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hey guys

i am playing in an Escallation league with some experinced players and i have just started with Tau , I want to run a Battlesuit list using Commander Farsight

1st list needs to be 600 pts then we must use these choices through the whole campaign

anyone got some nice ideas for a list ??

Thanks guys

Farsight bomb would be good later on if you like battle suits...

Are you running Tau, or Farsight Enclaves?

Farsight Enclaves

I suggest running a max squad, three crisis suits, six drones as atleast one troop choice. The weapons you give them are up to you, I often field squads like this with flamers and burst cannons, or two plasma rifles. If you choose the plasma rifles I strongly advise taking target arrays so you can choose what model in the squad has to take the wounds.

Take atleast one squad of suits with two missile pods. Most people freak out when they here suggestions like that, declaring that broadsides are more for your buck, but a scoring unit that can pump out four strength seven shots a turn at thirty six inches is nothing to balk at. I usually run two of them with velocity trackers. I know, I know, twenty points a model for skyfire, but hey a scoring unit that can drop a flying monstrous creature, tell me that isn't amazing. Now I usually run two of them because I field them with a commander from Codex Tau who has a puretide neurochip, but if you want all suits doing this will force you to take Firewarriors or at the very least Kroot.

Suicide squads will die, they are uncompetitive and list builders on every site will tell you not to take them. But they are a lot of fun and murder Imperial armor with incredible efficiency. The problem here is against anyone else, except say maybe Orks they don't do much, so consider your meta if your thinking about taking them.

My last bit of advice:
Take the Talisman of Arthas Moloch somewhere in your list. It is a life saver against psychicly theamed armies.

Never underestimate the effectiveness of the Airbursting fragmentation projector. This thing can while out whole squads.

Take drones, they eat up shots and do some serious damage.

If you take the Codex Tau commander option to get the puretide neurochip, take an Ethereal as your Farsight Enclave HQ, and some Firewarriors as your Codex Tau troops. The sheer number of shots these guys dish out is devastating.

Fusion blades are fun, but at toughness four your commander will let you down.

Warscaper drones are amazing when used with crisis suits. Move through cover and outflank make them serious issues for your opponent.

And Kroot need a hound if you take them.

Good luck man, glad to see someone else trying to go crisis heavy these days, check out my l750-2000 point list in my subscribed threads if you would like to see what I did.

Oh and always remember don't deepstrike unless you have a homing beacon, deploy in cover, never deploy first, and deploy as far away as possible from your opponent.

WOW thanks for all the info


i will look at your lists and keep you up to date with my process