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Hello all. I am playing a game against my friend tomorrow and the instruction was to bring the meanest 1850 point list I could assemble. I'm a Tau player, so that naturally points me towards the Puretide Bomb.

I have a 1500 point version, which I will detail below. I need to know what you would add as the additional 350 points. Assume I have every model at my disposal.

HQ
Shadowsun
Farsight
Farsight's 7 Man Bodyguard with the normal Buff Commander and assorted Target Locked Suits
14 Gun Drones

Troops
6x Fire Warriors x2

Heavy Support
2x Broadside Team w/Interceptor w/4 Missile Drones
2x Skyrays

For the sake of argument, I'm deploying the entire bomb on the field, so I don't want to get into the "Shadowsun can't infiltrate the bomb" thing.

Also, Shadowsun is the Warlord for mobility reasons.

Maybe a riptide or missile suits with drone controller and marker drones for marker support.

Having shadowsun as the warlord is very smart. IMO that fact alone makes it either just as mobile or more as attaching Loth to it for gate.

As far as expanding it, I think you definitely need some more scoring at 1850. Maybe a couple of outflanking kroot squads with hounds?

After that, fleshing out your broadsides couldn't hurt, and uhhh well Riptide. Just because riptide. I'm not an expert on Tau, but I believe just by rearranging a few elements of your list you could make it to where you could ally w/ Farsight Enclave so that you could bring a Riptide with HBC and ECPA. That is by far my favorite flavor of riptide, and I think it would compliment this list well seeing as you already have plenty of AP2 in the bomb.

So your primary would be Tau Empire with Shadowsun as your warlord. 2nd HQ would be buffmander. Two squads of kroot as your compulsory troops. (or 1 squad of kroot and 1 squad of firewarriors). Enclaves would be your allies with Farsight as mandatory HQ and 1 squad of Firewarriors as compulsory troops. Riptide w/ HBC and ECPA as elite slot. Everything else would remain as is. I think that works?

Anyway Farsight bomb was, is, and will be nasty for a long time. I hate seeing them across the table from me

Very few troops is my only concern