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Hello everyone, been toying with a fun idea for a while and I'm curious on your guys's thoughts on it. I'm a huge fan of the Tau Hammerhead and other tank variants and since I'm at treadhead at heart I figured why not look at perhaps doing a Tau Tank Army? First time attempting this so please any and all feedback is appreciated!

DETACHMENTS: Battalion, x2 Spearheads

Battalion + 1 Spearhead (Gifted Pilots, Hardened Warheads)

-Coldstar Commander
*w/ x3 Missile Pods, x1 ATS

-x2 Fireblades

-x3 Squads of 5 Fire Warriors
*w/ Markerlight

-x3 Fire Support Hammerheads
*w/ Twin Tau Plasma Cannons, SMS, x2 Seeker Missiles

-x3 Skyrays
*w/ SMS

Tau Sept Spearhead:

-Longstrike
*w/ Rail Rifle, SMS, x2 Seeker Missiles

-x3 Hammerheads
*w/ Railguns (1 is Relic Railgun), SMS, x2 Seeker Missiles

TOTAL ARMY: 1998 POINTS

Tactics behind this list are simple. Longstrike hangs out with other Hammerheads boosting their BS, other tank variants do what they do with Marker Light support coming from Fire Blades and Sky Rays. Suit Commander can move around and pop Montka when maneuverability is absolutely needed.

It's a very cool idea but I'd run the hammerheads with iron cannons as I think rail guns are really underwhelming with there current rules.

 Commissar-AJ-Rimmer wrote:
It's a very cool idea but I'd run the hammerheads with iron cannons as I think rail guns are really underwhelming with there current rules.

Oh you are absolutely correct it's more just because I love the look of the Railgun and since FW doesn't offer the alternate turrets anymore I was just going to use the ion cannons as the twin plasma cannon for the FW variant.