Tau, a realists review(Or how I learned to stop worrying and to wait another 8 years)

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ShadarLogoth wrote:

You can't really hide from Barrages and Precision Shots except via Look Out, Sir.

Sure, you can get unlucky and face rather rarely taken weapon profiles that take it out early. The same thing could be said for virtually every unit in the game. The percentage of lists that bring either Barrage or mass enough precision shots that can threaten your DZ is so small, and the chances of them actually taking him out are similarly minuscule, that not taking arguably one of the bust force multipliers in the game due to a fear of a very rare occurrence seems kind of silly to me.

Basically how I feel. And even better, in NOVA format the Ethereal's 1 VP given up for dying is not a big deal. It will generally only matter as a tie-breaker or in KPs (which you must win by 3 in NOVA).

I love the Ethereal, for 50 pts I think he is a great deal and if you take mass Kroot, 2 really help shore up the LD issues.