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So this is my first crack at a tau army list, please can i get your opinions on it.

HQ
Battlesuit commander w/ Puretide chip, 2x missile pods, drone controller, target lock, 2x marker drones, 167

Elites
3x crisis shas'ui w/ 3x burst cannons, 3x fusion blasters, 141

Troops
5x fire warriors w/ pulse rifles, 45
5x fire warriors w/ pulse rifles, 45

Fast attack
4x marker drones 56,

Heavy Support
Broadside w/ HYMP, SMS, seeker missile, 73
Broadside w/ HYMP, SMS, seeker missile, 73

As you can see I have gone with minimalist troops because after playing guard forever, i'm bored of painting foot soldiers and want to paint some cool mech things. The plan would be to have the commander join with the drones jump shoot jumping in and out of cover, fire warriors to camp home objectives, broadsides to dakka stuff and the crisis suits to hunt infantry and tanks. What do you think?

So far i only have the firewarriors but the rest i can get for christmas...

Well I don't know much about Tau but as a CSM player I would tell you what I would do.

My cultists would hold down objectives at home.
My lord with terminator squad would deep strike and hunt down your lord, combi-meltas and heavy flamer galour.
My helldrake would aim to baleflame your firewarriers forveasy kills.

My hope is that you have anti-air and ap2 weapons to counter this type of attack.

Ah thanks for reminding me about flyers! i forgot you sometimes see them in low point games, so in that scenario:

the fusion blasters are basically 18' range meltaguns and the three burst cannons can put out a total 12 s5 shots a turn so that should be ok for hunting the TEQ, MEQ or cultists,

broadsides have all the missiles in the galaxy some of which have ignores cover, and i could equip them with interceptor or skyfire to deal with the deepstriking termies or flying hell turkey but that would mean dropping a few drones,

and with the jump shoot jump of the commander and the crisis suits they should easily be able to kite the lord.