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HQ - Commander - 2x Missle pod - Shield generator. 140 pts
EL - Riptide - TL Fusion blaster - FNP 5+ - Skyfire. 235 pts
EL - Riptide - TL Fusion blaster - FNP 5+ - Skyfire. 235 pts
EL - Riptide - TL Fusion blaster - ion accelerator - FNP 5+. 220 pts
TR - 3x Crysis XV8 - 3x Missile pod - 3x TL Missile pod - Bonding. 174 pts
TR - 3x Crysis XV8 - 6x Missile pod - Bonding. 159 pts
TR - 3x Crysis XV8 - 6x Missile pod - Bonding. 159 pts
HS - 3x XV88 Broadside - High-yield Missile pod - Bonding - EWO. 213 pts
HS - 3x XV88 Broadside - High-yield Missile pod - Bonding - EWO. 213 pts
TOTAL - 1748

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HQ - Commander - 1x Missle pod, 1x Plasma rifle - Shield generator. 140 pts
HQ - Honour-Shas'vre O'Vesa - TL Fusion blaster - FNP 5+ - Earthcaste - EWO - ion accelerator - 2x Shield missile drones. 305 pts
EL - Riptide - TL Fusion blaster - FNP 5+ - Earthcaste. 245 pts
EL - Riptide - TL Fusion blaster - FNP 5+ - Earthcaste. 245 pts
EL - Riptide - TL Fusion blaster - FNP 5+ - Earthcaste. 245 pts
TR - 3x Crysis XV8 - 6x Missile pod - Bonding. 159 pts
TR - 3x Crysis XV8 - 6x Missile pod - Bonding. 159 pts
TR - 1x Crysis XV8 - 1x Plasma rifle - 1x Missle pod - Bonding. 53 pts
HS - 3x XV88 Broadside - High-yield Missile pod - Bonding. 198 pts
TOTAL - 1749


its just a bit of fun if i have money to spare i might build it.

I mean, you'll hard counter some people who can't deal with the MC's, but while funny, this isn't the power build for the supplement. The whole point is being able to bring an fload of scoring crisis...who are great in their own right. A single HQ Riptide I think could work well for STW denial but I just don't see spamming them working out as well with the supplement as it can with the vanilla codex. You don't have the numbers to mitigate the points sink.

It is a fun list after all, I will probably take a look in more detail and build a proper list.

Also I realised my list is illegal because I don't think I can take that riptide HQ without farsight lol

Yeah I only glanced at the leak. I'm not sure if you can make the Riptide your warlord if you have to take Farsight; it would make sense that he had to be the WL...

When did this tau upgrade book come out

Im pretty sure you can only have 1 earth cast piolt

I have the supplement, the earth caste pilot array is a signature system, so only one allowed. On the up side riptides can take ANY supplement signature system just like characters.

It came out yesterday.

Not to mention, the Farsight Enclave suits can only have Farsight Enclave signature systems. Standard Tau codex systems are not allowed.

I think the Farsight Enclave might be best if you bring the HQ Riptide in with a Crisis team as allies, rather than primary. They are still troops, can still cap objectives, and you can still shove that Riptide in with stealth teams as they count as Battle Brothers with vanilla Tau.

Akaraut wrote:I have the supplement, the earth caste pilot array is a signature system, so only one allowed. On the up side riptides can take ANY supplement signature system just like characters.

But only the earthcaste one is anyuseful for the riptides, i dont see any others useful.

D34d0n1mp4ckt wrote:It came out yesterday.

Not to mention, the Farsight Enclave suits can only have Farsight Enclave signature systems. Standard Tau codex systems are not allowed.

I think the Farsight Enclave might be best if you bring the HQ Riptide in with a Crisis team as allies, rather than primary. They are still troops, can still cap objectives, and you can still shove that Riptide in with stealth teams as they count as Battle Brothers with vanilla Tau.

I really want a crysis suit only army though so there is not really any point to using the normal codex.

I will have to retake a look now since the earthcaste can only be taken once.

Erm, Is there any rule against putting normal Tau as allies to the farsight? i am not known to these supplement, but i expected them to be kind of a "expansion" than a "sub-faction" that is avaliable as allies...

Dracoknight wrote:
Erm, Is there any rule against putting normal Tau as allies to the farsight? i am not known to these supplement, but i expected them to be kind of a "expansion" than a "sub-faction" that is avaliable as allies...

They can be battle brothers, but this does mean that you can have 2 farsight.

Also I updated my original list.