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Local friend of mine plays tau as well but hes an unusual tau player (firewarrior aggression and a lot of devilfish/hammerheads. he doesnt castle btw he charges at you). He also likes to run fluff lists, after our Farsight vs Shadowsun sparring match he commented he wanted to make a list using the Eight and dish them out to their own units. Thought occurred, just how expensive would that be lol. So i tried my hand at it:

Unit 1 574pts
Farsight 165 (TL Plasma, Dawn Blade)
Bravestorm 199 (Plasma, Iridium, Flamer, Stims, Shield Gen, Gauntlet, 2 Gun Drones)
3x Crisis Suits 210 (Duo Plasmas, Flamer, 3 Shield Drones, Bonded)

Unit 2 685pts (Technically not a unit more of a cluster)
O'vesa 305 (IA, TL Fusion, EWO, ECPA, 2 SMissile Drones, Stims)
2x Riptides 380 (IA, TL SMS, EWO)

Unit 3 410pts
Brightsword 200 (TL Fusion, Adv Target, Stims, Shield Drone, Fusion Blades, Warscraper Drone)
3x Crisis Suits 210 (Duo Fusions, Flamer, 3 Shield Drones, Bonded)

Unit 4 384pts
Sha'vastos 174 (Plasma, Flamer, Shield Gen, VRT, 2 Gun Drones, PED)
3x Crisis Suits 210 (Duo Plasmas, Flamer, 3 Shield Drones, Bonded)

Unit 5 427pts
Ob'Lotai 118 (HYMP, SMS, VT, 2Missile Drones, Seeker, Bonded)
3x Broadsides 309 (HYMP, SMS, Target Locks, 6 Missile Drones, Seekers, Bonded)

Unit 6 434pts
Arra'Kon 169 (Plasma, Cyclic Ion Blaster, Airbursting Frag Projector, Counterfire Sys, 2 Gun Drones, Repulsor Impact Field)
6x Stealth Suits 265 (All Bursts w/ Counterfire Sys, Shas'vre with Homing Beacon/Marker/Tlock upgrades, 2 shield drones, Bonded)

Unit 7 400pts
Torchstar 154 (Duo Flamer, Target Lock, Drone Controller, 2 Marker Drones, M3S, NSJ)
3x Crisis Suits 246 (Duo Missiles, Target Lock, 6 Marker Drones, Bonded)

Total for The Eight and their Units: 3314pts

Farsight/Bravestorm/Sha'vastos are after MEQs and TEQs primarily, O'vesa is usual riptide stuff, Brightsword is after high armor targets (or T4 multiwound), Ob'Lotai ... missilesides ... lol, Arra'Kon is anti-infantry and i put him with stealth suits for Homing Beacon benefits, hoping the drones soak up the ignore cover shots, and finally Torchstar.....he himself kinda wants to be another anti-infantry but since he has a DC and mark drones and M3S i made him a marker team.

This is by no means a legitimate strategy, this was me trying to give them all an actual USE with their wonkey gear lol. The points (and amount of suits) are way too high for me to actually run this even if i was just having fun since at that point level it would be an apoc game and a lot of these units would lose their importance. Also technically it woud be a 4k point list because you still need proper marker support somewhere lol and long range stuff to start on the board since only the marker suits, stealths, and riptides would be on the board turn 1.

Every crisis team is troops because of farsight codex, so this is 5 troops 3 elites 1 heavy and 1 HQ choice lol

So how dumb you guys think this is? lol

EDIT: Oh, and food for thought, this is about 1120USD worth of models rofl (Even more if you use the actual Commander models instead of normal crisis suits)