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I'm starting a Tau army, and I'm not sure what to get next. I bought the battalion box (the old one that has kroot), but that is all so far.

Whats a good start to have, say, a 1500pt army?

Thanks!

Well let see You should have:

1 XV8
3 XV22
4 GD
1 ML drone
12 FW
10 Kroot
1 Devilfish

Do you want to run suit heavy, Riptides, FW gunline, or a more mech tau?

Get the new Battleforce, then a Fireblade, then XV8 Commander

that will make 2000 points easily

Well with the box, you will most likely have enough for all the troops you will need for a bit though another box for kroot OR fire warriors would have you handled. secondly if your going the kroot route you could use a hound per squad.

i think a new hammer head box or the old skyray box if you can find it will net you a two useable turrets for that devil fish chassis ( you should magnatize your vehicles).

beyond that other good things are Ethereal, missile fist squad, and some pathfinders works well as a core with the rest of your troops. after that your El squad can be outfited however you feel with as above stated riptides or crisis suits.

Thanks guys.

I'm not really sure how I want to run them yet. I like the general feel and play of the army, so I'm just kinda getting my feet wet with a few different things and going from there.

So I think I'll pick up (in no particular order):
1x FW
1x (3) Crisis Suits
1x Hammerhead / Skyray
1x Pathfinder
1x Ethereal

Should get me pretty far.

Oh, and missle fist squad?

Oh sorry slang for Broadsides with high yield missile pods.

the lot should give you a relatively good playing list.

 Desubot wrote:
Oh sorry slang for Broadsides with high yield missile pods.

Okay, cool. Thats what I assumed, but wasn't sure.