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Commander #1
4x Fusion Blasters, Gun Drone

Commander #2
4x Fusion Blasters, Gun Drone

Commander #3
Missile pod, fusion blaster, advanced targeting, shield generator

Pathfinders (x5)
3x Rail Rifle, 2x Marker Drones

Pathfinders (x5)
3x Rail Rifle, 2x Marker Drones

XV8 Crisis Battlesuit (x3)
4x Flamer, 2x Gun Drone (Shas,vre marker light and target lock)

XV95 Ghostkeel
Fusion Blaster, target lock, Shield Generator 2x Stealth Drone

Stealth Battlesuits (x4)
2x Fusion Blaster, Sheild Generator, Homing Beacon, 2x Gun Drone

KV128 Stormsurge
Pulse Driver cannon, airburst fragmentation projector, counter fire defence, shield generator

Little bit lost as to the load outs.....first time trying to make a Tau list

Okay, while you're not allowed to post points costs for individual equipment, you can post points for a whole squad. Especially in this edition, where it's easy to accidentally take illegal combinations of wargear or omit wargear you're supposed to pay points for, this will help others troubleshoot the list and correct any errors.

For example, pathfinders must be equipped with markerlights, but they're not included in their default points cost. You can't choose to not take them, and it's easy to forget to add them on.

Crisis battlesuits can't take 4 weapons, that's reserved only for the commander to do. Crisis Shas'vre can't take markerlights either - even if they could, you wouldn't want to.

For the Stealthsuits, it appears as though you're trying to equip each of them with 2 fusion blasters. One stealth suit out of every 3 may take a single fusion blaster, the remainder must take burst cannons, and remember to add on the cost of those burst cannons as well, even though they're mandatory wargear.

It's a lot to get your head around, and this edition has definitely made list building more complicated for the tau, but posting lists here and spotting those errors will help. I despite being a Tau player, I don't have much to offer in terms of advice on what is good and what is bad, but getting the list legal is usually a good place to start.

Asura Varuna wrote:
Okay, while you're not allowed to post points costs for individual equipment, you can post points for a whole squad. Especially in this edition, where it's easy to accidentally take illegal combinations of wargear or omit wargear you're supposed to pay points for, this will help others troubleshoot the list and correct any errors.

For example, pathfinders must be equipped with markerlights, but they're not included in their default points cost. You can't choose to not take them, and it's easy to forget to add them on.

Crisis battlesuits can't take 4 weapons, that's reserved only for the commander to do. Crisis Shas'vre can't take markerlights either - even if they could, you wouldn't want to.

For the Stealthsuits, it appears as though you're trying to equip each of them with 2 fusion blasters. One stealth suit out of every 3 may take a single fusion blaster, the remainder must take burst cannons, and remember to add on the cost of those burst cannons as well, even though they're mandatory wargear.

It's a lot to get your head around, and this edition has definitely made list building more complicated for the tau, but posting lists here and spotting those errors will help. I despite being a Tau player, I don't have much to offer in terms of advice on what is good and what is bad, but getting the list legal is usually a good place to start.

Thanks! I am going to have to go through the book later and work out all the points in more detail. It is really annoying that the points are spread throughout the book, wish they were just listed in brackets next to the unit entry haha.

You have a lot of heavy weapons. If you are playing a knight player you made really good list. However, all those Fusion Blasters and RR shots only get rid on a single model per shot. Great for taking out vehicles and tough walkers not for troop hordes like Orc, Tyranid, or Imperial Guard.