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Hello all

Looking to start my next project (will be very slow build) and decided to play tau

Now hardly played this army so know very little And will only be used at my LGC

So please any advice, C&C would be appreciated

Battalion
Borkan sept

HQ
Fireblade (warlord), puretide chip, through unity devastation, x2 shield drones
Commander XV8 battle suit, iridium armour, shield generator, x3 missile pod, x2 marker drones

Troops
X4 strike team (pulse rifle and pistol) shausi with rifle & pistol & marker light, x2 marker drones
X4 strike team (pulse rifle and pistol) shausi with rifle & pistol and marker light, x2 marker drones
X4 strike team (pulse rifle and pistol) shausi with rifle & pistol and marker light, x2 marker drones

Elites
Riptide, heavy burst cannon, smart Missile, ATS
Riptide, heavy burst cannon, smart Missile, ATS
X5 stealth suits, ATS & burst cannon, shasvre with drone
controller and fusion, x2 shield drones

Heavy support
Broadside, x2 high yield Missiles, SMS, seeker missile, ATS, x2 shield drone
Broadside, x2 high yield Missiles, SMS, seeker missile, ATS, x2 shield drone

Battalion
Borkan sept

HQ
Fireblade, x2 shield drone
Ethereal, honour blade, x1 shield drone

Troops
X4 strike team (pulse rifle and pistol) shausi with rifle & marker light, x2 marker drones
X4 strike team (pulse rifle and pistol) shausi with rifle & marker light, x2 marker drones
X4 strike team (pulse rifle and pistol) shausi with rifle & marker light

Comes in at 1750 on the nose

Cheers
Dai

Welcome to the Empire! You have a good start here, there's just a few things I would change.
1. Commanders can't take Iridium Armour. Only Crisis Suits can.
2. Your Commander would be better off with a Drone Controller instead of the Shield Generator. You should be able to keep your Commander safe with Saviour Protocols and being a character. The Drone Controller is pretty much an auto-take in this kind of list. You have an awful lot of Marker Drones that can really benefit from the +1 to hit. Remember that Drones natively hit on 5+.
3. Don't bother with the Pulse Pistols on the Fire Warriors, you'll rarely get the opportunity to use them.
4. You should 100% take advantage of the additional hard point on your Riptides. Give them either Velocity Trackers or Target Locks.

Other than that, you have a good start here.

Cheers for advice much appreciated

Few tweaks

HQ
Fireblade
Warlord - Commander XV8 crisis battle suit, iridium armour, x3 missile pod, Drone controller, puretide chip, through unity devastation

Troops
X4 strike team (pulse rifle) shausi with rifle & marker light, x2 marker drones
X4 strike team (pulse rifle) shausi with rifle & marker light, x2 marker drones
X4 strike team (pulse rifle) shausi with rifle & marker light, x2 marker drones

Elites
Riptide, heavy burst cannon, smart Missile, ATS, target lock
Riptide, heavy burst cannon, smart Missile, ATS, target lock
X5 stealth suits, ATS & burst cannon, shasvre with drone
controller and fusion, x2 shield drones

Fast attack
X4 shield drones
X4 shield drones
X4 shield drones

Heavy support
Broadside, x2 high yield Missiles, SMS, target lock
Broadside, x2 high yield Missiles, SMS, seeker missile, Target lock

Battalion
Borkan sept

HQ
Fireblade
Ethereal, honour blade

Troops
X4 strike team (pulse rifle) shausi with rifle & marker light, x2 marker drones
X4 strike team (pulse rifle) shausi with rifle & marker light, x2 marker drones
X4 strike team (pulse rifle) shausi with rifle & marker light

Total 1749

Not sold on the Target Locks for the Broadsides. They'd be better off with Advanced Targeting Systems. If you can land 4x Marker tokens on their target then they ignore the penalty for moving and firing heavy weapons anyway. You're also Bork'an giving them an extra 6" range, so as long as you deploy them in a good spot you may never have to move. Other than that, it's a solid list.

 counterwavecounter wrote:

1. Commanders can't take Iridium Armour. Only Crisis Suits can.

Well that's just not true
Commander in XV8 battlesuit can upgrade to iridium

Good list but I don't like marker drones and markerlights on firewarriors. Instead you can use more cadres, firesight marksmans and a pathfinder team. You can change marker drones to shield drones. A Sacea sept detachment includes cadre + 3 marksman will be great at markering.

 KonTheory wrote:

 counterwavecounter wrote:

1. Commanders can't take Iridium Armour. Only Crisis Suits can.

Well that's just not true
Commander in XV8 battlesuit can upgrade to iridium

At, yes, good call. I was thinking Enforcer and Coldstar. Forgot you could take an XV8 Commander

ibrahimerol wrote:
Good list but I don't like marker drones and markerlights on firewarriors. Instead you can use more cadres, firesight marksmans and a pathfinder team. You can change marker drones to shield drones. A Sacea sept detachment includes cadre + 3 marksman will be great at markering.

I agree with you that marker drones are not as good as shield drones but for firewarrior squads they are pretty much an auto include. Triple marksmen 2 cadre and 6 firewarrior squads are all the marker lights I take.

Synnister0815 wrote:

ibrahimerol wrote:
Good list but I don't like marker drones and markerlights on firewarriors. Instead you can use more cadres, firesight marksmans and a pathfinder team. You can change marker drones to shield drones. A Sacea sept detachment includes cadre + 3 marksman will be great at markering.

I agree with you that marker drones are not as good as shield drones but for firewarrior squads they are pretty much an auto include. Triple marksmen 2 cadre and 6 firewarrior squads are all the marker lights I take.

ML's are better served on fireblade, marksmen and marker drones than they do on shasui's of infantry units due to move and shoot heavy weapon rule.

A static gunline list as listed above would benefit more with fireblades and marksmen. A more mobile battlesuit centered force fares better with marker drones w/ their ablative wounds and stable platform rule. Sacea drone squad with 1 marker drone per unit utilizes the sept bonus really well.