How to beat Chaos Daemons

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**Jpr**

thanatos67 wrote:
just to throw it out there, here's what i'd run:

farsight+tau Justin Cook
Primary detachment (farsight enclaves)

Hq

farsight
165

O'vesa
305

Troops:

3 crisis suits, bonding knifex3
69

1 crisis suit, bonding knife, flamer
28

1 crisis suit, bonding knife, flamer
28

1 crisis suit, bonding knife, flamer
28

Elites:

riptide, heavy burst cannon, twin linked smart missile system, velocity tracker, target lock, talisman of arthas moloch
230

riptide, ion accelerator, twin linked sms, early warning override
190

riptide, ion accelerator, twin linked sms, early warning override
190

Heavy support

skyray, smart missile system, blacksun filter
116

skyray, smart missile system, blacksun filter
116

Allied detachment (codex tau)

Hq:
commander, command and control node, multispectrum sensor suite, iridium armor, puretide chip, onager gauntlet, vectored retrothrusters, 1 shield drone, neuroweb system jammer
184

Troops:

10 kroot, 1 hound
65

Inquisitors

Ordo xenos inquisitor, 3 servo skulls
34

1748

I think it was mentioned, but your list is lacking some marker light and skyfire support. I'd suggest a pair of skyrays for this. The single crisis will deepstrike when needed otherwise they'll hide with the 3 man naked unit in the backfield seeking to jump out and contest objectives. The inquisitor is for the meta, particularly deamon cav and khan biker armies. He wont really help in this match, but in general i'd put him in my TAC builds because he's almost needed.

Good luck! And watch out for puppet master-that means keep everything within talisman range and rack all of your seekers early, otherwise JY2 is just going to do it for you into another skyray.

What would your plan be if you would expand this to 1850 and 2k? I've often found the skyfire upgrade on the burst tide not super useful when I run lots of skyrays...seems kind of expensive?