gameandwatch wrote:

x3 crisis suits, x2 burst cannons, 2 gun drones 198
x2 crisis suits, x2 missile launchers, x2 marker drones 152
x3 crisis suits, x2 flamers 96

Brothererekose wrote:

 gameandwatch wrote:

x3 crisis suits, x2 burst cannons, 2 gun drones 198
x2 crisis suits, x2 missile launchers, x2 marker drones 152
x3 crisis suits, x2 flamers 96

I can understand in a list without FWs going for some volume fire, thus dual BCs ... but I don't think these are optimally kitted.

crew 1 - good enough
crew 2 - I guess that you're going to MarkerL a rhino/WaveS/venom to have the MissileSides finish it off?
crew 3 - awful. Flamers mean getting assaulted the next turn. I understand a TAC mindset and flamers are great for dealing with bugs, scarabs & orks, but I think flamers just get your suits assaulted too easily the following turn. Maybe a good old pair of FireKnives for only 8 more points?

Also, 3 scoring is too thin for 1500, and only 8 models. GK or DeathWing can hold out in this sort of 'few model' format, but killing 8 suits is far too easy.

Wait a minute. Can you split the suits into the 6 troop slots? If so, then I'd separate each one off from the other ... so 4 single Monats and two pairs. That's make your suits easier to hide with JSJ, harder for the enemy to track down. Makes him split his fire, etc.

 Coyote81 wrote:
You should remove the Twin linked fusion blaster from your list of items, unless you mean that it is a separate weapon then the fusion blade, because the fusion blades replaces the twin linked fusion blaster and as of right now your using 5 hard points, were as you should only be using 3 (since you already have two shooting weapons with the fusion blade and cyclic ion. I recommend you forget taking the fusion based weapons all together on that guy, take the mirriorcodex, 2x mpods, tl, and drone controller instead. Seems like a more appropriate build for accompanying all those drone that you are going to detach from the piranha squad.

I also feel the gun drones on the crisis suit squad is a waste, drop them and take a fusion gun on each suit to give you some dual purpose for the unit.

 gameandwatch wrote:
I agree, markerlights are important, since tau cannot play without them (unless you are farsun bomb, or unlike last dex when we actually had targeting arrays)

I feel in 1500 one unit of high accuracy lights is enough, and play testing has generally proven this to be so as long as I am not stupid with placement.

A lot of what i chose for this list is for a more "pure for fun, but not handicapped" reasons. I have had a few games with it and I must say I am loving the gak out of double burst crisis suits with gun drones. That unit with talisman commander has whiped out so many things it is crazy, and I have never felt that plasma rifles were neccessary.

The "all 18"" range also did a wonderful thing for me tactically, it kept me out of the 12" bait range that plasma so loves to do, and I have had too many occasions where the suits go into this bait range to rapid fire and completely fail their assault moves only to be whiped out.

The 5 piranhas have also proven invaluable, for any mission that is not the scouring, they are THE MOST annoying screen some of my opponents have ever had to face, they have told me so. My favorite was against a venom spam DE player that I semi circle, bubble wrapped him all game, and there was nothing his venoms could do about it. I also kept them at the perfect range so that he couldn't actually move over them without flatting out, it was beautiful and oh so mean.

As well, the ablative, and purely sacrificial drone squad is amazing, a "counts for nothing" squad of high strength infantry weapons with pinning... hilarious.


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Oh and talisman has also proven amazing, invul is really icing on the cake, the 4d6 deny, has entirely shutdown flying circus for me