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Heya Id like some CC and thoughts on my first 1500 list for new tau.

135 Shadowsun
138 Commander w/ Drone controller, Iridium armor, TL:MP

96 Firewarrior x 8 w/ emp/bonding knife
96 Firewarrior x 8 w/ emp/bonding knife
95 Kroot w/ sniper ammo, 1 krootox
95 Kroot w/ sniper ammo, 1 krootox

245 Riptide w/ ion, FB, SMD x1 , Stim
120 Stealth suit w/, vre, FB, Homing Beacon, VTS
176 Crisis suit w/, vre, PEN and a FB, others with TL:FB + FB or 2 separate FB + Target lock depend on when they get FAQ or some one figures it out.

168 10x marker drones 2x shield drones

136 Skyray w/ SMS, SS, DP, BSF for the heck of it.

Should come out square 1500.

Initial thoughts are to stick shadow sun w/ the Riptide for some great mobility and protection (just sit them in area terrain)
Then infiltrate the stealth suits in a decent mid/back field position for some great drops/out flank depending on the enemies deployment.

Im thinking Hoards might be my biggest problems as well as razor spam, what do you guys think.

I think you should drop the Skyray down to a hammer head.

Ok well after thinking about it and reading up on some battle reports i restructured the list. i guess this should be a decent start atleast for practice with new ablities and items

192 COMMANDER (PEN, IA, DC, MP, PR, TL, 2X M-DRONE)
223 BODYGUARD X2 (TL-MP, PR. 2X M-DRONE) (TL-MP, PR, MSSS, C&CN, 2X M-DRONE)

50 ETHEREAL

132 FIRE WARRIOR X12 (EMP)
132 FIRE WARRIOR X12 (EMP)
70 KROOT X20 (SNIPER, KROOTOX X1, HOUND X1)

178 CRISIS TEAM X3 ( VRE, PR,FB, JAMMER) (TL-FB, PR)X2

240 RIPTIDE (ION, STIM, VT)

195 HAMMERHEAD (RAIL/SUB, SMS, DP, SS)

85 ADL W/ ICARUS

Its going to be played mostly as a gun line. Think i should change up the body guards a bit and maybe add target locks so that basically the marker drones can shoot independently at something while all the suits can attack what they want? (the commander will be sitting on the Icarus sniping vehicles and stuff when it can with tank hunter)

 Desubot wrote:
132 FIRE WARRIOR X12 (EMP)
132 FIRE WARRIOR X12 (EMP)

In my meta vehicles are largely absent, so no need for EMPs.

 Desubot wrote:
178 CRISIS TEAM X3 ( VRE, PR,FB, JAMMER) (TL-FB, PR)X2

Why have one group of XV8s that can easily be caught in h2h, when you can have 3 singles really hard to catch in h2h, and far easier to maneuver with JSJ? Splits your fire, good for you. Splits enemy's fire, good for you.

Thats true, i could split them with the only time it becomes a problem would be kill points.

My Meta tends to be a bit all over the place so i'd like to have the options with emp,s as a decent back up.

il have to think about it but the list is not even remotely set in stone.