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I have a tournament on Saturday and have only played one game with the new SM codex as I am primarily a Tau player and wanted to use new models. The army is pretty elite with almost all the points going towards making elites/fast into troops. Farsight Enclaves is the allies. I have lots of tau models and other SM models of any recommendations.

White Scars primary
HQ- 150
Khan w/ moondrakken

Troops - 560
5 bikes, 2 grav gun, melta bombs
5 bikes, 2 grav gun, melta bombs
5 bikes, 2 grav gun, melta bomba
5 bikes, 2 grav gun, melta bombs

Fast - 125
Storm talon w/ skyhammer

Tau allies
HQ 152
Commander, 2 missile pods, target lock, drone controller 2 marker drones

Troops 318
3 Crisis suits, 2 missile pods each, bonding knives
3 Crisis suits, 2 missile pods each, bonding knives

Elite - 190
Riptide, fusion blaster, Ion accel, EW

Solid looking list, unfortunately its illegal.

You can only take two drones for your Farsight Enclave Commander. What you need to do is not take any drones on the Commander a take a minimum squad of marker drones, this will cost you 8 more points.

Or alternatively, take two drones with the commander and a couple of drones one of the suit squads and join him to them for no points cost increase. This is a less efficient setup.

Alternatively if you can find the points, take drones on your commander and drones on one of the missle squads, then give everyone target locks so the drones can fire at one target, the Missile Suits and Commander at another or seperate if need be.

I love the list, looks fun and balanced.
What are your solutions against AV 14?
Also have you considered running a command squad with Khan?

Ah, you are right about the drones. As of right now the 4 drones are to potentially buff a squad of crisis suits to bs5 and ignore cover, but perhaps dropping down to the legal 2 drones for just bs5, then giving my four bike squads melta bombs? I don't know where I would find the 8 pts to make it a single fast attack squad without losing a special weapon. Right now my speed, ability to jump out of LoS, and my riptide are my only ways of dealing with av14. Smash and twin linked melta.


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danielbonke wrote:
I love the list, looks fun and balanced.
What are your solutions against AV 14?
Also have you considered running a command squad with Khan?

I only have 20 bikes at the moment, and if I went to 1750 I would definitely add a little command squad deathstar. Right now though I didn't have as many space marines as Tau so I won't be able to convert my DV bikers into a command squad.Very good suggestion that I would do at 1750 or if I had a further week to prepare.


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I just completed a test game vs necrons w/ 4 night scythe and 3 annihilation barges. It was the scouring and I won 8 to 3. The 12 missiles amethe stormtalon did a number on his fliers and scouting bikes with no cover save grav guns and melta bombs did a number on all his barges. Riptide under performed but ate tons of fire and lived the battle to contest.

I am sure with that many grav guns AV14 won't be an issue either.

I like the list, I have a similar list but with Tau allies (buffmander and missilesides).