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My second big game is going to be against the Tau and their far superior range with their firearms. Do you guys have any strategies for beating the Tau? The person I'm going against has counters to deep striking, bare that in mind.

I would say go fast, shooty, and anti-infantry. Flying tyrants with double devourers, big squads of gaunts, that kinda stuff. If you bring melee make sure it’s very durable. 30-man hormagaunts durable. He can castle up and put down a second shooting phase if you charge the wrong stuff and you’ve thrown away points for nothing.

It’s important to kill his basic dudes. Any damage to the big suits will get shunted to drones, tearing up mass quantities of fire warriors will take away all his buffs and support fire.

A model that i found being surprisingly good against Tau is the Maleceptor. Catalyst it, double move with the no charge stratagem and blow a psy load in his face, then he needs to spend a whole turn taking it down (it's much harder than it looks) or else risk another psy load. Tau hate that ability, it shreds the drones, you can easily have 4-5 different units in range every time you activate.

Maleceptors are AMAZING against Tau. There’s so many different units they need clumped up to pull off the synergies and it can get them all. It’s also not a shooting/melee ability so you can blast his stuff all day and the drones don’t do squat.