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So I have finally (after years of resistance) decided to give 40K a try. To that end I have acquired some Tau minis. However, I would like some advice. First, I may have a place where I can play a 500 point battle (about all I can support right now.) So I need to put an army together.

Second, I know I need more units. What would people recommend next? Again, I have some ideas, but I am curious what others suggest.

Here are the figures I have.

34 Fire Warriors with pulse rifle
6 Fire Warriors with pulse carbine
9 Pathfinders with pulse carbine
2 Pathfinders with Rail rifles
1 Piranha with a fusion gun
1 Devilfish (has a seeker missile mounted on it too.)
27 Gun Drones

Note that I don't really have an HQ unit. I was planning to use a Fire Warrior as a Cadre Fireblade for now.

Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks,
Duncan
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Generally take pulse rifles over carbines, and pathfinders are mostly for markerlight support.

For your next additions, you need anti tank weapons and units. A riptide, a crisis team, a hammerhead/skyray, or broadsides are all great choices. An ethereal works if you are going to have a lot of warriors/broadsides in a gunline. A squad of kroot with a hound and maybe sniper rounds provide a lot of utility as you scale up. You should have enough fire warriors, drones and pathfinders. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588583/6700885.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588583/6700885.page GMT
Oh fun stuff. It is not an ideal list but this one should be fun to run:

Fire blade 60
Fire blade 60

12 FW,BK 120
12 FW, BK 120

4 pathfinders 44
4 pathfinders 44
1 Piranha w/fb 50


This list will have issues with heavy armor. But should be able to put out enough shots (78) at potentially BS5 ignore cover or up to bs7. So you should be able to drowned a target in fire. Piranha will give you something to threaten the heavy stuff with.


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Thanks,
Duncan]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588583/6715734.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588583/6715734.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588583/6717932.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/588583/6717932.page GMT