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Hey guys, sorry I have left this a little late, but I was wondering which of these would be the best to take to my upcoming 1200 point tournament.

List 1

HQ - Ethereal

Troops - 8x Fire Warriors with Carbines and EMP Grenades in a Devilfish with Disruption Pod and TL SMS
Troops - 8x Fire Warriors with Carbines and EMP Grenades in a Devilfish with Disruption Pod and TL SMS
Troops - 8x Fire Warriors with Carbines and EMP Grenades in a Devilfish with Disruption Pod and TL SMS

Elites - 3x Crisis Suits with TL Plasma Rifle and Missile Pod

Heavy Support - Commander Long-strike with Hammerhead with Sub Shot, Disruption Pod and TL SMS
Heavy Support - Skyray with Disruption Pod and TL SMS
Heavy Support - Skyray with Disruption Pod and TL SMS


List 2

HQ - Commander Farsight with Body Guard
- Onager Gauntlet, C&C Node, Pure-tide Engram Chip, MSSS
- 2x Plasma Rifle Vector Retro Thrusters
- 2x Plasma Rifle Target Locks
- 2x Plasma Rifle Target Locks
- 2x Plasma Rifle Target Locks
- 2x Fusion Blasters Target Locks
- 2x Fusion Blasters Target Locks

Troops - 6x Fire Warriors in a Devilfish with Disruption Pod and TL SMS
Troops - 6x Fire Warriors in a Devilfish with Disruption Pod and TL SMS

Fast Attack - Tetra
Fast Attack - Tetra

Heavy Support - Skyray Gunship


List 3

HQ - Ethereal

Troops - 10x Kroot with Sniper Rounds
Troops - 10x Kroot with Sniper Rounds
Troops 8x Fire Warriors

Elites - XV104 Riptide Battlesuit with Ion Accelerator, Fusion Blaster and EWO
Elites - XV104 Riptide Battlesuit with Ion Accelerator, Fusion Blaster and EWO
Elites - XV104 Riptide Battlesuit with Heavy Burst Cannon, Fusion Blaster and VT

Fast Attack - Tetra

Heavy Support - Broadside Battlesuit with HYMP's and Drone Controller with 2x Missile Drones
Heavy Support - Broadside Battlesuit with HYMP's and Drone Controller with 2x Missile Drones
Heavy Support - Broadside Battlesuit with HYMP's and Drone Controller with 2x Missile Drones

Please Help, Any thoughts as to which one I should take?

Third one

Is it possible to combo it?

Farsight Bomb, Triptide, Hammerhead, Kroot. (+ Sky Rays points allowing)

Not really at 1200 without loosing massive effectiveness... Can I ask why the third one??

I would take the third list with a couple of tweeks.

Drop the HBC riptide for:

-Stim injectors for both of the other riptides
-1 more HYM broadsdie, then make it 2 units of 2
- that leaves around 90 points to grab a couple of suicde suits for deepstriking and popping enemy tanks.

Hope this helps

So the list would look something like this:

HQ - Ethereal

Troops - 10x Kroot with Sniper Rounds
Troops - 10x Kroot with Sniper Rounds
Troops 8x Fire Warriors

Elites - XV104 Riptide Battlesuit with Ion Accelerator, Fusion Blaster, Stimulant Injectors and EWO
Elites - XV104 Riptide Battlesuit with Ion Accelerator, Fusion Blaster, Stimulant Injectors and EWO
Elites - 2x Crisis Suits with 2x Fusion Blasters

Fast Attack - Tetra

Heavy Support - 2x Broadside Battlesuit with HYMP's and Drone Controller with 3x Missile Drones
Heavy Support - 2x Broadside Battlesuit with HYMP's and Drone Controller with 2x Missile Drones


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But I do feel that facing 2 Riptides is much less intimidating than facing the full 3, what do you think??

Tau Skyfire wrote:
So the list would look something like this:

HQ - Ethereal

Troops - 10x Kroot with Sniper Rounds
Troops - 10x Kroot with Sniper Rounds
Troops 8x Fire Warriors

Elites - XV104 Riptide Battlesuit with Ion Accelerator, Fusion Blaster, Stimulant Injectors and EWO
Elites - XV104 Riptide Battlesuit with Ion Accelerator, Fusion Blaster, Stimulant Injectors and EWO
Elites - 2x Crisis Suits with 2x Fusion Blasters

Fast Attack - Tetra

Heavy Support - 2x Broadside Battlesuit with HYMP's and Drone Controller with 3x Missile Drones
Heavy Support - 2x Broadside Battlesuit with HYMP's and Drone Controller with 2x Missile Drones


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But I do feel that facing 2 Riptides is much less intimidating than facing the full 3, what do you think??

I personally think that list looks better.

Understand what you mean about triple tide mind games but 2 with FNP will out last 3 without. And lets face it at this points level people are going to cry at the site of two tides and 4 missile sides.

Your call buddy but i think that is the best all round list out of the ones listed.

ah, 1200 limits a fair bit...

a single riptide will wreck most things that are caught in the open, 2 will be a slaughter, 3 will just piss everyone off.

if you want the third Riptide over the 2 suicide suits, drop those + put one of the HYMP-sides to Railsides, and give skyfire, and drop the random Fire Warriors. you might also be able to squeeze another Tetra in there

Hahaha 3 it is then and I will drop the other things needed Thanks for al your help guys

Good luck, let us know how you got on.

HQ - Ethereal
= 50

Elites - Riptide with Ion Accelerator, Fusion Blaster, EWO, Stimulant Injectors
Elites - Riptide with Ion Accelerator, Fusion Blaster, EWO, Stimulant Injectors
Elites - Riptide with Ion Accelerator, Fusion Blaster, EWO, Stimulant Injectors
= 675

Troops - 10x Kroot with Sniper Rounds
Troops - 10x Kroot with Sniper Rounds
= 140

Fast Attack - Tetra
Fast Attack - Tetra
= 80

Heavy Support - 2x Broadsides with HYMP's, Drone Controllers and 3x Missile Drones, Bonding Knife Ritual
Heavy Support - Broadside with HRR, Velocity Tracker, Bonding Knife Ritual
= 251

= 1196


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Will do, thanks!

Good luck.

Personally, i would use a Farsight bomb, but with full strength (otherwise, it makes no sense):

Commander Farsight
Commander Shadowsun

Crisis bodyguard team
Crisis bodyguard, C&C node, MSSS, puretide neurochip, retro-thrusters, drone controller
Crisis bodyguard, 2 fusion blasters, target lock
Crisis bodyguard, 2 plasma rifles, target lock
Crisis bodyguard, 2 plasma rifles, target lock
Crisis bodyguard, 2 plasma rifles, target lock
Crisis bodyguard, 2 missile pods, target lock
Crisis bodyguard, 2 missile pods, target lock
14 gun drones

6 fire warriors
10 kroots + 1 hound

Skyray, BSF

Kind of all-in, and you will likely lose vs other Taus if he can wipe you before you Deep-strike (it's the only match-up in which you will Deep-strike and not Infiltrate). Hide everything, skyray included, in that match. But vs other lists, it's really strong.