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Post by orksorspacemarines on Oct 12, 2011 21:14:28 GMT -5
I'm thinking of lots of fire warriors in devil fish (4 squads) , crisis battle suits 2 units of three) and some hammerhead gun ships (2). is this a ok basic army list?
note: I'm waiting till tau 5th edition codex is released to play this list so i don't know the points cost.
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Post by emptyhat on Oct 12, 2011 22:14:15 GMT -5
Is this something you are buying now or later? Also any guess at what will work for the new codex will just be a guess.
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Post by orksorspacemarines on Oct 13, 2011 17:20:06 GMT -5
I'm buying some tau fire warrior squads, a devil fish and a xv8 crisis suit before the 5th edition tau codex. They most likely will not remove these units from the list.
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Post by emptyhat on Oct 13, 2011 17:57:13 GMT -5
Yeah but weren’t you just about to start collecting Orks? It’s your own business but if you are rapidly switching from one army to another then you might want to give yourself a cooling off period to decide if you really like it or if you are just getting caught up in the glamour of possibilities.
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Post by orksorspacemarines on Oct 13, 2011 18:47:58 GMT -5
tau look cool and there is time before the new codex to collect small sized force, and i have about 500 points ork army.
( plus there could be Demiurg units in the tau army and tau guns look cool.)
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Post by pipdog on Oct 25, 2011 21:56:48 GMT -5
Just to put my two cents in, XV-88's with markerlight support is usually a better choice than hammerheads. a squad of three hitting on at least 3's with shield drones for protection from those pesky lascannons can be quite expensive but invaluable for downing or at least damaging a vehicle every turn. Your number of XV-8's sounds good, just remember that a jack of all trades kit out can come back to haunt you when your one melta didnt do the job. Keeping your FW's inside a fish with disruption pod is always a good idea, though 4 squads might be pushing it, you dont have enough points to have a bunch of FW's, keep them in reserve where theyre safest th longest and spend more points on suits. Hope this helps . btw your list would come to about ~1570 though you could just put 6 FW's in each fish, as 12 warriors in 4 fish comes out to a whopping ~860 points. I'd suggest less FW's, keep the suits and give em whatever config you see fit, drop a hammerhead, and add in Xv88's, oh and youd need an HQ. Tau are quite formidable when played right even in their current state of affairs .
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