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cadre fireblade

stealth team w 3 burst 2 fusion
riptide w early warning overide, velocity tracker, 2 drones w heavy burst
crisis team w bonding knives,x3 all with dual burst

12 fire warriors w shas'ui w markerlight
12 fire warriors w shas'ui w markerlight
12 fire warriors w shas'ui w markerlight in devilfish

4 pathfinders w pulse accelerator drone
4 pathfinders w pulse accelerator drone

xv88 broadsides w bonding knifes all with rail rifles and shasvre

1479 points
prob will need change but note this is first tau list so say it nicely

Fireblade isn't great, Ethereal is generally better and cheaper.

You can only have 1 fusion per 3 stealth suits so you need another suit to get that fusion. Though mixing fusion in isn't a great idea. Keep them as a distraction S5 spam unit.

Riptide is too expensive for a weapon as mediocre as the HBC. He's not great at AA so dump the VC and get him Ion. EWO is basically mandatory. The drones are a no no. Where do you put them? If out front then Autocannon type fire will hit them as they just have a 4++ so no need for AP2 and you'll have to take a morale check. So you put then behind him and then they are just double the cost missile drones that could be with your Broadsides. Either way a poor spend of points. Stims are good if you have the spare points.

Double burst cannon Crisis are good but bonding does nothing unless you take drones. You only have 3 models so will never be down to less than 25%. However Crisis suits should be for filling gaps in your army. You have a metric tonne of S5 so I would equipe them to solve a problem. Perhaps double fusion as you'll struggle against high AV or double plasma if you keep the HBC on the Riptide. Or double MP if you don't fix the Broadsides (more on that later). But the essence is look for a gap in your list and plug it with a dedicated crisis team. S5 spam is generally best with a drone commander.

Fire warriors are better in smaller units 6s or 9s are generally best. 6s are cheap and throw away which is good also they definitely get wiped in the first round of combat, 9s are great because it takes 3 wounds to cause a morale check and are still relatively cheap. Likewise the ML is rarely worth it, just take 2 more Pathfinders for the same cost as that 1 ML...

Devilfish generally aren't worth it unless you're taking a full mech list. As is they are just providing a good target for dedicated AT fire. Drop it.

Pathfinders work well in 5-6 models takes 2 casualties for a morale check and even snap firing they should put an ML on something. Though personally I prefer Mark'o commanders and Skyrays for ML support. Accelerator Drone isn't worth it unless you're building a Pathfinderstar which is too fragile to really be worth it.

Broadsides need HYMP always. They are massively better they kill everything except AV14 (which the Railrifles won't do much to either). Again bonding knives are wasted unless you take drones. However in this case you should take drones. Take maximum drones and EWO on each unit. They are your AA they murder fliers due to volume of S5 and S7 fire twin linked. I would take more of them.

The biggest issue I can see is having to footslog all your troops to objectives. I agree that only haveing 1 devilfishisnt good, but i would consider dropping the size of each troop choice and picking up some transports for them.

I had limited success with the stealth suits DSing in with fusion to pop tanks and scary things in the back feild, but taking all 6 to get 2 fusion is really pricy and they almost never make thier points back that way.

Swapped cadre for darkstrider

3x9 units in devil fish w shas'vu with marker lights one squad w emp grenades

All stealth suits have burst
Swapped velocity tracker for fnp removed drones
All weapons are now fusion on crisis suits removed knives

2x4 pathfinders
2x XV88 suits