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What do my fellow dakkanoughts think of this as a friendly game TAC list.

Commander, iridium, neuroweb, burst cannon, plasma rifle, shield gen

12 FWs with Shas ui with Fireblade (shield drone)
12 FWs with Shas ui with Devilfish with sensor spines
12 FWs with Shas ui

3 Stealths, burst/burst/fusion, target locks, marker drone.

3 crisis suits, missile/missile with target lock, plas plas with target lock, plas burst with drone controller, 6 x gun drones

Pirahna with spines and a disruption pod, fusion gun
5 x Pathfinders with a rail
5 x Pathfinders with an ion and recon drone

Hammerhead with submunitions, spines and seeker missile

Just about 1500

It'd be fun to play against and a welcome change from the usual All suit or Riptide spam I see.

The player this is for specifically wants to avoid the crisis/riptide spam most Tau players go for, his regular games are against me with a bolter heavy IF army and a ork player who uses mobs and mobs of boys!

For friendly competition; it's adequate.

I like the idea of a firestorm loadout on a commander. I would probably swap the shield gen for stims though. A 2+ with a 5++ backup against anything short of S10 is solid, and you get both, or at least one save most of the time, so you are still pretty well off. Just Look out sir! any S10 wounds to scrubs, or deploy to hide the commander from such. If your commander is joining the crisis team, move the drone controller to em so your gun drones are BS5.

I would probably take a gun drone with the fireblade over a shield drone. If your in cover, you should have some kind of save against fire. If your opponent is shooting anything nasty enough to punch 4+ armor and cover, the lone shield drone won't save you. Gun drones can die to dakka all the same, but shoot back if something gets close enough.

Not sure if you need target locks on every single member of the stealth team, maybe saving enough to get a neurochip on the commander(combined with dropping shield gen to stims).

It is hard for me to imagine a hammerhead without a dpod, even with the new jink rules. Combined with sensor spines you can still do well in cover.