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Hello there, i started tau just after summer, around the same time 6th edition came out and ive grown to really enjoy playing them
this is just a small blog thingy where i can simply post the images of my figures, the majority will be tau though, and maby talk alittle bit about what ive recently done in games.



Okay now this is a picture of my first 2 tau battle suits. Ive had the green one since i started and only recently got the blue one, both are fully magnetised with every weapon/equipment option i would need. I they arnt exactly the best painted models but they took about 10-15 minutes with a largeish brush and are tabletop standard so i like them. My 5 colours in this army are really just Ulthuan Grey, The Fang (blue), Straken Green, Mournfang Brown for the bases and then a nice full camoshade wash on the model to syncronise my terrible paint job into a semi-decent paint job.



okay now this is an image of my 2 newer battlesuits, who have gained the nicknames of running guy and politician guy due to their poses, ive had these 2 for i think 2 weeks and used all 4 in only 3 games, but what games they have been, The first game with them all saw the opponent devistated on my turn 2 as they came in and level the majority of his chaos marine army, the second was against dark eldar were my opponant surrendered after my turn 2 saying he had no chance of winning. The third game was a group game, me and a young dark angels player (he was 10) vs. An experienced player who has been playing for 10+ years with dark angels and two teenagers one with marines, one gaurd (3000 points per side) the first turn was shocking for us, as we had a large amount of our forces in reserve,but come turn 2 showed one side of the board being devistated by a joined barrage from my suits, and my partners terminators that had come in turn 1 and assaulted what i left standing, by turn 4 we had their last 3 units cornered on one tile, ( a land raider, half a tactical squad and an assualt squad) and that land raider was very hard to kill since it died on turn 6 from an assault by terminators after my rail gun missing 6 times in a row (btwe it was hitting on 2+ thanks to the markerlights and still XD) So needless to say rather then buying another hammerhead, i went for another 2 battle suits hence the next picture.



These are my 2 new suits as of yesterday. I built them this morning and painted one too, havn't gotten around to painting the other. Only one has a nickname so far, which is the painted one, he's nicknamed " Come At Me Bro Guy" because it just looks like hes in that kinda pose. I havnt gotten around to magnetising him yet but will do soon. I need some kind of name for the other one ive got no idea what to call him really, so if you have an idea what to call him then post it below please .

I realise that the pictures are on a side, I did take them correctly but this site switched them around. So the next few pictures in the posts will still angled wrongly since i took them all and uploaded them all at the same time My next post will be about my heavy gun drones and what ever else i get around to really. Thanks for reading and please tell me what i should call my new suit to fit the pattern it must end in Guy.
ooh and also im sorry for any gramatical or spelling mistakes, I've tried my best but ofc there will be hundreds of mistakes.

I like the camo scheme these dudes are rocking.

Part 2

Okay here is my second post showing you guys (and Girls) my converted heavy gun drones and stealth suits.



Okay so there you can see my 4 drones, 3 with brust and markerlight and the one with twin linked burst. Now the main opinion on these guys is that they take up your much needed heavy support slots that should be used for railgun and yada yada yada. However, i only have 1 hammerhead and i a 170 - 200 point vehicle depending on how i eqiup it that normally sits near the back shooting is great, but i dont need more then one of them, it would be nice but i think they are just too many points, i wont go too far into my hammerhead since ill be talking about it later though. So yes errr, heavy gun drones! I really like them, they are converted using burst cannons from the battlesuit sprues and target locks, since i dont need them on my battlesuits. Ive used 2 of them in 4 battles so far, the twinlinked and a marker one, and in 3/4 they have made back their points and much more, so i made 2 more this morning from the 2 new battle suit sprues. And the only reason they didnt work in the last game was because even with my reroll from my PF devilfish they still misshapped and got put on the other side of the board, but the one markerlight one marked up the land raider afew times before getting destroied. My most fun experiance with these guys was in an appocolyse game, deep striking them next to some guards men, killing a couple then jetpacking into a building, them not getting noticed then killing a chimera then getting blown sky high by a friendly stompa going booooooom.

Edit: i forgot to mention the unpainted guy, basicly i droped the target lock and cannot find it so he has a substitute until i find it or get another he isn't getting painted till hes correct though



Okay so now my trio of stealthies. Now I like the idea of these guys, but in game they arnt that good, you over pay alot for them and dont get much in bullets for points. But i do enjoy the look on the veteran players faces when they find out they have a 2 plus cover save in a forest after fireing their ap3 guns at them. Now i didnt see the point in magnatising all these guys, but i did magnetise the fusion blaster guy so he can have both, and painted my sergent guy (he probubly has some tau name that i cant be bothered to walk 3 feet to find out) with a slightly different helmet. But they are a cheap unit that i dont mind deepstriking in an extremly stupid place. I once deep stiked them into a giant force of chaos, id say 2000 points within 18" of where they landed, only to have the fusion blaster fail to hit the tank i wanted to kill then get mauled by a demon prince But still a fun unit to put in simply to help me up my points and because i like mobility and jetpacks are nice and mobile

Okay Part 3 will be about my foot soldiers and general attitute so stay tuned and help me name my battlesuit

Part 3

So now its the infantry part of my army, these guy are great, pathfinders and fire Warriors and you can never leave home without the best infantry unit in the codex the kroot, but on second thoughts no the kroot . Especially since this is about infantry not mistakes.



