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Tau:
HQ: Crisis suit 2 drones
HQ: Crisis suit 2 drones
Troop: Fire warriors x10
Troop: Kroot x10
Troop: Kroot x10
Troop: Kroot x17
Elites: Pathfinder x8, Devilfish
Heavy: Ion Tank
Heavy: Broadsides x2 drones x2
Heavy: Broadside x3, drones x2

This is the list I just ran tonight:
Belial: LC
Int-Chaplain
Upgrade Squad: Standard w/LC, Apoth w/TH/SS, 3x LC
Land Raider Crusader
DW Squad: SGT w/SB-PW, 3x SB-PF, SB-PF-CML
DW Squad: 4x TH-SS, TH-SS-CML
DW Squad: 4x TH-SS, TH-SS-CML
DW Squad: 2x TH-SS, 2x LC, TH-SS-CML
Speeders: 3x Typhoon, MM (seperate units)

Deployment: Table Quarters. Mission: KPs
He went first.
He set up everything but Kroot in the corner around a set of ruins. Kroot in reserve (he had the HQ upgrade that lets him bring 1 in each turn on a 2), I reserved everything and did the DW Assault with the 3 TH squads. Even with scatters I penned him into the corner. Over 4 turns all he could do was back up tighter into the corner while killing terminators with mass fire, watching my reserved units move in closer. The LRC with HQs and LC squad came in on turn 2. I was able to run it along the board edge right into his main force huddling in the corner. On my turn 4 he had killed the original 3 units with the loss of 1 plasma suit, a drone from each Broadside squad, 1 of his HQs (sacrificed to 3 TH termies so they would assault him rather than 8 pathfinders), and striped the LRC of the assault cannon and MM. On my turn 4 the LRC moved up the final 12" and deployed the HQ in a split action, Belial and Chaplain out the front to assault the other HQ attached to 3 plasma crisis suits and the squad out the side to hit 2 missile suits and the hammer Apoth to dual charge the Ion tank. The LRC shot a hurricane bolter into the Pathfinders killing 4. They broke. The Speeders and SB-PF units missiles killed off the smaller Broadside unit and broke the other (who'se fallback brought them into range of the Assault squad that just got off the LRC....JOY). Belial and Chappy assault the HQ and wipe it out. The assault unit tripple charged, killed the Broadsides, the suits and the Ion tank. He conceded with 3 squads of Kroot and a single plasma suit left, 2of the Kroot units and the suit would have died in assaults on turn 5 while the 3rd would have taken mass shooting from the Speeders and the SB-PF termies.

My first full game with DW (we played a few small 750 point games last week in a local mini RTT). Since no one in our area has fielded a DW army in years everyone kinda forgot about DW assault. Quite a potent option to have available to counter a disadvantageous deployment.