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A local tournament is this weekend. I was hoping for some advice on my list. This list is based upon what I have available to me. I am using all the models I have except for 2 Bombers, 1 Fighter, 19 Vespid, 10 Stealth Suits, 40 Fire Warriors, Fireblade Cadre, Ethereal, Gun Drones, and Pathfinders with ion and rail rifles. The details of the tournament can be found here, https://www.facebook.com/events/1528562084118739/
Tau Empire: Codex (2015) (Combined Arms Detachment)
Farsight Enclaves

HQ
Commander
2x MV7 Marker Drone
Command and Control Node, Drone Controller, Neuroweb System Jammer, Shield Generator, XV8-02 Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit

Elites
XV104 Riptide Battlesuits</h4>
Bonding Knife Ritual
Riptide Shas'vre</h4>
Ion Accelerator, Stimulant Injector, Twin-linked Smart Missile System

Troops
Kroot Carnivores
10x Kroot, Sniper Rounds
Strike Team
Bonding Knife Ritual, 6x Fire Warrior with Pulse Rifle
Strike Team
Bonding Knife Ritual, 6x Fire Warrior with Pulse Rifle
XV8 Crisis Battlesuits x2
Bonding Knife Ritual, 2x Missile Pod
XV8 Crisis Battlesuits x2
Bonding Knife Ritual, 2x Fusion Blaster
XV8 Crisis Battlesuits x2
Bonding Knife Ritual, Missile Pod, Plasma Rifle

Fast Attack
Drones
4x MV7 Marker Drone
Pathfinder Team
Bonding Knife Ritual, 5x Pathfinder
TX4 Piranhas x2
Fusion Blaster, Seeker Missile

Heavy Support
Sniper Drone Team
2x Firesight Marksman, 3x MV71 Sniper Drone
TX7 Hammerhead Gunships
Railgun with Submunitions, 2x Seeker Missile, Twin-linked Smart Missile System
TX7 Hammerhead Gunships
Railgun with Submunitions, Seeker Missile, Twin-linked Smart Missile System

This will be an Ideal Arms Detachment which according to the tournament guidelines will give me the following rules:
Ideal Force: The warlord selected from this detachment can select their warlord trait.
Preparedness: Armies selecting this detachment gain a +1 when rolling to select table edge/go first, reserves and to seize the initiative rolls. These armies can also reroll the roll to see if the game ends via random game length, thus ending or continuing the game.
Objective Secured: All units in this detachment are considered objective secured.

The idea is to have the commander join the drone squad to provide markerlights, use the pathfinders as secondary markerlights, and if necessary the sniper drone team as a last resort markerlight support. First turn plan is to use markerlights to target vehicles and creatures that I want gone fast and shoot off seeker missiles at them. The crisis suits I plan to either infiltrate or deep strike since I can choose my warlord trait. Any suggestions or recommendations would be appreciated.

Anyone?

IMO drop the Hammerheads, sniper team, kroot warriors and the strike teams for a stormsurge.
Hammerheads are to overpriced and static for a tau list, kroots are to expandable (they are wasted in my opinion. breachers are better then strike team at the same cost. true the strike team has more range but most of the armies will come to you and nobody likes str 6 ap 3 hits on 10" range (aka overwatch). remove seeker missiles from the piranha's and use teams of 1 (they are suicide vehicles if they live to turn 2, gratz. Else they have already melta a landraider or something equivelant).

Also the 2x fusion blaster suits, field them as 1x per unit and deepstrike them just to get in melta range and pop something. if they die 52 points lost meh, but hey you killed a vehicle of 150 points or more....

on the riptide plasma or fusion are better then the missile system IMO.

reroll to hit on bs 5 markerdrones is overkill IMO better give the commander a weapon or two and target lock

Hope this helps and my apologies for my English.

Thank you for responding. I do not have a Stormsurge. My list was based upon the models I currently own.