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Hey guys,

Been throwing some tau lists round for a few days and seem to be coming close with this all comers list. Let me know what you think. I have 2 lists to pick from.

List 1

Ethreal

24 fire warriors, can't decide wether to split up into 2 x 12 mans or 3 x 8 mans.

10 kroot with sniper round and a hound.

Riptide with ion, stims and early warning override.

2 crisis suits with 2 fusions each, one with target lock.

2 crisis suits with 2 plasma rifles each, both with early warning override.

8 man pathfinder squad.

Piranha with fusion blaster

Piranha with fusion blaster

2 man broadside squad with smart missles and high yield missles. Both with early warning override.
4 missle drones

Skyray with bsf and disruption pods

Skyray with bsf and disruption pods

Basic adl

1477

Tactic is for broadsides and firewarriors to sit behind adl with ethreal in broadsides to create a double pulse bubble.
Skyrays for anti air/meq/av12 popping.
Riptide for soaking fire power and intercepting pie plates against deep strikers and pods.
Plasma crisis suits for meq and intercepting.
Fusion suits deep strike if av14 on the board and remove it.
Piranhas as a back up if av14 needs to go ASAP, ie termies in a land raider. And also for backfield raiding on armour.
Kroot for deploying I'm front of adl as anti pods by spacing out or outflanking if no pods for backfield objective grabbing.

List 2

Fireblade

Fireblade

12 firewarriors

12 firewarriors

10 kroot with hound

10 kroot with hound

10 pathfinders

Riptide with ion, stims, ewo

2 crisis suits with 2 missle pods each

2 crisis suits with either 2 plasmas or 2 fusions each

2 broadsides with missles and 2 missle drones

Skyray with smart missles, bsf, disruption pods

Hammerhead with submunitions bsf and disruption pods, smart missles.

Basic adl

1500 on the nose.

Guys?

Seems decent. I don't know much about Tau but you seem to be able to to castle decently (which is always good) but with the piranhas maintain positional dominance which is so essential in competitive games.

I find a team of 2 broadsides w/skyfire to be great anti air that can also fire on and kill light vehicles and troops. Not a huge fan of the skyray. Also 8 pathfinders in a single team is a bit much, at 1500 i normally put down two teams of 5 pathfinders, usually gets me 2 or 3 hits a team, and now i can use them on two separate targets.

I agree with your pathfinder idea but with so many units vying for the adl spots in my army I don't think I can handle the larger foot print of 2 squads. Also I have 4 marker lights at bs4 from my skyrays don't forget.

Okay guys. So I've drawn up an alternative list. I'll edit it into my original post. Comments please