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Hey all,

I've been play testing a lot with my Tau and I want to find the optimal list that I can use in a tournament. Some things just unsettles me even though it seems to work out great. This was my previous list:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/563479.page

Now I've built another list that I'm happy with. Doesn't involve a skyray like many suggested because...it just doesn't quite work for me. I leaned towards markerlights in this army because I find it useful, especially against Dark Eldar...or Eldar, when all they do is get cover saves by flying around the board. One concern I have is...with markerlights and broadsides, I'm throwing in 2 units of shooting into one tank per turn, is that bit of a waste?

Anyways, here's my new army:

Farsight

O'Vesa

Commander w/ M3S, CnC, Penchip, NJ,VRT, OG

3 Crisis Suits w/ 3 TL plasma guns, 2 flamers, drone control, 6 marker drones

10 Kroots w/ sniper rounds

10 Kroots w/ Sniper rounds

3 Broadsides w/ missiles, VT, bonding, 3 shield drones

Riptide w/ HBC, VT, SMS, Tlock, Talisman

Thanks for your time and let me know what you think!

The only thing that does not make much since to me is the 6 marklights on the crisis team. How are you using them? Seem better used as a separate squad.

The Crisis Suit unit just sits in cover doing their JSJ. The marker lights can be useful for anything that I need to kill, although I see the inefficiency of that, wasting the plasmas, I can't think of any other way of incorporating markerlights.

Pathfinders are just asking for your opponent to take first blood, I find them quite hard to use.

If you want a hbc riptide then take the earth caste pilot on it as you re roll all 1s which means when you nova your burst cannon you re roll all your gets hot

Are you Tau or Enclave? I see you using the purtide chip from tau and talisman from the Enclave.

Wings of Purity wrote:
The Crisis Suit unit just sits in cover doing their JSJ. The marker lights can be useful for anything that I need to kill, although I see the inefficiency of that, wasting the plasmas, I can't think of any other way of incorporating markerlights.

Pathfinders are just asking for your opponent to take first blood, I find them quite hard to use.

I use them as a gun squad. A little more expensive, but are tougher and more mobile with JSJ Markerlights than Pathfinders. You do drop in BS but you are not wasting fire power that you need.

 erzu07 wrote:
Are you Tau or Enclave? I see you using the purtide chip from tau and talisman from the Enclave.

I'm both. It's an allied army


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SpankingApe wrote:
If you want a hbc riptide then take the earth caste pilot on it as you re roll all 1s which means when you nova your burst cannon you re roll all your gets hot

The argument is that I can't, ECPA is taken by O'Vesa. And I really want him in the list so I can have 2 riptides benefitting from the buffmander M3S and CnC and Puretide


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barnowl wrote:

Wings of Purity wrote:
The Crisis Suit unit just sits in cover doing their JSJ. The marker lights can be useful for anything that I need to kill, although I see the inefficiency of that, wasting the plasmas, I can't think of any other way of incorporating markerlights.

Pathfinders are just asking for your opponent to take first blood, I find them quite hard to use.

I use them as a gun squad. A little more expensive, but are tougher and more mobile with JSJ Markerlights than Pathfinders. You do drop in BS but you are not wasting fire power that you need.

Edit: Sorry I miss understood, so you're saying take a drone squad on its own? I haven't considered that...but it will get chewed up like the pathfinders...especially for the same points I can only have 5 of them hitting on 5s...if I lose let's say 2 the remaining 3 will put out 1 marker per turn, that's just not helpful.

Wings of Purity wrote:


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barnowl wrote:

Wings of Purity wrote:
The Crisis Suit unit just sits in cover doing their JSJ. The marker lights can be useful for anything that I need to kill, although I see the inefficiency of that, wasting the plasmas, I can't think of any other way of incorporating markerlights.

Pathfinders are just asking for your opponent to take first blood, I find them quite hard to use.

I use them as a gun squad. A little more expensive, but are tougher and more mobile with JSJ Markerlights than Pathfinders. You do drop in BS but you are not wasting fire power that you need.

Edit: Sorry I miss understood, so you're saying take a drone squad on its own? I haven't considered that...but it will get chewed up like the pathfinders...especially for the same points I can only have 5 of them hitting on 5s...if I lose let's say 2 the remaining 3 will put out 1 marker per turn, that's just not helpful.

I find the JSJ makes them much harder to hit by letting them get behind LOS blocking terrain and stay clear of the nasties that stationary Pathfinders can't. Mark'o is a really nice way to do it to. I just hate the idea wasting either lots of plasma or lots of ML.

You could take two of those drones and throw them on your commander with a target lock, BS 5 markerlight hits, I know its only 2 drones but it seems worth it to me if your considering putting the six into a squad, just make a four done squad with two in the commander squad.