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So, my bro and I are considering entering another Doubles tourney again, so I'm getting to work list building. Last time, I took SM and he took Tau. I think he'll going to take the same list again (Buffmander, Riptide, 2x 6 Fire Warriors and 3x Stealth Suits) This is what I'm thinking of taking:

HQ- CCS with 2x plasma guns, lascannon, Astropath, Officer of the Fleet, mounted in Chimera = 215

Troops- Veteran Squad with 3x meltaguns in Chimera = 155
Veteran Squad with 3x meltaguns = 100

Fast Attack- Vendetta Gunship = 130

The second Veteran Squad comes in on the Vendetta. Is the list too small? I am relying on my Tau counterpart to take care of AA duties with a Riptide with ion accelerator, Skyfire, Ignores Cover and rerolls hits.
Thoughts?

why astropath, you haven't designated anything as reserve, is your tau ally bring a lot of reserve?

If it were me I would drop the chimera from the ccs and put it on the second veteran squad. Melta guns aren't terribly useful if you are foot slogging.

use the vendetta as your ranched at instead of transportation.

If anything your vendetta should be taking care of AA, the riptide should have stim and ewo for interceptor so it can pie plate deepstrikers and pods. I don't think stealth suits are a great choice tbh, they aren't brilliant in competitive games. You would probably be better with a couple of crisis suits with missle pods for popping transports and light vehicles. Also I think with the amount of meltas you have you could drop the lascannon for another plasma. And then put the ccs in the vendetta and give their chimera to the second vet squad. Also you could probably drop the officer of the fleet and astropath, that's if your having the vendetta as AA duty (which is advised) simply because you want it to come in straight after their flyer so it can shoot it down without taking a round of return fire.

The Vendetta is a Flyer, it has to come in from reserve. The second vet squad is flying in on the Vendetta, where I can get the meltaguns in a good point. No-one is footslogging in this list. The CCS have a Chimera, the first Veteran Squad has a Chimera, and the second Veteran Squad has a Vendetta.


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The Riptide has a stim injector, but he has no Crisis suits yet except the Buffmander. The Tau part of the list is fine, it shot down every enemy flyer and FMC in the tourney we fought, I'll take another 2 plasma on the CCS, but what will I do with the 60 points left?

Find 5 more points and bring marbo.

Done. He was there already.