10th Ed Tau

[cmcd]

So.

Finally moved on to trying tau out in 10th. First impressions. Lots of shooty, no assault. Same tau. Played 4 games at secret Santa and walked away with the following thoughts.

First up stealth suits
Stealth suits: Good: they are weak. But the infiltrators and strath helps. Don’t think fusion blasters are needed. Removing the melts might make their survivability higher. They are designed to be the observer unit so keeping them back is better than having to get close.

Ghost keels : Awesome: having a weapon with a range out side 12” for a lone operative is powerful. Along with infiltration and stealth. Fusion not great but the ion is the way to play them. And can convert 2 damage to zero. They are a staple for lists at 160 pts minimum 2 in a list.

Shadowsun: great: really useful weak in close combat for a named character but great at everything else. Reroll 1s with in 6”. And lots of firepower with lone operative. Very useful.

Firesight team: okay: Again lone operative is great but the firepower from its 3 shot sniper isn’t great. Maybe with three of them (210points) might be useful with 9 sniper shots but I think 70 points can be better invested elsewhere.

[raceygaming]

So I think looking at the Vehicle list that you were running

1x long strike
3x skyray
3x Hammer head
3x Devil fish

3x 10 beachers

Using the parking lot as its core. I think you would do well with 3x 2 piranhas, 2 feels good for footprint size for blocking and having some anti tank shooting but still using to guide for other bigger hitters. I think the list needs to pick 2 fire-blades to give the breachers an extra punch, they look like your horde and medium infantry clear.

I know I have had good success converting the piranha body into a pretty decent FW tetra, who right now might be the strongest FW unit in any codex, full re-rolls to hit it VERY strong in tau. Also good scout and blocking if things are looking bad.

[cmcd]

Hmmm.


Well I have 8 piranhas. I could convert two of them.

3units of two might be better.

Do you think pathfinders or Breachers are better. I like the scout move with the devil fish.

[raceygaming]

I can't say I've had much luck with pathfinders. It feels like they are missing something in the tool kit.

I can't put my finger on it tho.