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Hi

I'm looking to try this list out i play Tau alot and the range is alway's am issue so the list is fast moving and almost all can deepstrike or move 12.

Nemesor Zahndrekh

Vargard Obyron

Destroyer lord ( weave, MMS)

Despairtek x 2

Lord with orb

10 Immortals (Lord and Vargaurd)

20 Warriors (nemesor and tek)

Deathmarks x 5 (tek)

6 Wraith's (whips)

Doomsday ark

Annihilation barge

Brings me to 1790 so 210 point's left to spend thinking more Warriors but if anyone has any better idea's?

What is your plan with all the DS units, I can’t see you trying to assault a massive fire warrior blob with any of your troops and it’s not likely they want to chase you down?

I can tell you, two troops at 2k points is not going to cut it. You should always be looking to play the game. Keep the tau back and use late game speed to claim objectives. Even if you just walk in a 5 man, or two, from the back for objectives.

If you bring warriors make sure they are backed by a ghost ark and that you stay as close to max range from your target as possible. If you get in to their 15" range they will simply chew you up and spit you out. You won’t' get your RP roll because they will wipe entire units.

I like the idea of the doom ark, but I can assure you they will not let it sit back there and rain death on their troops and since moving the doom is out of the question ( weapon is garbage once it moves), I would suggest you sticking it on a skyshield. Tau can negate cover way too easy to rely on that. If they have an ethereal, which they likely do, drop that pie plate on him till he is dead. Once they lose him their shooty is a bit less scary. This is costing you a fair amount of points though. The AB is always a good choice and chips away at the tau and running three AB over the DA might give you more threats and better results.

Your D&D unit is dead as soon as you use them, so make sure it claims valued targets.

Try to get LOS blocking terrain on the board so you can get you wraiths closer to a flank for attack.

The warrior blob is really a meat shield so when they drop in obyron dosnt scatter then i can pick off the hammer head's and the main targets also distracting him from the deathmark's who are taking either the battlesuit deathstart he favour's or the riptide. Hoping the doomsday will be blowing up his firewarriors on turn one since on average he keeps them between 6 -12 per group and has them close that if i scatter its just on to his next group. The wraith's are my ace backup im hoping they can draw the fire and just be a constant worry.

the main idea was keep as many threat's on the board without relying on any one group.

So do you think another group or 2 of warriors would be a good addition? trying to work with what i have and I dont have a ghost ark.

Cheers for the feed back

Are you mainly working from the battleforce? What models do you have left to use for the 210pts?

For your tactics, I suggest you put Zahndrek with the Deathmarks, then Obyron with the wraiths. When the deathmarks come in, teleport the wraiths to Zahndrek because Obyron doesn't scatter. Then pray.

This would work much better if you had some scarabs - you can use these to draw overwatch fire (possibly?).

I also think that the DA would be much better as a GA in this case.

I always put 2 Crypteks w/ those abyssal staves in a Night Scythe w/ 5 Deathmarks. 2 8/1 Flamers that ignore cover and can move anywhere on the board in that scythe are good. Plus they wound 1 squad on a 2+. I've killed so many nasty units with them.

I dropped them on this nasty shadow sun unit he had w/ suits, body guards and drones. Killed the whole squad.

The Scythe isn't bad itself. I targeted some Pathfinders last night and rolled 4 sixes. The 12 wounds tore them up. They failed their leadership and ran off the board.

I would be interested in what models you do have access to, might be easier to swap some things out.

I would target a unit with your D&D over a tide. You want the biggest bang, your only going to get up to one wound from the template.. maybe a couple from the marks... and if he has nove the 3++ could negate even more of that. ( unless you manage to shave some wounds off of it first)

We only have one tau player, but in most games he is tight behind an ADL with hammerhead parked in the back in cover. he uses LOS blocking terrain for JSJ... so if your guy is anyhthing like this.. your DS'ing will need to be well thought out... you scatter that 20 man and could end up in many poor situations.

The models I have are extra on top of the list
1 full squad warriors
1Spider
3 tomb blades
3 destroyers
1 heavy destroyer
1night scythe
1 monolith
7 scarab bases
all the hqs

I never thought to deepstrike the wraiths if I can get them behibd a squad to block los I might last