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Hi,

I'm trying to come up with a powerful 1500 point tau list; I have a 600 point list, which I used in the school league tournament, however I need to build it up to 1500.

Here's my 600 list:

Fireblade
12 Fire warriors
12 Fire Warriors
7 Pathfinders
Hammerhead with disruption pods and dub munition
Aegis defence line
Crisis suit with two fusion blasters (was mostly there as a backup incase I was facing a tank list or the HH got popped)

Now, I'm trying to work out a powerful, tourney-worthy list to fit 1500 points, and I'd quite like to base it around this 600 point list.

Does anyone have any ideas?

One idea of mine involved doubling up on my gun line, to create some major firepower, and perhaps doubling the entire list, and having 300 points left to spare.

What does everyone think?

Gun lines are great but there is far too many models that can deverstate them I use nids and if a use a mowloc deep strike no scatter large blast template would take out a hole section and if it serviced till its next go would slice throught the rest in cc I suggest a troop or two kroot with sniper upgrade they can infiltrate allowing fire from two fronts and a stealth team with burst cannons to fight infantry and fusion blasters for anti tank

Hope this gives you some inspiration

 walker90234 wrote:
ere's my 600 list:

Fireblade

The ethereal is the far better buff for gun line. 36 FWs with ethereal buffage is awesome, the FireBlade, not so much.

 walker90234 wrote:
12 Fire warriors
12 Fire Warriors
7 Pathfinders
Hammerhead with disruption pods and dub munition
Aegis defence line
Crisis suit with two fusion blasters (was mostly there as a backup incase I was facing a tank list or the HH got popped)

Now, I'm trying to work out a powerful, tourney-worthy list to fit 1500 points, and I'd quite like to base it around this 600 point list.

Does anyone have any ideas?

One idea of mine involved doubling up on my gun line, to create some major firepower, and perhaps doubling the entire list, and having 300 points left to spare.

What does everyone think?

Buy two boxes of Crisis Suits. Equip with with MSS and C&CN (and say flamer, if they get assaulted, but it's not very important). Equip the other two with FB/PR and the Cmdr with FB/PR and Iridium Armor. Maybe a GD or two or three. It's called the KingFisher and smashes pretty much everything in one salvo.

Kroot for Outflank (with hound) and then you have a good chance at LineBreaker, a tourney item.

Pricey, but Missile-sides rock. Two or three b-sides and the MissileDs that go with them.

Other folks will preach Riptides ... but I don't own any.

Fireblade
Ethereal

210 ripride: ion accelerator, TL fusion blaster, early warning override, velocity tracker
210 ripride: ion accelerator, TL fusion blaster, early warning override, velocity tracker

108 12x firewarriors
108 12x firewarriors
90 10x firewarriors
54 6x firewarriors

44 4x pathfinders
44 4x pathfinders

188 2x broadside + 4x missile drone: 1x shas'vre /w HYMP, SMS, 1x shas'ui /w HYMP, SMS
188 2x broadside + 4x missile drone: 1x shas'vre /w HYMP, SMS, 1x shas'ui /w HYMP, SMS
145 hammerhead: sub munitions

1499

At 1500 pts this is pretty much as cheesy as it gets with a pure Tau army.

Riptides can deal with air threads and team up with the hammerhead to take out high AV. Plenty of FW's for anti-horde (team up with ethereal and fireblade for silly amounts of shots). Pathfinders provide you with some marker support and lastly you have a solid base of broadsides to deal with monstrous creatures/light vehicles.

can you make it cheesier with allies?

 walker90234 wrote:
can you make it cheesier with allies?

Yea. Farseer on a bike, 2x 3 jetbikes = 217pts

2 fast scoring units for late game and one fast denying unit. And guide and prescience from the farseer.

The problem is the list I suggested is pretty tight.

The only thing I'd consider dropping would be the 90 pt FW squad and the hammerhead - this would free up roughly 230 points allowing you to take the farseer/6 jetbikes.

 gossipmeng wrote:
The problem is the list I suggested is pretty tight.

The only thing I'd consider dropping would be the 90 pt FW squad and the hammerhead - this would free up roughly 230 points allowing you to take the farseer/6 jetbikes.

Sounds good to me. You add one total troop choice and two units getting rerolls to hit. And loosing the hammerhead is not that big of deal over the utility of the eldar.

Ethereal 50
Shield Drone 5

Commander 85
Flamer 5
Airburster 15
Puretide chip 15
Iridium suit 25
Multi-Spectrum Sensor 20

Pathfinder Team 44
6 additional Pathfinders 66

Pathfinder Team 44
6 additional Pathfinders 66

Pathfinder Team 44
6 additional Pathfinders 66

Broadside Team 65
2 additional Broadsides 130
TL HYMP 0
3 Early Warning Override 15

Broadside Team 65
2 additional Broadsides 130
TL HYMP 0
3 Early Warning Override 15

Fire Warrior Team 54

Fire Warrior Team 54

Fire Warrior Team 54

Riptide 180
Ion Accelerator 5

Riptide 180
HBC 0
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This is my 1500pt list. It plays less troops but it really goes DJ Dog Slam with your Heavy/Elites. You can always swap out your third Broadside in each unit (which is iffy since you really need some interceptor) or shave numbers off your Pathfinders to squeeze in more Fire Warriors.