Tau vs Dreadnight, any suggestions?

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**ruthlessgamer**

So im a relatively new tau player and fought my first dreadnight and had a hell of a time trying to kill it, any suggestions or strategies on how to take them down?

**shamikebab**

fusion blasters, riptides, hammerheads?

**ruthlessgamer**

I have a riptide but didnt have it in the army at the time had a squad of fusion blasters but he was saving against them, and my luck with the hammer head was it was scattering away from him. Was it just bad luck on my part and good on his?

**Desubot**

Crisis suits with double plasma, or drown it in pulse.

Its like any other multi wound terminator.

Edit: for giggles use a dark angel ally with a rad grenade in conjuction with a hammerhead rail shot or dark strider on a icarus las.

**IHateNids**

Level it with 100+ Pulse shots

Or

Railside it

**CthuluIsSpy**

Plasma, plasma everywhere. Rail guns tend to help. Can't go wrong with AP1.

**Savageconvoy**

ruthlessgamer wrote:
my luck with the hammer head was it was scattering away from him. Was it just bad luck on my part and good on his?

Why were you rolling for scatter? Single shot railgun or three shots of an ioncannon will do more damage than their blast version.

Tau have plenty of answers. Crisis suits with double fusion or double plasma, Broadsides, Hammerheads, Riptides, lots of firewarrior shots, Kroot sniper blob, or even Pathfinders with rail rifles if you're really desperate.

**Chancetragedy**

It's taken 24 fire warriors 1 triple tap volley to kill my dreadknight in both games I've used it against tau. They didn't even need to use the riptides.