Tau Secret Santa.

[cmcd]

It’s Christmas and the holidays. So I thought I should break out my Autobots this year for Christmas.

All crisis suits have Flamers.

Everyone else is stealthy.

I think there is more, tactical playing with this list as opposed to just shooting things.

And mobile.


Secret Santa 2023. (1000 Points)

T’au Empire
Kauyon
Incursion (1000 Points)

CHARACTERS

Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit (110 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Battlesuit fists
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
3x T’au flamer

Firesight Team (90 Points)
• 1x Close combat weapons
1x Longshot pulse rifles
1x Pulse pistol
• Enhancements: Precision of the Patient Hunter

OTHER DATASHEETS

Crisis Battlesuits (360 Points)
• 1x Crisis Shas’vre
• 1x Battlesuit fists
2x Shield Drone
1x Shield Generator
3x T’au flamer
• 5x Crisis Shas’ui
• 5x Battlesuit fists
10x Shield Drone
5x Shield Generator
15x T’au flamer

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 Points)
• 1x Fusion collider
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin fusion blaster

Ghostkeel Battlesuit (160 Points)
• 1x Battlesuit Support System
1x Cyclic ion raker
1x Ghostkeel fists
1x Twin T’au flamer

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

[Jack Shrapnel]

I like it!

lots of sneakiness and tons of mobility.

[cmcd]

Nov 10, 2023 16:45:33 GMT -5 Jack Shrapnel said:

I like it!

lots of sneakiness and tons of mobility.

I have yet to play any games of tau in 10th.  I was going through their datasheets, and i was liking what i was seeing.  

Having the Coldstar attached to the crisis gives them a 18"move.  and Flamers are 12" so that's a 30"threat range. Add in the added bonus of the 2CP strat that allows them to make a normal 12" move after firing like old tau, makes them extremely mobile.  Granted that the flamers are only S4.  But .  something fun to do. 

everything else has stealth and infiltrate.  and three of the 5 units are lone operatives.  so in theory you could put the suits into deep strike. (470points) and then when your done deploying only 2 units of 3 stealth suits are able to be shot outside of 12" . 


I like the list.  It also forces your opponent to do different things than they were planning.


Just need to paint up 2 models and build 1.  Need to Build Jetfire/Skyfire and need to paint up a Dinobot.  Likely Slag.


Since Drones are no longer a model "These do not count as models for any rules purposes." Is there any reason to bring them?   

[raceygaming]

I like to put one drone of the type behind the unit to remind people what they have or if there is a spilt in the unit. Otherwise, no drones serve no purpose to put on the table except for Ghostkeels who's drones act as tokens for each time they reduce damage to 0 ( can do 2x per game), and they just get in the way and cause confusion otherwise.

Ex. If I have a cold star with a sheild and marker drone in a unit with crisis with all double sheilds, I usualy have the unit with 3 drones following - 1 to show that the unit has shield , and 2 to show what the commander has 1 sheild/ 1 marker.


I also think you are going to find the stars of the show being the ghost keels, they are really solid right now.