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Hi,

Sorry if this has already been covered elsewhere, I haven't played in a good few years and have a friendly game coming up with my friend who is using Tau. We both have the new codex for our respective armies and from what my friend is saying his Tau seem incredibly overpowered!

I thought I would check in here to see if you could offer any advice on how I can avoid completely embarrassing myself. We are going for a 1500 point battle first possibly followed by a 2k point battle.

My army consists of:

Commander Dante
5 sanguinary guard
1 sanguinary priest
15 death company
1 reclusiarch
10 terminators
10 assault marines
A standard Baal (assault cannons heavy bolters)
A land raider (twin linked las cannons and heavy bolter)
A vindicator
A stormraven
Bog standard tactical marines.

Now my initial idea was to take the vindicator to try and soften up his markerlight squads and crisis suits. Deep strike Dante, the sanguinary guards and priest to take out his hammerheads (he has 2 with rail guns) and race the terms up in the LR to fight in close combat with DC jumping in behind. Is this viable or can I better utilise my troops?

My friend has mentioned lots of different drones that he attaches to everything (shield drones on crisis suits and fire warriors, gun and missile drones on armour) so I get the feeling Dante may die before he touches a hammerhead.

Any advice would be appreciated greatly.

Cheers,

JD

The Landraider should be ok (Tau don't have a lot to deal with AV14, Hammerheads will take a while, only Fusion Crisis suits are a real danger)

other than that it will be a difficult battle, Tau put out a lot of fire. Basically try and destroy the pathfinders ASAP.

Does he have riptides?

Piranha, sky ray and devilfish but I don't remember him mentioning a riptide.

He seemed to feel the rail guns on his hammerhead would make mincemeat of the LR.

He may not have pathfinders yet but he does have at least 9 crisis suits and a broadside.