10th edition Tau list ideas

[Silent one]

I just started working with Tau recently in this edition. This is the 1st attempt at a list I've done for Tau. Let me know what you think.

tau (1995 points)
T’au Empire
Strike Force (2000 points)
Kauyon


CHARACTER

Aun’va (65 points)
• 1x Aun’va
• Warlord
• 1x Close combat weapon
• 2x Ethereal Guard
• 2x Supreme honour blade

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (125 points)
• 1x Battlesuit fists
1x Cyclic ion blaster
3x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
• Enhancement: Exemplar of the Kauyon

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (135 points)
• 1x Battlesuit fists
1x Cyclic ion blaster
3x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
• Enhancement: Puretide Engram Neurochip


OTHER DATASHEETS

Crisis Battlesuits (360 points)
• 1x Crisis Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit fists
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• 5x Crisis Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
10x Cyclic ion blaster
5x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Shield Drone
5x Shield Generator

Crisis Battlesuits (360 points)
• 1x Crisis Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit fists
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• 5x Crisis Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
10x Cyclic ion blaster
5x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Shield Drone
5x Shield Generator

Crisis Battlesuits (360 points)
• 1x Crisis Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit fists
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• 5x Crisis Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
5x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Shield Drone
5x Shield Generator

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Piranha (55 points)
• 1x Armoured hull
1x Piranha fusion blaster
2x Seeker missile
2x Twin pulse carbine

Piranha (55 points)
• 1x Armoured hull
1x Piranha fusion blaster
2x Seeker missile
2x Twin pulse carbine

Tetras (80 points)
• 2x Tetra
• 2x Close combat weapons
4x Pulse rifle

Tetras (80 points)
• 2x Tetra
• 2x Close combat weapons
4x Pulse rifle

[sean]

I think that’s an extremely strong Tau army. It’s leaning heavily into just killing your opponents Army rather than having a few more things to do secondaries. So that would be the one change I would consider is dropping the third crisis unit for some more small pieces to do actions and go die on objectives.

[Silent one]

What units would you suggest? Something like a strike team?

[sean]

If it was me I would drop the third crisis unit to just 3 suits and then add three units of stealth teams or 2 stealth and 2 kroot hounds.

That gives you some cheap units, and the crisis unit is still a threat when you need to just kill something a little bit.

[raceygaming]

I will say that I only have a little bit of play with tau so far but this list is going to have trouble with MSU. Right now you have 3 units that are shooting 66, 66 and 54 shots respectively. They can nuke almost any target in the game with that amount of fire power but all those groups of shots are going into the same 3 targets. This is great into units like necron lych guard or 10x terminators and such but into armies that don't have that focus to kill target it can get tricky.
Tau split firing on 5s makes them pretty bad at doing it, I think you keep 12 of the 18 suits are you planning and either go 6/6 or 6/3/3 with the new units. With the points you have bring something that can chip damage smaller units and move around the board to score some points.
This might look like kroot, ghost keels, a devilfish with breachers , farsight marksmen, shadow sun.

The other issue I can speak to is tau have a really hard time getting anything over S8 guns, into T9 units you will have to focus fire pretty hard even with weight of dice.

[Silent one]

Thank you guys for the help and suggestions. Taking your suggestions i have tried to make a new variant of my original list. I have tried to give myself a few cheap units to score some objectives and have a few disposable units while still retaining some firepower. Let me know what you think.

A Tau (1985 points)
T’au Empire
Strike Force (2000 points)
Kauyon


CHARACTER

Commander Shadowsun (100 points)
• Warlord
• 1x Advanced Guardian Drone
1x Battlesuit fists
1x Command-link Drone (Aura)
1x Flechette launcher
2x High-energy fusion blaster
1x Light missile pod
1x Pulse pistol

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (135 points)
• 1x Battlesuit fists
2x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Marker Drone
1x Plasma rifle
1x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• Enhancement: Puretide Engram Neurochip

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (130 points)
• 1x Battlesuit fists
2x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Marker Drone
1x Plasma rifle
1x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• Enhancement: Through Unity, Devastation


OTHER DATASHEETS

Crisis Battlesuits (360 points)
• 1x Crisis Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit fists
2x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• 5x Crisis Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
10x Cyclic ion blaster
5x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Shield Drone
5x Shield Generator

Crisis Battlesuits (360 points)
• 1x Crisis Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit fists
2x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• 5x Crisis Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
10x Cyclic ion blaster
5x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Shield Drone
5x Shield Generator

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Kroot Hounds (30 points)
• 4x Kroot Hound
• 4x Ripping fangs

Piranha (55 points)
• 1x Armoured hull
1x Piranha fusion blaster
2x Seeker missile
2x Twin pulse carbine

Piranha (55 points)
• 1x Armoured hull
1x Piranha fusion blaster
2x Seeker missile
2x Twin pulse carbine

Stealth Battlesuits (60 points)
• 1x Stealth Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Battlesuit fists
1x Fusion blaster
1x Homing Beacon
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
• 2x Stealth Shas’ui
• 2x Battlesuit fists
2x Burst cannon

Stealth Battlesuits (60 points)
• 1x Stealth Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Battlesuit fists
1x Fusion blaster
1x Homing Beacon
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
• 2x Stealth Shas’ui
• 2x Battlesuit fists
2x Burst cannon

Tetras (80 points)
• 2x Tetra
• 2x Close combat weapons
4x Pulse rifle

Tetras (80 points)
• 2x Tetra
• 2x Close combat weapons
4x Pulse rifle

[Silent one]

I have started to3d print my army but had Another Variation idea.

