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My Tau are personally undefeated.

at 2k I run a very spammy list that isn't reliant on marker lights.

It's usually a triple battalion with
3 unique commanders
45 fire warriors
2 fireblades
longstrike
and ether 2 hammerheads with ion cannons plus some support elements like stealth suits or a skyray OR another hammerhead

Or I run a list with 2 commanders 30 firewarriors and 3 storm surges

My friend who is also a great player has never lost with his tau ether - he plays a more conventional list that uses broadsides stormsurge and a riptide.

Tau sept exclusively.

Eldar give me the most problems but I can usually outshoot them and the firewarriors give me a nice buffer from assault units plus a real nice short range zone of death. I'm not saying the army is unbeatable - stuff that ignores overwatch really hard counters it but I'm really suprised the army isn't doing better at events. Any ideas why they are struggling?




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What format are you playing?

At the London GT spots 7 and 28 were similar to those mentioned here. Maybe a bit less FW.

Both went 4 and 1. They just scored less points overall - probably from less board control and huddling, because they want their overwatch.
   
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Because Tau didn't totally just play in the finals of the London GT invitational...

Here is the main issue with Tau in tournament.
Your going to win, but it won't be 20-0 because you sat in your deployment zone for to long and missing out on to many progressive objective VPs or Maelstorm points.

And to win major tournament you need to be able to go 20-0 every single round.
   
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 Ordana wrote:
Because Tau didn't totally just play in the finals of the London GT invitational...

Here is the main issue with Tau in tournament.
Your going to win, but it won't be 20-0 because you sat in your deployment zone for to long and missing out on to many progressive objective VPs or Maelstorm points.

And to win major tournament you need to be able to go 20-0 every single round.

This is so true. I lost a game in a tournament the other day because I played way too defensively. I probably killed 80% or more of my opponent's models (he was running Guard infantry spam with Raven Guard Aggressors in a triple battalion list) but I just couldn't get the objectives and lost on points. Problem is, if I hadn't played so defensively I might have gotten picked off by Scion plasma. My mobility problem was made worse by the fact that on the first turn I declared Kauyon and so couldn't move my big models, but that benefits your damage output greatly. I feel that Tau are an army that really wants to table their opponent to get max points. If you don't win by tabling, you generally won't max your score.

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I would say one of the main issues with the tau codex is the real drive for maximum damage output leads to a Tau list that takes a big hit the moment it starts moving, I have been playing around with a big suit heavy list but keeping enough support in CP's and the need to use aura buffs means that while it works, it's loosing damage or durability over just building a castle list.

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I agree. The London GT setup didn’t really favour a heavy gunline army. Sure, they were able to win, but when a lot of the points are coming from Maelstrom it becomes a little harder unless you can table your opponent in turn 1 or 2.

It also depends on whether or not you’re facing 28 Custodes Jetbikes with -1 to hit.
   
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Kdash wrote:
I agree. The London GT setup didn’t really favour a heavy gunline army. Sure, they were able to win, but when a lot of the points are coming from Maelstrom it becomes a little harder unless you can table your opponent in turn 1 or 2.

It also depends on whether or not you’re facing 28 Custodes Jetbikes with -1 to hit.

Yeah - that basically can't be beat by tau - you have a good point.


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 Daedalus81 wrote:
What format are you playing?

At the London GT spots 7 and 28 were similar to those mentioned here. Maybe a bit less FW.

Both went 4 and 1. They just scored less points overall - probably from less board control and huddling, because they want their overwatch.

Standard matched play with chapter approved missions. Beta rules in effect. Not using ITC LOS blocking rules though.

That's the best showing I've seen in a big torny for tau.

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Turns out that Alex Harrison, the Tau player who reached the finals of the London GT invitational, was found to be cheating and has been disqualified and banned from the tournament for life.

https://www.facebook.com/LondonGrandTournament/posts/1884689458248487

So maybe citing him as an example of how competitive Tau lists are is not a good idea.

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 meleti wrote:
Turns out that Alex Harrison, the Tau player who reached the finals of the London GT, was found to be cheating and has been disqualified and banned from the tournament for life.

https://www.facebook.com/LondonGrandTournament/posts/1884689458248487

So maybe citing him as an example of how competitive Tau lists are is not a good idea.


I get that he cheated and that needs to be dealt with but I would find it alot more reasonable if they weren't making rules mistakes in their own statements on how he should have played.
   
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Ice_can wrote:
 meleti wrote:
Turns out that Alex Harrison, the Tau player who reached the finals of the London GT, was found to be cheating and has been disqualified and banned from the tournament for life.

https://www.facebook.com/LondonGrandTournament/posts/1884689458248487

So maybe citing him as an example of how competitive Tau lists are is not a good idea.


I get that he cheated and that needs to be dealt with but I would find it alot more reasonable if they weren't making rules mistakes in their own statements on how he should have played.
this is why I don't go to tournaments out of my local area. Holy crap man.


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 meleti wrote:
Turns out that Alex Harrison, the Tau player who reached the finals of the London GT invitational, was found to be cheating and has been disqualified and banned from the tournament for life.

https://www.facebook.com/LondonGrandTournament/posts/1884689458248487

So maybe citing him as an example of how competitive Tau lists are is not a good idea.

How did you learn of this?

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 Xenomancers wrote:

How did you learn of this?


It's on the Facebook page.

Although, digging into those allegations a bit more, the only ones that strike me as off are the wound marker thing and the FtGG thing. Because of his manner in the former clip, and because of my expectation that seasoned players know their army's rules in the latter.
   
