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My three friends and I started a campaign two weeks ago. Its Orks and Tau vs Space Marines and GK. My Xenos ally runs 2 to 3 units of Broadsides and a crisis team, along with some dudes in Devilfishes. The idea of our team up is that Tau provide the orks with the ultimate cover fire and support while I ram into enemy ranks and cause chaos. Here is the list, roughly 2000 points. It use to have Ghaz and burnas, but I want to try something new.
HQ
Big Mek KFF
Warboss- PK, Attack Squig, bike

Troops:
5 Nobs, 3 PK, 2 BC, bikes
1 Painboy bike

19 shoota boyz
1 Nob PK

19 shoota boyz
1 Nob Pk

18 Choopa boyz
1 Nob PK

Elite:
4 Meganobz

10 Kommandos
-2 with burna
Snikrot

Fast Attack:
1 Deff kopta- twin linked rokkit, buzzsaw

Heavy Support:
4 BW deffrollers

I don't think that Snikrot is really useful without a heavy hitter (Warboss w/ PK, Ghaz, etc).

You're BWs need a weapon, because without one, a Weapon Destroyed = Immobilized.

I second what clavix said no need to have snikrot unless that warboss is coming with him. Maybe lootas instead to help with fire support. Also to save some points drop maybe one or two PK from that nob bike squad, and try to get some more wound allocation going by putting war gear on it, that squad needs a bosspole and banner btw too.

I didn't have my exact list when writing this, but the nobs do have a waaagh banner, cybork bodies, and other guns for wound allocation, and all BW have at least one big shoota and boarding planks for the meganobs to screwier dreadnoughts . The list is slighty over 2k but I just wanted throw it out there for some feedback. The Snikrot feed back is interesting, the last game I played they came on and killed a unit of space marines (with a laz cannon), and took the las cannon off a razorback, then they were tied in combat for 3 turns by a rifleman dread, so it was like you said, without the PK they we kited. We predicted, successfully, that our enemies would bring as much las and high strength shooting to take down the four battlewagons, also the first two games were capture and control and seize ground, so I wanted to bring these guys to tie shooting units up, to have Snikrot glance vehicles to death, and contest and wipe out small troops sitting on objectives.

Are there any other fun troops or units you think would be a blast to field, along side Tau, fighting the Imperium scum?

Burnas. Gotta have your burnas. Downgrade a unit of Boyz to go in a Trukk instead, and you'll have fun with tank shock/ flaming inferno imperial troops.