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I've just started tau. I'm yet to play anything other than a nutbar apoc game where points didnt matter with them.

My intention was to run a tau gunline, but that seems less viable as due to certain ebay transactions not going how I'd hoped and money going on a rollercoaster due to current events, I only have the 24 fire warriors and I have 6 battlesuits instead. My question is - what's the best wargear to give any given Tau unit at the 1500pts level. 2k isnt a problem, I'm just not familiar enough with them to know what to give or not at this level.

I have 1 Ethereal, 6 Death Rain+ Crisis Suits, 6 Stealth Suits, 24 Fire Warriors, 8 Pathfinders, 2 Devilfish (Gun Drones), 2 Hammerheads (Burst Cannons) and a Skyray (Burst Cannons), along with around 30 shield/gun drones. I'll likely be getting another dozen FW soemtime soon and then not buying anything else for this force for a long time.

My current set up is:
Shas'el (TL Missile Pod, Targetting Array, HW Black Sun Filter, HW Drone Con, 2 Shield Drones), with a regular Deathrain+ (TL Missile Pod, Targetting Array), then 2 squads of 2 Death Rain+'s each with a team leader and 1-2 gun drones.
Either 3 squads of 8 fire warriors or 4 squads of 6, each with a Sha'ui with a bonding knife. (Was going to run 3 of 8, 1 being honour guard to an ethereal but the extra 70pts was needed elsewhere)
2 squads of 4 Pathfinders on Devilfish with Disruption Pods, a Multitracker and 2 Seeker Missiles.
Each Hammerhead has a Railgun, 2 Burst Cannons and Black Sun Filter / Disruption Pod / Target Lock / Multi Tracker / 2 Seeker Missiles.
The Skyray is 2 Burst Cannons / Black Sun Filter / Disruption Pod / Multi Tracker

But this comes out to the 1800-1900pt mark.
So my question is - how do I optimise this to 1500, I can't quite figure what precisely to do to improve it.