilfish for your pathfinders. As marker-lights are heavy weapons, you can't disembark and fire, and you won't be moving because you can't fire again. I would get rid of the devilfish on your fire warrior unit, and give them one pathfinder devilfish. With the saved points, I would get another fire warrior unit to take the second pathfinder devilfish.

Great list beyond that.