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My current collection is as folows:

1 skyray, 1 hammer head (both can be switched to a devilfish). 24 fire warriors 30 path finders (6 rail and 6 ion) 1 cadre fire blade 3 crisis suits. 15 gun drones, 4 shield drones, 9 markerlight drones.

right now I'm looking at a grabbing a riptide and maybe a few nice looking broadsides. I'm considering also getting an ethereal (though i'd rather convert one) or grabbing a suit commander (though the whole being finecast/resin is putting me off). I'm also interested in kroot.

Any advice on what to grab next?

I'd say get more crisis suits or broadsides. I'd say you should check my trade thread, but that is a little bit self serving

Crisis Suit team

You already have a base of firepower

Now you need a rapid movement element

Edit

Also remember. Weapons do not have to be twin link. I run one team of three Crisis Suits with missile pods. 18 Str7 AP4 shots can be.......FUN on a enemy unit

 Jihadin wrote:
Crisis Suit team

You already have a base of firepower

Now you need a rapid movement element

Edit

Also remember. Weapons do not have to be twin link. I run one team of three Crisis Suits with missile pods. 18 Str7 AP4 shots can be.......FUN on a enemy unit

I kinda want to hold off on getting more box suits because I heard that they were gonna get new ones soon, and the current ones really look a bit... bad. The only reason I was able to convince myself into getting the ones I have is because I figured I might as well have some of the old ones for the sake of having an OOP product in my army.

Magnetize the ones that you have, and start stocking up on weapons. Even if we do get new suits, the weapons will likely stay more or less the same.

 Jihadin wrote:
Crisis Suit team

You already have a base of firepower

Now you need a rapid movement element

Edit

Also remember. Weapons do not have to be twin link. I run one team of three Crisis Suits with missile pods. 18 Str7 AP4 shots can be.......FUN on a enemy unit

How can you fire 18 shots? They can fire 12 shots at max.

Definitely more Crisis Suits. You can never have too many Crisis Suits (or battlesuits in general for that matter). Riptide and Broadsides are pretty much must haves for a good sized Tau collection. I would pick up a Devilfish or two so that you can have transports for your FW while still having the Sky Ray and Hammerhead on the field. Definitely pick up the Commander though. Yeah he's finecast, but he is good enough ruleswise to be worth it. (Although, current rumors say that a campaign box set this summer will be SM v Tau and will have a plastic Commander in it. This has not yet been confirmed though so don't get your hopes up, but if you really hate finecast that much you can wait a couple months and see.)

Other than that, the only things I can recommend are Forgeworld. If your local meta allows it, go pick up some Tetras. They are far and away the best source of markerlights in the game.

Broadsides and kroot. Broadsides will increase the fire support your gun line puts out and kroot will be able to act as a "speed bump" to any hostiles trying to charge your lines. Or allow them to move up through the cover of a field flank; I believe they have a move-through-cover special rule?

i think that you need one more skyray,for tau needs marklight and skyray is a nice unit to shoot it with BS4
Pathfinder is too weak,T3,5+makes it easy to die and the marklignt is heavy weapon....
Kroot is also a nice unit,it can bring a hound to flank,it can be a meatshield,it can use sniper to shoot big guys.So maybe you need some more kroot