A Tau2 (2000 points)
T’au Empire
Strike Force (2000 points)
Kauyon


CHARACTERS

Commander Shadowsun (100 points)
• Warlord
• 1x Advanced Guardian Drone
1x Battlesuit fists
1x Command-link Drone (Aura)
1x Flechette launcher
2x High-energy fusion blaster
1x Light missile pod
1x Pulse pistol

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (125 points)
• 1x Battlesuit fists
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• Enhancement: Exemplar of the Kauyon

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (135 points)
• 1x Battlesuit fists
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• Enhancement: Puretide Engram Neurochip


OTHER DATASHEETS

Broadside Battlesuits (90 points)
• 1x Crushing bulk
1x Heavy rail rifle
1x Seeker missile
2x Shield Drone
1x Twin plasma rifle

Crisis Battlesuits (360 points)
• 1x Crisis Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit fists
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• 5x Crisis Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
5x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Shield Drone
5x Shield Generator

Crisis Battlesuits (360 points)
• 1x Crisis Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit fists
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• 5x Crisis Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
5x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Shield Drone
5x Shield Generator

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Piranha (55 points)
• 1x Armoured hull
1x Piranha fusion blaster
2x Seeker missile
2x Twin pulse carbine

Piranha (55 points)
• 1x Armoured hull
1x Piranha fusion blaster
2x Seeker missile
2x Twin pulse carbine

Tetras (80 points)
• 2x Tetra
• 2x Close combat weapons
4x Pulse rifle

Tetras (80 points)
• 2x Tetra
• 2x Close combat weapons
4x Pulse rifle

Tetras (80 points)
• 2x Tetra
• 2x Close combat weapons
4x Pulse rifle

[Silent one]

Here is another one. I think this is my favourite version so far. I am almost done printing and assembling them all.

A Tau (2000 points)
T’au Empire
Strike Force (2000 points)
Kauyon


CHARACTERS

Commander Shadowsun (100 points)
• Warlord
• 1x Advanced Guardian Drone
1x Battlesuit fists
1x Command-link Drone (Aura)
1x Flechette launcher
2x High-energy fusion blaster
1x Light missile pod
1x Pulse pistol

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (125 points)
• 1x Battlesuit fists
2x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• Enhancement: Exemplar of the Kauyon

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (135 points)
• 1x Battlesuit fists
2x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• Enhancement: Puretide Engram Neurochip


OTHER DATASHEETS

Crisis Battlesuits (360 points)
• 1x Crisis Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit fists
2x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• 5x Crisis Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
10x Cyclic ion blaster
5x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Shield Drone
5x Shield Generator

Crisis Battlesuits (360 points)
• 1x Crisis Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit fists
2x Cyclic ion blaster
1x Cyclic ion blaster
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
• 5x Crisis Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
10x Cyclic ion blaster
5x Cyclic ion blaster
10x Shield Drone
5x Shield Generator

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Kroot Hounds (30 points)
• 4x Kroot Hound
• 4x Ripping fangs

Piranha (55 points)
• 1x Armoured hull
1x Piranha fusion blaster
2x Seeker missile
2x Twin pulse carbine

Piranha (55 points)
• 1x Armoured hull
1x Piranha fusion blaster
2x Seeker missile
2x Twin pulse carbine

Stealth Battlesuits (60 points)
• 1x Stealth Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Battlesuit fists
1x Fusion blaster
1x Homing Beacon
1x Marker Drone
1x Shield Drone
• 2x Stealth Shas’ui
• 2x Battlesuit fists
2x Burst cannon

Tetras (80 points)
• 2x Tetra
• 2x Close combat weapons
4x Pulse rifle

Tetras (80 points)
• 2x Tetra
• 2x Close combat weapons
4x Pulse rifle

Tetras (80 points)
• 2x Tetra
• 2x Close combat weapons
4x Pulse rifle

[cmcd]

What do the Tetras do? I see them in all your lists

[ohgodsnakes]

Oct 8, 2023 15:47:24 GMT -5 cmcd said:

What do the Tetras do? I see them in all your lists

they give reroll to hit for their guided unit.

[Silent one]

Oct 8, 2023 15:47:24 GMT -5 cmcd said:

What do the Tetras do? I see them in all your lists

They also Have the Markerlight keyword with grants ignore cover along with improving the guided unit's BS by 1. They are infiltrators, 14" Fly move T7 with 7W. Good for racing around to get secondaries also.

[raceygaming]

They are just a durable marker light platform and any unit guided gets full re-rolls. It makes the 66 shot crisis star hit like 80 times with the sustained 2.