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Ok, I have a tourney coming up and am planning on taking my Tau. This is the first tourney I will be playing them in so all help is welcome. The PF Devolfish will be hijacked by the FW.

HQ
Shas'el w/MP, PR, TA, HWMT = 97

ELITES
3 Shas'ui w/MP, PR, MT = 186
3 Shas'ui w/MP, PR, MT = 186
3 Shas'ui w/TLMP, FL = 141

FAST ATTACK
8 Pathfinders w/DF, FL, SMS, DP, TA = 211
8 Pathfinders w/DF, FL, SMS, DP, TA = 211

TROOPS
9 Firewarriors = 90
9 Firewarriors = 90

HEAVY SUPPORT
Hammerhead w/RG, BC, DP, MT, TL = 170
Hammerhead w/RG, BC, DP, MT, TL = 170
Hammerhead w/RG, BC, DP, MT, TL = 170

What is FL on the Devilfish? I assume Flechette Dischargers, but these don't seem to be included in the total cost (unless I'm doing math wrong).

If your FWs are going to be riding in style all game, why not drop them down to 6 men each? The extra points will let you bring a Piranha for movement blocking.

I think you should try to put MTs on your Devilfish -- Moving 12" and still firing the SMS (at BS4!) is pretty nice. Then again, warfish are pretty expensive, and they aren't particularly durable.


I like the list, but the only way this will work is if your Pathfinders stay alive to help keep the railguns on target. Good luck!

You have no bonding knives on the Elites... this means if you lose 2 you retreat instead of having 1 fight on.... Worth the points IMO.

That is ALOT of Pathfinders for how many railguns/Plasma you actually have....

I would drop it to 2 Squads of 4 and save those points for something else...

FW are just for objectives drop 3 from each squad to save another 60 pts total....

HH for all 3 Heavy slots is brave.... You only get 3 railgun shots total... compared to 6 if you took 3 man squads of XV88 2x.. Not to mention you can TL the XV88 and this maybe hit 4 targets. all for around the same points value.....

I'm with Milisim as far as the pathfinders are concerned. You're spending a lot of points on markerlights when it may be entirely possible that you may not be able to use all your marker tokens.

2 squads of 5 (lose 2 before you take Ld) should be more than enough to take care of the markerlighting that you need to do If you do want to include more pathfinders I would split them up so you have 3 squads of 5. Use two of the devilfish to cart around your FW, use the last 'fish (min cost) to block (a role better left to piranha, but if you really do want the marker tokens..).

Also reducing the amount of pathfinders would allow you to attach drones (shield/gun depends on how much faith you have in your dice) to your suits. AP3 STR8 (something you will see quite a lot of in tournies) makes short work of our XV8s, and having a couple ablative wounds to absorb some missile fire will keep your suits viable for another 1~2 turns.

3 hammerheads, though risky, should be alright as long as you keep them mobile and have a good sense of target priority. Hide your suits behind them (w/ gundrones instead of shield drones), JSJ, take 4+ cover saves, profit.

EDIT: As a side note, w/o a significant amount of broadsides Mech IG might give you fits.

Marshall Ragnar wrote:8 Pathfinders w/DF, FL, SMS, DP, TA = 211
8 Pathfinders w/DF, FL, SMS, DP, TA = 211

MTs will allow a Combat Speed Move and fire all guns.

Marshall Ragnar wrote:TROOPS
9 Firewarriors = 90
9 Firewarriors = 90

Two is too few at 1750. I'd split 'em to three six packs, reserving one for a walk-on objective grab or trim off a Deathrain for three niners. Have you a good idea of the missions? The amount of objective based goofery? Secondary & tertiary objectives?