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hey. i have been lurking for quite some time here and decided to join. i have been playing warhammer fantasy for about 3 years and 40k only for a few months. we have a tournament here soon, 1500 points. this is my first tournament and have no idea how the tournament scene is, or what a "competitive" tau list is. i have won a few games but they have all been friendly/easy games. this is the list i am thinking of running. please comment if you have ANY advice seeing how i am still very new.

shas'el- CIB, PR, TA, stimulant injector, HWMT
2 crisis suit- 2 PR,2 MP, 2 MT, team leader
2 crisis suit- 2 PR, 2 MP, 2 MT, team leader
2 crisis suit- 2 twin linked MP, 2 flamer, team leader
6 fire warriors- devil fish, DP, MT
6 fire warriors- devil fish, DP, MT
6 fire warriors- devil fish, DP, MT
2 broadsides- 2 ASS, team leader, HWTL, HWDC, shield drone
2 broadsides- 2 ASS, team leader, HWTL, HWDC, shield drone
hammerhead- rail gun, burst cannons, MT, TL, DP

i think i have a few extra points so i might throw in another fire warrior or something. so how does it look for a tournament list? any and all comments are welcome.

I'll go by each area and say what I think I would do.

HQ- I'd drop the TA and stimulant injector. That's alot of points that aren't going to be that big of an advantage.

ELITE- I'd max out all three spots with 3 crisis suits. I really like your setup, and if you need points you can make a second squad of deathrains...something like 3xTLMP, Flamer, 3xTLMP, Flamer, 3x PR MP MT. But really, 9 suits is pretty much a must if you want to win

TROOPS: You want to take minimum amount of fw, so that's already good. I'd drop the MT on devilfish. The 10 points per is really not worth the 3 shots you get. If you have kroot, run one squad of 10 in place of a fw squad and df, if you dont have any, dont worry about it.

FAST: Piranhas are excellent for buying time, but once again if you dont have them, dont worry about it. I'd run one if you do have one. Good distraction unit. Also, if you have pathfinders, you might consider running a squad of 6 or so and cutting one of the df's off your fw's.

HEAVY: excellent, keep it exactly as it.

thank you for the note and i made some changes to my list. here is the updated list.

shas'el- CIB, PR, TA, HWMT, stimulant injector (deepstrike/harassment)
3 crisis suits- 2 TLMP, 2flamer, 1 TWflamer, MP, teamleader, BK
3 crisis suit- 3 MP, 3 MT, 2 PR, 1 FB, teamleader, BK (the FB MP is for wound allocation and deep strikers.)
3 crisis suit- 3 MP, 3 MT, 2 PR, 1 FB, teamleader, BK
6 fire warriors- devil fish DP
12 kroot (i had 28 extra points so i bumped each unit up to 12)
12 kroot
2 broadsides- ASS, teamleader, BK (not sure is drones make it a 3man unit), HWDC, shield drone
2 broadsides- ASS, teamleader, BK, HWDC, shield drone
hammer head- railgun, MT, TL, DP, burst cannons

so is the updated list better? thoughts?

Good list...making the leader in the squad of crisis suits already helps with wound allocation. You ussually want to keep your suits equipped all the same. I'd go ahead and drop the FB and make them all the same. If you have problems with points, you could get some back by taking away 2 kroot from each squad or dropping the TA off the HQ. I think that list sound be pretty solid though. I'd also warn about deepstriking Tau...I've played Tau for two years and it has never been good to me. I think it's because there is never a time when deepstriking a unit close enough to deal damage is a good idea. The only way it would be effective is if it were like 1 cs with a TLFB, but then you lose too much firepower in your long distance.

Ok I'm gonna tell you what I think.

HQ is not good wasted point like hell. Make him a fireknive as well and drop the stimulant injector you won't get many FNP throws...

Also fet rid of the fusion blaster and buy plsama again for the elite suits.

And last give the devilfish a SMS and MT and a TA

Thats all I can think of drop some Kroot if you need to.

Seems good keep it up

+1 to what assassin said

I would suggest getting rid of you hammerhead and kroot, and then getting:

Another fire warrior unit w/ Warfish
Some pathfinders.

Honestly, I think kroot are one of the best objective holders in the game if used right...firewarriors are not good enough to justify having to spend that many points on making them effective (i.e. warfish-120 points). I'd take those points and definately keep the hammerhead. Not only is it an extremely effective horde killer with its large blast, but it also is a great distraction with its FA 13.