TR: Strike Team: 5x Fire Warrior w/Pulse Rifle & Photon grenades (2pl, 35pts) You can unsubscribe at any time. Custom Sept: Gifted Pilots, Hardened Warheads+ HQ + Cadre Fireblade [2 PL, 42pts]: Markerlight Commander in XV86 Coldstar Battlesuit [8 PL, 150pts]: 4x Missile pod+ Troops + Strike Team [2 PL, 38pts] HQ: Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (90), Drone Controller (5), 3x Fusion Blaster (42), 2x MV4 Shield Drone (20) (9pl, 157pts) 4x Fire Warrior w/ Pulse Rifle Strike Team [2 PL, 38pts] That’s monstrous on a full squad, and enough to keep both options seriously viable. T’au Empire - This is a great-value box set that gives you an immediate collection of fantastic Tau Empire miniatures, which you can… Tau Empire at Amazon.com. Custom Sept: Gifted Pilots, Hardened Warheads+ HQ + Cadre Fireblade [2 PL, 42pts]: Markerlight Commander in XV86 Coldstar Battlesuit [8 PL, 150pts]: 4x Missile pod+ Troops + Strike Team [2 PL, 38pts] Having at least 1 markerlight is a big increase, but 5 is the sweet spot, and you will want to do whatever it takes to get 5 markerlights on a target that you’re planning to focus fire down. Army List - Click to Expand++ Battalion Detachment +5CP (T’au Empire) [36 PL, 656pts] ++T’au Empire Sept Choice . Custom faction traits from Psychic Awakening have been pretty hit or miss, with some factions like Craftworlds winning big but many factions ending up sticking to their mainline options. While Tau have less to fear from Raven Guard than most armies thanks to being able to take a ton of drones, this particular army is light on drones. 4 Stars & Up & Up; 3 Stars & Up & Up; 2 Stars & Up & Up; 1 Star & Up & Up; Brand. Sold by Hyatt's All Things Creative and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. TR: Strike Team: 4x Fire Warrior w/Pulse Carbine & Photon Grenades, 1x Shas’Ui w/Markerlight (3) (2pl, 38pts) Custom Sept: Gifted Pilots, Hardened Warheads+ HQ + Cadre Fireblade [2 PL, 42pts]: Markerlight Cadre Fireblade [2 PL, 42pts]: Markerlight+ Troops + Strike Team [2 PL, 38pts] It might be a good idea when painting to give him something distinctive color wise or iconography wise, to make sure you know who he is. EL: Crisis Battlesuits: 5x Shas’ui (120), 1x Shas’vre (27), 6x Advanced Targeting System (36), 12x Burst Cannon (96), 11x MV1 Gun Drone (110) (30pl, 386pts) [Free relic: Gatling Burst Cannons] [-2CP: Veteran Cadre] These guys can drop in where they want on the fringes of the battlefield, take out a priority target, and then dart over to wherever else they’re needed. FA: Tactical Drones: 8x MV4 Shield Drone (80), 4x MV7 Marker Drone (40) (2pl, 120pts) HQ: Cadre Fireblade (39), Markerlight (3), 2x MV4 Shield Drone (20) (2pl, 62pts) WARLORD HQ: Cadre Fireblade (39), Markerlight (3), 2x MV4 Shield Drone (20) (2pl, 62pts) WARLORD The Sun Shark has a similar role to the Drukhari Voidraven, which is to fly over something and bomb the hell out of it and hope to cause mortal wounds. share. Administratum Grey ( Light Grey ) Most of your turns will see the Nova Reactor being used to improve your gun’s output, but the other modes bring a lot of utility to the table. Ghostkeels are actually pretty sweet and the main strike against them is that they’re competing within their slot with Riptides, which are one of the best units pound for pound in the whole game. Saviour Protocols is conceptually pretty simple but the rules implementation is complex and one of the most repeatedly errated rules in the game. . T'au Empire - £47.49 - and many other great board games are available for the lowest prices at Zatu Games UK! HQ: Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit (76), Advanced Targeting System (6), 3x Missile Pod (45), 2x MV4 Shield Drone (20) (8pl, 147pts) HQ: Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (90), 4x Fusion Blaster (56), 2x MV4 Shield Drone (20) (9pl, 166pts) Wrap UpAnd that’s enough about gun-toting fishmen. Nice for getting in right away and playing games, especially for newer players. The goal is to force your opponent to use up FtGG shooting from their better units in order to stop your chaff making it in, reducing the firepower faced by your good units until they can get in either safely or at sufficient strength to do stuff. Keep multiple units fairly close to each other to take maximal advantage of this and provide supporting