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Our second battle together with the new Dex, now that she knows what to expect how will the Tyranids turn out?
1850 pts Purge the Alien
spiritseer
wraithguard x5 in wave serpent with scatter lasers/holo
dire avengers x10 in wave serpent with scatter lasers/holo
dire avengers x10
fire prism w/holo
crimson hunter w/exarch and brightlances
wraithlord w/scatter lasers x2
crisis commander w/iridium, missile pods and velocity
crisis bodyguard w/missile pods, velocity tracker
riptide w/ion accelerator, early warning, stims
fire warriors x6
I noticed a minor rules mistake y'all made though.
Gargoyles force blind checks for each hit, but every single tau suit has a black sun filter, giving them both night vision and immunity to blind.
Rick Priestley said it best:
Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! The modern studio isn’t a studio in the same way; it isn’t a collection of artists and creatives sharing ideas and driving each other on. It’s become the promotions department of a toy company – things move on!
During this Battle Report your wife mentioned that she is unsure of her inclusion of Tau in her army, so I would like to offer my recommendation:
Tau, although equipped with big guns, have a hard time landing the crucial and painful shots by themselves. Each unit, with a huge emphasis on the Riptide, rely on Markerlights to make this huge hits land. My recommendation that requires minimal changes to her list is marker drones. Give your Missile commander drone controller, all three suits Target Lock, and six Marker Drones. What this does is allow your drones to shoot at BS5 and your missile suits to target something other than your Markerlight Target. However to do this you would need to drop Velocity Tracker, so the choice is yours.
The inclusion of six BS5 Markerlights will drastically increase the effectiveness of your Riptide, you only need four to boost him to BS5 and ignore cover.
Or you can drop the bodyguards, only equip the Tau commander with the Command and Control Node, Multi-Spectrum Sensor Suite, and the Puretide Engram Neurochip, and then attach him to the Riptide. Now your Riptide is always Twin Linked, Ignoring Cover, and you have a choice between Tank Hunter, Monster Hunter, Stubborn, or Counter Attack.
And one last suggestion, if you're intent on keeping the suits as they are, consider running them as a Farsight Enclave detachment. Your Crisis Suits are troops at the cost of including the Bonding Knife Ritual for each model that can take it, then you can drop the Firewarriors (which appear to only be a mandatory and unwanted addition to your army). In addition, you can give your Riptide a wargear that costs the same as two Missile Pods that allows him to reroll failed Nova Charges, 1's to hit (including Gets Hot! rolls), all at the cost of reducing his WS to 1.
^ Thats all killer advice. When she's in I'll have her read and respond, I agree and was pushing for Pathfinders or something. But it seems like the suits are underused in their current state.
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