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Just out of curiousity... how do you model 5 weapon systems onto one battlesuit

I have a Tau gamer as a friend who has exactly the same issues, except I think he's in denial because he loses all the time, for example, until VERY recently he believed that a railgun submunition did the same strength and AP as a solid shot AND he thought that broadsides could shoot pie plates too. When I founf out the conversation kind of went like this:

(He racks up some wounds with a submuntion on a tac squad (because it's wounding on 2+ anyway I don't realise he's upped the strength to 10))

Me: Ok, that's 7 armour saves-

Him: no armour saves, it's AP 1.

Me: No -insert name here-, it's AP 4 because it's a submunition.

Him: Nah (shows me his codex)

Me: yep, right there, submuntion.

Him: oh, er, I didn't see that...

Me: out of interest which unit was firing at me?

Him: Broadside battlesuit

^Right on the spot!

You guys don't have point lists? You don't look over point lists before playing? It's like inviting people to cheat. What's this faith in gamers stuff? Gamers want to win like anyone else. But a few simple things, like lists before games and such, help to discourage douche acts like that.

The sad thing is that even with the Tau list being way over 1500pts, I think a proper ork 1500 build would still beat it.

Other than the 2 Hammerheads - what real answer does the Tau list have for a Battlewagon rush? 4 Battlewagons bearing down on them and dumping 60 boys and some nobs out in front of the Tau feel that the greater good is somewhere else.

Considering it is a completely illegal list with wrong rulings using those wrong rulings it could possible kill 8 tanks turn 1 from far-med range (2 Railshots, 6 markerlight seeker missiles) then another 6 close range from crisis suits and DF (fusion blasters and 2 SMS shots).

That is enough anti tank to stop them, then there is the DF and the rentless to then escape the charge or the Huge amount of weapons his Suits had, they had loads of anti troop and I bet he fired them all aswell.


Face it even though tau cant take a charge this cheated list and rules could deal with a lot.

Well when cheating certain ways, it can take your list pretty damn far. And a good enough Ork player that could handle that, would know REALLY fast that the kid was cheating. Obviously no one at that club knew about it. Thats pretty bad