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Normally i dont build tourny lists because i avoid the "competitive" scene of 40k (too much cheese), but my friend likes it and i wanted to build a list to fight him so he can shape his to be better. He plays Eldar.

Now i know its usually taudar for this tactic, but i have the new SM codex (out of curiosity i actually dont have the models yet) anyway. Since Tau are also battlebrothers with nilla marines, this seems to be just as powerful.

Allies: Ultramarines
HQ:
Tigurius 165pts

Troop:
10x Tac Marines 180pts
Lascannon
Plasma gun
Sgt has Melta Bombs

Heavy:
Thunderfire Cannon 100pts

Total Allies: 445

Main:
HQ:
Commander Buffy 236pts
M3S/CNCN/Puretide/NSJ/Gauntlet/Iridium
VRThrusters/Stims/Shield/Flamer
2 Shield Drones

Troops:
2x 10 Bonded Firewarriors 110(220)pts
Shas'ui upgrade.
10 Bonded Firewarriors 125pts
Shas'ui with ML/TLock upgrade

Elites:
2x Riptides 235(470)pts
HBC/TL Fusion
VT/Stims

3 Crisis Suits 171pts
Duo Plasmas/Flamer

FA:
2x 8 Pathfinders 88(176)pts

Total: 1848pts

Tigurius rolls all 3 spells on Divination and i hope for 3s and 4s, but will also take 1s and 2s. Rerollable spells thanks to Master Psyker makes it pretty unlikely i'll get stuck with more than 1 of the 2 spells i do not want (and will become Prescience). He will sit up front with the HBC riptides, attached to one (hurting its mobility but whatever its tanky as hell anyway) and primarily casting Prescience on both, and his third spell depending on what i got. Hopefully perfect timing so i ignore cover, or Misfortune for reroll passing saves (though i'd have to be pretty close for that one)
Tac Marines split into a backfield unit holding an objective with a Lascannon, and a small unit squeezing around terrain to try and get a midfield one with a plasma gun.
Firewarriors are weight of fire against infantry. Shas'ui upgrade for LD8 has saved me in way too many situations to not take it. One has ML/Tlock because i had points lying around, and another ML is a bit more important than a single Gun Drone for my crisis suits lol.
Commander Buffy and his Plasma team deepstrikes and hunt rear armor on vehicles or high save targets. My friend likes wave serpents and he has a bad habit of moving them forward. Also uses whatever those S8 AP2 48" units are called (forget the name all i know is theyre a problem). If i really need to, or i scatter to a bad spot, they can hunt wraithknights too since Monster Hunter improves their odds at hurting it by quite a bit.

I took the Thunderfire because.....Thunderfire lol nuff said.

Usually im against 4-5 wave serpents and a wraithknight with the S10 guns.
im not trying to tailor against him, both because im against that and in a tourny setting hes going to come across more well-rounded lists than one specifically designed to take out his.

Is Tiggy absolutely necessary? I'm really not seeing what the Marine allies are bringing for you.

Also, its a shame to not have EWO on the IA Riptides.

Otherwise, looks solid.

Theyre HBC riptides not IA, EWO is pointless.

Tiggy can Prescience them making them twinlinked, same idea as the Farseer but not on a jetbike. Depending on his third spell he makes his unit ignores cover, target unit within 24" reroll saves, or allied unit in 12" get 4++

 Vineheart01 wrote:
Theyre HBC riptides not IA, EWO is pointless.

Tiggy can Prescience them making them twinlinked, same idea as the Farseer but not on a jetbike. Depending on his third spell he makes his unit ignores cover, target unit within 24" reroll saves, or allied unit in 12" get 4++

For some reason I read them as IA, probably because almost everyone Runs IA over HBC. That makes them much better and the Stims necessary.

Tiggy making both Twinlinked is great, but that is still a pretty big tax. You probalby won't be able to Twinlink the Thunderfire, its still great.

Precience one, Buffcommander the Other. Definitely could be good.