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I havent been into 40k in ages, so i have to ask for a bit of help to get back into this again.
Added: Just a general list for your favorite point limits, and please do tell the ideas and tactics for the list ^^;

My Tau have currently these models

Farsight x1

Shadowsun x1

Ethereal x1

Troop
Firewarriors x36

Devilfish x1

Elite
Crisis suits x7

Fast Attack
Pathfinders x10

Drones x 24

Heavy Support
Broadsides x3
Missile Drones x6

Sniper drones x3
Marksman x1

Hammerhead x1


And i have a Ally detachment of Eldar:

Farseer x1
Some dudes on jetbikes x3 ( dont remember what they are called )


Thanks for the help in advance, and as a note, buying new models are not a question atm due to economic circumstances.

With what you have, you can easily make a strong 1500.

The core of your list would look like this

Ethereal
Farseer

3 Squads of 12 fire warriors
3 jetbikes

2 squads of 5 pathfinders

3 Broadsides with EWO, 6 missile drones.
Railhead w/longstrike, disruption pods and submunitions
Sniper team

This leaves you ~350 points to play around with.I would add in a crisis team or two, and if your feeling fancy you can shadowsun or farsight to lead them. With crisis suits, dual fusion or dual plasma are generally your best bets. Also consider making a buffmander/batmander to lead crisis or broadside teams.

Your overall tactics are just to shoot the enemy into paste, using the crisis teams to spot remove hard to reach threats. Ethereal and farseer bubble in the warriors, anchoring in the broadsides. Between the invocation of the elements and psychic powers, this will be a tough nut to crack.

You could scale up to 1750 by adding a named hero, maxing out on suits and throwing in the fish.