Gitsplitta's Unified Painting Theory (3/18: Adepticon prep - gaslands cruiser)

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**Gitsplitta**

For the terminally stupid... (like me).

DSS and CG wrote:

Let's list the Priorities.

Broadsides: AP2, long range - Lascannons a go-go.
Crisis Battlesuits: AP3, fast, medium range - Krak Missiles, Melta Weapons, Lascannons a go-go. Plasma goes nice too.
Pathfinders: AP1, long range - only a few per squad. Other than that - Markerlight nuisance. Deadly when combined with the above. - Assault them. Or sneeze on them. Don't forget how hit allocation works. Chance to kill them off with cheap rapid fire.
Hammerheads: AP1, long range. - suffers from being a tank. Shake it til the cows come home and it stops being a threat.
Pirahnas: AP3, medium range, fast - suffers from being a vehicle. Low armour. Shake or wreck.
Devilfish: No AP but can transport things - crack open like a pinata.
Firewarriors: Long range - squishy in combat. Squishy in combat to things like gaunts and IG. Says it all really.
Kroot: More deadly in combat - but no armour penetrating abilities. If spotted in woods, set on fire and smile.

So, it looks like damn near everything will make Swiss cheese out of my armor and vehicles... all the way down to the 6th priority!! No saving throws for me.

How much Tau do you get for 1500 pts?

**Revenent Reiko**

Just a thought, I dont think ive ever seen a Piranha hit anything, ever......at least not with its fusion guns....

also, beware SMS ignore cover (i think).

**Gitsplitta**

I run marines... don't need no bloody cover.... or camo... or... intelligence.

**Revenent Reiko**

Gitsplitta wrote:I run marines... don't need to bloody cover.... or camo... or... intelligence.

Haha! Of course not.....

**bebopdrums2424**

very cool looking army

THe bikers are insanely cool and your approach to vehicles is very personal....new to the post and the forum but ill be watching your log for inspiration

keep it coming please!!!

cheers

**Gitsplitta**

Cheers bebop, and thanks!

Welcome to dakka... there's a lot of really good stuff here if you look around. Hope this isn't the last time you see something work commenting on.

**DarkStarSabre**

Gitsplitta wrote:

So, it looks like damn near everything will make Swiss cheese out of my armor and vehicles... all the way down to the 6th priority!! No saving throws for me.

Actually, not so much. They're BS 3 for the most part with limited twin linking or rerolls, unlike an IG army with its orders.

Ask any Eldar player about the differences in performance between a Wave Serpent (twin linked, BS3), a Falcon (BS3) and a Fire Prism (BS4).

Most Eldar players I know utterly loathe the fact the Falcon is BS3. A mainline, BS3 tank is quite shoddy so the fact most of what you'll be facing is BS3 is a relief. The Crisis suits are BS4 but the Broadsides are not. A good idea if you get lucky is to obliterate any Pathfinders from the word go. Suddenly there's a lack of markerlights for everything else to use - as if a normal squad leader uses it the rest of the squad have to shoot at the same target. You can seriously mess him up that way.

**bebopdrums2424**

oh yes i plan on making myself known through mass compliments

Quick question, how did you link you p log into your signature, ive tried to do that except its the literal link, not something clickable. apologes for off topic question

**Gitsplitta**

bebopdrums2424 wrote:oh yes i plan on making myself known through mass compliments Quick question, how did you link you p log into your signature, ive tried to do that except its the literal link, not something clickable. apologes for off topic question

Oh yeah, that's a neat trick....

1. add a URL using the URL button, which will appear as [ URL ] (I've added spaces in there so it doesn't actually put the link in here)
2. remove the back bracket and replace it with a =
3. add the link to the url and add the back bracket back in.
4. type in whatever text you want
5. and in the closeing URL from the button [ /URL ].

Or you can just copy this into your sig... (cool stuff by-the-way... consider me subscribed)

View my Catachan P&M Blog

**bebopdrums2424**

thanks git! and obviously, the compliments are genuine

take care, looking forward to the next update!

