<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Minimal battle-suit Tau "]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/69.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Minimal battle-suit Tau GW suits nor do i have funds for forge world (i have one of forge world and one of GW)
I was just wondering what the best way to use tau is without many battle-suits. I have had a lot of success but have only played space marines and grey knights really.
This is what i have:
24 fire warriors
12 pathfinders
2 battle-suits with interchangeable weapons
One riptide with IA
2 sky rays/hammerheads
2 devilfish (can use as sky rays or hammerheads)
A load of drones
4 stealth suits
11 kroot (one fell victim to some conversions)

I was just wondering if anyone has any non battle-suit orientated tactics to play.
I usually get the fire warriors up close and destroy some units after popping out of their transport. Heavy guns at the back. Stealth suits causing disruption down their end, riptide being a riptide and my commander with twin meltas causing as much damage as possible. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7840210.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7840210.page GMT Minimal battle-suit Tau
If your not playing terribly competitively the hammerheads can be a lot of fun and add some punch. Adding longstrike to one of them will be good too. An ionhead with longstrike is quite a shooter.

Maybe also look at adding pirhannas and adding more kroot. All them can give more board control.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7840332.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7840332.page GMT Minimal battle-suit Tau http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7841400.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7841400.page GMT Minimal battle-suit Tau
 Hawkeye888 wrote:
Fire warriors can definitely put out the fire, adding an ethereal or cadre would really help them out. Kinda like you do already, run them up in the dfish and pop out and kill. If you added an ethereal and used storm of fire you would double their shots at half range.

If your not playing terribly competitively the hammerheads can be a lot of fun and add some punch. Adding longstrike to one of them will be good too. An ionhead with longstrike is quite a shooter.

Maybe also look at adding pirhannas and adding more kroot. All them can give more board control.



yeah, I'm planning on converting a shadowseer into an ethereal because im not a fan of the models.
a few people have said kroot but i personally dont see the big deal, can you shed some light???

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At 750pts i don't have any. at 1000 i have 2 and it probably won't increase much more unless they bring out better models.

at 1000pts i have

Shadowsun
2x Crisis suits w/2x fusion blasters and 1x PEN
Riptide
2x 12 FW
2x 5 PF
Longstrike
980

It usually works pretty well unless someone spams Wave Serpents or knights or something. but i've got an answer to everything in there]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7844558.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7844558.page GMT Minimal battle-suit Tau
With a hound you gain acute senses and can outflank on your preferred side. This is useful for grabbing an objective, or harassing the backfield.

You can infilitrate onto an objective or busy area and then use them to soak up fire or tarpit. If you can get them into forest and the enemy does not have ignores cover they can be rather stubborn.

For combat effectiveness they are pretty cheap and don't have terrible shooting. Adding the sniper rounds could pick out the special weapons or squad sergeants. And they can beat up on less then good CC units.

60 points for ten of them is a good deal too. If they die, well then your firewarriors didn't. And that's a win.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7844897.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7844897.page GMT Minimal battle-suit Tau http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7845728.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/648962/7845728.page GMT