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The Idea is as follows:

The Done Net may not be part of the Hunter Contingent, but the Markerlights can still be fully utilized by it.
In addition the Drone Net buffs my Missile Drones.

The Crisis and the Ghostkeel will Deepstrike using the Stealth Teams to land where they need to be.
The OSC should take out most vehicles while the Crisis teams can take on even the toughest of Tanks/Creatures. They also bring much needed DS2 to the field.
The Barracuda is actually an amazing flyer to keep the skies clear while still offering amazing ground target capability, allowing me to save the points for velocity trackers and additional S7 Shots.

The attack Drones are not a mistake, I want them to swoop around taking objectives.

What do you think? What would you spend the rest of the points on?

Drone-Net VX-1-0 (FE) - 224 Points

4 Markerdrones
- - - > 56 Points

4 Markerdrones
- - - > 56 Points

4 Markerdrones
- - - > 56 Points

4 Attackdrones
- - - > 56 Points

Hunter Cadre - 809 Points

Commander
- FB/PR
- Puretide Chip
- - - > 130 Points

3x XV8 Crisis Battlesuits
- FB/PR
- - - > 156 Points

2x XV8 Crisis Battlesuits
- 2 x FB
- - - > 104 Points

2x XV8 Crisis Battlesuits
- 2 x FB
- - - > 104 Points

3x Strike Team
5 Firewarriors
- - - > 45 Points each

Tau Barracuda AX-5-2 Multi-role Fighter
- Autotargeting Cyclic Ion Blasters
- Barracuda Ion Cannon
- - - > 185 Points

Firebase Support Cadre - 413 Points

XV104 Riptide Battlesuit
- tl. SMS
- Ionaccelerator
- EWO
- Stim Injectors
- - - > 225 Points

XV88 Broadside Battlesuits
- 1x Broadside Shas'ui
- tl. HYMP
- tl. SMS
- EWO
- 2x Missiledrones
- - - > 94 Points

XV88 Broadside Battlesuits
- 1x Broadside Shas'ui
- tl. HYMP
- tl. SMS
- EWO
- 2x Missiledrones
- - - > 94 Points

Optimised Stealth Cadre - 400 Points

XV25 Stealth Battlesuits
+ Stealth Shas'vre
- Fusionsblaster
- Beacon (not sure if this is the right translation, the one that helps deepstriking)
+ Stealth Shas'ui
- Burstcannon
+ Stealth Shas'ui
- Burstcannon
- - - > 110 Points

XV25 Stealth Battlesuits
+ Stealth Shas'vre
- Fusionsblaster
- Beacon (not sure if this is the right translation, the one that helps deepstriking)
+ Stealth Shas'ui
- Burstcannon
+ Stealth Shas'ui
- Burstcannon
- - - > 110 Points

1 XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit
- Cyclic ion raker
- tl. Fusionsblaster
- - - > 140 Points


Total: 1821

Hunter Cadre is illegal 1. You can't take a Barracuda as your Fast Attack and 2. You don't have a Heavy Support choice.

Aside from the stuff the poster above pointed out, a unit comprised entirely of Drones is not a scoring unit and cannot "swoop around scoring objectives". That said, a unit of Gun Drones that uses the Drone Net's special abilities to Outflank can still be a nasty little distraction for your opponent. If you drop the Barracuda (since it's illegal in a Hunter Contingent), you'll have the points to take a Piranha or minimum squad of Pathfinders as your mandatory Fast Attack choice, and then a Hammerhead or something as your Heavy. Maybe just take a minimum unit of Sniper Drones as your Heavy choice, and use the extra points to add some more Broadside suits into the FBSC (you might want to drop the Shas'vre upgrades on those to save a few points).

In addition to what both of the posters above said, the positional relay on the Stealth suits only helps outflankers, and only if the suit is within 6" of a board edge. There isn't the option for a homing beacon, that only an option on ethereals and std equipment on a tetra (which you also can't take in a hunter Cadre).

Also, if you're going to waste the points on a Stealth shas'vre (you shouldn't), might as well give him a markerlight & target lock for 5 points so he can target something else with the fusion.

Also also, why are you running plasma and fusion on the commander and his squad, do one job and do it right.

Do you actually own the Codex?