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Since getting my new Tau army together , what should I improve upon this list ?

Tau Army List

HQ
Aunva 100 pts

Elites
105 Stealth team with shas'svre and markerlight 105 pts

Riptide with drugs and ion cannon with 1 drone 245 pts

Fast Attack

10 Pathfinders with rail rifle and 2 gun drones and recon drone 177 pts

Troops
12 Fire warrior squad with shas'ui and marker light 133 points

12 Fire warriors 108 pts

12 Fire warriors 108 pts

12 Fire warriors 108 pts

Heavy support

Hammerhead gunship 130 pts

Hammerhead gunship 130 pts

+ Shield upgrade for hammerheads 30 pts

Skyray gunship with sensor spines 120 pts

1494 pts




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FullFrontal wrote:
Since getting my new Tau army together , what should I improve upon this list ?

Tau Army List

HQ
Aunva 100 pts

Elites
105 Stealth team with shas'svre and markerlight 105 pts

Riptide with drugs and ion cannon with 1 drone 245 pts

Fast Attack

10 Pathfinders with rail rifle and 2 gun drones and recon drone 177 pts

Troops
12 Fire warrior squad with shas'ui and marker light 133 points

12 Fire warriors 108 pts

12 Fire warriors 108 pts

12 Fire warriors 108 pts

Heavy support

Hammerhead gunship 130 pts

Hammerhead gunship 130 pts

+ Shield upgrade for hammerheads 30 pts

Skyray gunship with sensor spines 120 pts

1494 pts

get rid of the riptide drone as if it dies your riptide has to take a leadership test

give the riptide ewo to get some interceptor in as well

split the Pathfinders into 2 squads of 5 then you can marker light 2 different enemy units

what's a Shield Upgrade? do you mean dis pods?

Sensor spines seem pointless to me

with that many fire warriors an aegis might be handy

good list though, would love to hear how you get on with it

by the shield upgrade its the dis pods, i think splitting the path finders could be handy. Thanks for the feed back, im going to use this list against my friend's imperial guard

railguns are fun against imperial guard

maybe invest in longstrike then cause he has preferred enemy imperial guard and tank hunter.

Let us know how it goes

-A hammerhead is only 125 points, what have you upgraded it with other than dispods? Submunitions..?

-use 2 teams of 5 pathfinders with no drones or upgrades, this frees up 67 points

-you're paying 28 points for a markerlight in one of the FW teams, why? You could just scrap the drone from the riptide and stick another pathfinder team in

-as Taffy said, an aegis line would massively benefit your 48 warrior gunline

-space pope ftw, storm of fire + FNP (6+) each turn? Priceless.

who do you have off board to need the scout drone guy thing?

I had this match today, I've have won but it was a close shave. He was able to take a large chunk of my army using a death strike on turn 2. However , good thing in my turn 1 im able to reassure myself by taking 2 of his squads of his infantry and taking first blood. by my turn 2 i wiped out another unit with the remaining hammerhead gunship and the 2 fire warrior squads who narrowly missed the the Deathstrike blast.

My 2 pathfinders squads could not be able to outflank due to his -1 modifier to my reserves (His Master of the fleet) . I was shocked as my skyray and hammerhead and good number of my firewarriors where wiped out with just 1 blast. Probably the most cringe worthy game I played in ages. We had only 2 hours of game time , and I guess I was saved by the bell. My original army list has changed before this match;

Aunva = 100 pts
12 Fire Warriors with shas'ui and markerlight 133 pts
12 Fire Warriors 108 pts
12 Fire Warriors 108 pts
12 Fire Warriors 108 pts
10 pathfinders with rail rifle and recon drone 153 pts
9 pathfinders with rail rifle and recon dron 142 pts
Riptide with combat drugs and ion accelerator and ewo 225 pts

Hammerhead with submuniitions 130pts
Hammerhead with submunitions 130 pts
Skyray 115 pts
dis pods for hammerheads 30 pts
1482 pts





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You should split up the pathfinders into 3 squads of 6/7 and start with them on the table and use them for marker light support, they don't have the armour save to outflank.

If you want to outflank I've always fancied doing it with Darkstrider and a full squad of firewarriors, your opponent will get a big shock and cause of Darkstrider you can double toughness insta kill anything toughness 3 or lower which is practically anything but Space Marines