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Ok so I haven't played warhammer or 40k in a few years. I dug out all my old stuff recently and decided I wanted to try something new(always been a green skin guy waaaaggghhhh).

So i want to play tau, but more specifically i want to play all giant robots. Currently own 3 xv8 and 1 xv88.

Is this viable? What else do I need? Is it possible to have just big robots? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The big big robots are viable (Ghostkeel, Riptide, Stormsurge). Missile Broadsides are good. Commanders are great. Stealth Suits are great. Crisis Suits are in a bad place, points wise.

OTOH, Fire Warrior Strike Teams are as good as they've ever been, and benefit from a lot character buffs.

I just got a riptide. So I'm thinking for a 50 power game doing something like a riptide, broadside, and maybe a few crisis

Crisis suits are useless this edition.

O no, that makes me sad


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Ok so now I'm thinking riptide, broadside, commander, and some fire warriors.

Too bad it's now way expensive to field, but this is THE big robot:
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NZ/Tau-KX139-Ta'unar-Supremacy-Armour

 NicMonsteR wrote:
O no, that makes me sad


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Ok so now I'm thinking riptide, broadside, commander, and some fire warriors.

Putting some or all of those Fire Warriors in one or two Devilfish is both a good idea, and helps the aesthetic you want.

Ok so it looks like if I do the devilfish, I can do...

10 breachers +drones
Commander + drones
Broadside +drones
Riptide
Devilfish
47 power

The people I'm playing with do 50 power games. So I guess this would work. Need to get a devilfish now.



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 Vector Strike wrote:
Too bad it's now way expensive to field, but this is THE big robot:
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NZ/Tau-KX139-Ta'unar-Supremacy-Armour

Whoa..... that is amazing, I totally forgot about foregworld. I have one of their squiggoths for my ork army.

Ok i now currently own, 6 crissis suits, 1 coldstar, 1 broadside, 1 riptide, 1 ethereal on hover drone, and 1 fireteam squad.

What do you think would be a decent 50 power build?

There are no real builds in power, as power is meant for mainly for introduction or highly casual games.

 BoomWolf wrote:
There are no real builds in power, as power is meant for mainly for introduction or highly casual games.

O really? Cool. I havent played in so long im trying to get back into these new rules. Command points still kinda mess me up.

Also trying to learn tau as its new for me.

Thanks everyone.

Honestly XV8 Crisis suits might do alright when using power instead of pts and I believe a Riptide is difficult to deal with in small games. Definitely magnetize the Crisis since they have so many load outs.

At 50 power I'd try to run a battalion. If you can get one more fire team that should be possible. Commander, Ethereal, 10x Firewarriors , 2x5 Firewarriors, Riptide, 3xCrisis any loadout (missiles might be easiest to use) + some drones, more drones to fill points unless you can squeeze the broadside in...

I'd use drones to shield the Riptide and Crisis as long as possible, if the Crisis have a Drone Controller maybe run gun or marker drones. Start close together so riptide and Crisis can benefit from the commanders Kauyon ability turn 1. Then push midfield with the battle suits and have the fire warriors go for objectives.

This is of course just a really rough idea of how to start playing with what you've got. In smaller games it might just come down to whether or not your opponent can deal with a Riptide...anyhow, best of luck out there!