Fire Warriors they are a must have, literally. I like these guys truely do, but the models hate me because out of my 18 or so, 13 are actauly on bases and about 10 are still fully intact .
So i normally take a unit of 12 and a unit of 6 that first turn jumps in the devilfish until such a time as enough fire warriors have died in the first unit to give me enough fully intact fire warriors for that unit . I basicly cant be bothered to fix them and it would take 10mins at the most. But yer before I got my extra battlesuits i always had this unit of 12 with my green guy commander at the front, sporting some fanct iridium armour some feel no pain thingy and 2 shield drone so that he could sit there and take all the hits for them, At my local store i won a game with only loosing 1 fire warrior and a shield drone, a 1000 point game. And they are just a fun unit for termies to deep strike near. The children i say children loosly it could mean anyone from like 1 to 16 basicly anyone younger then me Try to get in my face with their 2+ saves saying not much can take down their terminator squads, so time after time they DS their termies next to me expecting me to run away and all i do is move closer, ML them up and open fire, 24shots hitting on 2s wounding on 3s, thats statisticly 20 hits, then 13-14 wounds so on an average round 2 maby 3 will die, then my commander fires in with his plasma rifle and MP normally on average 2 go down, you then are left statisticly with 1 terminator left, this hasnt happened to me before but it is possible, but what is that one terminator going to do, normally they have themselves a power fist or TH and go for the assualt but when you think about it,hes gunna die, you've got 3 maby 4 at the most attacks, going against my 12 plus commander and drones, and over watch. the over watch should get 4 hits. 2 or 3 wounds, then hes got at best a 2/3 of living through them, then the intit 4 step, my commander attacks, 4 attacks stn 5, statiscally 2 wounds another 2/3 to live, so sofar he has a 4/9 chance of living add on the fire warriors and you have got a dead terminator i cant be bothered to go into the rest of the math in my head but it just proves that if tau get assualted it isnt the end, like everyone believes. Fire warriors are a solid unit if they have markerlight support if not then they are simply average but can still hurt light vehicles.



The Pathfinders, at the moment these are my best source of markerlighting, i converted 6 of them from the battle force, and they are a solid choice, unless you have some other way of getting markerlights out, like i will in 2 days . They hit on 4s so on average i get 3 hits on a target, enough to fire 3 missiles into a vehicle turn 1 normally putting through one penatrate and possibly hurting it if im lucky. My main use for these guys is missles atm, because in an average 1000-1500 point game, i have 8 missiles on board, 2 on the Hammer, 2 on the devil and 4 on the mighty barracuda. For my suits i normally have 2 marker drones with them that do their work But as i was saying i like them, but they arnt mobile enough for me, i want my tau to be mobile, so tetras will soon be my markerlight squad, give them some sensor spines, target array and desruption pod, and have them hope from building/ruin to building/ruin ignoring terrian and gaining themselves a 2+ save but i must shh and keep on the people with legs. So yep they arn't mobile, the markerlights are heavy so they have to stand still really, but their scout move is amazing for getting them into terrain and the reroll deepstrike scatter is just brilliant for my mass deepstrike lists

Okay so now abit on my play style and how my mind works.
I play throught the use of statistics, quickly calculation the different senarios and freaking out the children and old people (old people are just anyone 18+ so anyone older then me too) by telling them what they are gunna roll, and by normally having a back up plan for when statistics dont work out as planned since after all its random, im just calculating the most likely scenario. An example would be my recent 2 turning of a dark eldar player,my suits came down, blasting his unit (they were a big unit of those guys with the big swords, i think their name begins with a H or something) to pieces, the spare markerlight hits left fired missles at them, it was just pure carnage, but his arcon's (its probubly misspelled) 1 use 2 plus invun, stayed up, so both my fire warrior units open fired, it still held up, then my devil fish, still it was up, my stealthsuits fired after the fusion blaster failed to hit a vehicle (using his targetlock) still it was up, my smart missles from the hammer head took it down, and left him on one wound, and i was left with the option of firing the railgun at him to possibly kill him, or his only vehicle left, so i took the shot at him and squished him after him failing his cover save. That is proof my statistics dont always work since he saved about 20 wounds with it before being squished then giving up. Another one if my hammerhead, the nice guy always hit and pentrate and blow up land raiders first time every time, now since i got more shiny suits he hates me and does F all all game .
I enjoy annoying the veteran players, by letting them get beat by a young guy thats been playing for acouple months . I dont always win, but in the larger group games my local store does i normally pull the objective back to our side or as one game had it was the last man standing on my team, with 4 fire warriors and my commander (on 1 wound) sitting in a crator holding the objective barely after my teammates had lost all their units and the enemy was just pushing throught the piles of bodies.
One thing i enjoy about people is the stuff they say about tau, saying they are a terrible army and weak and run and so on, so i pride myself on advancing mainly in a fairly aggresive strategy normally and rapid firing them with my firewarriors while my suits get stuck into on the the flanks and rip it to pieces then move accross the enemys front line forcing them to die or run out of the cover and into the railgun, if he hits that is .
Thats about it for my infantry and play style, if you want more on my play style or ways i use these guys at all i can write more on later posts, im just not sure if they would be on this thread or i would have to put them in another section of the site, (if any admin could tell me if im in the right place to be posting this stuff, or could move it to a more fitting place please either give me a shout out or a quick PM)
Next Part is my vehicles and the new vehicles im going to get stay tuned.




Automatically Appended Next Post:
I havn't gotten along to doing my next part but im just putting up the fully painted picture of my battlesuit.
He didnt turn out as well as the others, i kinda rushed him but he still is table top standard so im fine with him


The next post will be the next part and this guy still needs some kind of nickname based on his pose because im stumped.