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Hi all i just started up 40k with tau! All my friends play and I was wondering if i could get some advice on building point lists based off playing against Dark Eldar, Imperial Guard and Tyranids. They are all very experienced and I am not. HOWEVER I have taken this in stride and have been doing loads of research and watching videos on youtube ontop of reading my codex front to back about 10x. I was wondering if yall could help me create some solids lists to face off against these guys, my funds arent limited per say, so if you suggest something i dont have, i could probably have it a week later.

So my list of stuff currently.
Hammerheadx1
Longstrike
Cadre Fireblade
Pathfindersx10
Fire warriorsx10
Stealth teamx3
Pirhannasx3
Xv8 Crisis teamx3
Riptide
Devilfish

Now this is what i have currently but as i said before i do have funds put aside for this and i do have a very stable job with expendable money. So please help me take my money and turn it into the greater good so i may see my friends faces go from happy to mad in about 1 submunition round vs all of his genestealers.



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well that is a interesting list for sure, if your choosing a CadFB as your HQ then might want to take more then one squad of fire warriors, when i do a CadFB as my HQ i have 5 squads (three 12man with drones, two squads in Dfishes). Path finders are better when you bring more squads, like 2Squads of 6 with marker drones. most else is fine, id say you could add a few more crisis suites, but that could come later

Tau have a number of good builds. What do you like to play? Suits, infantry, giant robots?

I would recomend looking into the Hunter Contingent formation. It tells you basically what you need, then you can expand off of it using the other auxiliary formations.

Weapons that you should be looking at are long range, high ROF, and medium strength. Ie. hymp, sms, burst cannon