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1850 tournament list code name- Tau (The Angry U.S.A)

HQ:
Shasel- plasma rifle, missile pod, multitracker, and HW bonding knife: 92pt

Elite:
3x Shasui battlesuits- 3x TL missile pod, x2 drone controller(4 gun drones), 1x flamer: 173pt

Troops:
6x Fire Warriors + Warfish- Targeting Array, Multitracker, smartmissile system and dpod: 180pt

6x Fire Warriors: 60pt

6x Fire Warriors: 60pt

Fast Attack:
8x Pathfinders- 5x markerlights and pulse carbines, 3x rail rifle and target lock, 1x shasvre with bonding knife. 141pt
1x Warfish- Targeting Array, Multitracker, smartmissile system and dpod: 120pt

8x Pathfinders- 5x markerlights and pulse carbines, 2x rail rifle and target lock, 1x shasvre with bonding knife. 131pt
1x Warfish- Targeting Array, Multitracker, smartmissile system and dpod: 120pt

2x Piranhas- 1x Target lock, 2x Fusion Blaster and Targeting Arrays: 145pt

Heavy Support:
3x Broadsides- 1x teamleader, bondingkinfe, HW dronecontroller (2 shield drones), target lock and blacksun filter(FU necrons). 3x TL railguns, 3x smartmissile system, 3x targeting array. 288

2x Hammerheads- 2x Railgun, pair of burst cannons, multi tracker, dpod, and blacksun filter(FU necrons): 340pt

Total: 1850


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Please give constructive feedback.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Please give constructive feedback.

You have alot of pathfinders but dont have a proportionally sized firepower units to use them. Only 2 squads of battlesuits and one squad of broadsides.

HQ
im assuming ur gonna join the xv8 squad with your HQ?

Elites
with 4 gun drones, your majority toughness will become 3 instead of 4. With one squad of deathrains you dont have enough firepower to take down a wide variety of targets

Troops
Too many warfishes, you dont want ur troop transports to be in danger in the first place so dont make them your firepower

FA
Again, warfish problem. and that second pathfinder group is excessive for how many shooting units you have. Ideally if you have 2 pathfinders, you should have a large amount of shooting, ie lots of squads of battlesuits. having 10 markerlights that only have a squad of deathrains, hamemrheads and broadsides within rainge of the markerlight (and the broadsides and hammerheads already have a targetting array), you dont need that many markerlights.

HS
Generally fine, but why cose burst cannons over sms? the 18" BC means your tank will be in charging range of some specialist troops


HQ 92pts
Elites 173pts
Troops 300pts
FA 417pts
HS 628pts

From this, too many points in FA and HS. Majority of our firepower are with elites, hammerheads are used for their blast weapons (and being a mobile decoy for the enemy), solid shot is unreliable. Most of your hammerheads wont survive the game. From what i see, you are gonna have a lot of trouble with power armor armies (which is the majority of the armies around)

I like your list, especially with the fu necron comments XD

The only thing I don't entirely like is the gun drones with your stealth suits. I know they are nice for soaking wounds and all, but I would put on BF instead.

shock_at wrote:You have alot of pathfinders but dont have a proportionally sized firepower units to use them. Only 2 squads of battlesuits and one squad of broadsides.
Elites
with 4 gun drones, your majority toughness will become 3 instead of 4. With one squad of deathrains you dont have enough firepower to take down a wide variety of targets

Eh... not if the commander joins them, which would make it 4... and he plans on joining the commander to them I bet.

shock_at wrote:
Troops
Too many warfishes, you dont want ur troop transports to be in danger in the first place so dont make them your firepower

There is no such thing as too many warfishes. I find that even though they are over-priced, they are an integral part of most successful Tau armies... its a big investment of points, but it is usually worth it.

shock_at wrote:
FA
Again, warfish problem. and that second pathfinder group is excessive for how many shooting units you have. Ideally if you have 2 pathfinders, you should have a large amount of shooting, ie lots of squads of battlesuits. having 10 markerlights that only have a squad of deathrains, hamemrheads and broadsides within rainge of the markerlight (and the broadsides and hammerheads already have a targetting array), you dont need that many markerlights.

I think that the number of pathfinders is a bit excessive, I'd get rid of 2-4 in each unit.

shock_at wrote:
HS
Generally fine, but why cose burst cannons over sms? the 18" BC means your tank will be in charging range of some specialist troops

Burst cannons are 1/2 price of SMS, and you get 2 more shots... awesome!!
With the latest Tau errata and FAQ, SMS is about as good as 2 burst cannons.. so I try not to tell people to take one over the other, because they both have their advantages and disadvantages.



Also, Welcome to Dakka papabear

With all those Markerlights, you may want to consider jamming 8 seeker missiles into that list; it's a nice opening volley against deathstar style lists, or just slaughtering long fangs. But really, I'd like to see at least 3 more crisis suits in there. You're sinking a lot of points into those pathfinders, which have very little to support.