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Ice_can wrote:
 meleti wrote:
Turns out that Alex Harrison, the Tau player who reached the finals of the London GT, was found to be cheating and has been disqualified and banned from the tournament for life.

https://www.facebook.com/LondonGrandTournament/posts/1884689458248487

So maybe citing him as an example of how competitive Tau lists are is not a good idea.


I get that he cheated and that needs to be dealt with but I would find it alot more reasonable if they weren't making rules mistakes in their own statements on how he should have played.
Could you clarify what the facebook post gets wrong?
   
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 meleti wrote:
 Xenomancers wrote:

How did you learn of this?


It's on the Facebook page.

Although, digging into those allegations a bit more, the only ones that strike me as off are the wound marker thing and the FtGG thing. Because of his manner in the former clip, and because of my expectation that seasoned players know their army's rules in the latter.


Did the hammerhand push help? That looked rather suspicious to me

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 meleti wrote:
 Xenomancers wrote:

How did you learn of this?


It's on the Facebook page.

Although, digging into those allegations a bit more, the only ones that strike me as off are the wound marker thing and the FtGG thing. Because of his manner in the former clip, and because of my expectation that seasoned players know their army's rules in the latter.
I see. Was this the only suspected cheater? Or were there many?

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 Ordana wrote:
Ice_can wrote:
 meleti wrote:
Turns out that Alex Harrison, the Tau player who reached the finals of the London GT, was found to be cheating and has been disqualified and banned from the tournament for life.

https://www.facebook.com/LondonGrandTournament/posts/1884689458248487

So maybe citing him as an example of how competitive Tau lists are is not a good idea.


I get that he cheated and that needs to be dealt with but I would find it alot more reasonable if they weren't making rules mistakes in their own statements on how he should have played.
Could you clarify what the facebook post gets wrong?


They claim he cheated by using his 4 hammerheads during for the greater good.

His list is 3 hammerheads and longstrike.
Longstrike does have the FTGG rule and it applies to all weapons not just SMS like they claim.
The 3 hammer heads do not have FTGG at all and it applies to no weapons.
   
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My experience of Tau in 8e is that they're strong but brittle; if they have a good matchup they're difficult to deal with and will win handily, but if a mechanic that counters them shows up they don't go to "have an uphill battle but can still score some points", they skip straight over that and go straight into "can't really play and will die ineffectually". Thousand Sons psykers with the ability to casually remove Drones around your battlesuits at long distances, move-again psychic powers giving you top-of-turn-one charges to deal with, abilities that ignore Overwatch, to-hit debuff stacks, etc. will turn most tournament scenarios into a struggle to score any points at all.

If your Tau are personally undefeated I suspect your local meta doesn't force you to deal with psyker-built Chaos lists or people abusing Quicken much.

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Ice_can wrote:
 Ordana wrote:
Ice_can wrote:
 meleti wrote:
Turns out that Alex Harrison, the Tau player who reached the finals of the London GT, was found to be cheating and has been disqualified and banned from the tournament for life.

https://www.facebook.com/LondonGrandTournament/posts/1884689458248487

So maybe citing him as an example of how competitive Tau lists are is not a good idea.


I get that he cheated and that needs to be dealt with but I would find it alot more reasonable if they weren't making rules mistakes in their own statements on how he should have played.
Could you clarify what the facebook post gets wrong?


They claim he cheated by using his 4 hammerheads during for the greater good.

His list is 3 hammerheads and longstrike.
Longstrike does have the FTGG rule and it applies to all weapons not just SMS like they claim.
The 3 hammer heads do not have FTGG at all and it applies to no weapons.
Ah yes that is correct. Longstrike can fully FTGG and the other 3 HH's cant do it at all.
Problem Alex was doing it with the HH's aswell and even after the mistake was corrected the following day continued to use SMS's from HH's for FTGG which they are not allowed to do, they are not drones, they replace them. If they didn't you could also detach SMS's and they would need to target the closest targets :p
   
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 Ordana wrote:
Ice_can wrote:
 Ordana wrote:
Ice_can wrote:
 meleti wrote:
Turns out that Alex Harrison, the Tau player who reached the finals of the London GT, was found to be cheating and has been disqualified and banned from the tournament for life.

https://www.facebook.com/LondonGrandTournament/posts/1884689458248487

So maybe citing him as an example of how competitive Tau lists are is not a good idea.


I get that he cheated and that needs to be dealt with but I would find it alot more reasonable if they weren't making rules mistakes in their own statements on how he should have played.
Could you clarify what the facebook post gets wrong?


They claim he cheated by using his 4 hammerheads during for the greater good.

His list is 3 hammerheads and longstrike.
Longstrike does have the FTGG rule and it applies to all weapons not just SMS like they claim.
The 3 hammer heads do not have FTGG at all and it applies to no weapons.
Ah yes that is correct. Longstrike can fully FTGG and the other 3 HH's cant do it at all.
Problem Alex was doing it with the HH's aswell and even after the mistake was corrected the following day continued to use SMS's from HH's for FTGG which they are not allowed to do, they are not drones, they replace them. If they didn't you could also detach SMS's and they would need to target the closest targets :p

That's my issue with the facebook post they state they TO's corrected him on that rule and he played it correctly on sunday.

If your going to correct people on playing their army wrong, don't get the correction wrong FFS.
   
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If you ask my local club's Tau player it is because Tau cannot handle close combat, most armies can out shoot them when shooting is supposed to be their thing, and that drones wrack up points for the enemy in kill point games.

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