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Hi lads can you help me with a Tyranid army list that can kick Tau ass?

Possibly.
What sort of army are you looking at playing?
What sort of funds are you willing to invest?
Are you looking at friendly games or competitive play?
What sort of models do you like?

Doom does great vs them as long as they don't have an ethereal.

Mawlocs also do great vs them since they break gunlines like nobodys buisness, or if you know they are bringing a ton of fire warriors biovores are a better alternative

 A GumyBear wrote:
Doom does great vs them as long as they don't have an ethereal.

Mawlocs also do great vs them since they break gunlines like nobodys buisness, or if you know they are bringing a ton of fire warriors biovores are a better alternative

Or they just wheel around an interceptor ion accelerator/fusion blaster shot to your face and drink in your tears as your doom does little by explode hilariously.

Mawlocs though can be a great way to rustle a castling Tau player's jimmies. Mawlocs coming up from beneath the earth are largely interceptor proof due to their large number of okay save, good toughness wounds per model. Multiple mawlocs will ensure that the Tau player has no real chance to stop them via interceptor as they come up and prevent them from eating sections of his army wholesale.

Drop the pod and have Doom hidden behind the pod. When it comes time for Interceptor he doesn't have LoS to doom and can't kill it (can only kill the pod). Then suck his brain dry.

On a less jerk way (or less MFA depending on how your spores are modelled) use terrain to hide him - you'll lose the initial brain-suckage but you'll still get a couple of phases in.

rigeld2 wrote:
Drop the pod and have Doom hidden behind the pod. When it comes time for Interceptor he doesn't have LoS to doom and can't kill it (can only kill the pod). Then suck his brain dry.

On a less jerk way (or less MFA depending on how your spores are modelled) use terrain to hide him - you'll lose the initial brain-suckage but you'll still get a couple of phases in.

If you drop the doom in and move him to within 1" of any tau models, the riptides won't be able to intercept with s8 pie plates (because they would touch friendly models). Then all the overwatch is piddly s7 and below, with the occasional fusion blaster depending on how the riptide is kitted out. Plus the doom has a busted 3++ invulnerable save - it's a good tactic vs any army but even with intercept tau it's good too.

Of course you mean just outside 1" - he can't close to within 1".

Fair enough. 1.000000001" away will still keep you safe from big pie plates.

Mawlocs, biovores, and stranglerhorn cannons have all worked very well for me. In some cases embarrasingly well.

New tau break the nids badly.
Alot of the units that were junk now have a use again

Mawlocs are your friend here.
They make great line breakers to say the least.
Also, interceptor is bad for you, but thats what gargoyles are for.
Drop a large screen of gargoyles down as close as you can, that will draw fire for a turn (at the cost of the unit)

You wont out shoot them with nids since they will tear apart the smaller bugs and strip wounds from your MC's easily.

Just a case of throwing everything forward and dropping in units with good timing and placement.

Even warriors work well against them!
Just make sure that when you pod them in, keep close to tau units so no pie plates land on you, other than that, S8 only really comes from rails, which will be fired at your bigger bugs most of the time.

You just need to get into the deployment zone and force him into combat.
This is one of the only times i'd say that 2-3 mawlocs will help out a ton.

Trygons fight better, but the terror from the deep rule makes the mawloc better for this, not to mention the fact that even with poor ish combat stats, the mawloc is good enough for the job.