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So i'm looking for help on a 1000pt 700pt army to beat tau i already have
Assault on black reach orks and a bommer (Not assembled) so any additons that would be good, yeah any help would be great

Just out of curiosity (since I've seen you post this before), are you asking us to make a army list with the models on hand? Or suggesting models to add to your collection (but not go overboard and suggest dozen of high priced models)?

Bit of both to be honest.

I'd definately go for a speed army against tau.

So make bomber into a dakkajet with fighta ace and extra super shoota, 130pts. Super shoota is ap4 so good for tau. Then I'd try and get a couple of ranged ap4 things, then the rest on transports with pks to close in. Deffkoptas could be useful because of their mobility for combating suits.

HQ
Warboss : 150pts
attack bike
power klaw
attack squig
cybork body

Elites
10 Lootas : 150pts

Fast Attack
2 Deffkoptas : 115pts
2 TL rokkit launchas
1 power klaw

1 dakkajet : 130
extra super shoota
fighta ace

Troops:
12 boys : 152pts
bp, pk nob
trukk with reinforced ram

12 boys : 152pts
bp, pk nob
trukk with reinforced ram

12 boys : 152pts
bp pk nob
trukk with reinforced ram

1001pts


Lootas and dakkajet are your main anti fire warrior units. Warboss on bike for hard targets like tanks or maybe crisis suits. Deffkoptas for crisis and broadsides. Boys for krumpin.

Pros and cons to the trukks are probably that they will obviously get the enclosed sluggas (assuming this is a black reach heavy army) to the enemy quick. Negative is I have been told Tau can knock out trukks easily. Considering you have slugga boyz, footsloggin may be difficult due to Tau marker lights, which help them negate cover. I've only played Tau in a demo with Blood Angels.

Let us know how it works out!

I reccomend trukker boys set up like rahxephon had them.

The trukks with rams can use cover to its advantage and make itself obscured while ignoring the terrain.

Lootas are good for taking out troops, vehicles, and everything else (Str7 is good for suits too).

Sure the firewarriors can shoot down trukks, but they only have 1.5 turns to do that in.

Deffkoptas are great for anti suits if they have rokkits.

Warbikers are swell too with their great firepower and general choppiness.

Dakkajets are gold, the only real good flier we have and for a good reason, it packs quite a wallop.

Hope that helps!