http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/14.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net GW store happening this Thursday, and I am trying to finalize my 900 point list. Enemies are a pretty good mix, have seen a couple marines, another tau, scions, inquisition, necron, eldar, and tyranids so far.

Rules are:
4x4 table
8" Deployment(For most of your army)
Night Fighting Turn 1
Mercenary Unit - (What is that???? Find out the night of)

Restrictions:
No Super Heavies
No Fliers
No Formations

Anyways, I have it nailed down to two lists, which I am still tweaking both. I was wondering if you guys could help me out with some advice.

List 1: buffmander

+++ Tau Escalation 900 buffmander (898pts) +++

++ Tau Empire: Codex (2015) (Combined Arms Detachment) ++

Farsight Enclaves

+ HQ +

Commander [2x MV7 Marker Drone]
XV8 Commander Crisis Suit [Command and Control Node, Drone Controller, Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite, Neuroweb System Jammer, Vectored Retro-Thrusters]

+ Elites +

XV104 Riptide Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual]
Riptide Shas'vre [Early Warning Override, Earth Caste Pilot Array, Ion Accelerator, Stimulant Injector, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]

+ Troops +

XV8 Crisis Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual, 4x MV7 Marker Drone]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]

XV8 Crisis Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Fusion Blaster]

+ Fast Attack +

TX4 Piranhas
TX4 Piranha [Blacksun Filter, Fusion Blaster]

+ Heavy Support +

XV88 Broadside Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual]
Broadside [Twin-linked High-Yield Missile Pod, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]

The idea here is that the buffmander would probably join the 5x crisis team, though he could join the riptide for a 1st turn alpha and then switch. I am not sure if I would deep strike the 5x crisis+commander, as that many units on a 4x4 table would be risky. The deep striking fusion monat, the piranha, and the riptide would take care of any big stuff, while the main crisis unit would blast any armor. The riptide with his large blast would hopefully be enough for hordes along with the plasma dakka. I am afraid of invuln save guys like wraiths, tarpits, and big hordes.


The other list is quite different:

+++ Tau Escalation 900 FSE lightsabers (899pts) +++

++ Tau Empire: Codex (2015) (Combined Arms Detachment) ++

Farsight Enclaves

+ HQ +

Commander
XV8 Commander Crisis Suit [Neuroweb System Jammer, Plasma Rifle, Vectored Retro-Thrusters, XV8-02 Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit]
Fusion Blades [Twin-linked Fusion Blaster]

+ Elites +

XV104 Riptide Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual]
Riptide Shas'vre [Early Warning Override, Earth Caste Pilot Array, Ion Accelerator, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]

+ Troops +

XV8 Crisis Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual, 2x MV4 Shield Drone]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]

XV8 Crisis Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual, 3x MV1 Gun Drone]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Burst Cannon]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Burst Cannon]

+ Fast Attack +

Pathfinder Team [Bonding Knife Ritual, 5x Pathfinder]

Pathfinder Team [Bonding Knife Ritual, 5x Pathfinder]

+ Heavy Support +

XV88 Broadside Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual]
Broadside [Counterfire Defence System, Twin-linked High-Yield Missile Pod, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]


This list uses pathfinders for markerlight support, while making a lightsaber wielding buffed up commander as the mobile tank hunter and big distraction. He would either deep strike bomb or hang back, depending on the other armies makeup and deployment. The plasma squad could deep strike with or separate from the commander, or move up the field along with the burst cannon dakka unit to distract from the pathfinders, while the broadside lobs missiles and protects the riptide and/or pathfinders with overwatch. What I am afraid of here is losing the commander and his VP early to some bad rolls, or my pathfinders getting wiped out too easily before I can provide enough else for the enemy to worry about.




So what do you guys think? Which would you go with? Or would you scrap it and do something different?

Please keep in mind, I don't really have enough time by Thursday to add any more purchased units, so I am stuck with these to build from:
commander
riptide
6x crisis suits
10 fire warriors and 2x DS8s
10 breachers (could proxy as pathfinders, which is my plan for list 2, have permission)
devilfish
broadside
piranha
crapton of drones

everything is magnetized so wargear is free to swap.

Thanks guys!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/701726/8886201.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/701726/8886201.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/701726/8888077.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/701726/8888077.page GMT I made one final tweak and ran this list:

+++ Tau Escalation 900 Mark'o (900pts) +++

++ Tau Empire: Codex (2015) (Combined Arms Detachment) ++

Farsight Enclaves

+ HQ +

Commander [2x MV7 Marker Drone]
XV8 Commander Crisis Suit [Drone Controller, 2x Missile Pod, Target Lock]

+ Elites +

XV104 Riptide Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual]
Riptide Shas'vre [Early Warning Override, Earth Caste Pilot Array, Ion Accelerator, Stimulant Injector, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]

+ Troops +

XV8 Crisis Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Fusion Blaster]

XV8 Crisis Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Fusion Blaster]

XV8 Crisis Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Plasma Rifle]

XV8 Crisis Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual, 2x MV1 Gun Drone]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Burst Cannon]

XV8 Crisis Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual, 2x MV1 Gun Drone]
Crisis Shas'ui [2x Burst Cannon]

+ Fast Attack +

Drones [4x MV7 Marker Drone]

+ Heavy Support +

XV88 Broadside Battlesuits [Bonding Knife Ritual, 2x MV8 Missile Drone]
Broadside [Twin-linked High-Yield Missile Pod, Twin-linked Smart Missile System]

Got paired up with an inquisition player, who was running a land raider crusader, a squad of shooty acolytes and a jokaro with a beamer inquisitor, a squad of mixed melee units, and a squad of mixed melee with a terminator inquisitor in the land raider. I figured I would spend the whole game trying to kill his land raider while he chased me around with his melee.

Well, that changed quickly when I nova charged the riptide, rolled a direct hit on the scatter, rolled a 6 on the pen, and rolled another 6 on the result. Pop goes the land raider, first shot of first turn. I actually was really disappointed, because after that it was just wholesale slaughter and I never saw how my army would have really done. At the end of turn 2 he had a single acolyte and a single death cult assasin left - everything else had been wiped. My fusion crisis suits never even made it out of reserves, and I lost a single drone and a single crisis suit, only because I charged in close to his big shooty blob for the hell of it since it was already over. I felt really bad, but he was a good sport about it, and we both had a lot of fun.

Next month, 1100 points with flyers and formations allowed! Thinking dawn blade with retaliation and drone net, maybe an allied CAD of fireblade, fire warriors, and a skyray. Or replace the skyray with a flyer. Or go hunter contingent. I don't know!

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