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Hello all,

I am sure that this has been done before but here goes.

I have a friendly game soon and the way it will run is 4 people will play each other once using the new digi kill team rules. I am going to be facing tau at a guess he will run either fire warriors and stealth suits or just crisis battle suits. How do I deal with this.

I will be also be fighting GK and possible black legion. Again your thoughts would help.

I was thinking a standard RW squad with a flamer and a six man tac squad again with a flamer. I haven't yet thought of specialists yet.

I play tau KT, think about this -

3 black knights,
5 tac marines.

The tac marines are standard and have bolters. But they're scoring. 1 will need to be a specialist as the knight hunts master is your leader. As for the knights, give one ignores cover, and 1 something like feel no pain. Being knights they have twin linked plasma guns so can take on anything (especially the ignores cover one! He can take out anything) they have Corvus hammers, so can do combat, they have skilled rider, so their jink save is instantly better and won't suffer in terrain, they get scout as standard and can out flank. They're an all round awesome unit and will fry any form of armour you face!

Sounds like a sound plan. I should have thought about knights they are good. Would it be worth adding a gren launcher?

Honestly, I don't know. I think the plasma talons are too good to replace. There's almost nothing in KT they can't hurt. And as mentioned, give one ignores cover and he'll be disgusting! Your other option is stealth for a 3+ cover save. There is a downside - the 5 marines are pretty plain. But marines are still good.

I contemplated 4 knights with the master with a power weapon, but I can't fill the final 20 points, and it's only 4 guys. I think it's too weak!

I agree. I think the marines add the ability to hold an objective in our own area in a squad of 3 whilst the DK distract the enemy and the other 3 marines creep up to hold the next/center objective. Hopefully the DK will hit the enemy commander for FB and slay the warlord or its equivalent. I agree adding stealth as again it makes him a harder target hence more menacing.

The only downside I've found so far, is I tend to rely on my 3 knights to do all the hard work whilst my 5 marines have quite an easy time! It does tend to make my opponent obsess with killing the knights!

You seem clued up on KT games.

I gather every model is an individual and there fore classed as a unit?

so if this is the case if I charge a unit it is just the one model I fight?

Yes, every model works independently. The only stipulation is tha unit minimum sizes must be adhered to. I like kill team! I think it's epic.

Ok I think I get it, if a unit of marines is picked it must contain 5 marines. I thought they could all move independently


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No I get it lol. I must take five marines but once taken they are all independent

Yup, exactly that!


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So, 3 black knights is minimum, as is 5 marines, BUT once selected they then operate as 8 units.