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Hey All. Long time reader first time poster. So I have this tourny coming up in Jan and would like some feedback.

Ethereal w blacksun
Riptide w ion accelerator velocity tracker stim injector ( up in air about secondary weapon)
12 FW
12 FW
17 Kroot snipers
6 pathfinders
6 pathfinders
3 fusion piranhas w blacksun
2 broadsides TL rail early warning override 2 gun and 2 shield drones
Hammerhead with submunitions black sun d pod

All in all 1249. I was thinking of dropping a piranha for aegis defensive line

Also why does everyone and their neighbour have 1 Kroot hound in their units of Kroot. Is there a reason other than a cheap meal for the Kroot.

Thanks for all your help guys.

Seen as you have 3 fusion piranha and a railhead then I doubt you need the broadsides to have rails aswell. I would put high yield on the suits and give them early warning override. That way you have decent anti flyer, and take velocity off the riptide and switch it with ewo. Your tide is pants against flyers but awesome against deepstrikers and podder so give it interceptor. I and switch the gun and shield drones in the boras side unit to missle drones, they cost the same and put out 2 str 7 shots each. Also good ablative wounds for your sides. Taking an ethreal without an adl is risky, I would switch it for a fireblade and have the fireblades fw unit sitting on a home objective to benefit from extra shots. The other fw squad can then be more aggressive and contest/cap objectives. Also the fireblade brings a bs5 marker light to augment your pathfinders before they mark something up. Having your pathfinders firing at bs4 is a big difference.


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O and the reason for the 1 kroot hound is to give the whole squad acute senses so when they outflank they get to reroll which board edge they arrive on. Awesome for 5 points.


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Also it's up to you but you could get crisis suits with 2 fusion blasters each for deepstriking next to vehicles instead of the piranhas. Guaranteed delivery (not being shot down before arrival) and more av dakka. I believe 2 crisis suits with 2 fusions each comes to 104 points which is 49 points cheaper than your piranhas. Gives you more points for the rest of your force and is more reliable. Give one of the suits a target lock for 5 pts and you can pop 2 tanks when you arrive, instead of the 3 piranhas over killing 1 target as they are in one squadron.

Looks solid enough. Not sure why you want the blacksun on the ethereal. Pulse rifles max range won't be stopped by night fight, I guess it helps to remove first turn stealth/shrouded... Decent point filler, not required.

Kroot hounds provide high initiative, a bullet sponge and acute senses for outflanking purposes.

Piranha's certainly don't need blacksun filters. Sometimes a unit will get stealth, but that is usually something you can live with. (with spare 1-2 points its ok)

Broadsides should be cautious in taking shield drones. Even with an ethereal for leadership, 1 drone loss and they can go off the board. Missile drones are what you want for broadsides. TL rail rifles are OK for long range and low AP, but the missile pods put out more dakka(and are generally liked with the EWO),

Hammerhead is fine. I usually take longstrike, but in a smaller game he is optional.

I agree about dropping a piranha for an aegis, also try to get a gun for AA.

I would take Missiles on the Broadsides and switch the Drones to missiles.

Lucarikx

Thanks for the info guys. Now I know about the hound. I know where the 5 points from the ethereal is going.

Problem with the missile sides is that I don't have any. That, skyray and flyers I don't have. So stuck with rail sides. But I totally forgot about missile drones. And yeah I do the same thing targeting suits. Try to kill the drones first to panic them.

Understood about the velocity tracker on the riptide. What's the consensus on the other weapon for him. Kinda thinking plasma. But unsure.

See the reason I like the idea of piranhas was the free drones. In essence makes the piranha dirt cheap if you take away the points but I never considered the 2 suits. I like.

I am at the 90% of taking an ADL. Is the gun really worth it. I find for the points I can get a lot of tau instead.

Thanks for the advise I really appreciate the community kicking in and helping a newish tau player. Well play tau a lot. This is first tourny.

Ok, first riptide, if you want him to be able to threaten transports/vehicles as he's jumping across the board then fusion blaster. Otherwise go for smart missles everytime because he can nova charge to ripple fire it and have 10 str 5 shots which ignore cover. Pretty deadly. IMHO I only ever take the basic adl for 50pts for my tau and it's pretty much an auto include for me. No point paying 50pts for the gun, to put it in retrospect you can have 4 missle drones for the same price which is 8 str 7 shots. Kinda sucks that your stuck with rail sides man but no matter you will have to work around it. At the moment your broadside unit costs 188 points? Well for that you can have plenty of crisis suits with tl missle pod and a singe missle pod which will serve as decent anti flyer tech. Not the best but decent. Failing that you could always put the burst cannon on your riptide and let him keep the velocity tracker. 12 str 6 shots with rending on flyers is not to be sniffed at. If you do go for that then put the tl fusion on him aswell for extra own age on hard flyers like storm ravens and drakes.