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Hello everybody, I'm sorry if these questions are obvious but I have not purchased a Tau codex since their first one and just need to be pointed in the right direction before spending too much money.

I have been collecting Tau for many years now, but strictly on a hobbyist basis and never really for gaming, as I play Necrons and SM against my friends. I just love the suits and the Kroot!

My girlfriend just surprised me with a box of 3 crisis suits, and I'm headed to GW today to buy a bunch of stuff. My question is this: do the Farsight Enclaves have ANY infantry, or any other kinds of units in it other than mechanized units? I may grab two boxes of Tau Start Collecting but if the bulk of the models are useless for the Enclaves then I may grab other things I need instead. Would there ever be a reason that Kroot would appear in a Farsight army? Do the Enclaves use all of the same armor as the loyalist Tau, such as Hammerheads, Devilfish, etc? I know that Kroot are basically mercs, but would Farsight approve of bringing in mercs?

Since I have not purchased any of the codexes so far, I am unable to check if anything other than suits are allowed in the Enclaves - I'm not asking for specific rules.

Thank you in advance, friends! I appreciate it.

Hi PrehistoricUFO, I have also been collecting Tau for many years, but I mainly do 40k for the lore and the atmosphere of the universe, so I can confidently tell you that the Farsight Enclaves DEFINITELY have infantry. Yes, the Enclaves prefer sudden and swift strikes as opposed to forming huge firing lines and blitsing whatever comes in their way, so they use things like breacher teams or pathfinder teams in devifishes for their speedy stratagem of attack. I shall send you a link to a certain Farsight Enclaves Bundle - https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Commander-Farsights-Intervention-Cadre

Hope you enjoy those three squads of Crisis Suits

 DarkShade1999 wrote:
Hi PrehistoricUFO, I have also been collecting Tau for many years, but I mainly do 40k for the lore and the atmosphere of the universe, so I can confidently tell you that the Farsight Enclaves DEFINITELY have infantry. Yes, the Enclaves prefer sudden and swift strikes as opposed to forming huge firing lines and blitsing whatever comes in their way, so they use things like breacher teams or pathfinder teams in devifishes for their speedy stratagem of attack. I shall send you a link to a certain Farsight Enclaves Bundle - https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Commander-Farsights-Intervention-Cadre

Hope you enjoy those three squads of Crisis Suits

Oh wow I had no idea there was a bundle that would have answered my infantry question already, my fault!

Thank you for your help. Could you give me one last minute of your time and clarify what the status of Kroot would be though? I have a lot of them and even a Greater Knarloc from FW which I'd hate to see go to waste.

They have a FSE formation with kroot and the bugs and say they can use every tau unit the old rules use to ban erthreal but that's it

Awesome!! So excited now, can't wait to start doing this force. It will also settle my problem of not having a paint scheme picked - I never wanted to actually take a brush to anything other than heroes until I had settled on colors.

I'll also be getting that free anniversary marine with my purchases today!

Thanks again you two!