fire to deter charges that might hit your most valuable units. The battle tanks of the T’au Army, Hammerheads can opt for either a Railgun or an Ion Cannon as their primary armament. The main weakness of these is that they’re true VEHICLE models rather than being BATTLESUIT like a lot of the rest of T’au, so they’re vulnerable to things like haywire or the Imperial Fists’ Legacy of Dorn doctrine where things like Riptides aren’t. Outrider Detachment, Tau Empire: Farsight Enclaves [8pl, 422pts] +1CP Fire Warrior Shas’ui: Markerlight, Pulse rifle . They can also take two seeker missiles, and as long as their gun drones are attached they can fire a couple of pulse carbines too. Once upon a time these needed Longstrike to have a place, but with the advent of the Hardened Warheads/Gifted Pilots Sept combo there’s now another place for them. 4x Fire Warrior w/ Pulse Rifle Strike Team [2 PL, 38pts] Change ). TR: Strike Team: 5x Fire Warrior w/Pulse Rifle & Photon grenades (2pl, 35pts) 4x Fire Warrior w/ Pulse Rifle Strike Team [2 PL, 38pts] FA: Tactical Drones: 8x MV4 Shield Drone (80), 4x MV7 Marker Drone (40) (2pl, 120pts) Earlier in the edition you tended to see more of them, especially when Tau brigades were more of a thing, but they’re quite vulnerable in Marine meta and you can squeeze more performance out of taking the absolute maximum of Elites and Heavy Support, so they’ve tended to fall down the priority list to merely filling up detachment slots in Battalions. HQ: Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit (76), Advanced Targeting System (6), 3x Cyclic Ion Blaster (54), 2x MV4 Shield Drone (20) (8pl, 156pts) Breachers do now see actual use, but Strike Teams are still more common. Surprisingly, despite the substantial power of Tau sept the custom traits in TGG have been a big hit, with the exceptional power of Hardened Warheads backed up by one of two others being enough to actually topple Tau’s dominance, at least for now. Gorthor Brown – Layer ( Medium Brown ) Otherwise, go forth and continue to threaten a fairly minor region of space!Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Related. 1 Ethereal on Hover Drone – Command or HQ unit You can always pick up more paints and go over it again to change the color. And because they’re a cheap way to get extra higher-BS markerlights, it’s worth taking them as part of a Sa’Cea detachment, where they can use the Calm Discipline Sept Tenet to re-roll their Markerlight shots. FREE Shipping. HS: TX78 Sky Ray Gunship [8 PL, 146pts]: 2x Smart missile system, 2x Markerlight, 6x Seeker missile HS: TX78 Sky Ray Gunship [8 PL, 146pts]: 2x Smart missile system, 2x Markerlight, 6x Seeker missile HS: TX78 Sky Ray Gunship [8 PL, 146pts]: 2x Smart missile system, 2x Markerlight, 6x Seeker missile ++ Total: [105 PL, 2,000pts] ++. Personally I can’t wait for Tau to show up in Psychic Awakening and randomly buff Riptides without helping the rest of the army, forcing us to come back in and make that recommendation even stronger. Start Collecting: Tau Empire. A much, much more mobile version of the Crisis battlesuit, the Coldstar Battlesuit trades off the ability to take Cyclic Ion Blasters or Iridium Armor for blazing speed and the ability to take massive leaps around the battlefield. Instead of taking a normal relic (including those added with Emergency DIspensation), Tau can instead choose to take a Prototype Weapon System. 4x Fire Warrior w/ Pulse Rifle Troops: Strike Team [2 PL, 38pts], Fire Warrior Shas’ui: Markerlight, Pulse rifle . Shadowsun is fine in a Tau Sept army but isn’t the near-mandatory pick she once was. HQ: Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit (76), Advanced Targeting System (6), 3x Missile Pod (45), 2x MV4 Shield Drone (20) (8pl, 147pts) TOTAL REINFORCEMENT POINTS: n/a TOTAL REINFORCEMENT POINTS: n/a FA: Tactical Drones: 8x MV4 Shield Drone (80), 4x MV7 Marker Drone (40) (2pl, 120pts) best. 4x Fire Warrior w/ Pulse Rifle Strike Team [2 PL, 38pts] HS: TX78 Sky Ray Gunship [8 PL, 146pts]: 2x Smart missile system, 2x Markerlight, 6x Seeker missile HS: TX78 Sky Ray Gunship [8 PL, 146pts]: 2x Smart missile system, 2x Markerlight, 6x Seeker missile HS: TX78 Sky Ray Gunship [8 PL, 146pts]: 2x Smart missile system, 2x Markerlight, 6x Seeker missile ++ Total: [105 PL, 2,000pts] ++ John Hickton’s Greater Good SpectacularTau