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Does anyone think that making a Farsight list with him having a bunch of characters sound dangerous?

My thinking is taking Target Lock on each one and some plasma's.

This way they can fire at different targets and on rolls of 6's to hit pick out the nastys.

Does anyone think this is a viable tactic?

That would be great for a 5th ed game, but TL got FAQ'd out for 6th

You don't need TL. You just need precision shots. Even Rapid Fire Plasma and a Fusion shot could cause problems.

But Twin Linked doesn't stop Rapid Fire from shooting 2 shots. What it is saying is that you don't two shots for having two of the same weapons.

Target Lock is no longer useful for us, according to the FAQ. I think that limits the list viability severely. Sorry for the bad news

Precision Shot Allows you to pick the model in the unit targetted, not the unit targetted. Essentially, you can't split fire.

If target lock is not in the BRB it is not gone. You go to the Codex. So it's still good.

And yes you can target other squads with it and any rolls of 6's from characters are precision shots.

Yes it is gone, read the tau 6th edition FAQ, target locks on infantry and battlesuits no longer have any effect. Its an utterly wtf unneeded change... but there you go

Yea TLs are gone.. I think it was to avoid confusion or w.e for focus fire.. Which would be viable not useless.. Anyway, I'm about to post a farsight list, not so many bodyguards tho. At 1500 pts he's a great commander and doesn't limit ur force org to much because of the point limit does enough. A second unit of broadsides can't be taken but phirannas or helios suits can fill that role

Bobug wrote:Yes it is gone, read the tau 6th edition FAQ, target locks on infantry and battlesuits no longer have any effect. Its an utterly wtf unneeded change... but there you go

This +1. It is the page 28 TL that is gone.

Apparently still cool for Railheads, though.

As for the OP: Shooting in general got better, so all tau got a buff. Not a *huge* one, but one none-the-less. Not enough to make me ever really worry about Farsight, regardless of which army I'll play. Gimme 5 muhreens against a full FS crew and fait accompli, I've negated a decent shooting threat.

Well Target lock being gone is stupid. It was a great piece of wargear. Thank you GW for breaking it.

One thing I noticed that made my Farsight bomb very sad is that although crisis shas'vre are characters per the BRB reference, the FAQ changed the bodyguard to simply infantry (jetpack). Farsight is the only one who can use precision shots/strikes. :(

I think they removed our target lock because now you can take more heavy support having turn 1 6 squads of 3 braodsides (18 in all) all targeting different tanks with s10 ap1 kinda op.

Don't get me wrong it sucks for fire knife and other crisis suits combos but yeah is gone and we have to deal with it.

Where did you see that you can have 6 heavy choices?

Target Lock in my opinion was for Fire Warrior squads. This way marker lights could be stacked on something that you want dead.

Now this will not happen. Who in their right minds shoots 50 shots into one target just to get 5 counters on it? No one. If you shoot something 50 times it should be dead.

Any model that is a Character gets Precision Shot. So all you need to be is a Shas'o or Shas'el.

This now makes Fire Warrior Shas'el's take their regular weapon. Even if the weapons is AP5 you wound marines on 3's and a well placed Precision Shot to that Lascannon SM sounds nice.