Tau Curious

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So as one is to do I've been drooling over armies and models
(dark eldar reavers + scourge why you so pretty but 6e demands I need to run so many troops )

And allies are certainly interesting since it lets me mix units to get strange lists for even more sweet gameplay, so I was looking at necrons and pondering... but Tau are just soooooo friendly, they could Ally with my chaos and my orks... I could run a double ally list someday with orks chaos and tau.

So I made the mistake of looking over my buddies Tau codex (wow this thing is organized poorly) and with the help of Battlescribe I put this togther:

Chaos + Tau + Aegis

Kharn

9 Zerkers, combi melta, 4 axes, rhino, extra armour
9 Zerkers, combi melta, 4 axes, rhino, extra armour
7 CSM 1 flamer, veterans

2 Obliterators


Shas'o XV81
Smart Missile System
Twin Linked Plasma Gun
2x Shield Drones
Iridium Amour
Stimulant Injector
Hard-wired Multi-tracker
Hard-wired Target lock
Hard-wired black sun filter

2x Body Guards
Plasma Rifle, Missile Pod, Multi-tracker, only one guard has HW black sun filter though

12 Fire Warriors
10 Fire Warrios

8 Pathfinders with one LT upgrade and their mandatory DF (stock)

3 XV88 Broadsides Multi-tracker TL Plasma Rifle

Aegies Defense Line



So scout the PFs somewhere, leave the fish for the 10 man to use and grab an objective after shooting a bunch.

lots of suits for long range shennanigans, some oblits wishing they had such shennanigans.

Kharn and his zerkers rampage about crackin' skulls, the 7 man flamer squad makes sure that the midfield is suitably rampaged through and eventually grabs some objectives.

12 man FW sits pretty with an aegis and an objective.


It's a pretty rough crack at tau models and while I know that everyone says I should wait for the new codex (and possibly the rumoured ally extension) I think list building exercises now would mean a smoother transition when the new 'dex drops.

Also come on, double allies, what does it mean? What could cause a Chaos warband, an Ork horde, and a Tau strike force to fight together?

'Cause they're charlie's angels in army form duh.

[LizardTau]

yes the tau codex is soo old, it looks like one of the old fantasy books. (insert any "your tau codex is sooo old" jokes here)

some sujestions are that you only need one black sun filter for the whole unit to benifit from it night vision tranfers to the unit like stealth.

I wouln't put the multi trackers on the broadsides. Yes its tempting to have them fire both the plasma and the rail guns, but with such different ranges your more likely to have them fire one or the other i personally like to run them as 2 with targeting arrays (cause bs 4 tl is awesome) and a leader with drone controller 2 shield drones, target lock(so he can split fire) and black sun (because why have 72 inch range if in night fighting you can only fire 36 inches)

for fire warriors what can i say, they are cheap for the awesome weapon they get. thats why i take 48 or more some times lol.

pathfinders, that many is a lot in the unit. 8 marker lights will be a lot to put on one unts (although with bs 3 means only 4 on average will hit which is a nice number) scout moves are different now just means you can redeploy the unit they don't get to advance up but i believe scouts can outflank (dont think you would want to) but the quote, unquote free devil fish is always good i like the war fish personally (smart missile and disruption pods but it is more expensive) and remember only your tau and use the marker light tokens.

tau can die pretty fast some time 4+ armour only means 50% chance so aegis line is good, always go to ground if you have to (i do it all the time) 2+ cover is nothing to skoff at (well unless your a dragon or flamer lol) but i like the khard bezerkers and tau idea as people will be like oh got i must kill it before it gets to me and then your rail guns take out all their tanks whaaa ha ha (evil lauph)

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Yeah I figured it's nice having 3+ bodies that are big and scary so all the wimpy tau are ignored