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It's been long enough for some play testing so what do you guys reckon?
I personally love Farsight because he's a cheap(ish) crisis suit wearing commander with some melee ability. Which, lets face it, is more or less inevitable.
I also really like the ability to deepstrike exactly where you want him and team.
Add onto that he can be with a big team.

All for 165

The ethereal is another one.

50 points for all that.

The fact that the Ethereal is worth 2 victory points when killed is a big no-go for me. Unfortunate, but I guess its the added price for a 50 pts HQ.

Yesterday, my son used Farsight with a team of 5 bodyguards. They wiped 2 squads of Necron warrior with flamers and then Farsight proceeded to blow up a Necron Destroyer Barge (something like that, not sure of the name, the one with 4 str7 ap(-) weapon).

It was a pretty badass team for a few turns. Farsight was definitivelly the TAU MVP of the game, closely followed by the XV104.

IMO it is the commander. just give him the fun upgrades and not weapons.
Stick him inside a broadside team.

I also find myself most drawn to the Commander. He's able to do WHATEVER you need him to do for a unit.

Aun'Va proved to me in his first game that the unit is resilient and can be trusted to protect its victory points very jealously but other Ethereals... Not sure I'd chance it. But Aun'Va does some real cool stuff.

Overall, if "best" is defined as the one who will do the most for the army as a whole over the course of 6 turns, I am going to vote Aun'Va.

But if we are defining it as The one HQ model it would be difficult to play WITHOUT I am going to say the Commander suit.