players got some opportunity to try out some of the new TGG toys between the book landing and the world going in to lockdown, and easily the most interesting successful list to have come out of it was the one Twisted Dice‘s John Hickton used to win the Scottish Takeover. Just got the Tau Start Collecting box. 72″ range is nice but it’s not it if it means you’re paying more for a S10 Lascannon shot. ( Log Out /  Dal’yth essentially forces you to sacrifice all your movement and that often won’t be idea, particularly because you can always opt to use the Prepared Positions Stratagem on turn 1 if you lose the roll. Fire Warrior Shas’ui: Markerlight, Pulse rifle . POWER LEVEL: 109 Strike and Fade is an incredibly powerful Stratagem, but it has no synergy with the Sept Tenet — using it kills your cover bonus. TOTAL COMMAND POINTS: 14 (-3) . While it’s a crime that he’s still stuck with a Finecast model while Shadowsun gets a plastic hero rock all of her own, the massive improvement to the Farsight Enclaves suddenly makes Farsight a real contender. They may also help inspire you to go a different route, so feel free to use your imagination. Wings Note: Used to see play in Fire Warrior spam lists, but those are deaaaadddd in singles events in Marine meta. Custom Sept: Gifted Pilots, Hardened Warheads, + HQ + Cadre Fireblade [2 PL, 42pts]: Markerlight Commander in XV86 Coldstar Battlesuit [8 PL, 150pts]: 4x Missile pod, + Troops + Strike Team [2 PL, 38pts] They can also take a couple of Prototype Weapon options, making them even more attractive. FA: Tactical Drones: 8x MV4 Shield Drone (80), 4x MV7 Marker Drone (40) (2pl, 120pts) Tau start collecting questions. XV88 – Base Color – ( Light Brown ) The cloth and weapons are typically a very dark gray and/or black. Your first reaction might be to think “railguns,” and that’s not a bad idea. When an enemy unit declares a charge, a unit with this ability that is within 6″ of any of the charging unit’s targets my fire overwatch as if they were also targeted. While the drone can, of course, be shot out, it forces the opponent to divert fire to them and if you put a shield drone in the mini-unit as well it can be quite tricky for them to work out how much dakka they need to point at them. TOTAL REINFORCEMENT POINTS: n/a Annoyingly, these set up as a unit of their own which can be targeted, so you ideally want them behind a wall or something. Tau Fire Warriors They’re also good slot filler in a Tau Brigade, since they take up Fast Attack slots, though so do Tactical Drones (for more on these, see next entry). The roving nightmare that the forward elements of this list presents will keep many opponents on the back foot, and like a lot of Farsight armies it’s way less vulnerable to getting pinned down in its deployment zone than the average Tau list. With that in mind when building out Crisis Teams you want to pick a role for them. But the real value for Sa’Cea is Markerlights. This makes use of the Crisis burst cannon bomb we discussed, backed up by an appaling number of drones and a clique of commanders, to control the board, while blasting from the back with Magna Rail Rifle armed Broadsides. Battalion Detachment, Tau Empire: Farsight Enclaves [53pl, 807pts] +5CP By subscribing you confirm that you are over the age of 16 or have consent from your parent or guardian to subscribe. The tenet, Coordinated Fire Arcs, dovetails very nicely with For the Greater Good to provide even more charge protection and keep your gunline intact, Focused Fire is incredible on units with high rate of fire (wound something with incidental fire and then give +1 to wound against that target with 20 medium strength shots per riptide), and the warlord trait and relic are no slouches, either. But, what are the formations? In sniper meta these have been trialled – Devin Swann ran a list while ago which ran 27 of them – but they haven’t yet wormed their way into the greater consciousness. ————————————————————————– Start Collecting! I try to play it off like he’s in some kind of James Bond/ Mission Impossible pose leaping backwards firing as he goes. . Next. Gun-wise, they offer either a fusion collider – a d3 shot 18″ range melta, or a cyclic ion raker – a 6 shot 24″ gun which can either be S7 AP-1 D1, or overcharge to be S8 AP-1 Dd3 (and inflicts a mortal wound if you roll any 1s to hit).