Tau Flier: What you want

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**DakkaHammer**

Hi Dakka.
Every time I think about what Tau are going to get as a flier, I think of the FW barracuda, though with better rules than the Apocalypse Expansion barracuda. Maybe some stronger missiles, more powerful guns, some kind of special rule...

My question is: What do you want to see in the Flier that comes in the next WD update or codex? Something bigger? Something smaller? A flying transport? What's on your wishlist?

**Crablezworth**

Either something with transport capacity or something that can provide close air support or both.

**juraigamer**

Railguns. Tau simply cannot take enough. Fast attack railguns would be amazing.

Having missile pods on the side, as well as the possibility to take seeker missiles is all I could ask for.

**kambien**

Something that doesn't cripple my army when taken ie etherals/auv va/farsight ect

**Formosa**

how bout this
Fast skimmer
F 12
S 12
R 10
Transport 12
weapons: 3 twin linked railguns
130pts

This is a joke carry on

**terranarc**

Screw 3 TL.

6 railguns, 3 on each wing on something like a mini-manta but still big.

And let that be replaced by 6 TL-smartmissile systems with 41.25" range.

**Captain Avatar**

Remora Squadron as Fast attack Choice with improved seeker missiles and seeker missle options.

**Savageconvoy**

I don't want Burst cannons. I am tired of seeing those worthless weapons on everything.

I heard the rumor that it was a flying artillery platform. Basically hovers and uses markerlights to put down railguns and missiles on everything under the sun. I really want that.

**Formosa**

i would also like remoras to be fair, i really want to start my tau up again but ... well the Fire warriors put me off and the boxy suits while awsome when released are very dated, especialy when next to the awsome FW ones

**focusedfire**

Savageconvoy wrote:I don't want Burst cannons. I am tired of seeing those worthless weapons on everything.

I heard the rumor that it was a flying artillery platform. Basically hovers and uses markerlights to put down railguns and missiles on everything under the sun. I really want that.

Lord, I hope not. One of the things that drew me to the Tau was their basis in manoeveure warfare yet GW keeps making them more and more of a static gunline army. I want our agility back...like what we had before everyone and their brother became fast or fleet.

**Savageconvoy**

I guess I mistyped. I want the ability to move and hover like the stormtalon but able to put out more firepower. I feel that Tau are still fairly fast moving, but having one unit with speed won't really help. Having one unit that has enough firepower to carve rude gestures and taunts to the enemy on one of the local moons? That would help.

**Agent_Tremolo**

Never seen a Barracuda other than in pictures, but seems a bit larger than the current batch of GW fliers... Remoras I've seen a few, and though bigger than the common Tau drone, they're still way smaller than a Razorwing or an Ork Bommer.

Safest bet is to assume they won't be getting a FW redo, but a brand new type of flier.

**Buttons**

I would like to see something like a gunship. Perhaps something like
AV 11
AV 10
AV 10

Two wing-mounted weapons and a nose mounted weapon that are any of the following

Nose-Mounted
Railgun
Burst Cannon (why you would take this I don't know, but it is always going to be an option)
Plasma Rifle
Cyclical Ion Blaster
Marker Light
Ion Cannon

Wing-Mounted
Missile Pod
Seeker Missile Pylon (Pylon with 3 Seeker Missiles Each)
Cyclical Ion Blaster
Burst Cannon
Twin-Linked Rail Rifles

Something fast, light, and with a ton of firepower that can be kitted out for any goal (take 3 Cyclical Ion Blasters to chew through infantry, take seeker missiles and a marker light to get a flying skyray, take a railgun and two twin-linked rail rifles for more rail weapons than you will ever want on a vehicle). Granted it should be expensive as hell for so many weapons, perhaps 120 points before including the costs of any weapons

**DakkaHammer**

Now that seems interesting. What about including some of the FW hammerhead alternate weapons, like the long barreled burst cannons or the missile pods with blast.
And I agree that it would have to be extra maneuverable and able to fire all it's weapons while flying at a fair clip.

And remoras with the ability to take fusion blasters would be pretty cool.

**Jefffar**

I would be happy with the FW Update Hammerhead Weapons or an Ion Cannon instead of Railguns. Weapons that can take it to infantry and to light vehicles so our Railguns can focus on what needs to be taken out. If you need vehicles gone the Fusion Cannon combined with the rapid movement of a Flier would be brutally effective.

I wouldn't mind bringing the Barracuda or the Tiger Sharks over from Forgeworld (the latter would need a serious Nerf to be both playable and affordable in a regular game).

