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I have played 4 tau players and ever drone seems to be missle drones. Just looking for opinions how to counter this. i have 1500pts of ever army but tau eldar and dark eldar and demons

Check FAQs right now!

Oh yes i know about the faqs for tau but my group plays by what's in brb and codexs only.

frogy27 wrote:
Oh yes i know about the faqs for tau but my group plays by what's in brb and codexs only.

Uh...

Find a new group. Seriously, that's slowed.

Well that's pretty bull.

and all 3 of your options are relatively weak against tau.

id say spam as many venoms and raiders as you can and focus fire one threat at a time. missile drones are nice but they are still BS2.

Tau still have problems with threat overload

Show them the FAQ, it is just as official as the Codex and BRB, Tell them they are doing it wrong.

We all just find it easier to stick to brb and codexs find it easier then hunting down ever rule change. why don't gw just print a book with changes in it.

They did, It is called DFTS. it didnt go over well.
And you only need to check your army, seriously do it, When he is doing is totally against the rules it isnt funny.

frogy27 wrote:
We all just find it easier to stick to brb and codexs find it easier then hunting down ever rule change. why don't gw just print a book with changes in it.

Probably because they wouldn't make any money if they had to reprint and give updated copies or no one would buy updated books with the same info. printing out a FAQ isn't all that hard. (though if you had the ipad version it auto updates)

and besides that it is your own group so play as you will. my suggestions in a few posts above.

Insist on using FAQs. They are pretty vital to keeping the game balanced (relatively).

Alternatively, insist he use actual Missile Drone models. Do not accept proxies or conversions.

Actually, look at dungeons ad Dragons 3.5. i think GW might be quite surprised by how many people WOULD by a 2.0 book. It makes sense. Get all theincidental wordings out, put designer notes in, addresssing intent directly in it. Of course people would then cry about the "way GW is making errors on purpose to sell more books". cause thats what gamers do.

But i think it is true that peple might invest in a 2.0 and they CERTAINLy could do a limited run of them and sell out.

Please don't feed the troll.

I play Tau and I play by the FAQ so the armies you're playing against aren't even legal man. You are getting destroyed by something completely unrealistic and as such you're not going to find a way to play against something that is so severely broken.

The rules change all the time and so many different FAQ that its hard to find all the new rules gw keeps putting out plus all the changes that trunys use and other gameing groups that i can't stay up to date. and not to mention all the ways rules are interpreted. that's its easier to say we go by the brb and codexs only. Also trying to find all wd issues with rules in them

*sigh*

frogy27 wrote:
The rules change all the time and so many different FAQ that its hard to find all the new rules gw keeps putting out

You're on the internet right now, and they only put rule changes on exactly one place.

frogy27 wrote:
plus all the changes that trunys use and other gameing groups

Those aren't rules, ignore them.

Basically—don't counter it; just refuse to fight it!

Its legal by the codex

But the FAQ is an amendment to the codex, and so it still affects the game.


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Besides, in an old thread from the beginning of the codex, I remember you saying

frogy27 wrote:
I mean tau are not any good with the new rules that nerf them. now they are just glorified ig.

So see it as karma!

But am not forceing my opponents to get ever rule change faq. and force tau to be less good


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Ever army has a way to be op. this is how tau does.

Could you please reword that to make it a bit more legible?

It

Yes... and GW just got rid of it so that at least one army could not be played in a "broken" way. Also, how do you over-power Eldar (not counting being good)?

Don't bother with this thread. The OP has a long history of trolling and posting about a problem with some ridiculous "house rule" and then insisting stubbornly that they won't change the house rule. For example, long threads insisting that there's a rule that if GW doesn't make a kit for a unit in a codex you're not allowed to use that unit. Nothing you can say will ever work, so save yourself the frustration and just ignore the troll.


Also, the OP's trolling isn't even correct. The ipad version of the codex always said "missile drones are Broadsides-only", the fact that it wasn't in the paper copy was just a typo that the FAQ corrected.

frogy27 wrote:
But am not forceing my opponents to get ever rule change faq. and force tau to be less good


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Ever army has a way to be op. this is how tau does.

Well if you play the full game with current up to date rules then they dont get overall access to missile drones.

they may seem op if you chose to ignore the FAQ Amendments.

But that is your choice. and im going to tell you even with all that st 7 ap 4, spaming venoms and ravangers? should do the trick by killing off all there troops as soon as possible. + darklance/ blasters for the crisis suits. unless you can ID the HQ crisis suit ignore it for the most part. including any riptides.

if possible KILL ALL DA MARKERLIGHTS

Sorry... you are right. Don't feed the troll. Don't feed the troll.

frogy27 wrote:
Oh yes i know about the faqs for tau but my group plays by what's in brb and codexs only.

Well this is 6th edition so the only legal armies in your group are Daemons, Chaos Marines, Tau Empire and Dark Angels.

wilsjur wrote:
Sorry... you are right. Don't feed the troll. Don't feed the troll.

Pretty much this. And for flip's sake froggy, put some effort into your typing

Locked on account of troll.