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Hello,

I have a tournament next week at my hobby store, rules are maelestrom mission + kill point , only one formation ,no flyers and one monstruous creatures.

Based what i know, my opponent will play KDK,dark eldars, necron ,spaces wolves and chaos.

So i made a "fun" list without surge and riptide , please leave me a comment and your impressions

Tau hunter contingent :

Commander 179 pts

2 markers drones
2 fusion blasters
Target lock
Drone controller
Neuroweb system jammer
Iridium armor

Troupes :

5 firewarriors
Ds8 turret smart missile system
Bonding knife rituel 60 pts

5 firrewarriors
Ds8 turret smart missile system
Bonding knife rituel 60 pts

5 firrewarriors
Ds8 turret smart missile system
Bonding knife rituel 60 pts

Fast attack


4 marker drones 56 pts

Elites

1 crisis suits
2 airbusting fragmentation projectors
Bonding knife rituel 53 pts

3 crisis suits
6 fusion blasters
2 target lock 156pts

3 crisis suits
6 plasma rifle
3 Early warning override 171

Soutien

2 broadside
High yeld missile pod
Smart missile system
Early warning override x2
Bonding knife rituel 142 pts

2 broadside
Twin link rail rifle
Twin link plasma rifle
EWO x2
Bonding knife rituel 152 pts

Optimised stealth cadre :

Ghostkeel
Cyclic ion raker
Twinlink burst canon
Early warning override
Stim injector 175 pts

3 stealth suit
Fusion blaster
Sergent
Target lock , markerlight
Bonding knife rituel 113 pts

3 stealth suit
Fusion blaster
Sergent
Target lock , markerlight
Bonding knife rituel 113 pts

Total 1500pts

One thing that jumps out at me is the gear on the commander. He's got fusion blasters and drones. Good idea giving him the drones, free marker support and all that, but they are effective up to 36 inches, while those blasters have a much shorter range. As such, the drones are liable to just get blasted up real quick.

Not sure about the min fire warriors squads. Turrets and bonding knives aren't exactly great either.

12 in a devilfish has always been my favourite way of running them.

I agree with the above, and would add one more: an OSC with a single Ghostkeel is problematic. You're paying the "stealth tax" without getting the full payoff. I think, if I were you, and wanting to keep it pretty chill of course, I would still optimize a little.

Decide what one element you want to drive your list. Right now it's actually Crisis suits; yet you don't have enough marker support for them.

He can only have one monstrous creature.

Heh, thanks man. Whoops!

Tournament finished,i've ranked first after win all my match against wraithkight eldar ,nemesis strike force and kdk. List was good good especially stealth unit ,burst canon + Fusion and markerlight with target is insaly polyvalent.Airbustin frag projector is lame.Very good tournament, CAD tau and their overwatch is very cheesy