**Magicnick93**

I'd like the flier to be something like this:

Points: 100-150
Type: Fast, Skimmer
AV: 11 All round, or 10 all round (doesn't really matter to much IMO).
BS: 4
Weapons: 4 Networked Markerlights, 2 Rail Rifles.
Comes with: Multi-tracker, Target Lock.
Special Rules: Aerial Assault, Supersonic
May upgrade: rail rifles to 1 Ion Cannon (15 points),
May take any upgrade from the Vehicle Armory.

I have heard that the fliers gonna get a new type of missile that works with markerlights, but that's just a rumor and should be taken with salt.

Ether way, I hope they make something interesting that is fun to field on the battlefield.

**phoenixrisin**

a Flier with 12/12/12 armor and BS4 that can run
2 networked markerlights and 4 twinlinked missile pods with a railgun for 200 points.

**JbR of the Endless Spire**

I reckon it will probably be something similar to a piranha in design except larger and more of a gunship. So larger with more/bigger guns. Or something like a large remora perhaps... meh... thats my guess anyway

**Tauownz**

I'm hoping for a mini orca type gunship. Something with 6-8 shots, like 2 Cyclical Ion Blaster type weapons but at least S6. And termed a dedicated transport so you can spam them if you want.
AV11 F
AV11 S
AV10 R
-built in disruption pod and targeting array
-BS4
-Supersonic
-aerial assault
-transport of 6 FW's max
-2: long barreled cyclical ion blasters (5 shots each,not twin linked at 24" range)
-can carry 2 seekers
-90-120pts depending on options

**Diabolical13**

I was thinking something like:
11 all around
nose mounted burst cannon
Can be replaced with
-SMS
-TL FB
-TL plasma rifles

Winged weapons come stock with 2 MPs
Can be replaced with
-Burst Cannons (free)
-Plasma Rifles
-4 Seeker Missles (2 on each wing)

Or maybe a close low flying anti infantry flyer with TLed Burst cannons on the nose that can be replaced with TL flamers or TL FBs

**AtoMaki**

I want to see some sort of Tau!Vendetta thing. So a gunship/transporter with excellent firepower, good durability and good mobility. Something like:

Tau Gunship - 200pts - Fast Attack selection
BS 3, FA12, SA11, RA10
- 2 TL railguns on wing mounts
- 1 TL missle pod on hull mount
- Blacksun filter
- Decoy launchers

- Scouts
- Deep Strike
- Aerial Assault
- Supersonic

May transport 6 infantry or 3 suits. Suits may be dropped out as per Gravchute Insertion.

No options.

**Kaisan**

I like the vision of AtoMaki.
However, I think that a railgun on a transport might be a bit too much, maybe an equivalent to the rail riffle the pathfinders have and a couple of networked markerlights.
After all, the vendetta is less heavily armed than the leman russ, and the storm raven just slightly more than the land raider (but the late flyer is a Matt Ward joke).
So, unless the tau flyer is a really heavy flyer (on wich i don't count at all), i wouldn't expect it to be more armed than the hammerhead.

**ArbitorIan**

A transport that can hold/deploy (but not re-embark) Crisis Suits.

**A Town Called Malus**

I want a fast, heavily armed transport. Armed with missile pods, Smart Missile Systems, possibly beefed up Burst Cannons or maybe an Ion Cannon (or improved Cyclic Ion Blaster).

For it's transport capacity it should be able to carry 12 infantry models (plus any drones), 6 Stealth (plus drones) or 3 Crisis Suits (plus any drones).

Possibly give it the option to sacrifice transport capacity to stick a twin-linked Railgun on it instead.

**Jefffar**

Watch we end up with a supersonic Pterodactyl ridden by Kroot . . .

**Emperor awfulness**

I want a vehicle with unlimited seeker missiles, able to convert any markerlight hit into a missile without paying 10 points a pop. And have it grant a stealth field in a 6” radius.

**Maelstrom808**

Jefffar wrote:Watch we end up with a supersonic Pterodactyl ridden by Kroot . . .

You sir, win an exhalt

**AnomanderRake**

....I liked the Barracuda.

I'd make it better-armored, possibly slightly cheaper, and give it an extra missile pod to work with the current state of the game, though.

**mega_bassist**

Jefffar wrote:Watch we end up with a supersonic Pterodactyl ridden by Kroot . . .

I'd be okay with this.

On topic, I'd love a Fast Attack flier with Railguns and Missile Pods. I'd be okay with some transport capacity, but limited ; they have Orca dropships for a reason lol.

**TMonkeyGuru**

The barracuda from forge world would be nice for me, but also I would like the remora as an "body guard" option for it (or for other vehicules as well) something like the spearhead formation