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Been thinking about this as a potential list with a crazy amount of fire power:

Triple CAD

CAD 1
(Warlord) Ethereal – 50
Fireblade – 60
10 Fire Warriors – Pulse Rifles, Tactical Turret w/Missile Pod – 100
10 Breachers – Carbines – 90

CAD 2
Ethereal – 50
Fireblade – 60
10 Fire Warriors – Pulse Rifles, Tactical Turret w/Missile Pod – 100
10 Breachers – Carbines - 90

CAD 3
Ethereal – 50
Fireblade – 60
10 Fire Warriors – Pulse Rifles, Tactical Turret w/Missile Pod – 100
10 Breachers – Carbines – 90

Tau Fortification – 2 Shieldwalls, 1 Drone Port, 2 Gunrigs – 350

Lord of War – Supremacy Battlesuit – 600

=1850

So, utilising the fireblades extra shot rule if the squad remains stationary (which it always counts as on the tau fortification even if the fortification moves) and the ethereals ability to grant an extra shot as well, the 3 squads a turn can pump out 30/40 shots depending if in rapid fire range etc. Say its long range, the pulse rifles pump out 90 str 5 shots at 30” that reroll 1’s to hit. When the enemy close the gap, switch both abilities to the breachers who do the same, except potentially at str6 ap3. And then you still have the rifles in rapid fire range and over watch to come and supporting fire.

And to this the army is in 4+ cover and can ping enemy shots back, 2 railguns and a titan backing it up.

Its Tau dakka.

Thoughts please dakka?

The new hunter cadre rules will give you 1+ bs to any units in the formation. I think this would benifit you significantly. Further they can re use marker lights. This makes things like invisibility much less scary.

I don't know how the lord of war fits or the tau tidewall fits in(maybe that's why you left it as multiple cads) but the suit is pretty nice and the rules for the tidewall are good(though for now I don't know how TO's will address it.)

In short it looks good if a bit squishy. All those ethereals offer a lot of extra victory points to your opponent as well as a super easy warlord kill. its also short on interceptor so I would worry about sky hammer. Obviously if you get successfully assualted(that's a big if) then it will be a tough game, but other than that you should be fine.

So is the fortification all part of the last CAD? If so it all moves as 1 piece which basically makes it immobile.

I like this list but what do you have thats anti flyer? and drop pod heavy lists will drop right behind you

Epartalis - Any CAD can take a LoW and a Fortification so thats how they fit in.

Flingitnow - as it stands at the moment, the only rules we have for the tidewall is the unit composition that requires the model to have 2 shieldwalls, 1 drone port and 1 gunrig plus extras you want. If the codex allows you to take the fortification in smaller pieces, i would do so in each CAD to increase the mobility of each element.

Kharne - in local meta see's VERY few flyer's these days, and those i do see are AV11 at best. if it came to that str 5 shooting, which i have in abundance. Titan can also pump 16 twinlinked str 5 from its burst cannons and SMS and 10 melta shots if needs be and still fire his primary elsewhere. Pod lists are a bit of a concern but not massively as even skyhammer has limited effect as bar the titan its all 4+ armour so not an optimal target for skyhammer grav. also deployment of the terrain should mean i can make sure nobody can drop in behind me