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Ok, my mate and I are thinking about starting to attend some doubles tournaments as I'm leaving the army, so it gives us an excuse to meet up! The GW tourneys seem to be 1500 points. He is a tau player and is pretty set on sticking with tau. I usually play iyanden or Chaos. Can't take iyanden to the tourney, and my chaos army only really works at the 2k points I normally play.

So, I am quite tempted to build a small space marine contingent. I want to go ultramarines. I think. But I don't know what to take. So I'm looking for help building a very competitive 1500 point tau-space marine army list!

Please help!


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Ok, So I'm thinking something along these lines, The Tau will form a noce ranged gun line. And the Sternguard and tac marines will drop turn one to wherever they are needed. The other marine unit will sit in reserve and wiat until called upon, which is made slightly easier by some of tiggys rules.

Let me know what you think?


1500 Pts - Codex: Space Marines Roster & Codex: Tau Empire

Total Roster Cost: 1499

HQ: Chief Librarian Tigurius (1#, 165 pts)
1 Chief Librarian Tigurius (Warlord)

Troops: Tactical Squad (11#, 195 pts)
9 Tactical Squad + Meltagun + Multi-melta
1 Sergeant
1 Drop Pod

Troops: Tactical Squad (11#, 195 pts)
9 Tactical Squad + Meltagun + Multi-melta
1 Sergeant
1 Drop Pod

Elite: Sternguard Veteran Squad (6#, 195 pts)
4 Sternguard Veteran Squad + Combi-Meltagun x4
1 Veteran Sergeant
1 Drop Pod

Allied detachment: Tau

HQ: Cadre Fireblade (1#, 60 pts)
1 Cadre Fireblade (HQ)

Troops: Fire Warrior Team (12#, 108 pts)
1 Fire Warrior Team (Troops)
12 Fire Warriors

Troops: Fire Warrior Team (12#, 108 pts)
1 Fire Warrior Team (Troops)
12 Fire Warriors

Elite: XV104 Riptide (3#, 260 pts)
1 XV104 Riptide (Elite) + Ion Accelerator + Counterfire Defence System + Velocity Tracker
2 Shielded Missile Drone

Heavy Support: XV88 Broadside Team (3#, 213 pts)
1 XV88 Broadside Team (Heavy)
1 Broadside Shas'ui + Bonding Knife Ritual + Counterfire Defence System
1 Broadside Shas'ui + Bonding Knife Ritual + Target Lock
1 Broadside Shas'ui + Bonding Knife Ritual + Target Lock

I can see why tiggi would be useful, but with that much melta, why not take sallies and Vulkan, master crafted melta, inc combi melta, would really help make those shots count?