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working up a farsight suit list, but i'm gonna do it without any SC, seeing as how you dont actually need farsight in your army, to take his enclave. - and ive noticed that the special characters can be made with normal units for a fraction of the cost, only loosing the IC rule. - wich i was not really planning on using anyway.

so:

HQ:
commander, twl fusion, shield, fusion blades
commander, missile, missile, drone controller

troop:
3 crisis, shas'vre w/ plasma, plasma, drone controller, 2 shas'ui plasma, twl plasma 2 gun drones ea. (4 gun drones in squad)
2 crisis, 2x shas'ui fusion, fusion, shield
1 crisis suit, missile pod, twl missile pod.
1 crisis suit, missile pod, twl missile pod.
1 crisis suit, missile pod, twl missile pod.

Elites:
riptide, ion, fusion, EWO, velocity
riptide, ion, plasma, velocity
riptide, HBC, ECPA, EWO, sms,

fast attack:
10 drones (markerdrones)

heavy support:
3x broadside, HYMP, SMS

allied: (tau)
commander CCN, puretide, MSSS

6 firewarriors, pulse rifle.

so, the idea here: the buffmander hops around to whereever i need him, joining riptides, crisis teams, etc. the allied FW bunker up in the backfield and chill. might go for an objective, but at 6 strong i dont expect much from them, they are only here to allow the buffmander in. the enclave fusion commander joins the 2 man fusion team, and they go tank hunting. the other joins the marker drones, and gets them up to BS 5 (considering breaking them up to a pair of 5 man teams... but then BS becomes a problem) the 3 single missile suits are my objective grabbers. they can also provide a small amount of down range fire support. finally the triple riptides take care of the heavy lifting, anti air, and so forth, with support on the ground from the salvosides.

so how competetive would this list be? how would it fair vrs a tau army that features a ton of firewarriors, some rail rifle broadsides, hammerhead, and 2 crisis suit teams? i dont know the exact opposing list but its something like:

commander plasma xxxxx?
firebalde

crisis team w/ fusions
crisis team w/ plasmas

12 firewarriors
12 firewarriors
12 firewarriors
pathfinders

3 railsides

1 railhead

1-2 riptides w/ ion/fusion ... xxxx ?

i ask because that tau list kicks my butt the last 3 times i played it with my necrons, and ive been working on a tau farsight list for some time, and a tau vrs tau dustup challange has been presented.

Drop a commander and a riptide to get more scoring suits. You lack scoring.

Marker drones are 2 points cheaper per unit when purchased as an upgrade as opposed to as an independent unit. You'd be better off taking a unit of MP crisis with 2 drones each, taking your mark/o with 2 drones himself. That's 8 drones at BS5.