Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Okay so here is my 1750p Tau list.
Basicly 11 Battlesuits, 2 hammerheads, 1piranha, 1 devilfish, 6 pathfindes, 2 medium Kroot squads, and the required firewarrior squad.

When i choosed my Battlesuits i want them to be good at range, so I have two medium sized death rain squads and one big fireknife squad for plasma that will be needed. The Broadsides have extra firepower with the plasma rifles to deal with heavy units.
I will give the Transport to the fire warriors, but had to buy them with the pathfinders.



Commander
Shas'el with plasma rifle, Missile pod, targeting array and hard-wired multi-tracker.

XV8 'Crisis' Battlesuit Team
2 Shas'ui with twin-linked Missile pods, Targeting arrays.

XV8 'Crisis' Battlesuit Team
2 Shas'ui with twin-linked Missile pods, Targeting arrays.

XV8 'Crisis' Battlesuit Team
2 Shas'ui with Plasma rifles, Missile pods and multi-trackers,
1 Team leader with plasma rifle, missile pod, targeting array, hard-wired multi-tracker, hard-wired drone controller, 2 shield drones and a bonding knife.

Fire Warrior Team
6 Shas'la.

Kroot Carnivore Squad
10 Kroot, 9 Kroot Hounds.

Kroot Carnivore Squad
10 Kroot, 9 Kroot Hounds.

Pathfinder Team
6 Shas'la.
Transport: Devilfish Troop Carrier
Devilfish, Disruption pod, multi-tracker, targeting array and a smart missile system.

Piranha Light Skimmer Team
Piranha with fusion blaster and targeting array.

XV88 Broadside Battlesuit Team
2 Shas'ui with Multi Trackers and twin-linked Plasma Rifles.
1 Team Leader with Targeting Array, twin-linked Plasma Rifles, hard-wired multi-tracker, hard-wired target lock, hard-wired drone controller, 2 Shield drones and a Bonding knife.

Hammerhead Gunship
Hammerhead, railgun, burst cannons, multi-tracker, disruption pod.

Hammerhead Gunship
Hammerhead, railgun, burst cannons, multi-tracker, disruption pod.


What do you think?

Looks like a great list but you want all your crisis suits to be fireknives you have so much anti tank out there already but what the Tau really lacks is AP you need to take advantage of the Plasma with Rapid Fire to kill Space marines. Also I would suggest if you can find points either putting in another pathfinder team or getting a full squad of vespids for the AP I talked about earlier other than that this is a very competitive list for the tau.

It is as about as tight as you can get.

If you have any points, maybe Target Locks for the Railheads. BCs shoot guys while the RG pops tanks. Anything else is *really* nit-picky.

Brothererekose wrote:It is as about as tight as you can get.

A challenge?

I do agree it is a fairly tight list...

...but...

I think you should reconsider your crisis suits a little bit. I really don't think that many missile pods are justified unless you are playing against necrons, orks, or eldar (Who all have either a plenitude of 4+ save models, or low AV vehicles)

Personally, I'm a big fan of bladestorms and firestorms.

The Bringer wrote:

Brothererekose wrote:It is as about as tight as you can get.

A challenge?

Naw. Not really. We know that suit tweaks are sometimes a matter of taste, often tailoring to the enemy.

Although, two pairs of Deathrains is pretty good for dealing with Razorback-spam.

The Bringer wrote:Personally, I'm a big fan of bladestorms and firestorms.

Now that I think of it, I cannot recall having fielded a BladeStorm (PR/BC). Maybe when the new 'dex is released.

delete