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I need help beating Grey Knights with Tau. Does anyone have any tips or tricks?

Keep them as far away as possible. Or wait until their codex gets updated...

It depends so very much on both lists. A Coteaz Henchman-based army plays so very differently from Purifiers, and they're both different from Grand Strategy-oriented lists. This sort of thing belongs in Tactics, incidentally.

My friend takes fast transport. What now?

search 'ninja tau' it uses some wargear to limit arrivals will late in the game - may not win, but may draw

Ok thanks!

if speed is his strong point. then you need to focus fire and kick the legs out from under him. that should be the priority. after that focus down big targets.

its pretty much 123 abc! =D

first off how many points and what does his list have? that would help us help you to have some information.

in general though like with EVERY FACTION shoot the hell out of his trasports keep them away use your kroot as a screen and let your plasma eat the damn shinny dough boys

I Am probably going to ay 1250 points.

Focus all your fire on one target until it is dead. Next, focus all your fire on the next thing until it is dead. Do this til you win or lose.

Tau have some potent units with battlesuits. Take crisis suits with plasma rifles and torch Grey Knights with em. Take Broadsides and instant-kill his Paladins, do heaps of damage to his dreadnights, and wreck any vehicles he fields with ease.

How do Broadsides do instant kill?

The strength of their weapon is double the toughness of the target.

Get 2 squads of 3 Broadsides. And pray.

Awesome! Wait so double S destroys all of there wounds?

Yes, and he gets no feel no pain, when double strength.

Lord of Baal wrote:Awesome! Wait so double S destroys all of there wounds?

They still get any invulnerable saves but since railguns are S10 AP1, they don't get the 2+ and no FnP.

My advice against GKs is the same as it would be against most MEQ. Unhorse them with shooting and then make them walk across the board. This is complicated a bit by shunting dreadknights but keep all your troops in transport and just unload on him (the shoot and scoot method).

Keep your firewarriors in warfish use intervening terrain to keep out of assault when possible. Remember that SMS doesn't need LoS to fire so buildings are your friend.

Railheads to take out dreads and transports.

Broadsides protected by a kroot bubblewrap for extra firepower.

Crisis suit teams with PRs.

I find tau to be one if not the best option for killing GK. They have nothing that can catch a Crisis Suit, so you can simply use plasma rifles on your suits and instant instant kill anything not in termie armor, and they will have to take an invuln...oh and its AP2 so no feel no pain for palladins. As stated before Broadsides ignore their two wounds.

As tau, when facing any enemy your first threat is transports. Destroy any and all transports asap. Then you can simply dance around their troops granting no armor saves with your plasma rifles.

Hahaha that sounds funny.

AP2.

The thing that would be a menace is the Plasma syphon.Majority of your weapons,pulse,plasma rifles and burst cannons will be affected.If he decides he likes a melee Inquistor then he has a good chance of surviving to get close.

Deadshot wrote:The thing that would be a menace is the Plasma syphon.Majority of your weapons,pulse,plasma rifles and burst cannons will be affected.If he decides he likes a melee Inquistor then he has a good chance of surviving to get close.

Plasma syphon has a 12" range (I think) most Tau weapons are 24" or longer....

Deadshot wrote:The thing that would be a menace is the Plasma syphon.Majority of your weapons,pulse,plasma rifles and burst cannons will be affected.If he decides he likes a melee Inquistor then he has a good chance of surviving to get close.

That's a really esoteric piece of wargear and unless he knows he's facing you, he probably won't take it.

A melee Inquisitor would be close,so range of 12" would not be that big of a problem.

Deadshot wrote:A melee Inquisitor would be close,so range of 12" would not be that big of a problem.

Why would any decent Tau player get within 12"?

Rapid fire range.

They wouldn't,but a melee focused Inquisitor with the syphon wiould try to be there,and the syphon will protect him from most Tau guns.

Deadshot wrote:They wouldn't,but a melee focused Inquisitor with the syphon wiould try to be there,and the syphon will protect him from most Tau guns.

Please for the love of god use your space bar.

I do.

Deadshot wrote:I do.

Not well. Put spaces after punctuation. Punctuation does not replace spaces. I don't care if you learned it that way, you learned incorrectly.

Brother SRM wrote:Rapid fire range.

LoL. Rapid fire range also means assault range of your opponent. As a Tau player, I avoid that if at all possible.