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Hi there.

Next week I will play a 1500pts game VS Tau, and I will go with my KDK. It will be my third game with them, and as my opponent has a reputation to be a cheesy player, I try to find a strategy to survive Tau turns 1 and 2.

So here we go :

HQ :
Bloodthirster Insensate Rage
Daemon Prince, Warp armor, Goredrinker, Wings

Troops :
Bloodletters x 8, bloodreaper
Bloodletters x 8, bloodreaper
Space marines x 8, bolter / boltgun / CCW / flamer in a rhino with dozer blade
Space marines x 9, bolter / boltgun / CCW / flamer in a rhino with dozer blade

Fast Attack :
Raptors x 5, melta bombs.

Elite :
Bloodcrushers x 3, bloodhunter, banner of blood

Heavy Support :
Maulerfiend


My plan is to attack on three axes : on the first flank the bloodthirster will go with the raptors in front, on the other flank there will be the bloodcrushers, and in the middle a big pack of maulerfiend and 20 marines in their rhinos.

I will go as far as possible with the bloodcrushers, then use the banner of blood as a beacon to DS the bloodletters and the DP as close as possible of the Tau lines. I attack from three different ways to split the Tau firepower as much as possible.

What do you think of that ?

with Tau you need lot of hounds explore first turn with 30-35 hounds and then, if you start first, give him only 1 turn to shoot all your hounds, or charge and kill him , usually ....,play 2-3 maulerfiend 1 alone mean nothing, i will take off also the 3 bloodcrushers, or you play a bigger unit or dont play, i play since long time them in deamons and you need at least 6-7 models to get into close combat (and with demons you have grimorie a thing you cant have with KDK).

The raptors, space marines, and honestly demon prince are kinda subpar, especially against tau. No one brings Non-Psychic DPs really, too easy to shoot to death, I'd drop all of that and bring the formation with the fleshhounds and bikes and then more fleshhounds/bikes and then 1-2 more maulerfiends.

It may be an idea to swap out some units for some flesh hounds. Because of scout and their 12" movement it is very easy to get them across the board and into combat quickly. You can also put a herald on a mount in this unit with the banner of blood, this will mean you can deep strike your bloodthirster and DP in on turn 2 and keep them from being shot at because his shooting units will be caught up in combat with the hounds.
(I would suggest the raptors and bloodcrushers to be sacrificied in favour of hounds)

Thanks guys, gonna grab some hounds

another thing could give some troubles to Tau are grinders, usually i play at least 3,ok i can seldom hurt Riptides but i can clean up marker drones, firewarrios, kroots and also crisis, they are useful, probably if i will go against Tau i will bring hounds/bikes and 3-4 grinders.