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Hi all this is a list I think performs really well against MEQ so coments would be apreciated


HQ
shas'el
-plasma rifle
-missile pod
-TA
-HW MT

Elites
3x Crisis
-plasma rifles
-missile pod
-MT

2x Crisis
-plasma
-missile pod
-MT

TROOPS (thing I'm really not sure about but it worked fine for now)

6 FW in Fish with
-MT
-TA
-SMS
-disruption pods


6 FW in Fish with
-MT
-TA
-SMS
-disruption pods

HEAVY SUPPORT
2 broadsides
1 shash'ui with ASS
1 shas'vre with ASS
HW target lock
HW dronecontroler
2 shield drones

I still have 8 points left to spend
Plan would be the park the Crisis behing the fishes and use JSJ to pop transports and hide from enemy fire.
the broadsides get deployed far away from the main army so that my opponent has to choose what he wants to deal with first.
the many upgrades on the fishes are just to make sure I have enough anti horde and make my bad tanks a bit better.
As said please give me your comenta and suggestions.

I'd prefer some more FW's and take away a 'fish, but I think it's a pretty good start

Good luck blasting the Emporah's "finest"

I'm going to have to agree with mega on this... I don't like your choice of 6 fire warriors to a squad I'd round them both out at 10 each.

Your wargear on the devilfish is kinda interesting too. They could have some advantages with LOS issues but whats their job? transportation. Not really fighting so if you look at it MT and TA with SMS is costing you 25 pts honestly I would drop it and put 5 into Decoy Launcher and keep Disruption Pod. That's 40 points(both fish) guess what that's a squad of 10.

Far as were you are going to get another 40 points I would go threw your heavy support honestly. I know you want shield drone's due to lascannons but honestly at 1k. You might run into 3 or 4 at best. Lets not forget you out range these things as well... I'd honestly just drop the whole Team Leader issue save yourself 40'ish points and dump it into troops and have just 3 normal Broadsides with Target Lockers. If you really want all of that stuff that is in that list but still like what I said then drop 1 broadside just 1 and that will give you almost enough points to fill out the 2 squads to 10 each and keep all the extra stuff I just hacked off should be about 2 pts over...

-Viri

Viridian wrote: Your wargear on the devilfish is kinda interesting too. They could have some advantages with LOS issues but whats their job? transportation. Not really fighting so if you look at it MT and TA with SMS is costing you 25 pts honestly I would drop it and put 5 into Decoy Launcher and keep Disruption Pod. That's 40 points(both fish) guess what that's a squad of 10.

Viridian, it is called a Warfish, a common and often favored build that yields a 7 die gunboat at BS4, that is a transport, too. A Decoy Launcher is near worthless since 5th Ed kicked in.

assassin wrote:2 broadsides
1 shash'ui with ASS
1 shas'vre with ASS
HW target lock
HW dronecontroler
2 shield drones

The Vre upgrade is silly as it upgrades h2h uselessly vs. MEqs. Just go with Team Leader and add a BK for the same points ... worth rallying even a single suit.

So something like this?

HQ
shas'el
-plasma rifle
-missile pod
-TA
-HW MT

Elites
3x Crisis
-plasma rifles
-missile pod
-MT

2x Crisis
-plasma
-missile pod
-MT

TROOPS

10 FW in Fish with
-MT
-TA
-SMS
-disruption pods


9 FW in Fish with
-MT
-TA
-SMS
-disruption pods

HEAVY SUPPORT
2x broadsides
with ASS
Is this list better or worse? :/ Not really willing to give up on the Warfishes since I like them a lot

assassin wrote:2x broadsides
with ASS
Is this list better or worse? :/ Not really willing to give up on the Warfishes since I like them a lot

I think I would rather lose one FireKnife than Shield Drones for Broadsides. That's what I'd do with this. One FK out, then upgrade an XV88 with Team Leader, BK, and 2 SDs.

I love Warfish too.

Oh yeah, definitely a better list! I've never used the Warfish loadout, but now I might have to try it since everyone seems to like it

Brothererekose wrote:

assassin wrote:2x broadsides
with ASS
Is this list better or worse? :/ Not really willing to give up on the Warfishes since I like them a lot

I think I would rather lose one FireKnife than Shield Drones for Broadsides. That's what I'd do with this. One FK out, then upgrade an XV88 with Team Leader, BK, and 2 SDs.

I love Warfish too.

I'd agree with Brothererekose, beyond that its a fine list.

I like that list a lot better, I guess in the end I can say coming up from 6 each at least your transporting a lot more then what it was worth previously. Cause you were only using half the transportation last list but this one is great. No idea on the War fish idea but if it works for you guys it works I'll have to look it up myself to see what the deal is. I tend to be with mega on this ideal but play style's are play style's and if its working for you then its what works that counts so go with it, course if you don't know it then learn it and that is what I will do.

-Viri

Brothererekose wrote:

assassin wrote:2x broadsides
with ASS
Is this list better or worse? :/ Not really willing to give up on the Warfishes since I like them a lot

I think I would rather lose one FireKnife than Shield Drones for Broadsides. That's what I'd do with this. One FK out, then upgrade an XV88 with Team Leader, BK, and 2 SDs.

I love Warfish too.

Here iss a tip. Try and include at least one hammerhead with railgun for taking out stuff like land raiders. Not a tau player but they are a hell of a lot annoying, with their 72" range. Just take out the earthshakers.

Broadsides have the same weapon twinlinked

assassin wrote:Broadsides have the same weapon twinlinked

Suppose but I just like the 5" sub shot blast
Suppose your way is better if theres more heavy support