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Not sure what I'm doing help please

6 stealth battlesuits - Shas'vre with fusion blaster and 2 marker drones, fusion blaster, 4 burst cannons. 5 target lock

6 stealth battlesuits - 2 fusion blasters, 4 burst cannons. All have target lock. 5 target lock

Ghostkeel - cyclic ion raker, tl fusion blasters, stimulant injectors, target lock

Ghostkeel - cyclic ion raker, tl fusion blasters, stimulant injectors, target lock

I've only recently started running the OSC myself, so take all of this as advice from someone who is still learning.

1) You don't need Target Locks on every Stealth Suit. The Burst Cannons will usually be shooting at the same unit.
2) I haven't found the Marker Drones to be particularly effective because they're only there to help the next unit to shoot. So the current setup you have the first Markerlights will help the 2nd unit of suits, and the 2nd unit will help the Ghostkeels. Unless you're spread out, you're already getting the bonus to BS from the formation, and I haven't found a need (yet) to focus single units down. The Shas'vre getting the Markerlight and Target lock at a discount has been enough.
3) With the Draft FAQ, the Ghostkeels get 2 turns of Countermeasures. Because of that, I haven't found the Stimulant Injectors affect the game that much.

I'm only running the one Fusion Blaster on the Shas'vre in each of my units, if that makes a difference. With the formation hitting everything on the rear armor it's been fairly easy to deal with vehicles with the Volume of fire. In the case of AV 14, I still have the 2 in the units, and the 2 on the Ghostkeels. On all of these, I've found that the 'Counterfire Defense system' has been working well on both the Burst Cannon Stealth teams and the Ghostkeels. I've been told that the EWO is great on the Ghostkeels, but my games aren't large enough to regularly see flyers yet. No practical advice outside of that.

Not much more to go on than that, but hope it helps.

Generally speaking you want to minimize you stealth suits and max your ghoskeels.

3 ghoskeels with cyclic ion and burst cannons or fusion blasters is what I run. In the case of fusion blaster I'll take a target lock for each so I can pop a tank.

The stealth suits can be effective but really shine against light vehicles. The ghostkeels just poor on the wounds. With 18 s7 shots and then the usually 12 burst its enough to hurt most anything.

Thanks Guys, unfortunately I've already bought 12 stealth suits and 2 ghostkeels. I hate how impatient I am!
How do you think I can optimise this list whilst keeping the same models? although I may be able to return 2 boxes of stealth suits and get a ghostkeel... How would you run an 800pts OSC?

This is for a doubles tournament my partner will be taking eldar jetbikes and a wraithknight. I doubt we'll be making any friends but it may make up for how bad I am at the game LOL


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Also would multiple small units of stealth suits be better than 2 big ones?

So depending on what models you end up with here is my optimized optimized stealth cadre...

3 ghoskeels 2 with ion raker fusion blaster early warning override and stim injectors. One with velocity tracker and target lock.

2 units of 3 man stealth suits with burst cannons.

That's 795 points.


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So depending on what models you end up with here is my optimized optimized stealth cadre...

3 ghoskeels 2 with ion raker fusion blaster early warning override and stim injectors. One with velocity tracker and target lock.

2 units of 3 man stealth suits with burst cannons.

That's 795 points.

I+++ Stealthy McStealthface (800pts) +++

++ Tau Empire: Codex (2015) (Formation Detachment) (800pts) ++

+ Formation (800pts) +

Optimized Stealth Cadre (800pts)
····XV25 Stealth Battlesuits
········Stealth Shas'ui with Burst Cannon [Counterfire Defence System]
········Stealth Shas'ui with Burst Cannon [Counterfire Defence System]
········Stealth Shas'ui with Burst Cannon [Counterfire Defence System]
········Stealth Shas'ui with Burst Cannon [Counterfire Defence System]
········Stealth Shas'vre [Counterfire Defence System, Fusion Blaster, Markerlight and target lock]
····XV25 Stealth Battlesuits
········Stealth Shas'ui with Burst Cannon [Advanced Targeting System]
········Stealth Shas'ui with Burst Cannon [Advanced Targeting System]
········Stealth Shas'ui with Burst Cannon [Advanced Targeting System]
········Stealth Shas'vre [Advanced Targeting System, Fusion Blaster, Markerlight and target lock]
····XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual]
········Ghostkeel Shas'vre [Counterfire Defence System, Cyclic Ion Raker, Early Warning Override, Twin-linked Fusion Blaster]
········Ghostkeel Shas'vre [Counterfire Defence System, Cyclic Ion Raker, Early Warning Override, Twin-linked Fusion Blaster]
········Ghostkeel Shas'vre [Counterfire Defence System, Cyclic Ion Raker, Early Warning Override, Twin-linked Fusion Blaster]

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Except drop ewo off 2 of the ghosts for target lock