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What are some of the most prevalent things you can put on a Tau Commander/Buffmander?

The common load out is Iridium armor, stim injector, MSSS /C&Cnode, PEN chip, and Drone Controller.

It's expensive, but an incredibly durable commander that will give many buffs to a squad.

I like allying in a FSE troop crisis squad. Throw in a dual plasma commander from FSE, dual Plasma suit, two dual missile suits, throw in 6 marker drones or so, and put the buff commander near the front to tank/distribute wounds.

Gives you a mobile Objective Secured unit, with some good and versatile firepower, and with enough markers to support another unit or two.

I also run a HBC Riptide from FSE with the ECPA. 2 markers for BS5 and another 2 to ignore cover gives you 12 rending BS10 shots.

Iriudium, PEN Chip and the NSJ (come on, it's literally 2 cents). Nowadays I rather use ML to improve BS/ignore cover than stop my BS5 shooting its good weapons

I don't use buffmanders, because it seems like a waste of points to me. I do use a buff suit in a mini Farsight bomb though, its about ~67 points for a cheap one (suit with MSSS and C&Cnode) which massively benefits the other suits.

My typical bomb is Farsight, dual plas suit, 3x dual fusion suits and support suit. It is around 500 points but i think this is a borderline justifiable amount.

I dont know if i'd ever use a buffmander though its upwards of 150 points.

Best builds have been mentioned though.