**Gitsplitta**

My pleasure bepop... on and I did clean up my instructions a bit... they were kinda haphazard.

**wyomingfox**

Revenent Reiko wrote:Just a thought, I dont think ive ever seen a Piranha hit anything, ever......at least not with its fusion guns....

also, beware SMS ignore cover (i think).

SMS ignore cover if you are not "in cover"...area terrain and special abilities that always grant cover are not affected. Slightly better than Hive Guard whose cover ignoring abiility doesn't extend to units "adjacent to" (ie touching) cover.

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Gitsplitta wrote:I run marines... don't need to bloody cover.... or camo... or... intelligence.

Your scout bikers need cover

**Gitsplitta**

Naah, they'll be dead long before you get the chance to shoot at them.

**Revenent Reiko**

Ahhh that was it, thanks wyoming

**dantay_xv**

Lol, atleast if you are in cover you can take a cover save when he hits and tries to wound rather than go meh, I am dead... so ru, hide shoot, run, hide, shoot, run, hide, shoot, run club the enemy hope not to be stuck in the open on your assault phase, polish them off in theirs etc etc

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Smart missile systems only have a 24" range

**polari**

Bein a tau player i suggest movin everything across ASAP for 1500 pts he has alot of options actually but your basic firewarriors bs 3 with a str 5 ap5 30" rapid fire weapon, knowing hes going against marines im bettin a few crisis suits with plasma rifles (str6 ap2 rapid fire 24") and prolly missile pods (str7 ap4 assault 36") try to drop as close to his hammerheads and broadsides to get rid of those str10 ap1 72" rail guns...kroot are squishy but have a load of attacks o yea and crisis suit tactics are usually move in unload everything and move away which is a healoggers but not a problem for fast moving units

**Gitsplitta**

Thought I'd share this one image with you (my fav from the game).

My Iron Clad singlehandedly taking on the Tau army. If you look closely you can see the libby hiding behind him in a vain attempt to survive for one more round.

**Yggdrasil**

Hey nice pic !

Did he really make it out alive ? ! ?

**Gitsplitta**

No, both the Libby and the Iron Clad ultimately died. The Libby in the next shooting phase and the Iron Clad 2-3 turns later... but not until the dread had taken out a squad of battle suits and a hammerhead... so that was OK. Before he died, the Libby was instrumental in helping to route two Fire Warrior squads off the table, so he earned his kibble for the day too. Considering the horrendous circumstances of the battle (from my perspective), they both did fine. The Libby would have been more effective if I'd remembered to change his psychic powers to something that actually would be useful vs. Tau rather than my standard anti-marine package. My fault, not his.

**The Good Green**

How heroic...

**wyomingfox**

No battle report?

**polari**

Battle report pleeeaaase?

**Gitsplitta**

Coming... have a lot to do around the house and a half-dozen football games to watch. I did just "sequence" the photos from the game so I can use them to write up the report. I'll have it to you sometime today, I promise.

We had a fun time. At various times during the game both of us were certain that we were toast... but we kept playing and pendulum never failed to swing in the opposite direction. I will withhold letting you know the final results until the battle report though. Safe to say that we both got our pound of flesh out of each other's army.

On a side note... wyomingfox's Tau are almost all painted and are very pretty. That always greatly increases the enjoyment I get out of a battle, regardless of the final standings.

**fatty**

i hate the nfl saints lost to the packers

**Gitsplitta**

Good game though. Breeze was a machine.

**polari**

Bet all those plasma rifles did some damage

**Gitsplitta**

OK gang, here's the link to the batrep...

Mantis Warriors vs. Tau, 1500 pts.

**fatty**

thank you will read it and come back to post comments

why didn't you bbq some fish with the flamer?

**Gitsplitta**

I did, on the turn they podded in... actually it was more like chicken. I just didn't mention it specifically.

T1: podded in, roasted chicken (kroot)
T2: charged and routed two fire warrior units
T3: shot to pieces before he could act again

**fatty**

ok now i see thanks Git