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Putting my tau together. How are all you tau players arming your pathfinder squads? Rail rifles, ion guns? No special weapons? Just carbines and multi trackers. Any help and options would help.

If nothing else - definitely splash out on a Shas'ui with blacksun filter. In a night fight you want the rest of your army to be able to light up the target you just... er... lit up. I'm sure you get what I mean.
With blacksun filters you don't leave anything to chance.

 Super Ready wrote:
If nothing else - definitely splash out on a Shas'ui with blacksun filter. In a night fight you want the rest of your army to be able to light up the target you just... er... lit up. I'm sure you get what I mean.
With blacksun filters you don't leave anything to chance.

Err, what? You can't make cover saves against markerlight hits, and since markerlight range is only 36" anyway the range limit of night fighting doesn't apply. Taking a blacksun filter on a Pathfinder squad is completely pointless unless you're using them for rail rifles instead of markerlights.

I thought people were saying that blacksun filters do not exist anymore.

Blacksun filters on pathfinders (if they are still able to get them) is not necessary on carbiners. If they have rail rifles however, that is a different story.

 MattRendar wrote:
Putting my tau together. How are all you tau players arming your pathfinder squads? Rail rifles, ion guns? No special weapons? Just carbines and multi trackers. Any help and options would help.

I'm running mine bare with just markerlights.

Markerlights are the premium thing I'm trying to get out of them, so upgrading to other weapons just seems like a waste of potential BS3 markerlights. With that said, if I *were* going to include any special weapons in that squad, it would definitely be the Ion rifle over the rail rifle because it is just so much more versatile. But given that the shots would have to go onto the same target that I'd want to markerlight anyway, its kind of poor synergy (which is one of the reasons I'm not taking any special weapons).

You don't need blacksun filter (as markerlight hits don't get stopped by cover and have a max range of 36" anyway), and I'm not going with a Shas'ui as I'm trying to keep the unit as cheap as possible because they are so vulnerable to enemy fire...although not having that Ld8 can prove costly when you fail a Ld test at the wrong time.

Finally, I'm mainly just waiting for FW to update the Tetra rules...because previously they were a MUCH better way of getting markerlights than Pathfinders, and I'm hoping they maintain that edge when they update the rules.

Also, I'm taking all marker drones with my Commander and the 3-man crisis team I'm running, so with Drone Controller on the Commander that gives me 8 BS5 marker drones.

I did an article on the unit you might like.
http://40kunorthodoxy.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-tau-pathfinders.html

If you're taking two units of them as i did in my maien voyage using the new codex, I'd suggest one unit with the three Rail Rifles and the other unit with the Ion rifles.
Don't mix them.

However, if I had only one or the other, I'd select the Rail Rifles. More expensive but very scary.