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Trying to put together a first Tau list, I have the battleforce and a single broadside. I mainly expect to face fairly vanilla marines with the odd vehicle (as that is what my opponent is building). Just want to know if anything is broken or a long way from optimal.

+++ Tau (749pts) +++ + HQ + (175pts) * Commander (175pts) Flamer, 2x Fusion blaster, Puretide Engram Neurochip, Stimulant injector, XV8-02 Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit + No Force Org Slot + (134pts) * XV8 Crisis Bodyguard Team (134pts) * Crisis Bodyguard (67pts) Flamer, 2x Plasma rifle * Crisis Bodyguard (67pts) Flamer, 2x Plasma rifle + Elites + (100pts) * Stealth Team (100pts) * Stealth Shas'ui (30pts) Burst cannon * Stealth Shas'ui (30pts) Burst cannon * Stealth Shas'ui (40pts) Fusion blaster, Target lock + Troops + (176pts) * Fire Warrior Team (88pts) 5x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle, Photon grenades * Fire Warrior Shas'ui Pulse rifle * 2x Gun Drone 2x Twin-linked pulse carbine * Fire Warrior Team (88pts) 5x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle, Photon grenades * Fire Warrior Shas'ui Pulse rifle * 2x Gun Drone 2x Twin-linked pulse carbine + Fast Attack + (70pts) * Piranhas (70pts) * Piranha Disruption pod, Fusion blaster, Sensor spines, Two Gun Drones + Heavy Support + (94pts) * XV88 Broadside Team (94pts) * Broadside Shas'ui Broadside battlesuit, Early warning override, Twin-linked high-yield missile pod, Twin-linked smart missile system * 2x Missile Drone 2x Missile pod .

To go to 1k I will probably make the firewarrior teams bigger and stick them in fishes, but I'm open to suggestions.

For the models you have I think it's good I normaly use misslie pods on crisis suits as the long range plays better for tau
On a tactical note the gun drones might work better on your crisis team as most tau players I've dealt with use the fire warriors to sit on objectives so the pinning from gun drones helps the crisis suit in the offensive attack but that depends on how you play your army

Any reason why they're Bodyguards instead of regular suits?

Good points, thanks to both, have now made some tweaks. Moved the gun drones onto the crisis suits and have switched them into 1-man elite slots. Down-grading the firewarriors also gives me the points to beef up the stealth team little, adding in two markerlights and target locks so they can do as they please.

+++ Tau (750pts) +++ + HQ + (199pts) * Commander (199pts) Flamer, 2x Fusion blaster, Puretide Engram Neurochip, Stimulant injector, XV8-02 Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit * 2x Gun Drone 2x Twin-linked pulse carbine + Elites + (279pts) * Stealth Team (127pts) * Marker Drone Markerlight * Stealth Shas'ui Burst cannon * Stealth Shas'ui Burst cannon, Target lock * Stealth Shas'vre Fusion blaster, Markerlight and target lock * XV8 Crisis Team (76pts) * Crisis Shas'ui Missile pod, Plasma rifle * 2x Gun Drone 2x Twin-linked pulse carbine * XV8 Crisis Team (76pts) * Crisis Shas'ui Missile pod, Plasma rifle * 2x Gun Drone 2x Twin-linked pulse carbine + Troops + (108pts) * Fire Warrior Team (54pts) 6x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle, Photon grenades * Fire Warrior Team (54pts) 6x Fire Warrior Shas'la with pulse rifle, Photon grenades + Fast Attack + (70pts) * Piranhas (70pts) * Piranha Disruption pod, Fusion blaster, Sensor spines, Two Gun Drones + Heavy Support + (94pts) * XV88 Broadside Team (94pts) * Broadside Shas'ui Early warning override, Twin-linked high-yield missile pod, Twin-linked smart missile system * 2x Missile Drone 2x Missile pod .

I like it more. Good Luck!