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I'm not sure how well this list will do but I think it can work

Tau-CAD

=====HQ-160=====
---Commander---
-Iridium suit, C&CN, MSSS, PEN
=====Troops-1089=====
---Crisis Suits (6)---363
5x [2xMP, Target Lock], 1x [2xFB, Velocity Tracker]
---Crisis Suits (6)---363
5x [2xMP, Target Lock], 1x [2xFB, Velocity Tracker]
---Crisis Suits (6)---363
5x [2xMP, Target Lock], 1x [2xFB, Velocity Tracker]
=====Fast Attack-178=====
---Piranha---66
2x Seeker Missiles, Fusion Blaster
---Piranha---56
2x Seeker Missiles
---Piranha---56
2x Seeker Missiles
=====Heavy Support-570=====
---Broadsides (3)---285
HYMP, Seeker Missiles, TL-SMS, EWO, 4x Missile Drones
---Broadsides (3)---285
HYMP, Seeker Missiles, TL-SMS, EWO, 4x Missile Drones

The Commander goes with the Crisis team 1 to buff them, Crisis teams 2 and 3 go midfield, Piranhas go for light armor, Broadsides camp back field and kill things.

What are some weaknesses in this list? How should I fix them?

id say drop the weapons on the commander and give him the sig systems, c and c node, multi spectrum and puretide chip. Instead of lots of small units of crisis make it a large squad with all pods or all plasma apart from one with 2 fusion blasters. give the fb one velocity tracker and the rest target lock. then you have a unit of up to 9 suits with 2 twin linked ignore cover weapons with any selection of the puretide rules. chuck shadowsun in there and they all have 4+cover in the open plus 3d6 pack moves in the assault phase plus 3+ invuln look out sirs from her drones. for survivability and assault escape take vectored thrusters on the commander and iridium keep shadowsuns drones close to him for the look out sirs if they target you with ap2 and instakill. if you take this in a hunter cadre formation they can all run and shoot as normal too, dont forgot infiltrate from shadowsun so theres not much need to deepstrike either with at least 10" move and up to 30" a turn.

rabbidpillow wrote:
id say drop the weapons on the commander and give him the sig systems, c and c node, multi spectrum and puretide chip. Instead of lots of small units of crisis make it a large squad with all pods or all plasma apart from one with 2 fusion blasters. give the fb one velocity tracker and the rest target lock. then you have a unit of up to 9 suits with 2 twin linked ignore cover weapons with any selection of the puretide rules. chuck shadowsun in there and they all have 4+cover in the open plus 3d6 pack moves in the assault phase plus 3+ invuln look out sirs from her drones. for survivability and assault escape take vectored thrusters on the commander and iridium keep shadowsuns drones close to him for the look out sirs if they target you with ap2 and instakill. if you take this in a hunter cadre formation they can all run and shoot as normal too, dont forgot infiltrate from shadowsun so theres not much need to deepstrike either with at least 10" move and up to 30" a turn.

Damn... that sounds amazing, I'll change it around

Why did you want 3 missile pods on your crisis suits? you can only shoot up to 2, unless you meant TL and then 1 more.

 pumaman1 wrote:
Why did you want 3 missile pods on your crisis suits? you can only shoot up to 2, unless you meant TL and then 1 more.

Your right, I should probably re word it

I mean with a name like missle spam I would have thought there would be more...well missles.

Why don't you use the pirahna firestream formation which would let you reload seekers? Why not the ranged support cadre to rain down more freebie missles? Or maybe some stormsurge with their amazing D missles and million other smaller missles? I think to be truely "viable" you need to rethink it with some formation bonuses. Otherwise way to many wasted points on subpar units like pirahnas.

Epartalis wrote:
I mean with a name like missle spam I would have thought there would be more...well missles.

Why don't you use the pirahna firestream formation which would let you reload seekers? Why not the ranged support cadre to rain down more freebie missles? Or maybe some stormsurge with their amazing D missles and million other smaller missles? I think to be truely "viable" you need to rethink it with some formation bonuses. Otherwise way to many wasted points on subpar units like pirahnas.

to be fair, most everything is rocking the S7ap4 missiles, not seeker missiles. And bring path finders in a formation to get free seeker missiles is still fewer missiles than more missile pods

Epartalis wrote:I mean with a name like missle spam I would have thought there would be more...well missles.

Why don't you use the pirahna firestream formation which would let you reload seekers? Why not the ranged support cadre to rain down more freebie missles? Or maybe some stormsurge with their amazing D missles and million other smaller missles? I think to be truely "viable" you need to rethink it with some formation bonuses. Otherwise way to many wasted points on subpar units like pirahnas.

I see what you're saying and I'll look into formations, and a Stormsurge

pumaman1 wrote:

Epartalis wrote:
I mean with a name like missle spam I would have thought there would be more...well missles.

Why don't you use the pirahna firestream formation which would let you reload seekers? Why not the ranged support cadre to rain down more freebie missles? Or maybe some stormsurge with their amazing D missles and million other smaller missles? I think to be truely "viable" you need to rethink it with some formation bonuses. Otherwise way to many wasted points on subpar units like pirahnas.

to be fair, most everything is rocking the S7ap4 missiles, not seeker missiles. And bring path finders in a formation to get free seeker missiles is still fewer missiles than more missile pods

Agreed, probably can still put things into some formations

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