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im going to play a tournament at GW soon and i was thinling of pairing my necrons with some tau to make it more intreasting and fun. i thought tau beacuse anrakyr activates night fighting which can be an addvantage for tau. just tried putting together a list.(this is only my second 1000 point list)

Tau

HQ - 60
Cadre Fireblade

Troops - 108
12 x fire warriors

Fast attack - 66
6 x pathfinders

Necrons

Hq - 165
Anrakyr The Traveller

Troops - 150
5x imortals
5x warriors

Dedicated Transport - 200
2x nightscythes

Heavy Support - 250
1x Canoptek spyder
1x Necron monolith

total = 999

ohfff, I've never played Tau so I don't know if that half is good but you're Necrons are horrible. First off ditch the monolith, 200 point black hole that will leave you underwhelmed every time, pick up two annihilation barges for half the price and ten times the power. With the extra points wither put those warriors in a ghost ark or switch them for immortals.


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Also you have two very shooty armies there, unless you have some brilliant tactic I don't know about maybe go for a more CC orientated ally to cover you're weaknesses.

Ok thanks my mate (tau player) said that they where ok but for the necrons how about this:



Hq - 165
Anrakyr The Traveller

Troops - 150
5x imortals
5x warriors

Dedicated Transport - 200
1 night scycth

Fast attack - 125
3x canoptek wraiths W/ 2 whip coils

Heavy Support - 180
2x Annihilation Barge (gause)

Put 5 imortals in the night scyth and send them up the board while sending the wraiths up the other side then keep pushing forward with the annihilataion barges with the imortals behind with anrakyr.

Looks ok, Why Anrakyr?
The only other thing I'd change is if you could find space to buff your troops, five warriors doesn't go very far. But if you can't then it's no biggie.

Just saying that night fighting doesn't benefit your tau. Fire warriors don't have any special night fight bonuses

Ya I am going to have to agree that the night fighting won't help those firewarriors.
I don't think that is the best thing to do for them. Why not take a XV8 commander (dual plasmas probably) and then a minimal unit of Kroot.

At 1000 points it is actually hard to put in allies I wouldn't advise it but that is just me. Unless you dropped the monolith and took some more XV8s or a stealth team would be fun (not the most competitive but I like em)

 skink007 wrote:
Just saying that night fighting doesn't benefit your tau. Fire warriors don't have any special night fight bonuses

I know but the tau ignore the night fighting

Only Tau suits that have Blacksun FIlters can ignore night fighting/have the night vison speacial rule (i.e stealth suits, XV8 etc) Kroot and firewarriors don't have blacksun filters