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I'm going to take place in a 1500pts tournament in a few months and I've gotten this list wrighten up for it. 1500pts of Tau, Farsight conclave.


HQ

Commander 

Cyclonic iron blaster  

Shield generator

2 shield drones


Body guard

2 crisis suits with burst cannons and missle pods with shield generators.


Elite

Stealth team 

Burst cannon 

Fusion blaster

Shas'vre with burst cannon and homming beacon


Riptide 

Ion accelerator

Smart missile system


Riptide

Heavy burst cannon

Smart missile system

Counterfire defense system

Volocity tracker


Troops

2-3 man crisis suite teams

Burst cannons

Missile pods

2 shield drones

Shas'vre with burst cannon, fusion blaster.


3-2 man crisis suite teams

2 burst cannons each

So let me know what you guys think.

You have no marker lights. In my humble opinion that is the greatest strength of tau as you cannot take any save against a marker light and it buffs the remainder of the army.

I would like to see a unit of pathfinders, a skyray Missle gunship, commander "buffington" with drone controller and marker drones, or hell even tetras. Anything to potentially get BS 5 ignores cover.


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Also I don't see anybody taking burst cannons over plasma rifles/fusion blasters. Not that you can't be a rebel, and it's 40k so there really is no right answer, but it leaves you with very little anti tank and little that can deal with 2+ armor saves.

The Burst Cannons w/ missile pods doesn't mesh very well.

You have a whole 12" where you will only be able to fire one weapon. Since its a suit army, I understand needing to get a good amount of S5 shots, but you also need more S7 IMO.

My default setup for a 3 man squad is: 2 Shas'ui with TL MP and 1 MP, and then a Shas'vre with a TL MP and a drone controller and 2 markers, or all three with TL MP and Velocity Trackers if your area likes to use flyers.

For another squad, Epartalis is right when Fusion/Plasma is a good set up, either twin fusion or twin plasma, again, depending on your area.

I also tend to run a skyray and some pathfinders(at least one squad at 1500pts) for markerlight support. Broadsides with the high yield pods is a good addition as well.