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1500 TAU

HQ (272)
Commander: C&CN, Puretide, Stim Injector, MSSS, XV8-02, Airburst, Drone Controler
2x Gundrones

Ethereal (NAKED hehe)

Troop (324)

12 x Firewarriors
12 x Firewarriors
12 x Firewarriors
Fast (168)

6 x Pathfinders: EMP, Bonding Knife
6 x Pathfinders: EMP, Bonding Knife
HEAVY (250)

3 x XV88: Shas’vre, HYMP, SMS, Stim Injectors
ELITE (486)

1 x XV104: TL SMS, Ion Accelerator, EWO, VT
3 x XV8: Bonding Knife, 6 x Fusion, Stim Injector
6 x Gundrones

Thoughts and suggestions? I don't have more riptides or broadsides. I can field 3 more crisis suits and all the tanks (I like tanks). My goal is to have the Ethereal join a fire warrior team and camp some objectives. Buffmander hunts priority targets with either XV8s or XV88 depending on enemy targets.

By my math you have a few spare points. Since you do, always take a neuroweb jammer. It is an outright steal, and cheap enough that if you never use it, no big deal.

Since your commander is going to be buffing, drop the airbursing gun. A flamer is decent for overwatch, but you could go without. An onager gauntlet is nice to have for emergency AT or challenges.

Drop the emp grenades and bonding from the pathfinders. They probably won't get close to a tank without dying, and once they break, a single pathfinder is not worth rallying.

The broadsides could use missile drones. Drop the Stims and take EWO, spend the spare points on missile drones. Bunker your ethereal here and just hand out a 6+ FNP. It is almost as good as stims but free.

Riptide probably does not need a velocity tracker, just keep the EWO.

The crisis suits are loaded out for tank hunting, but the gun drones are for dakka. Either take target locks to split the units fire, or take dual burst cannons to dakka.

Try to sneak in a skyray for long ranged AT and mobile marker support.