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Greetings fellow dakka users. i come to you today needing advice. ive returned to this lovely hobby after a long hiatus (about 10 years) and have bought the tau get started box and dove head first into assembly, just having fun with it. but now i find myself at a crossroads with creating a playable list so i differ to some advice from the community. im just aiming to play some small scale games for fun, and eventually build a larger more strategic and competitive list. so Bear with me but here is what ive come up with so far (note i still only have the get started box so that is my limitations)

3x xv8 crisis suits
2 x twinlinked plasma rifle + targetting array
1x Shas'ui w/ twinlinked missilepod+cyclic ion blaster+ drone controller (2 shield drones)

12 man strike team
7x firewarriors with pulse rifles
3x firewarriors with pulse carbines +photon grenades (one of which is a shas'ui)
2x gun drones

1x ethereal on hover drone

1x cadre fireblade (hopefully going to either model this guy myself from bits or go buy the kit)


my idea for the list is that i would deploy the strike team ethereal and fireblade in a somewhate dfensive position and then save my crisis suits for a manta strike behind the enemy once ive identified key targets. hopefully going to pick up a commander box next so i can build the infamous 4x fusion blaster model. so there are my ideas, im not sure if im even withing a realm of reality with my thought patern here but i would greatly appreciate any feedback, tips, advice, criticisms. cheers!

Im' not stro,ng on Tau myself and kind of nooby too, but 2 hq seems a bit much at 500pts. And the ethereal is really not that good. I would switch him for a drone squad pr, other troop slot and / or more drones on the crisis.

I also think that a crisis team is a huge investment on such a small game, but I can understand that playing Tau without them is just not the same.

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IronSlug wrote:
Im' not stro,ng on Tau myself and kind of nooby too, but 2 hq seems a bit much at 500pts. And the ethereal is really not that good. I would switch him for a drone squad pr, other troop slot and / or more drones on the crisis.

I also think that a crisis team is a huge investment on such a small game, but I can understand that playing Tau without them is just not the same.

I was just kinda running the ethereal cause i had him to be honest. Im still not sure whats strong and whats not with tau but i like the idea of more drones instead of the ethereal. Or potentially a pathfinder aquad with markerlights. But in such small numbers i dont know if markerlights are good or just a novelty

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