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So my friend is starting a tau army, lets shoot for 1k first.
He will want at least one riptide, but I am a chaos player and cannot aid him with building an army.
Dakka, help!

My favorite thing about the Tau codex is that your basic scoring unit has a 30" S5/AP5 weapon and only costs 9 points. That means a full squad is only 108 pts.

I'd recommend 36 or 48 fire warriors and a couple of broadsides to deal with tanks/fliers. Definitely get shield drones for the broadsides.

An Ethereal is cheap and basically a must as he makes all friendly units within 12" stubborn (they're LD7 otherwise)

Just my 0.02

Fire warriors are a must, at least two full squads with a transport for each, the riptide that he wants. Get a squad of crisis suits and a commander, just to let him mess around with a multitude of weapons and gear that he has available to him. A pathfinder squad to get a base for markerlights, maybe a full squad of broadsides or a hammerhead/skyray depending on his preference of mass fire of high powered precision. Another thing would be to get him an Ethereal to give him a small amount of options on how he can play. A kroot squad instead of one of the fire warriors is also an option that will diversify how he could possibly play, his choice really.

Also see if you can convince him to get an account on this website just in case he wants to message any of the people that post her with any possible questions he might have.